Brit conman who featured in Netflix The Puppet Master on the run in France after ‘trying to kill cop with his car’

A BRIT who featured in the Netflix’s ‘Ultimate Conman’ is on the run after allegedly trying to run down a police officer. Judicial sources claim Robert Hendy-Freegard, 51, deliberately drove into the officer while escaping from his hideaway in rural town in France. GettyRobert Hendy-Freegard is being hunted by cops[/caption] Two gendarmes had called round at the property in the rural town of Vidaillat, east of Clermont-Ferrand on Thursday. But Hendy-Freegard reacted by accelerating his Audi A3 at them, it’s alleged. One policeman suffered serious facial wounds including ‘multiple fractures’ and remains in hospital, while the other was treated for lesser injuries. One judicial source said: “An investigation has been opened for the attempted murder of a person holding public authority. The person responsible is being searched for.” The officers had originally arrived to check up on a Beagle-breeding business Hendy-Freegard was running with his partner, Sandra Clifton, 49. Hendy-Freegard was jailed for fraud in 2005 after posing as an MI5 agent to convince eight people that they were the targets of IRA terrorists.