Anthony Constantinou is the Wolf Of Bond Street.

In 2014, still only 33, he began an elaborate Ponzi scheme from posh offices in Heron Tower — the 40 storey glass and steel icon that looms over Liverpool Street Station.

Once word got out that his ‘Special Fund’ was paying five per cent returns a month — 60 per cent a year — he wasn’t shy of investors.

One woman had cancer: her insurance had paid out, so rather than buy her mother a house as she’d originally planned, she was convinced to put the whole lot into the Special Fund. Somehow, many retired Gurkhas were convinced to throw their life’s savings in with him.

Backstage of this elaborate hoax, Constantinou was living high on other people’s cash. He had his own Moto GP team, and sponsored the London Boat Show. He blew through £2.3 million just on his wedding. He spent £70 000 on his baby’s first birthday party. And he rented a house on the Bishop’s Avenue that cost more to rent in a year than most London houses are worth.

By the time the cops burst through his doors of Heron Tower, The Wolf had hoovered up some £70 million of other people’s money.

His trial took years to get to court — in part because he first had to be tried on charges of sexual assault.

But in June of 2023, after eight weeks of argument, a jury finally reached a verdict.

This is the story of how that trial played out, from the mouths of Britain’s top team of court reporters — the staff of Court News UK.

And it’s the even more shocking story of what happened after the trial had concluded.

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