Alan Bradley
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704 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
Alan Bradley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The girls at school, she went to an all-girls grammar school, they would sort of say, you could never believe her tall tales.
There'd be just one ridiculous story after another.
But it was never criminal and it never really hurt anybody too bad.
It was just silly stuff.
After the death of her baby Martha, that's when things took a turn.
Her mother even said to me that she noticed a kind of change in Samantha then, and she was struggling to cope with what had happened, and a darker turn took place.
And I suppose 2011 then, she's convicted in the UK of surrogacy fraud of a young British couple who were struggling to have a child, and she promised to carry this child for them as a surrogate, but of course didn't go through with it.
So that's the first time we see something sort of criminal or a darker edge come into play.
It really varies from place to place.
Like, for example, the surrogacy scam in the UK, I think it was approximately £3,000 or something like that, the couple say they gave her.
That, you know, is a lot of money to a lot of people, but it mightn't seem like an astronomical sum.
But to that couple at that point in time, that was their whole life savings.
That's everything they had.
For example, the Lapland scam that happened in Dublin in 2016.
You know, people were giving hundreds of euro over, but there was loads of people giving that.
Also, one family were about to sign over a cheque of €20,000.
And luckily that didn't happen, but they were about to.
She just got rumbled just before.
But then I suppose she defrauded the Irish state out of €60,000.
This is in terms of welfare payments, essentially, yeah.
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