{"id":16583,"date":"2026-02-13T05:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16583"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:48:29","slug":"prison-release-for-english-scammer-jack-hennessywho-stole-from-nz-pensioners-in-courier-ruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16583","title":{"rendered":"Prison release for English scammer Jack Hennessy,who stole from NZ pensioners in courier ruse"},"content":{"rendered":"

An English scammer who posed as a police courier to dupe pensioners into giving him $337,700 has been granted early release from prison, and will now be deported from New Zealand next month.<\/p>\n

Jack Dylan Hennessy has also been instructed in a Parole Board decision not to return in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was\u00a0sentenced in November 2024<\/a>\u00a0to three years and three months in prison for offending described by a judge as “reprehensible”, premeditated and “carried out with almost military precision”.<\/p>\n

The British national admitted 25 charges of obtaining by deception after he was caught and arrested soon after arriving in the country in June 2024.<\/p>\n

The offending targeted more than 20 victims, aged from 59 to 92, who were tricked into thinking they were assisting an elaborate law enforcement investigation.<\/p>\n

Several spoke later of their intense shame after realising they’d been duped, the devastating financial effects on their retirement plans, and feelings of fear and violation that the scammers knew their addresses and had personally visited their homes.<\/p>\n

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An English scammer who posed as a police courier to dupe pensioners into giving him $337,700 has been granted early release from prison, and will now be deported from New Zealand next month. Jack Dylan Hennessy has also been instructed in a Parole Board decision not to return in the foreseeable future. The 27-year-old was\u00a0sentenced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16585,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions\/16585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}