I also wonder how many people he tried to dupe and they told him to piss off! I mean for every one he successfully manipulated there's gotta be more that laughed him out the room. I guess if they looked like they believed him he knew he was onto a winner.
I wondered how many people saw through him too, but what’s even more baffling is that beyond the victims covered in the Netflix doc, there were many others. The Wiki page about him gives details of some of them (I guess they declined to appear in the doc), but there could be loads more who were never linked to him. Who knows how many victims there are in total, or how many suicides/breakdowns he’s caused?
from the Wiki page:
Hendy-Freegard had an on/off affair with a recently married personal assistant, Elisabeth Bartholomew née Richardson. He told her to take up loans, supposedly to settle her debts following her divorce, and then made her sleep on park benches.
In 2000 Hendy-Freegard met a lawyer, Caroline Cowper, a customer in the car dealership in
Chiswick, West London. He helped her to change her car, pocketed the difference, asked for more, persuaded her to give more money for a leasing business they would run together and stole £14,000 from her
building societyaccount. They became lovers and went on holidays all over the world. They then became engaged but her family intervened. When the leasing car did not materialize, he told her that the Polish Mafia had taken it.
Hendy-Freegard convinced a
Sheffield jeweller, Simon Young, to give the mother of his children a room for a time and later tried to recruit him into the "organization". Hendy-Freegard also sent him to perform spurious missions as "training" - like sending him to London with strict instructions of what transportation to use, to buy a can opener in a certain shop and hand it over to a certain man in a certain pub.
Hendy-Freegard convinced a female company director, Renata Kister, that he was watching someone in the Sheffield car dealership where he was working and convinced her to buy a better car. He sold her original car on his own account, kept the money and convinced her to take a £15,000 loan for him. He also again asked for a room for the mother of his children because she was supposedly in a
witness protection program and told her that she was Spanish, so that the two women would not speak to each other.
Hendy-Freegard told a woman in
Newcastle, Lesley Gardner, that he needed money to buy off IRA killers, who had been released after the
Good Friday agreement. She gave him £16,000 over six years. He also sold her car and again kept the money.
