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."
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.