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[Rob Waterhouse]

I have seen him twice, oddly.

 

Rob W

 

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Conman 'jockey' Christopher Woods rides back into town


Mark Morri, The Daily Telegraph

May 29, 2019 7:30pm

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One of Sydney's most colourful conman is back in town after being released
from an American jail where he served four years for a multimillion-dollar
mortgage fraud scheme.

Christopher Woods lived the life of a millionaire, mostly on other people's
money, claiming to be one of the world's top jockeys.



Christopher Woods was able to scam millions of dollars posing as a champion
jockey. File picture

In reality, the boy from a Maroubra housing commission estate was a Randwick
stablehand for a short time, but was able to convince people he was a
Melbourne Cup-winning rider.

He ripped off punters by saying he could give them a sure thing at the races
because he was in on the "fix''.

"He has probably gone through $20 or $30 million of others people's money,"
retired Detective Inspector Mark Smith told True Crime Australia
<http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia> 's Police Tape
podcast.

"I've known him probably 30 or more years."

Woods liked to live a life of luxury - on other people's money. File picture

His favourite story is when Woods found himself in strife for giving some
big time punters in Sydney the wrong information on some horses.

He spent the next three days being chauffeur-driven around the city in a
gold Rolls-Royce, but unfortunately for him he was tied up in the boot, and
the chauffeurs were Sydney criminals Adrian Kay and "Bob the Basher" Rakich.

Every so often Rakich would drag Woods out of the boot, give him a belting
and then stuff him back in the boot of the Roller.

"It was a colourful time,'' Smith said.

 

While Woods is still alive, Rakich and Kay were not so lucky. Rakich died
when he crashed a Ferrari in the eastern suburbs in 1986. Later that year,
Kay was shot dead at his Kings Cross hotel, King Arthur's Court.

 

Smith said Woods loved the high life. When in America he lived in the best
hotels and put everything on his black American Express card.

"He would get on a plane and would turn left - never right - into first
class. It's the only way he flew.''

 

Smith once spoke to the con artist about his lifestyle and asked what he
would do if he was down to his last $10.

"I wouldn't bother with food, I'd probably just go get a tan," was the
answer. "He was a narcissist," said Smith.

In 2012, Woods, then 53, was sentenced to four years in a federal prison in
California and ordered to repay more than $3 million for his part in a
mortgage fraud scheme, but he is now back in Australia.

Smith said he saw him recently on a bus in Sydney's eastern suburbs. "I
couldn't be bothered talking to him. He was a parasite who lived off other
people."

 

 

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