Rogue Agent

2022 - 7 - 28

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Star Trek and James Bond stars' new movie is now available to ... (digitalspy.com)

Netflix's Rogue Agent, starring James Norton and Gemma Arterton, tells the real life story of Robert Hendy-Freegard.

Released earlier this year, Puppet Master: Hunting The Ultimate Conman told the story of Freegard's life and victims. Born in 1971 Freegard first conned agricultural student John Atkinson into believing his story. But then he scams a quick-witted lawyer — who decides to take him down."

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Who is 'MI5' conman Robert Hendy-Freegard – and where is The ... (Daily Star)

For a decade Robert Freegard manipulated his victims by posing as an MI5 agent on the run from the IRA. A new British Crime thriller on Netflix brings the ...

The men persuaded two women, Sarah Smith and Maria Hendy, to join them. I didn’t want to exist.” I wanted to die. Private investigators were on the trail of Freegard, and Bob Brandon, a member of Scotland Yard, was also on his trail in relation to another victim that he'd defrauded of £30,000. In 2005, Freegard was found guilty of two counts of kidnapping, 10 of theft and eight of deception and was handed a life sentence. Freegard would convince his victims that he was on the run from the IRA and that they were in danger too.

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