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- Discover how one man attempted to con Christie's out of £1million, never paid his rent or bills and brought Heathrow to a standstill because he didn't fancy flying home.
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Their idea of a “lengthy custodial sentence” would be a joke anywhere else.
I love the dare of the Christie con. Given how Christie etc have been conning the 'art' market forever, they were only out of pocket their commision. What a laugh. 🤣
His children may or may not know but his wife definitely knew how they scammed to live the luxurious lifestyle.
He only got FIVE YEARS?😲It seems the justice system was perfect for him to continue his "work". A short sentence is merely the "cost of doing business".
With those kinds of sentences it's worth it for con artists to zone in on the UK.
Ridiculous!
I am a university professor (a real one!) and I can tell you the 'bumbling' professor is false stereotype popularized by British TV shows and movies. Almost all of the many professors I have known are actually pretty normal to the point of being nondescript. More like the average next door neighbour than an eccentric, shambolic, absent-minded loner in a cheap suit. I think the persona he adopted should have been a big red flag.
Talking of Red Flags, he should have been Flagged at the point of entry on his return to UK after the Police interview in California.
Right?! Also, no professor of my acquaintance has multimillion dollar mansions or high end cars. Academia doesn't pay as well as people think. Maybe it should, but it does not.
But it wasn't a red flag to the eminent academics at Cambridge university!
Paul, I don't know what you lecture, but as a math major I had a professor of probability and it appears as if his teeth are locked. He mumbled the entire semester. Try learning advanced mathematics from someone who is mumbling to himself instead of teaching. Took all the fun out of mathematics.
He was a genuine academic and had worked legitimately as one
Five years imprisonment?! Ha! That’s just a vacation! By now he is out and doing this all over again! He is incurable.
Cause he's smart your right he is free right now
@@onlinetoughguy7530 ppl
He is probably on the dole or working at the Asda checkout these days 😏
If he had shoplifted he would have spent years in jail. But because he violated trust with lying his theft was OK?
If you got years for shoplifting in Britain, there would not be so many criminals out on the street
All these poor people/businesses conned by this vile man.
I feel so sorry for his daughter..How could this man do this to someone he was meant to care for?
He should have been locked up and the key thrown away..5 years is just not enough.
It is always the people you trust, family, friends or former partners, who can rip you off while smiling the entire time.
I have cut 'em all out...my life is so much better!
Better learn to recognize Cluster B traits. It can literally save your life. It saved mine
His family knew by the time the Christie's scam happened.
If his daughter from a previous relationship was a teenager the other children were probably too young to know what was happening. The wife however would have to have known or suspected something was wrong when they moved every six months.
The eldest daughter was a teenager when he used her in the Christie’s scam. I can readily believe that someone so young would still believe in her father.
The banks were right, the con family really has the documentary crew conned into thinking they "knew nothing" - of course Dad was the real con man and orchestrated everything, but Mom and older kids definitely knew and most likely helped!
I agree, especially the wife! Why on earth would you think moving every 6 months is normal!
True the daughter went to buy paintings for man sent top prison for stealing from people. Smh
@@l.c838 we’re they out of money ? Or upgrading some ppl do move a lot
I don't believe they knew anything. It's so easy to con and be conned.
And all the smart people at Cambridge University never noticed a thing! Hilarious!
Exactly, not so clever are they!
Cambridge Is the only place I've met dons/ professors &porters that seem like they come from story books though!!
Maybe try keeping your criminals locked up for a change.
In America, the sentences are often too harsh and in England they can be not harsh enough. There must be a happy medium
@@Xandra101-xj8efdepends on the crime, in the US sex crimes, even against children, are wildly under sentenced.
@@brynna77UK too. It is extremely suspicious how the judiciary will not use their powers of sentencing to protect children but instead very clearly do their best not to inconvenience paedophiles and apply the minimum "sentence" they possibly can. It happens daily in courts and given how damaging the offences are and how normal society views them, our judges attitudes are.. curious to say the least!.
How did his daughter not know he was a con artist after the Heathrow incident
She was a child at the time; she probably thought someone else had made those bomb threats to Heathrow Airport. He was extremely manipulative, and had fooled many dozens of adults.
>How did a child not know what was really going on?
She might not have been told in a misguided attempt not to alienate her from her dad.
I say the wife knew and was also involved. We have families here in canada who do the same thing. They move into expensive homes, then it can take 6 months to 1 year before you get them out. The daughter was old enough to know what her father had done before, even going to jail for the airport. She knew something was wrong. The wife was living the big life, vacation in Florida for 6 months. I would be very rich if I had all this money coming in with very little expenses.
Unbelievable that he even conned his own daughter.
LITERALLY unbelievable. The family clearly were in on it.
She was still a teenager, so I can readily believe that she still believed in her Dad. She likely thought that someone else had made the bomb threats to Heathrow.
Unfortunately, there are more people like this creep than most people realize. With all the new & emerging technology, these con artists are now caught more frequently.
@@virg0_lem0nade There's only so much we can tell without being directly invovled ourselves. I don't think it's fair to blame the wife and child, especially the *child*. You don't understand the hold someone can have over their family.
Con artists don’t want to work, want to live lavishly, enjoy the deference and level of service they get and love the thrill of the pretense. There was this one relatively young man who masqueraded professions like medical doctor, financier, researcher. After he was caught he said the main draws were not having to be himself and the respect he got.
It's actually a lot of work to shuffle that money and come up with all these cons haha. In fact they could have gotten a real job with all those cons
@@Liitebulb Yeah, more energy devoted to the cons than they would’ve if they’d had a job. Maybe the doctor, lawyer, Indian chief just couldn’t decide upon one profession, lol.
So many of the conmen spend all their money on luxury goods and don't have a savings or investment plan. It's all about playing the role of a big spender. And the deference big spenders get in society just because they can display wealth.
Con men and women almost never fail to impress me. It takes a lot of work and a whole different kind of smarts to do what they do. I'm not saying I condone it, manipulation in general should be a crime if it wasn't for the fact that it would be abused to incriminate innocent people, but...still impressive.
Guys like this get banks to give him money. I am trying to get a small business startup loan and no luck so far. *sigh*
Unbelievable isn’t it. He must have hypnotised people!
Do you think with computers it's harder for guys like this
Things are different now. You couldn't get away with this so easily nowadays/ it seems systems are connected and everything is instant for the most part
@@kimthreadgold2755 now? Yes. The 80's, 90's and Early 2000's would have been much easier
I was married to a male very similar to this creep.
The list of cons he has pulled off are so numerous.
I wanted to believe that the one I was married to was someone who would mature in time, would become more secure, would realize that the things he did were wrong, that he would change. That he would stop his conning schemes. Finally, after over 20 years, I had to realize that this was who he was.
Beginning to form a plan, I squirreled away cash & non-perishable groceries. I knew that he was going to be angry when I filed for divorce & he would try to "punish" me, financially.
It frustrated him to see that nothing he did was making me suffer.
3 Years after the divorce, our daughter was getting married. Nearly all of his family lived far away, couldn't make it, so, they sent money to me to at least pay for the flowers. When he found out about it, he started trying to get the money from me. He nagged & nagged me. Then, he began nagging our daughter. She just wanted both parents at her wedding & happy. She convinced me to give her father the money. I gave the money to him. He never ordered the flowers, kept the money, never showed up at her wedding. Everyone blamed me for the extreme stress as we scrambled to get flowers at the last minute.
Our son was trying to make it in the adult world, getting out on his own. He & his father looked at apartments, to get an idea of what was for rent. His father told him that people might try to take advantage of a younger man & told him that he could probably get a better deal. Our son trusted his father. His father asked him to put him on his bank account so that he could pay the fees when the apartment was found. When his father had "found" an apartment, he withdrew nearly all of the money from our sons account, our son was happy, enjoyed moving in. When he checked his bank account & saw that it only had $50. in it where as before, it had $2,500, he tried to contact his father & couldn't get ahold of him. Finally, 2 months later, he got ahold of his father. When asked about the money, he just gave our son the same old song & dance. He told our son that he had paid the pet deposit along with "all the other fees". On the lease, there was no pet deposit, no other fees of any kind.
Another daughter, who had been driving the family car, had to leave the state to go to college, decided to take an adult step, buy her first car for herself with money she had saved. It needed a bit of repair work to make the trip to where she was going to school. The mechanic told her it would be ready in a week, she had to be back to school in 3 days. Her father told her she could take the family car & he would pick her car up when the repairs were done. He told her to sign the title of the car over to him & he would even register it for her. Then when he came back, he would sign it back over to her.
She went back to school.
When she had a break in classes, she went back to get the car she had bought. Her father hid it in a friend's garage, refused to sign the title back over, to her. Wouldn't let her have her own car. She was shocked that her father would do this.
I wasn't.
A few years later, my daughter found out that her father had sold her car, just 2 weeks after the repairs were done, he pocketed the money.
Recently, another daughter (we have 3 daughters & one son) was serving with the military, overseas. She had gotten military orders to be close by where her father lives. Her father offered to search for a house for her to buy when she got back stateside. He was looking at houses, sending her pictures of some that she might like to live in with her husband & 2 small children. She gave her father power of attorney, access to her bank account. When she got back, stateside, her father took her to the house. She said it looked very different from the photos he had sent her.
Upon looking through the closing documents over, a month later, she realized that the house & all of the fees such as inspection, closing costs, etc, was $20K less than what he had told her that it cost. She tried to talk to him, he would not give her a straight answer.
Her father had stolen $20K from his own daughter.
I cannot understand how my children still trust their father when they know he will try to con anyone & everyone he can. Often, he tells people that his first love is money. He loves money more than he loves his own children.
Trauma bonding…
@@l.c838 Possibly.
Why did we need to know all of this? But since I read it, I'll give my opinion. You trusted this guy for 20+ years so now your kids are following your naive example. Another "do as I say, not as I do" thing.
So sorry Brenda, I'm glad you've finally booted him. The trouble with these kinds of people is that they are endlessly believable and you're constantly in a state of doubting yourself because their professed selves are so incrocnguent with their behaviour. Your saving grace is that he appears quite stupid - ie he can't calibrate his theft and con-artistry very well to remain plausible. And I find children will often live in a fantasy of not seeing their parents for who they are - it;s just too painful to see reality sometimes.
@@FreeSpirit47 You made the comment and put all your family business out there so how could it be none of my business? If you don't want comments don't post your family problems.
Aside from stealing from his daughter , what a terrible disruptive life for the rest of the family smh 🤦♀️
thanks for the upload , never heard of this story
Sometimes, in rare instances, some evil people do not have the right to exist. They have forfeited the right to live amongst humanity. They are devoid of empathy, compassion and self-reflection or a sense of being a productive member of society.
They are NOT deserving of mercy.
People accept cheques in the UK? Bizarre. Credit or debit cards are much safer of course. If I met some bloke with a posh accent who didn't have a credit card I would be very suspicious! But the British class system means people are easily conned by posh gits.
Cheques are being fazed out thankfully, people very rarely use them now. I agree about the posh accent and British people being taken in by it!
Most people in the US accepted checks back in the 1980s to 2000, too.
Clearly the 90s or early 2000s
In NZ cheques have been phased out and motels and hotels paid up front with with a credit or debit card at the time you book in.
his family were DEFINITELY in on it.
The eyes are a window to the soul....
Want to rent a high priced flat?
Want to rent an expensive car?
Have a taste for very expensive furniture?
Price is no object... when you have no intention to pay.
This is as interesting as the Hendy Freegard case. I remember watching this documentary years ago when it was first broadcast, and I’m so glad that it’s been uploaded here. It’s a great series.
By the way, there’s a Netflix series on the Hendy Freegard case. I’ve watched a bit of the first episode and it’s just staggering. I felt immense sadness for those he conned, and their families. All those years wasted, unwittingly living a lie. Tragic.
I doubt he sees them as wasted, if he did it so long, he felt that was life to him.
The family were all in on it for sure, there's no way they could not have known. Obviously they are going to plead ignorant and deny any knowledge of what he was doing, to avoid the consequences. They all enjoyed the lavish lifestyle which they knew could have only been possible by scamming and cheating people out of money. They just got a bit too confident and GREEDY in their scamming crimes and eventually got caught.
I agree. Family must of known
That's a lie his family knew the entire time
I wouldn't bet on it
Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. I just wander how he was explaining the need to move every six months…?
@@TheNatty88 EXACTLY. Now it does not make them responsible or guilty ....but its definitely teaching by example an example that's gonna punish the public at large
Moving round every few months etc but he's a settled professor..no it makes no sense..they must have at least wondered.
5 years .so he is out now in 2022. any updates?
Probably it's 5 yrs divided by 2
Which academic earns enough to buy a million bucks painting?
I know, right? Do people really think academics make that kind of money?
The mind of a narcissistic parent is disgusting.
Amazing, this guy is like my colleague - I'm also a professor of a university that doesn't exist! Maybe even the same one!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?
This sounds like an average british moaner. Always after free stuff and refunds 🤣
@@valnsky WHAT IS WIT NIT ?
@@fredflintstoner596 read it slowly.. you'll get there buddy. 🤭
Too funny. Miss Fawlty Towers!
@@sonsosavage9987 YOU NAUGHTY MOOSE !
I don't get it or did I miss something? I thought he's wife left him after the Heathrow lie? How come he's daughter didn't know? Really doesn't make sense!
Maybe the mom did what she's supposed to do and didn't blab every negative thing the dad did?
When you have a liar in the family it takes years to realize they are a so bad. When you finally stand up to them, which may be 20 plus years after you first became aware of their liars they get angry with you, disown you, etc.
She was a child when that happened. Most children idolize their fathers; I certainly did. Fortunately, my father (may he RIP) was a good man and very honest. But if he had ever done something wrong and been convicted of a financial crime, I would have thought him to have been wrongly convicted.
Would you believe it if some one told you your parent made fake IRA threats?
I ONCE WORKED FOR PACE UNIVERSITY IN NYC, THEY ONY PAID TEACHERS 2 OR 3 TIMES DURING
THE SEMESTER(I DID NOT KNOW THAT WHEN I TOOK THE JOB. I THOUGHT PAY DAY WAS ONCE PER MONTH).
WHEN I GOT MY CHECK IT WAS FOR "ZERO"!!!!!!!! THE HEAD OF PAYROLL TOLD ME "WE TOOK YOUR
WHOLE CHECK FOR TAXES. TO DO YOU A FAVOR!! YOU WILL GET IT BACK AS A TAX REFUND"
I TOLD HER I WAS GOING ACROSS THE STREET TO THE NYS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND FILE
A WAGE COMPLIANT, I TOLD HER TO WRITE ME A CHECK IN AN HOUR!! I GOT MY CHECK IN ONE HOUR!!
FROM THEN ON I GOT MY PAY ON TIME. YES CON WOMEN WORK AT COLLEGES TOO.
How can you live in the US as a British national? I tought that you could live there for a few months, but not a complete year. Am I missing something?
They were undocumented aliens.
It's okay sweetie, we can always enroll you in another college!
I'm surprised she didn't beat the living daylights out of him.
Ju m
The music for this series is really excellent 👌
5 years! Is that it?!!!! How is that sentence a deterrent?
It actually gives them time out to create more elaborate schemes and analyze how to the evade the law.
I know a woman who put HER daughter in debt. She used her daughter's S.S.# to buy all sorts of hair products for a non existent Salon. The daughter was eight years old.
Many parents do this. I remember a story of an American who immigrated to China and unbeknownst to her her family had bought a car for some one in her name and she didn't know until she got a warrant for her arrest. And her family was like "so what, you don't even live in the US, we're family."
My parents have also bought things in my name as a teenager.
Completely trash narcisstic parents.
Having worked for both Comcast and an electric company, I saw many family members use loved ones’ private information to steal thousands of dollars of services and products.
Sorry, but if a landlord went to the police with a complaint that the tenant hadn't paid the rent and the police actually went to investigate ... hahahahahaha.... rofl.... oh dearie me... I don't think so!!
12:00 So to add to the terrible music, over hyped narration, and kindergarten psychology... They add cheese sound effects 🤣
What I don't understand, since the father went to jail for the airport scam, how would she not know he was a scammer
I always wonder why these """"smarter than everybody else """ thinking people don't put their "believed super intelligence" to positive usage. It couldn't be easy to keep up this type of an existance. It seems to need a ton of planning, thinking and conniving
A lot of it is having a good memory rather than intelligence.
The music in the backdrop is so damn stupid I can't watch it
I don't understand how his wife did not know that something was amiss if all those red letters were pouring through the letter box.
What wife and family meekly live out of boxes to do midnight flits every few months and never challenge the man who creates such havoc in their lives?
People keep commenting like the channel made the shows. They just uploaded old TV shows. Which I love but they don't make them!! This was a series from 2007 on uk TV. They can't change the music and repetition. It's the style of the show. Just enjoy the shows!!!
Seems to me the UK has a very lenient charge of all these conmen and allows them to just get out only to get back to their conning again😢
they're probably learning about more cons from others in custody and also planning out more for when they get out
His whole life was a con.
Did they make him give any of the money back? Let me guess ...
Now why did the other professors at Cambridge University never noticed it? Answer: They were all too self centered.
He should be quite wealthy, since no rent, no payment for holidays, no car rentals, no school payments, no clothing payments, I wonder how he spent the money. His poor tailor.
The family knew they all knew esp after he went to prison 1st time they loved the lifestyle
He tried to con Christie's......ha ha ha......the art market is the biggest con.
I have a good looking, young housemate who is a fantastic liar & conman. It’s definitely a way of life. He developed this strategy to manage his domineering mother, while he continues to be a mama’s boy. He loves to lie, he thinks he is clever,and he’s committed to living a life of a compulsive liar. Since I’ve been getting housemates I find more & more ppl are masterful liars and con artists. U can’t necessarily figure this out doing background checks.
We no longer even use cheques in NZ
Con men can use stolen credit cards and often do.
What a waste of space the man is, his poor daughter, bless her, she must have been devastated
TWISTED WEB OF LIES, LMFAO!!! thats a good one, im going to use phrase in a book one day ☺🤭🤔😒🙄😵😵💫😮🧐
This guy got away with it 5 years 5 years for all that money he stalled the court systems are weak this is why men like that people like that do these things because they know they're going to get away with it 5 years think about it why even work they need to apply the death sentence
Far too few details about the actual crimes and FAR FAR FAR too much conjecture from so-called experts repeatedly stating the absolute obvious.
Oh please the wife was probably in on it, no woman is that stupid.
WHAT Do con men/women ACTUALLY DO With the money???
Live a millionaire's life.
Pay deposits on rentals then never pay rent. Deposits are mandatory
tried watching the video .. but the background music makes it impossiple. sorry
The music is so loud it is difficult to hear the talking.
A profile of Boris Johnson would be appropriate in this series.
Good series
A policeman once told me that not showcasing our intelligence to someone who may turn out to be only a con artist is wiser than trying too hard.
jeez how the heck did he sleep at night? oh ...hangon...easily, he never intended to pay for his room!
Con men don't have consciences. They are like serial killers just piling up a mass of crimes and never feeling remorse.
Please do away with the annoying and totally superfluous music!!
I know wtf is up with that
How do u get things will. No deposits and people show up and nothing is there .. I guess maybe furniture can be made that way the rent away or furniture store where u pay very little to rent it they can drop it off u just move it else where
This channel is bonkers hahaha so many different shows!
This is why people hate checks - and mostly now it’s debit or cash ❤
This is so poorly made it seems more like a local news feature than a doc.
great documentary but the needless backgrond music eventualy destroyed it
He should be life in prison bc when he gets out he will do it again
It takes a certain kind of person to pull this off, I know I could never..
Big show, small money. Surely better criminal minds out there for this type of stuff
And then there is me who bounced a check for three dollars and got caught.
Cheque
Where I live the word is check. Thanks.
@@missolesoulnobody cares 🤡
Good documentary but can’t stand the music!
As far as auctions go, on what level do people clap?
if your a conman and people ask you WHERE IS YOUR MONEY FROM, thats actually a very easy question to answer, im surprised robert kept saying he was SICK ,lol to not answer it, you simply say IM A STOCK TRADER, NOT BROKER because people will ask you oh what firm do you work for, and than they can call up that company and ask does a Mr this or that work here, and than your caught out, you say IM A STOCK TRADER OR IM A CRYPTO TRADER, that way how can they prove your lying to them? if they ask well what platform do you trade on, just tell them to mind their own business, lol, but if you say Im a TEACHER or im a Dr or im a SCIENTIST, people will say ok where do you teach? where is your Doctors practice? and than your trapped in a lie
So the teacher doesn’t have to be that smart to be detected by other teachers? 😂
Maybe his kids didnt know,didnt care but wife might know and help him out
please get rid of the useless background music!!!! its horrible and is not needed!!!!! serious topics with 1940's jolly music!!!! all your episodes are poorly made!!!
Shut it!
I WAS ONCE AT THE NY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, IN WESTBURY NY. I HEARD A GROUP OF
KOREAN ENGINEERING TEACHERS DEMANDING THEIR PAY!! THEY HAD BEEN BROUGHT IN FROM KOREA
TO TEACH ENGINEERING CLASSES. THEY ALL QUIT AT ONCE WHEN THEY DID NOT GET PAID, I TOLD THEM
TO FILE A WAGE CLAIM WITH NYS LABOR DEPT. TO COLLECT THEIR PAY. I HOPE THEY GOT PAID? OR
WERE THEY CONNED OUT OF FREE LABOR?
How embarrassing to be the daughter ….. of his thinking ur dad is rich and smart ….. poor girl how embarsssing this going get her ass in trouble
This guy was the worst...
Or the best...(?)
CANT WATCH THIS AS THE MUSIC IS DROWNDING IT, RIDICULOUS!!!
haha a real Professor Knowall from the University Buggerall
He showed have gotten 20 years
Description is wrong: he didn't fancy flying "home", but instead didn't want to fly to California.
It's amazing how these people can get away with this when I'm put through the ringer if I'm a few bucks short in a supermarket. If I don't have the money, I don't get the goods!🤥
The redhead pisses me off she talks like she's figuring the guy out like she's smart as fk when really all she's doing is relaying info about the case.
No conscience
His next job, a tory MP.
How embarrassing to have ur family there n moving moving
Would like to see updates on Current world news Ukraine etc