British Detain "Nowhere Man", identity thieving FAB4 fan

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR2006050501671.html


British Detain a Nowhere Man
Jailed Impostor Using Aristocratic Name May Be a Missing Beatles Fan From Orlando

By Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 6, 2006; Page A01

LONDON, May 5 -- In January last year, a prosperous man with a posh English accent boarded a ferry in Calais, France, for the quick run across the channel to Dover. Immigration officials did a computer check on his passport and discovered something startling: The man's particulars matched those of an infant who had died in August 1963.

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Now British authorities think they probably have the answer: He is Charlie Stopford, an American from Orlando. Stopford family members in Florida have come forward to say that Charlie disappeared 23 years ago, remembered for his large collection of Beatles records and ability to perfectly mimic British speech.

This is Just TOO strange. It's almost like Charlie Manson again, except with a British accent and an alias.