‘Puppet Master’ Robert Hendy-Freegard arrested at E40 after 8-day manhunt

The British man who hit two police officers in France last week was arrested in Groot-Bijgaarden yesterday. Gilles Blondeau of the Halle-Vilvoorde public prosecutor’s office reported this on Saturday. The man is known to British police as serial con man Robert Hendy-Freegard, on whom the Netflix documentary ‘The Puppet Master – Hunting the Ultimate Conman’ is based.

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