Hunter and the hunted

David Snow has won an international award for pursuing a conman who stole dead babies’ identities, says Sue Leonard

LAST MARCH, an American fraudster was jailed for four years. Texan Jeremy Cochran, 36, had six Irish passports, and had used them to gain PPS numbers, and to open bank accounts. He had claimed social welfare, but his biggest scam was lodging false insurance claims.

He was clever. He had duped several insurance companies, but an investigator, Irishman David Snow, proved his match. A member of the International Association of Special Investigation Units, he’d worked for Pinkertons in the States. He was determined to arrest the Texan.