‘He got what he deserved’: Inside the mystery death of Britain’s most brazen crook… and how he went from fast cars and ‘very young’ girls in Dubai and Thailand to laying dead and half-naked on a west London street

Back in December 2008, viewers of BBC‘s Crimewatch were treated to the familiar rogues gallery of the nation’s most wanted criminals.

Among them was Karl Cronin who, as presenter Rav Wilding explained, was wanted in connection with large-scale fraud in London and Surrey.

‘He’s got as many as 11 aliases,’ he warned, before reeling off a list of names that hinted at a man who had spent years slipping between identities.

What lay behind that mugshot was, in fact, a complex and calculated trail of criminality: Cronin went looking for properties that were up for rent – and for which the mortgage had

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