{"id":303476,"date":"2025-12-18T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-fake-spy-who-loved-me-the-life-and-crimes-of-mark-acklom\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:00:41","slug":"the-fake-spy-who-loved-me-the-life-and-crimes-of-mark-acklom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-fake-spy-who-loved-me-the-life-and-crimes-of-mark-acklom\/","title":{"rendered":"The fake spy who loved me: The life and crimes of Mark Acklom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/yZxYRLZOdhU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"The fake spy who loved me: The life and crimes of Mark Acklom\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZxYRLZOdhU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Most of us have told the odd\u00a0tall tale\u00a0from time to time\u00a0\u2013\u00a0but\u00a0not many\u00a0people would pretend to be an MI6 agent or a wealthy Swiss banker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those are just\u00a0a couple\u00a0of the outlandish lies told by notorious British conman Mark\u00a0Acklom\u00a0&#8211; whose life of deception started as a teenager and took him all over Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sky\u2019s crime correspondent Martin Brunt spent years on\u00a0Acklom\u2019s\u00a0trail,\u00a0after one of his devastated victims contacted him asking for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0Acklom\u2019s\u00a0latest court\u00a0hearing gets underway, Martin tells Niall why some stories are stranger than fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Producer:\u00a0Tom Gillespie\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Editor:\u00a0Mike Bovill\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have told the odd\u00a0tall tale\u00a0from time to time\u00a0\u2013\u00a0but\u00a0not many\u00a0people would pretend to be an MI6 agent or a wealthy Swiss banker.\u00a0 Those are just\u00a0a couple\u00a0of the outlandish lies told by notorious British conman Mark\u00a0Acklom\u00a0&#8211; whose life of deception started as a teenager and took him all over Europe.\u00a0 Sky\u2019s crime correspondent Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128811],"tags":[129040,129147,128947],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-303476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sky-news","tag-have","tag-most","tag-told"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The fake spy who loved me: The life and crimes of Mark Acklom | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch The fake spy who loved me: The life and crimes of Mark Acklom for free, here on News ISC. 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