EPISODE 4: The Sweetheart Swindler

SYNOPSIS

Would you care to dance? 72 year old Leslie spent many years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from elderly women he met at senior citizens dances. Five years after his release, he was arrested again. This time charged with twenty-five counts of identity fraud relating to Old Age Pension payments that he was collecting from 3 dead people, including his brother who died in 1946. Seventy-two further charges were subsequently laid. For the first half of his life Leslie lived on the right side of the law, what turned this man to a life of repeated crime and conning? This episode is a portrait of an unconscionable conman who claims to have been recently transformed by remorse.