Fraudster Samantha Cookes spent more than a decade conning people in both Ireland and Britain.

A new book looks at how Cookes integrated herself into the lives of vulnerable families and posed as a nanny, a therapist and an author under various identities.

Alan Bradley, author of ‘Unmasking Samantha Cookes: The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster’, joins Daniel McConnell on The Last Word.

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