Most successful impersonator

Paul Bint, 47 could be the world’s greatest impersonator with criminal intentions, so skilful was he that orlando vacations could be had at will.

Dubbed “King Con”, he pretended to be successful professionals for 25+ years and was not caught, until he posed as a top lawyer, Director of Public Prosections, Keir Stamer QC.

In the past, the man with reportedly 24 aliases has posed as an aristocrat, a banker, a doctor, a property tycoon, a policeman and even a ballet dancer!

His first recorded case was in 1983 when he posed as a doctor doing the rounds in hospitals, and in one case he touched a woman’s breasts while telling her to trust him as he was a doctor. He also arranged X-rays, attended to a man whose lung had collapsed, stitched up the head of a patient and even attempted to enter an operating theatre where a heart bypass operation was ongoing!

Perhaps worst of all, he also told the parents of a 17-year-old girl hurt in a road crash she would live. 6 hours later she died.

He also once gatecrashed a high-class party and sent Dom Perignon champagne to Koo Stark’s table.

But his favourite seems to be posing as Queen’s Counsels.

Motive: to attract women.

Modus Operandi: advertise himself in lonely hearts columns, boasting about his alleged wealth. In reality, the former headresser is homeless.

Source
The BBC, 26 Oct 2009

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