How 'Britain's best conman' who posed as a priest, a doctor and charity boss was tracked down to a German care home after 22 years on the run
Kenner Elias Jones, 75, of Caernarfon, North Wales become one of the world's most infamous fraudsters and moved across continents under a string of false identities.
A British conman who spent decades posing as a doctor, priest and charity boss before fleeing the UK has been traced to a German care home 22 years later.
Kenner Elias Jones, 75, from North Wales, became one of the world's most infamous fraudsters and moved across continents under a string of false identities.
The criminal dubbed 'Con Jones' even carried the cross and sang at the investiture ceremony for Charles as the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969.
His first wife Donna Lee Mackenzie, whom he also conned for years after meeting in 1979, has been trying to learn what happened to him after he vanished in 2003.
Now, a new documentary called 'Con Jones: The World's Best Conman?, which will air on S4C from 9pm tonight and BBC iPlayer, has tracked him down to Germany.
It features audio of Ms Mackenzie being reunited with Jones after 40 years apart, as he tells her: 'If I could relive my life… I don't want to go back. What's done is done.
'I'm sorry it happened. Life is full of regrets... but you can't live your life with lots of what ifs because it's done. If we don't meet again in this life, we've been blessed.'
Cameras were not allowed to film inside the care home itself, but Jones gave the producers permission to record his voice during his conversation with Ms Mackenzie.
Kenner Elias Jones married Donna Lee Mackenzie in 1982 and they moved to Buckinghamshire
Donna Lee Mackenzie talks about her ex-husband in the new documentary airing on S4C
Kenner Elias Jones is pictured in the German care home after being visited by Ms Mackenzie
The audio begins with her introducing herself as 'Donna - and for a short time I was Mrs Kenner Elias Jones.' Jones says he does not recognise her and 'feels terrible'.
She then asks about a ring on his finger, which he says she gave him. She then tells him that she has a fountain pen in her possession which she had after they split up.
Ms Mackenzie offers to return it to him, but he insists she keeps it, adding: 'Whatever you brought, it's better you keep it because I am not going anywhere after this.'
In another clip shared with the Daily Mail, Ms Mackenzie talks about an occasion when Jones made her believe a former co-prisoner of his was coming after them.
She tells producers: 'So I sat there in the dark little hallway of the house with a fire poker in my hand and an unconscious drunken husband in the bedroom.
'And an image in my mind of this irate, furious man coming to get us. And I watched the door and I cried. I know now that he never was coming through the door.'
Those who remember Jones said his moment of the glory at the investiture came after he apparently talked his way into carrying the cross for the ceremony.