‘Lord of Fraud’ caught with hundreds of pictures of children

A conman known as the ‘Lord of Fraud’ after he was convicted of two multi-million pound scams has admitted making pictures of children. Self styled peer Hugh James Rodley, 79, was jailed for seven years in 2012 for fleecing up to 600 pensioners with the promise of ‘rich rewards’. He was already serving an eight-year sentence for plotting to steal £229m from a Japanese bank in one of the biggest ever cyber crimes of its kind. The father of three,…