RTE 'conned' by woman sharing 'heartbreaking' story of terminal illness

RTE was conned by a woman named Carrie Jade Williams, after she reached out to the national broadcaster with a heartbreaking story of terminal illness.

She claimed that she had been adopted so had no prior awareness of her medical history. She thought she might have a lifeline through lifesaving brain surgery, and she wanted RTÉ to record her final hope. The documentary team were to discover over time that Carrie Jade Williams lived under a number of different identities. She sought out the vulnerable, right across Ireland and the UK, and despite several convictions and being unmasked many times, she has shown no sign of stopping.

Ahead of the series release producer Ronan Kelly says: “She may have initially conned us into interviewing her for a podcast but that was nothing to what she did to her real victims: she stole their money, their property and, worst of all, their sense of trust.”

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