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The Hidden Psychiatric Report That Let a Fake Spy Walk Free
The Hidden Psychiatric Report That Let a Fake Spy Walk Free
A sealed psychiatric report, never shown to the judge and buried by a defense team, may be the single document that explains how a man convinced multiple people he was an MI5 agent. The case includes a decade of manipulation, at least £390,000 extracted from one victim's family, and the fact that the man described in the report walked free after five years - so what did the report say?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a pub in Newport in January 1993 to Heathrow in autumn 2003, tracing how Robert Hendy-Freegard…
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