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Jan 19, 2022 · Who Are John Atkinson and Sarah Smith? John and Sarah were agriculture students at the Harper Adams Agricultural College at the time. They were also roommates along with Maria Hendy and another person. During a visit to the local bar, John met Robert, the barkeep.
Two of those victims, John Atkinson and his then-girlfriend Sarah Smith, have bravely agreed to speak on camera for the three-part Netflix documentary The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate...
Jul 26, 2021 · In her book about the ordeal, Sarah Smith told how weeks into her relationship with Mr Atkinson, her new boyfriend announced he had liver cancer.
The shocking series focuses on John Atkinson, thought to be Hendy-Freegard’s first ever victim, who befriended the conman in 1993. Playing on the IRA fears of the time, he told Atkinson he...
- Sarah Smith & John Atkinson
- Maria Hendy
- Kim Adams
- Sandra Clifton
Back in 1993, Hendy-Freegard had convinced three university students, including Sarah Smith, that he was an MI5 agent, and they were being targeted by the IRA. But the story certainly isn’t cut and dry... At the time, Smith, who is from Kent, was studying at Harper Adams Agricultural College in Shropshire where she shared a house with five other st...
While not featured in the documentary, Maria Hendy’s story is one of the most intriguing, given her relationship to the fraudster. As one of the three university students coerced to go on the run with conman in 1993, Maria Hendy eventually began an eight-year relationship with Hendy-Freegard. The former couple share two daughters. Following Hendy-F...
Hendy-Freegard was eventually arrested for his crimes in 2005. Per the documentary, he was in a serious relationship with American psychologist Kim Adamsat the time. It’s thought the conman started a relationship with Adams because her stepfather had won the lottery. Whilst living together in the UK, Hendy-Freegard told Adams’ parents that he neede...
As viewers of the series will be aware, The Puppet Master documentary begins with brother and sister Jake and Sophie Clifton, as they appeal for their mother, Sandra, to return home.The siblings are then faced with a seven-year long battle to find their mother, alongside their father, Mark Clifton. In November 2011, Sandra Clifton met Freegard unde...
Jan 28, 2022 · These include John Atkinson, a student who gave him £300,000, and Sarah Smith – his second victim.
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Jan 19, 2022 · When their ‘cover was blown’ Hendy-Freegard told Atkinson to convince his two roommates, Sarah Smith and Maria Hendy, to flee with them.
