Agathe Auproux told her followers of a very worrying situation, linked to a dark news item. On her Instagram account, the 30-year-old columnist who we will find on Brut.fr recounted the incident which dates back to August 25, 2022. Not far from her place of residence, she discovered that a motorist had fled , refusing to obey a roadside check and knocking down two gendarmes.
According to the Objeko site, a follower of Agathe Auproux told her by private message that there would be “a crook” in her region in Guéret. Worried but curious to know more, the one who valiantly faced lymphatic cancer learned more about this banal roadside check that went wrong. The suspect is believed to be an actively wanted Briton. She realizes that she could have met him several times, during her driving lessons.
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It all started when breeding dogs owned by a British couple in Vidaillat, a village of 180 inhabitants south of Guéret, were to be transferred to the SPA under the control of the DETSPP, responsible among other things for animal protection, and of the gendarmerie. It was then that, according to the prefecture of Creuse, when “the gendarmerie asked one of the spouses to go to the nearest brigade“, a man “started his vehicle then hit the two soldiers before fleeing“.
According to the mayor of the town Martine Laporte, the man, still at large on Friday, is Robert Hendy-Freegard, AFP reported. The 50-year-old, who arrived in the village with his partner in 2015, is no stranger. This British crook is the hero of a documentary The Puppetmaster: manipulation lessonsbroadcast on Netflix since the beginning of the year and a fiction film, RogueAgent, starring James Norton and Gemma Arterton, also on Netflix. “It’s been 4-5 years that we know he’s a scoundrel“, told an AFP correspondent, Serge, who does not want to give his name, a neighbor of the stone house inhabited by the couple, today with closed shutters.
In 2005, Robert Hendy-Freegard was sentenced by British justice to life imprisonment for kidnapping, deception, theft from students and women, from whom he had extracted a total of more than a million pounds, in notably posing as a spy for MI5, the British secret service. He was released in 2009 after an appeals court overturned the kidnapping conviction.
In Vidaillat, the scammer had settled with his companion in an isolated house, accessible after several bends in the Limousin forest. If he only went there “very rarely“, his companion lived there “totally reclusive” and “completely under the influence“, according to the mayor. Her son and daughter, born of another union, thought their mother had disappeared, until the broadcast of the documentary. According to the town hall, the couple’s “illicit” canine breeding housed nearly 30 dogs in cages and had been targeted by several reports from the municipality for two years.