Conman Paul Bint - Part 2

Paul Bint is known under many aliases. He would convince his unsuspecting victims that he was a doctor, a lawyer, an aristocrat, or even a millionaire. Through his twenties and thirties, Bint had spent a total of 10 years in and out of prisons or mental health facilities. However, this did little curb his desire to convince his victims that the fantasy world he inhabited existed (Part 2 of 2).

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Conman Paul Bint - Part 1

"People have this picture of me which is completely inaccurate, and I don't see how I am ever going to get around this problem. I don't think I would describe myself as a conman, or King Con Man or King of the Swindlers, as the newspapers call me. I'm someone who lied about myself and my status. It made me forget what the reality was, and for me, it was a way of escaping. It always has been" — Paul Bint, Southwark Crown Court, 2009 (Part 1 of 2).

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BOOK CHAPTER EXTRACT - The Rolex Murder / Ronald Platt / Albert Walker [Patreon Exclusive]

As there is not a new episode this week, we thought we’d post a short extract from the final chapter of our book ‘They Walk Among Us’

Ten brand new intriguing and unsettling cases that we have not covered on the podcast.

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Conman Mark Acklom

In 1976, a boy was photographed. The picture appeared in The Daily Mirror. The 3-year-old was marching up and down in front of a sentry who stood outside Clarence House in London. Wearing a faux Queen’s Guard uniform, the boy was excited for the Trooping the Colour ceremony the next day. A snippet in the article mused about the child and his future. It read: "Dreaming, perhaps of the day when he can measure up to the real thing himself ". That boy was Mark Acklom. He chose a very different path to the one the newspaper and his parents had envisioned. From teenage swindler to one of England’s most wanted fugitives — Mark Acklom, known as an MI6 conman, led a life of audacious scams…

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