Duper nanny

TOOK ADVANTAGE: Samantha Cookes used fake information to lure people in

- BY SARA WALLIS

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.

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.