Duper nanny

LIKE an evil Mary Poppins, serial con artist Samantha Cookes posed as a nanny and scammed families with disabled children even taking their money for a fake trip to Lapland.

- BY SARA WALLIS

This gripping two-parter rakes over all the shocking details of this true-crime case in which Cookes assumed multiple identities, including a child therapist, an arts teacher and a surrogate mother, to con families in the UK and Ireland from 2011-2024.

She even posed on TikTok as Carrie Jade Williams, a terminally ill woman and disability activist, winning the sympathy and support of thousands.