£2m conman 'slept with 2,500 women'

Paul Bint spoke days after he was released halfway through a three-year sentence for fraud.

The country's highest-profile fraudster revealed that he slept with 2,500 women, using bogus aliases, including barristers and doctors. He also claims he spent 2m on supercars, diamond jewellery and five-star holidays, using fake or stolen credit cards.

Bint, 48, admitted: "I'm trying to go straight - but you can never say never. When you've been as good as I have been all these years, it's hard to resist temptation."

Bint, who carried out his first scam aged 16, is now living near the royal town of Windsor, Berkshire. He said: "I think it was TE Lawrence who said, 'All men dream - it only becomes dangerous when those dreams turn into reality'. What I've done is turned a lot of my dreams into reality.

"I've gone that extra step. Instead of fantasising what it would be like to own a Ferrari, I went out and got one. It made me feel successful."

But he added: "For me, it was about totally forgetting who Paul Bint was, because I disliked that person so much I couldn't even be him."

Over the years as he preyed on lonely women, Bint used dozens of aliases and pretended to be everything from Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer, QC, to Jill Dando murder prosecutor Orlando Powell.