Samantha Jade Cookes,, also known as Carrie Jade Williams, Jade O'Sullivan, Jade Cooke, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Lucy FitzWilliams, and Sadie Harris, is a serial fraudster convicted in England in 2011, and Ireland in 2025, of fraud, deception, and theft. She has been the subject of an episode of Swindled and a 4-episode RTÉ Radio podcast, entitled "The Real Carrie Jade". As a writer, she won a UK£1,000 composition prize from Financial Times/Bodley Head, and a €36,200 grant from the Arts Council or Ireland.
'I was scared con-artist would abduct my child'
Between 2011 and 2025, Samantha Cookes used multiple identities to con families in the UK and Ireland.
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