Bogus 'earl' who stole baby's name to be deported
A BOGUS aristocrat who stole a dead child's identity and posed as an earl for 23 years is to be deported from the UK.
Charles Albert Stopford III, an American who styled himself "Lord Buckingham", will be escorted by officials on to a Florida-bound plane this week and banned from the UK for at least five years.
Stopford, 44, stole the identity of Christopher Edward Buckingham, an eight-month-old baby who died in a road accident in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, in 1963. The dead child's mother has since moved to Niddrie in Edinburgh.
Stopford's family had last seen him in April 1983 when he was 21 and living with his grandmother in Orlando.
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