A career swindler dubbed the ‘Lord of Fraud’ has admitted multiple child sexual abuse offences.
Self-styled peer Hugh Rodley, who has been convicted of two multi-million pound scams, pleaded guilty to six counts of making indecent images of children and one of possessing indecent images of children at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court today.
The 79-year-old had been arrested last December for unrelated alleged offences when investigators found a Hewlett Packard laptop which contained 198 indecent images, including 19 at category A, 12 at category B and 167 at category C.
The fake lord, whose aristocratic pretensions were based on a manorial title, had also searched
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