A man known for using multiple fake names and falsely claiming to be a doctor and a nobleman has been jailed for four years. Darren Anderson, 43, from Gamston, Nottingham, was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on 24 September. Between 2022 and 2023, his fraudulent activities caused losses of more than £200,000 to businesses and individuals through unauthorized direct debit payments, unpaid invoices, and rent arrears. Anderson operated under names like Lord Timothy Ahlbeck and the 18th Duke of Ahlbeck, and was a director of five companies while banned from such roles, claiming they operated as travel agencies, estate agents, and hairdressers. Anderson was also disqualified from being a company director for 15 years. His sentence included one count of theft from a separate case handled by Derbyshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, as well as the activation of a suspended sentence from 2021. The Insolvency Service is now seeking to recover funds he obtained through fraud under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Over the past 15 years, Anderson has used several aliases. The court heard he had seven previous convictions for 41 dishonesty-related offenses since 2002, showing a long history of fraud and deception. He was jailed for fraud and banned as a company director for the maximum period of 15 years in 2011 under the name Miles Prestland-Windsor. Since then, he has appeared in court multiple times, most recently in 2021 as Timothy Ahlbeck, when he received a suspended sentence for fraud and for breaching his director disqualification. He was again banned from being a company director for 15 years. David Snasdell, chief investigator at the Insolvency Service, said, "Darren Anderson was a doctor only in his own mind. He is a compulsive fraudster who should never have been acting as a company director while he carried out his latest crime spree. Behind his existence as a Walter Mitty character is a man who showed pure contempt for the insolvency system and his creditors. Through his various identities, he disguised his offending on an industrial scale, giving no consideration whatsoever to the trail of destruction he left in his wake. His repeated misuse of companies to facilitate fraud and cause losses to creditors bears many of the hallmarks of abusive phoenixism and is something the Insolvency Service will not tolerate. We hope his time behind bars gives him the opportunity to finally reflect on his actions and to come out of prison a reformed man." Chief inspector Anna Woodhouse from Derbyshire Police said, "Darren Anderson was brazen in his theft of items from the property he had rented in Derbyshire—with the exact items stolen found furnishing his new home when officers arrested him. The cost of replacing these items ran into the thousands of pounds, and it is clear that this was an extension of the dishonest manner that Anderson led his life. I hope that today’s sentence prompts Anderson to change his ways—and acts as a warning to others who may encounter him in the future to be on their guard should he not change his ways."