John Humphrys outwitted prime ministers on the Today programme for 30 years. So how did he fall for a petty fraud?
If I were an Oscars judge, I’d award the guy who rang my doorbell best actor for a single performance. Nicely spoken and casually dressed. Respectable middle-class to his manicured fingertips. He apologised profusely for disturbing me but thought we might have met because he’d once lived nearby. He was a little distraught and shaking his phone in frustration – but not hysterically so, given that he was on his way to see his father, who was undergoing chemotherapy. His phone had broken down and he had no cash to pay his taxi driver. Could I help? How could I not? He thanked me profusely, promised to pay me back before the day was out and rushed off. Clearly a man in a hurry for a very good reason. Or should I say – as you will have probably sussed by now – a conman in a hurry? So why...
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