An ingenious con man with a gift for mimicry awaits sentencing after he used a smuggled-in cellphone to create a fake British government email account, which he then used to persuade prison officials to set him free, according to court and Internet domain records.
Neil Moore, 28, of Ilford, northeast of London, was in Wandsworth prison — the same maximum-security facility Ronnie Biggs, the Great Train Robber, famously escaped from 40 years ago — awaiting trial on fraud charges in March 2014, according to Southwark Crown Court records.