Honey trap - just what was he thinking?

He wasn't thinking with his head that's for sure...

Conceited, self-deluded....like so many ugly old men who think that a lovely young woman is going to love them for themselves alone! (Not forgetting the silly women who think fit young foreign men really want to marry them for love, rather than a British passport.)
No fool like an old fool!

And I thought the nutty professor was a myth.

Riverwalk The word "man" might be part of it.

Don't forget all the silly women who 'love' men so much that they smuggle drugs for them. As if anybody who really loved you would let you risk imprisonment or even death to make money for them. I am afraid that when I watch programmes like 'Banged up abroad' I have little sympathy for most of the subjects - about as much as they had for the people whose lives would be ruined by the drugs.

The silly women I can understand Greatnan - at least they smuggled for a real life boyfriend who 'loves' them - but the professor was gallivanting after 'Miss Bikini World' apparently one of the most gorgeous girls around!

He'll have plenty of opportunity to reflect on his folly then. "Dick"- "brain" - good idea to know which is which.

Not just grown but a clever Oxford educated physicist.
But older women do silly things too. Run off with young african men who swear undying love, that kind of thing.

What exactly is silly about running off with an African man?

There's no fool like an old fool, truly. Poor, sad, deluded man.

Maybe age difference? Maybe motivation of younger man? I think I know what JessM is talking about as a type of situation, and am sure nothing further from her mind than disrespect to African men !!

Just following where his d**k is pointing - poor gullible chap.

Moron!

Twerp!

I suppose at 68 he's lucky to have one that still points...

Ana

I feel sorry for the daft old bugger.

I originally felt a bit sorry for him for being so pathetic but on further reading it seems his emails/texts confirm that he knew what was in the suitcase.

He must have been blinded by love and the thought of all that money to start his new life, with a woman he'd never met.

Jingle, do you know anything about the effects of cocaine?

Greatnan was obviously not meant to be a racist comment. Middle aged unattached women with a bit of money go on holidays to various very poor countries - Gambia, West Indies, Far East and some young man, 30-40 years younger, hits on them. Woman convinces herself that this is "love" and burns boats. Chances of happy ending not high. This does happen and I think the women are being as self-deluding as chaps that think pretty young girls, young enough to be their grandchildren are madly in love with them.

No, I'm far too stupid Greatnan.

I don't know if he knew what was in the suitcase or not. Been looking for the article. Haven't managed to find it yet.

Is there a link that I can't see?

JO5 here is a link www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-denise-milani-conspiracy-honey-trap-professor-gets-five-years-in-argentina-jail-8340525.html

Jessm your first post quite clearly said 'older women and young African men'. I for one never thought that was racist.

Thank you Riverwalk.

Who knows the truth of it.