Victim Carol Board was effectively left homeless by David Coombs' scheming. In 2017 he was sentenced to four years in prison for nine counts of fraud after his web of lies was uncovered by detectives. Labelled the 'Cassanova Conman', Coombs, 58, fleeced his victims out of a fortune by charming them with fake stories about his glamourous jobs, claiming to be a helicopter pilot one day and a property developer the next.
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The second person featured in tonight's show is serial conman David Coombs, from Southampton, who has spent years in and out of prison. Stacey says: 'You have to hope they will let you out.'īut his victim's widow disagrees and says the killer should rot behind bars, telling the programme: 'To me, the right decision would be to keep him locked up. The BBC series shows how he must convince a two-person Parole Board he has tackled his anger. Stacey previously got parole in 2017 but was put back in jail after a fight.
The convicted killer is one of several criminals to be featured in tonight's opening episode, which includes a drug dealer and a serial love cheat dubbed the 'Casanova Conman'. Stacey, of Brighton, was among the 16,000 potentially dangerous criminals seeking parole - with about 4,000 being released each year.
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