Chameleon Case Study
I posted this Chameleon Case Study years ago on an old blog of mine. Now, it’s re-posted here with updates and new knowledge gained.
The “Chameleon Con Man“ is a black-belt level case in the Demon Spotting game. I don’t spend a lot of time explaining the “DramaGuru Code Words” used to analyze this real-life case. But you should still be able to understand and follow along.
Click here to go straight to the case. Otherwise, please read the following first.
A word to the wise
Trigger alert! If you’ve been betrayed or swindled, you might get negatively activated reading this story. However, instead of reading this case and being reminded of sad times, what if you analyze what happened to you–using the DramaGuru code words to help you get some formal distance from the situation?
The DramaGuru code words describe a set of recognizable behaviors. It’a better to spot these behaviors ahead of time to avoid getting tangled up and trapped by a charming chameleon.
Strip the emotional response away and you’ll be clear-headed to learn the lessons you missed when you were actively dealing with the relationship. A new point of view will emerge! You’ll see something you didn’t see before to help you escape or avoid a chameleon trap in the future.
As you learn more about the Demon Spotting system, you’ll start to look forward to effectively blocking any new attempts to put you in a weakened position. Hmmph!
The Devil only respects spiritual weapons
Even more importantly, as you practice demon spotting, you’ll have warrior prayers to break up the networks of witchcraft that support generational curses in your family line.
Once the network is dismantled and the human witches are facing Jesus, this type of cursed situation won’t happen to you–in the same way–anymore.
It’s important to keep in mind, however, that other witches from networks that are not yet dismantled, will look for new ways to interfere with you by muddying the water around you.
There’s a phrase I see on t-shirts which says something like, “Everyone you know is in a [spiritual] battle you know nothing about.”
I added “spiritual” because most people don’t realize that spiritual warfare is happening to them all day and all night.
Spiritual Weapons
In his sermon this morning entitled, “The Devil will pay for this! Part 2”, Pastor Travis Green from Forward City Church in South Carolina let people know how to back the devil up, saying, “The devil only respects spiritual weapons.”
Demons and witches are constantly looking for a weak spot to get inside your head to cast spells of disturbance, discontent, indecisiveness and a lack of trust.
What should you say when they have succeeded in making you feel this way?
“Get out of my head, demon! You don’t belong here in my private space. I’m not alone. Jesus is here to chat with me. Leave now or get ready for a Holy Ghost smack-down.”
Warrior prayers are spiritual weapons.
Speaking of which, let’s have a new one to set the stage for a notorious pretender, and the star (villain) of the show, Chameleon Con Man, Marc Hatton.
This is a prayer of protection and peace for everyone reading this case study, especially if something like this chameleon con man betrayal has ever happened to you.
Warrior Prayer: Weaponize Forgiveness
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for this opportunity to come before you with our faith and belief that you will aid us in our time of need. We know you will help us because you love us and you've helped us before.
In the name of your son, Jesus, we ask that you shield us from the principality responsible for distracting us from hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit. We ask that you remove any illegal claims, liens, agreements, promises or access that demons and witches think they hold over us.
Please help us to escape the traps we've fallen into and to avoid falling into new traps in the future.
We keep our eyes fixed on you, Lord, as all networks of witchcraft connected to betrayal are infused with the blood of Jesus.
Let it be that no connection to the occult will remain for any human witch attached to this network who is touched by the blood of Jesus.
Dear Father, in the spirit of forgiveness, please allow each witch to turn to Jesus, to kneel, to surrender and to declare Jesus as Lord.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, we pray.
Amen!
AI Description: “In the Bible, “principality” generally refers to spiritual forces of authority, often associated with evil and demonic powers, that operate in the unseen realm. These forces are distinct from human rulers and are often described as being in opposition to God’s will. They are sometimes depicted as having influence over specific territories or areas. These forces are portrayed as actively working against God’s purposes, seeking to influence events and individuals towards darkness and deception.”
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."
Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
With all of that said, let’s dive into this chameleon black-belt Demon Spotting case analysis.
Chameleon Position: Marc Hatton used at least three different names to set his traps.
Over the course of three years, Marc Hatton also known as Alexander de Rothschild-Hatton, and Alexander D’Ariken, conned Christine Handy out of more than £500,000. She fell in love with him before realizing that everything he told her was a lie. And, she only found out after having his baby.
Sounds like a soap opera plot, doesn’t it? But unfortunately, it’s true. And Marc Hatton did much worse to another family. Multiple cons at the same time with even darker results.
That makes Marc Hatton, the first DramaGuru Academy black-belt-villain case study.
Mr. Hatton used excellent techniques of deception to bolster his position with Christine before he trapped her and started to unravel her life.
Jiu Jitsu advice: Secure your position before attempting to submit your opponent (victim, prey, competitor, frenemy, etc.)
Conmen Case Files
“Conmen Case Files” is a British TV show that dramatizes actual events involving real life con men. Swindlers, fraudsters, hucksters and “confidence” men. This Chameleon con man’s episode aired as the first episode of season 3.
It looks like the TV show spells Mark with a “k” on the end instead of a “c”.
Whatever.
The son he had with Christine is called Marcus, so I am sticking with the “c”.
I’m not that interested in the spelling of his name since he has so many of them.
I am much more interested in using his antics to discover ways to avoid traps like this in the future.
I found this episode on Tubi, if you’d like to watch it. Tubi is free in the US. It might be on Apple TV. Check it out. I did see the episode on youtube. But when I went back to check something, it wasn’t there anymore.
The series is fascinating! Lots of cases for me to dissect for clues to terrible behavior.
DramaGuru Smash of Marc Hatton
By observing the patterns of fraudsters, I intend to find the clues and plot a course to predict a swindlers’ every move. Their cons have a game plan.
If you catalog things that seem strange, you’ll notice that something’s wrong — before the water suddenly gets too deep. And then you can interrupt the pattern and change the game.
In the game I created called, DramaGuru, the villain is known as a Collector.
Con men, by definition, are collectors of other people’s money and power, leaving their victims in the lurch with nothing, but empty promises.
As you read through this case, look for clues regarding respect.
- How does Christine show her respect for Marc?
- How does Marc show respect for Christine? Women! Beware the trap of believing that only men worry about being respected.
- If you were in this situation, with regard to respect, how lop-sided does it have to get before you call a halt? When respect is missing, bonding is impossible.
This chameleon operates at the Black Belt Level
You become a black-belt level villain when the traps you set move with you. Marc is able to set up his game and trap any person standing in front of him. He doesn’t need a special office or location to trap–that’s how a brown-belt villain works. You have to actually enter a brown-belt’s space to fall into the trap.
Black-belt and brown-belt villains are capable of combining multiple positions and attacks at the same time. It is very difficult to escape unharmed once they have you in their sights.
This particular case study is long. But that’s because Marc moves in and out of seven different positions, launches multiple attacks and keeps Christine thoroughly confused.
Speaking of confusion, anytime you say, “I don’t understand,” examine whether you have a lack of knowledge or whether the person speaking to you is trying to mislead you with nonsense.
The best way to stay out of a trap is to never fall into one.
It’s a trap! Stay out of it.
The DramaGuru Code Word for living in a state of confusion is a trap called Ostrich Position which is where Christine found herself once she fell for the chameleon con man.
There’s only strength and power in Ostrich Position when you weaponize confusion to befuddle and weaken your opponent. As Marc did to Christine.
Demon Spotting as a game uses code words sorted into two different sections: Positions and Attacks. First, you establish a position and then you launch your attack. The code words listed below are all used in this case to analyze what went wrong.
Forewarned is forearmed. Practice and prepare so that nothing like this ever happens to you (again).
DramaGuru Positions Defined
Your chosen posture designed to strengthen your position vs your opponent. The behavior you select to weaken your opponent before setting the trap.
- Chameleon Position: Changeable, blends in, hides in plain sight. Difficult to pin down. Manipulative.
- Rabbit Position: Unavailable and too busy. Everything else is more important than you.
- Vulture Position: Entitled. A person who believes they deserve special treatment, privileges, or advantages just because of who they are or their placement within a family or organization.
- Skunk Position: Chaos ensues when someone who has authority over you decides to interfere with you. Their permission to punish or eliminate you gives them free rein to have their way with you. Because no one will question them or believe you, even if you complain.
- Magpie Position: They have a love-hate relationship with you. The one who chases the shiny object. Once they gain their prize, they instantly lose interest and start searching for the next unattainable object.
- Peacock Position: The center of attention. Everyone look at me! Or else I will make you pay.
- Porcupine Position: Passive-aggressive behavior. First, they are spiky and angry. Then they are apologizing and showing you their vulnerable underbelly (soft side).
- Ostrich Position: Unfortunately, this is the only position available to Christine. She has the weakest position in the game. Full of confusion and empty pockets where her money used to be. Did she have her head in the sand?
DramaGuru Attacks Defined
- Eddie Attack: Insider vs Outsider attack. Any time people band together against you to ridicule or shame you. Or any attempt to isolate you from family and friends.
- Grandiose Attack: An insult of any kind, large or small, public or private designed to ridicule or shame.
- Sneaky Millie Attack: Any underhanded trick or act of deceit used to manipulate, ridicule or shame. Exclude. Ignore.
- Two-Timer Attack: Someone who is cheating by seeing someone else on the side. A person who says one thing, but does another.
- Turncoat Attack: Someone who is supposed to protect you, but instead attacks you. Disloyal.
- Vampire Attack: Anything designed to drain your resources or your pockets.
- Creepy Wally Attack: Someone who invades personal or private space without permission, respect or regard for consequences.
- Baby Jane Attack: Absolute chaos! Someone who upsets, demolishes, destroys and completely ruins a situation or a relationship creates a Baby Jane attack.
Marc used 7 out of 8 Demon Spotting Positions, leaving Christine with the Ostrich Position (confusion)
If only, Marc had been more prickly to Christine when using Porcupine Position. Maybe she wouldn’t have fallen in love with him.
Out of the eight (8) positions listed above, Christine uses only one, the Ostrich position.
Long story short, if you feel confused in your relationship with another person, you are in the Ostrich position.
Take time to understand the positions your partner has taken against you. Unless you’re being confused on purpose to block someone or something, you won’t win with your head-in-the-sand.
Christine had no clue that a con man was at work in her life. At no time, was she capable of disentangling herself from the web, Marc Hatton spun around her. Until she found out the truth, she had no idea that she was being fleeced out of her cash, emotionally violated and at risk of putting her teenage children in danger.
Chameleon Position: Characteristics of a Con Man
- Hypnotic charm, mesmerizing, even intoxicating when focused on a person who perhaps, isn’t used to getting that kind of attention from a man or a woman. The victim loves how it feels to be in the center of all that charm.
- Has you feeling like an insider because the con man is including you in his or her life, treating you as if you matter. Making you feel important. (Knowing how you drink your coffee. Well done, player!)
- Looking for security? Con men know that. So, they wear a nice suit. Expensive, if possible. Being “well-dressed” helps him look the part of a successful entrepreneur or business person. The same way a white doctor’s coat or lab coat gives respect and credibility to the person wearing it…even if they stole the coat and the ID card from someone’s locker.
- He plays into your expectation of what the relationship should look like. He lets you know that he trusts you. So there’s no need to worry about trusting him, right? Except that intoxicating charm didn’t spring up overnight. Who has he been practicing on?
- They spend your money on luxury items. More than they can even use. They pile it up like Christmas presents. And yet, it’s never enough. They have to pull another con to get more money and more toys.
A Chameleon relies on you trusting him while he lies and manipulates
I first heard this story when I watched Season 3, Episode One of Conmen Case Files. Christine Handy was featured as the victim vs a man who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a famous French banking dynasty heir, Edmund de Rothschild.
By the time Christine’s baby was born, Marc had conned her out of large chunks of cash that she borrowed against her house.
“The relationship felt really real,” Christine said during the episode. “I look back and I say, did I really do that? Did I really believe and trust him so much?”
The Sneaky Millie Attack
Deception is a con man’s greatest weapon. Demon Spotters will already see a Sneaky Millie attack waiting in the wings.
The whole story starts in 2003, Christine was a newly divorced, mother of three. She stopped for coffee on her way to work and the con man, using the name, Alexander D’Ariken, struck up a conversation with her.
He asked if he could sit down. She said yes…not realizing that all the other tables were empty. He swooped in with the charm, saying he’d noticed her before, thought she looked interesting, etc.
Beware of the chameleon! He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
First Pattern: Christine said she chit-chatted with Alexander. She believed his story about his life as a banker because–wait for it–he was well-dressed.
Huge clue in hind-sight for chameleon spotters.
When you assume a person is telling the truth because he’s wearing clothes that fit YOUR idea of how a banker would dress, you’ve already taken the bait. Christine said, “He fitted the profile of a financial consultant. He was very well-dressed. He had his briefcase.”
Alexander D’Ariken is the name of the character Marc created. Chameleon con men are great actors. He wore his costume well.
True to form, the chameleon behaved in ways to thoroughly convince Christine that she was a good judge of character. His efforts to look the part made her feel confident that the man in front of her was successful.
When someone is accused of being a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, it means they are playing a role contrary to their real character–and being around them is dangerous. This game is as old as time.
And so, the Chameleon sets the trap with ‘effective manipulation’
Christine liked Alexander enough to join him at his table the following Monday. This time, she revealed more information about her life — the sort of stuff you tell a stranger as you’re getting to know each other. Safe and secure, public place. She took her guard down and felt comfortable with him.
Alexander shared his (made-up) life story about going to Oxford at age 15 and gave her a synopsis of his resume. All lies.
Kerry Daynes, a Forensic Psychologist Consultant on the “Conmen Case Files” show described Alexander as, “…slowly and steadily dripping bits of information to her, building up a mythology, in a way that’s really, quite convincing. This is very effective grooming, very effective manipulation. And within time, he’s going to have her exactly where he wants her.”
The Chameleon made a first move to build trust which should have spelled danger…but Christine was flattered instead.
Fake Alexander bought her a coffee and had it waiting for her when she arrived on the third Monday.
Are you catching the implied intimacy?
I know how you drink your coffee. I ordered it for you. Because I know you will be here looking for me. (Arrogant Peacock!)
If you trust me, you’ll drink this coffee.
Side Note: As a rule, I don’t accept drinks like that. Anyone could slip something in it. Just don’t drink it!
If a guy you don’t know — but might like — bought your child a hot chocolate before you arrived, would you let your child drink it? I hope not.
If you didn’t see the person make it, you have no idea what’s in it. I might offend people by not drinking it. So, what? I would say, next time, if there is a next time, please buy the drink — after I arrive — or get me something with a cap on it that I have to open. I worry about what people might slip in my drink when I’m not looking. Evil people might slip a mickey into it.
No way would I accept a drink — made before I arrived — and on the table waiting for me. No thank you!
Apparently, Christine took the bait and drank the coffee. He was the first to pay for something.
I’m not being overly cautious. Someone did it to me at an ordinary party. Whatever the drug was, it worked really quickly. As I lost the ability to stand, I draped myself over the nearest girl and wouldn’t let go. People noticed that something was obviously wrong with me and they intervened. Two girls drove me home from the party. Thank God, I was rescued.
Next position in play is the Porcupine Position. Time to show Christine his vulnerable underbelly by sharing his made-up family history.
And so, the theatrics begin. Without being asked, Alexander presents his passport with an amazingly long, over-the-top name: Alexander Marc D’Ariken de Rothschild-Hatton.
Then, the elaborate soap opera story of a love affair between his supposed father, Edmund de Rothschild, and his Chinese mother, Christine Ong, to explain his name. But, in fact, his real name is Marc Hatton.
“He was a very emotional man. He pretended to be hurt about his family background.” Trauma sharing with her stories about her recent divorce and his stories about being wounded helped Christine to fall for the man she calls “kind”.
Porcupine Position: Prickly when angry. Vulnerable, sad, sulking and crying whenever they want you to do something for them when you’ve already told them, NO!
Cops call this a sweetheart scam. I call it Rabbit Position. Love bombing and then being unavailable.
He called 20 times a day. Then he’d disappear for a few days. Things move forward. She met his sister. He met her friends and children. Christine said, “He said he loved me and wanted me to be his wife. Oh, this is going a bit fast. He never asked me to marry him, he just talked about it.”
Next, Marc Hatton Needs Money For London Business School
Because Christine felt so confident with her relationship, she started to give him cash — borrowing against her house — to stop his crying and misery over being a “poor” Rothschild and not being able to get a school loan.
Vulture Position: Entitled
He asked her to borrow the money because she would have to sell the house anyway, to follow him to his new job, after the London Business School.
But Marc Hatton was never accepted and never enrolled in the London Business School MBA program.
Instead, Marc went on a massive shopping spree buying luxury items with the £75,000 Christine gave him. And, he told her he wouldn’t move in with her because her 3 children might interrupt his studying.
March 2005: Christine is pregnant with Marc Hatton’s child. Thinking that she had given him what he wanted, she was surprised that it took two days for him to come and celebrate the news with her.
Christine didn’t realize that she was even more entangled in a terrible trap.
Christine fell in love with a greedy piggy
Narcissist definition: A person who has an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a deep need for excessive attention and admiration. They lack empathy for others and often exploit those around them to fulfill their own needs.
Powerful predators. They look so much nicer on the way in, than they look on the way out.
Manipulation and Deception. Yes, gaslighting happened.
On the show, Christine said, “They feed you little snippets. And they say it often enough, that you start doubting yourself.” That is a direct result of being gaslighted by a chameleon con man.
Double-life revealed!
At this point, Christine did not know that Marc Hatton actually had another family in another part of England. Apparently, he was busy with them because he didn’t turn up to help Christine, when it was time for the baby to be born.
Christine had to get to the hospital by herself…and pay for her own flowers.
When Marc finally turned up with some flowers from the hospital gift shop, he asked Christine for the money to pay for them.
"So, not only have I just given birth to his son, I ended up having to pay for my own flowers."
Christine Handy
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"Don't sail over an ocean for someone who won't step over a puddle for you."
Pastor Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church
(where I heard this good advice first)
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Forensic Psychologist, Kerry Daynes described Marc Hatton as a psychopath saying that if Marc were able to feel emotion, he wouldn’t treat people the way he treated Christine.
Whatever.
In my game, Marc Hatton is a Collector. That makes him, always dangerous.
Besides that, on the show, Christine already said that Marc cried a lot and whined about his (fake) miserable childhood. Christine felt warmly connected whenever he displayed his vulnerable (Porcupine underbelly) side.
I’d rather call someone a Collector. Collecting is an active verb. Being a psychopath makes it sound like there’s nothing to be done about it. And it’s a clinical diagnosis that someone with credentials needs to decide. I don’t have time for all that.
Hey Collector! Go collect somewhere else!
Marc Needs £80,000 for a tax bill
Panic-stricken, Marc tells Christine he needs to leave the country because he doesn’t have the money to pay his taxes.
Another grandiose attack. Another insulting lie that she believed because Marc was supposedly, a financial consultant. She didn’t want the father of her new-born son to leave. Christine lent him £50,000. He told her he would raise the remainder himself.
But he didn’t. He went shopping for luxury items instead. And just for himself. Not for Christine and the new baby.
Then, Marc tells Christine to sell her house and move into a rental because they need to be ready to move to Switzerland for his anticipated banking job on the heels of his non-existent MBA. He told her that he would sell his house too.
Christine said, “That filled me full of dread because I’ve got a new-born baby. But he kept saying it was very important. If I were in rented accommodation, we could just pack up and go.”
But what about her other three kids? No mention of them or how this move would impact their lives. Looks like another clue to me. A very distressing one. And deep in the game. Difficult to turn back now.
The Grand Hurrah
Forensic and official con man experts describe a tactic called the “Grand Hurrah” as the point where the victim has sunk so much money, emotion and time into the situation or person, that pulling out now — just isn’t possible. The victim is sliding down the slippery slope.
Christine has to invest even more to keep the dream alive. She sold her house. But Marc never moved in to the remote house he chose for them.
Plus, he wouldn’t tell her the name of the bank where he would be working in Switzerland.
What a clever chameleon! He acts like he’s so important and Christine believes him.
Marc said his new job was “top secret” until the news was released in the Financial Times. Pretender! Working Peacock position again.
In a con this long, the Grandiose – Sneaky Millie combination is going to appear several times. And, of course, Marc used the Eddie Attack by moving Christine away from her friends.
When you want to isolate someone, you can move them out of the group to stop them from feeling connected. Or you can physically move a person to a location where there is no group to connect to.
Isolated and alone makes anyone feel vulnerable
Now is the time for Marc to get his hands on the proceeds from selling Christine’s house. That pile of money must have kept him awake at night with plotting how to get her to release the money to him. All of his gaslighting efforts finally paid off. He had Christine trapped, and wanting to please him.
Because he presented himself as a financial advisor, Christine gave him £105,000 to invest in stocks.
But, that wasn’t going to happen.
“I found out, he bought a brand new BMW instead,” Christine said.
Jumping through hoops to please him because of the new baby.
“I look back and I just think..I’d been jumping through these hoops that he’d set out for me, to be a family and be with him.
And yet, nothing was materializing. All the things he said he was going to do, didn’t happen…I think I got to my darkest point. I thought, ‘What am I doing? What’s going on?’
And I really felt that I was losing my grip on my life, on reality. I remember thinking that the only way I can bring this back into control was to go back to Cheltenham, be around my friends and family close-by. And that’s surprising that I had the courage to just get up and go and take back control of my life.”
Three years into their relationship, Christine became fully aware of her reaction to Marc’s warm side-A and dark side-B. She wondered why she tolerated side B, but then remembered his warmth, side A.
Because of the baby, Christine said, “I was still prepared to work on the relationship.”
And then the Chameleon made a mistake.
Maintaining a ruse for this long, Marc had to eventually trip over his own feet.
A skilled mixed martial artist (or Demon Spotter) prepares for this opportunity.
When your efforts aren’t working to your satisfaction, create an opportunity to surprise him with an attack he didn’t see coming.
Christine explained that Marc took her to his brother’s house. She connected with Marc’s brother’s wife. They enjoyed their conversation and planned to meet at another time for coffee. Marc flipped out. “Why have you invited Rose to our house?”
Christine answered, “She’s going to be my sister-in-law one day. What’s wrong with asking her to visit?”
Marc said that he didn’t trust Rose, the sister-in-law
The sister-in-law showed up for coffee. And so did Marc. About half an hour before Rose arrived, Marc turned up and remained at home until she left. Then Marc started an argument, saying that he didn’t trust Rose and he didn’t want her in the house.
Christine argued back saying, “You can’t tell me who to choose as my friends.”
Marc replied, “Well, if you love me and you respect me, you’d do what I ask.”
Trying to comply with Marc’s wishes, Christine phoned Rose to say that there was an issue in the family and she wanted to talk about it.
To which Rose replied, “Well, I hope you’ve not given him any money. If he’s a de Rothschild, then my husband’s Mickey Mouse.”
Rose reveals Marc Hatton’s con man history to Christine. The chameleon is exposed.
Then Rose dropped a bomb into the conversation telling Christine that Marc had defrauded a woman in Italy and his own brother.
Christine said she didn’t know who to believe. Confused. She’s still stuck in the Ostrich trap. But luckily, Rose used the Eddie Attack to let Christine know that she was not alone and not the only one who had been duped. Now, Marc is the outsider. And Christine is on a new team.
Marc went berserk on the phone when Christine relayed the news Rose shared.
The Pivot Point: Sister-in-law Rose has a small role in this story, but a huge impact. Her conversation with Christine changed everything.
Marc turns up at Christine’s door saying, “I think you should go back to your ex-husband until this all blows over.” He promised he would pay the money back in the next 6 months. He asked her NOT to go to the police.
But instead of talking to her ex-husband, Christine went to family services to figure out how to make ends meet on the little money she had left. Then, she went to the police.
She declared Marc bankrupt which gave the police an avenue to investigate his bank accounts.
She published a website called “youbetrayedme.com” and put Marc Hatton’s behavior on blast. [Note as of August 2025: There is a webpage with no content available online. They have an email box, but nothing else.]
His latest victim’s son found the website when googling Marc’s name. That took Christine to New York City where she confronted Marc. He just walked away from her.
But it got even worse…
The Baby Jane Attack
The Baby Jane Attack is described as absolute chaos! Someone who upsets, demolishes, destroys and completely ruins a situation or a relationship creates a Baby Jane attack.
More stories regarding Marc’s behavior emerge.
April 2008: DC Jannine Arkell, Gloucestershire Police (on the show) reported, “Mr. Hatton was charged with various offenses of rape and sexual assault. Due to the seriousness of those offenses, the trial took precedence over the fraud trial. In May 2009, Marc was found guilty of those offenses.”
Not just a con man, but a pedophile too.
Narrator on the Conmen Case Files: “While in relationship with Christine, Marc Hatton lived with another woman and her young daughter, who he sexually abused over a period of time when she was between the ages of 13 and 17. When the teenager was 15, the con man paid for her to abort his child. At the same time, Christine Handy was pregnant with his son, Marcus.”
Christine was devastated. “That really turned my world upside down. That was really difficult. (A) Because I have a daughter and he’d been in my home and (B) I’ve got Marcus. How do you protect his son — my son — from that? I felt so much guilt just by association. I’d taken him into my children’s school. He used to come with me when I picked the children up. That was hard. Obviously, it still upsets me.”
Marc Hatton gets sent to jail.
Forensic Psychologist Kerry Daynes says that Hatton’s crimes follow the same pattern: “He’s quite happy to abuse people in an intimate way…This is a man taking what he wants without any thought for the person he’s taken it from.“
February 2010: Christine gets her day in court.
16 March 2010: Marc Hatton is found guilty on seven counts of obtaining money transfers by deception. Sentenced to 15 years for rape. 3 years for fraud. Total 18 years in jail.
Christine felt vindicated. “He got what he deserved.”
Crying, Christine said that it’s so difficult to look back and consider how she felt and then to recognize it as a complete lie. “It’s just like somebody walks into your life and just steals three years of it.”
Plus the £500,000 that he spent on nonsense.
Christine says that she loves her son, Marcus, and she will take good care of him, loving him unconditionally. “It’s not going to make me cynical and bitter.”
Finally, made it to the end of this case.
Final thoughts: When you meet people for the first time, trust them, but verify information before you extend money or intimacy.
Marc, like all the rest of us deserves to be forgiven as God forgives us. But if I were Christine (or someone in a similar situation, I would never trust or associate with him again. I imagine he wants to see his son. What a terrible situation.
Now that you have the code words, do your analysis and spot patterns and clues. Look for attacks and positions. Pull back and keep your distance if you don’t like what you see.
Questions
Here’s the questions about respect again from earlier in the case, plus one more:
- What can you learn from applying the DramaGuru code words to situations in your own life?
- How does Christine show her respect for Marc?
- How does Marc show respect for Christine? Women! Beware the trap of believing that only men worry about being respected.
- If you were in this situation, with regard to respect, how lop-sided does it have to get before you call a halt? When respect is missing, bonding is impossible.
Some problems are too deep for you to handle on your own. Remember to include Team Trinity, our Heavenly Father, Jesus (The Healer) and the Holy Spirit (The Helper). They will make a way where there is no way.
I believe that at the right time, an angel connected Rose, the sister-in-law with Christine. This time, Christine listened, heard the facts and took action.
I’m sure other people wondered and cautioned her along the way.
When the time is right, the Holy Spirit moves. Why else would Marc deliberately take Christine to meet the people who know his secrets? When the Holy Spirit gets fed up with your behavior, there’s nothing you can do to escape the trap he sets for you.
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Photo of Christine Handy and the chameleon con man taken from this article – Woman confronts ‘conman lover who fleeced her out of £600,000 and claimed to be illegitimate son of Edmund de Rothschild’ The monetary amount changes in each article. Whatever. It was a criminal amount.
Con Man Case Files: Season 3, Episode 1, quotes and explanations were taken directly from the show.
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