Are the Sunday Mirror (and the Met) latest ‘target’ of Bangor con man, Mark Townley?

Well, here’s our old friend Mark Townley again. This time posing as a Jihadist. His story was plausible enough to have him arrested after ‘confessing’ to planning to kill Prince Harry. And to get the Sunday Mirror to cover it as real. Ashraf Islam is his latest nom de guerre. After his arrest over the Harry threat, police found evidence on Islam’s laptop that he visited terrorist and weapons websites and had searched for “kidnapping”, “guns” and “vans”. A source …

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Mark Townley – con artist with an extensive portfolio

At the start of August NIVCA warned community/voluntary/charity groups of potential difficulties that could arise if they dealt with Mark Townley of NTF. As the cached link shows NTF displayed Social Enterprise Coalition, Give with Confidence, ICO, Learn Direct and  DEL logos on their website so could easily have been accepted as an organisation with integrity. NICVA is advising voluntary and community organisations and sports clubs not to hand over any money to NTF or to their Director Mark Townley, …

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