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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsG
hislaine, Prince Andrew
and the Paedophile arrived
on ITV on a small wave of
clickbait headlines, and
the report duly delivered
a pacey, if pretty tabloid, overview of
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine
Maxwell’s vile exploits.
It isn’t the first and it won’t be the
last retelling of this sordid saga,
complete with a stream of lawyers’
caveats (“there is no suggestion that
XX was involved.. .”), but thepresenter, ITV’s Ranvir Singh, had her
own Prince Andrew scoop, or rather,
piece of total speculation.
As the duke sweatlessly awaits his
trial, two former associates posited
that he had an “intimate relationship”
with Maxwell. Is there anyone he
hasn’t had an affair with? The
credibility of one of the people making
the claim, Paul Page, doesn’t really
stand up to much scrutiny. Since being
a royal protection officer, he has spent
time in jail for a property scam.
At this point the documentary was
briefly starting to look like a report
from The Day Today, as Page said that
the duke would “shout and scream” if
the maids messed up his collection of
“50 or 60 stuffed toys”. The duke
might have been far more concerned
by the repeated clips of Virginia
Giuffre’s shocking claims, and by the
sobering accounts of Epstein’s victims.
Empathising with the women, Singh
revealed that she had experienced an
incident of sexual abuse aged 12, a
highly personal admission for a
journalistic report.
Yet even for such an urgent, heated
hour in dark territory, there was one
amusing moment. When Singh found
Prince Andrew’s personal number in
Maxwell’s “little black book”, not only
did it work, but she got through to his
voicemail and what sounded like his
voice. Singh left a message; oddly
enough, he hasn’t got back to her.Amid the ocean of true-crime
documentaries some stand out. Partly
that’s because they don’t feel like yet
another bit of rubber-necking, partly
because the story is so astonishing
that, as they say, you couldn’t make it
up. The Puppet Master: Hunting the
Ultimate Conman is a case in point.
You may like to think you’re not
gullible, but you won’t have met
someone like Robert Hendy-Freegard,
a man whose lies are so big that you
can’t believe that he’d make them up.
In the 1990s he convinced, or rather
brainwashed, three university students
that not only was he an MI5 agent, but
that they were IRA targets and
together they must flee for their lives.
On a road trip that lasted years, his
lies turned into threats as he
manipulated them into begging
parents for money, ultimately
amounting to more than £1 million.
This odyssey of coercive control
plays out like the plot of a fictional
thriller — no surprise that a movie is
on the way. And apparently, Hendy-
Freegard is still at it, having insinuated
himself into the life of another woman.
If there’s a failing with these tidy
three episodes, it’s in not offering more
idea of who Hendy-Freegard is; why
he is as he is. Yet that’s of little matter
to the basic thrust of the storytelling,
because this is one true-crime doc that
you simply can’t stop watching, even
as you’re appalled.A sordid saga that is going to run and run
US ATTORNEY’S OFFICE/HANDOUTJames
Jackson
TV review
The Puppet Master
Netflix
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