Deported fraudster's violent past: London gang member fatally stabbed after NZ pensioner scams

Reece Salmon's life traced a violent arc across two continents — from armed gang robberies in central London to a methodical fraud operation targeting elderly pensioners in New Zealand, and finally back to London, where he was fatally stabbed. His story raises enduring questions about the limits of second chances, the reach of criminal histories across borders, and the duty institutions owe to the vulnerable. A judge once offered him a moment of reckoning; the world he returned to did not.