'CONMAN' ARRESTED OVER pounds 600k CLAIM.A MAN who allegedly conned a Midland woman out of her life savings by claiming he was part of a famous banking family was arrested on suspicion of deception yesterday. Christine Handy, 43, said she was left pounds 600,000 poorer following an affair with Mark Hatton <noinclude> Mark Aaron Hatton(born January 24, 1974 in Waverley, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played for the Tasmanian Tigers and the Canberra Comets. He was a left-arm orthodox bowler, and the brother of Northern Territory cricketer, Brad Hatton. . The mum-of-four, from Cheltenham, Gloucester-shire, claims he told her he was Baron Alexander-Marc de Rothschild. But she says she later found out he was the son of a dressmaker who was brought up in a council house in Chelmsford, Essex. Earlier this month Ms Handy tracked down Hatton, 46, to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of after an 18-month search. Yesterday, Gloucestershire Police revealed they had arrested him on suspicion of financial deception, following his deportation deportation, expulsion of an alien from a country by an act of its government. The term is not applied ordinarily to sending a national into exile or to committing one convicted of crime to an overseas penal colony (historically called transportation). from the USA for outstaying his visa. |
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