British conman sentenced to six years for ramming police with car in France
Robert Hendy-Freegard, the subject of a Netflix documentary, injured two gendarmes at his home in 2022
A British conman who featured in a Netflix documentary has been sentenced to six years in prison by a French court for deliberately ramming two police officers with his car as he attempted a getaway.
Robert Hendy-Freegard, 53, nicknamed the Puppet Master because of his career as a serial swindler, made his escape after injuring the gendarmes at his home in the Creuse in central France.
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