British conman featured in Netflix documentary jailed by French court

David Hendy was found guilty after a trial and sentenced for voluntarily causing injury to national police personnel during an incident in 2022 at his home in central France

The trial at the court of Gueret near Limoges heard on Thursday that Hendy-Freegard, who was addressed in court as David Hendy, rammed two police officers as he fled a police check-up at his home in the village of Vidaillat,

A convicted British conman who was the subject of a Netflix documentary has been sentenced by a French court to six years in prison after he was found guilty of injuring two police officers.

A spokesperson for the French Ministry of Justice told the PA news agency that Robert Hendy-Freegard, also known as David Hendy, was found guilty after a trial and sentenced for voluntarily causing injury to national police personnel during an incident on August 25 2022 at his home address in isolated Creuse in central France.