The Ultimate Traitor - Inside the Mind of Robert Hendy-Freegard : Episode 477
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Ultimate Traitor explores the chilling true story of Robert Hendy-Freegard — the conman who posed as an MI5 agent and manipulated his victims through fear, loyalty and lies. A real-life game of trust and betrayal that echoes The Traitors, this episode examines how deception became a weapon — and how ordinary people were drawn into his control, with so many lives destroyed.
In the end he was just a Traitor, playing a game that nobody agreed to play.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about. |
| 0:08.2 | Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 477 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:24.4 | So how is 2026 going so far? I trust like me. |
| 0:30.8 | Those resolutions are all firmly still in place. Yeah, me too. So let's move on, shall we? |
| 0:36.5 | So today is a story for those of you who've been watching and enjoying the traitors. |
| 0:38.4 | We're not heading to the dark streets of London today or a coastal Scottish village. Instead we're travelling to a tiny |
| 0:43.5 | quiet corner initially a rural central France, a place of winding lanes, old stone houses and forests |
| 0:51.3 | that look almost untouched. It's peaceful, it's secluded, and it's the last |
| 0:57.1 | place you'd expect to encounter one of Britain's most manipulative criminals, a man who built his |
| 1:03.5 | life on lies, false identities, and psychological control so strong it destroyed lives. A man whose |
| 1:10.4 | story feels eerily familiar in a world |
| 1:12.6 | obsessed with the traitors, where the real danger doesn't come from violence, but from trust, |
| 1:18.2 | and from placing that trust in the wrong person. But before we get into it, let's set some |
| 1:23.9 | context of the story with our guest a month and year game. You ready? |
| 1:29.7 | Top of the UK music charts was afraid to feel from LF system. Beyonce we break my soul |
| 1:36.4 | top the US charts and in Australia it was Harry Styles at number one in the album charts with |
| 1:43.0 | Harry's house. |
| 1:51.0 | In the news this month, Info Wars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay over £4 million in compensation to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook massacre after Jones |
| 1:58.1 | claimed it was a hoax. British author, Salman Rushdie, was attacked and repeatedly stabbed on stage |
| 2:05.3 | before he gave a lecture in New York, remember that? |
| 2:09.0 | And the Notting Hill Carnival returned |
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