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He Showed Her a Passport - Then Stole Half a Million Pounds
He Showed Her a Passport - Then Stole Half a Million Pounds
She produced a valid British passport unprompted on their first date and the man across from her used it to convince her he was who he claimed - a charmed Dr. Alexander de Arriken with a laminated identity. That single gesture led Christine Handy to lose £500,000, her home, and three years of her life; how did a fabricated identity include an apparently official passport?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first morning coffee in a Cheltenham cafeteria to the wine-bar date when the passport appeared, tracing the…
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