Stanley Mead was a judge who specialised in fraud cases, once claiming that all conmen should be hung, drawn and quartered. He was one of four marks- including Jeremy Garrett, Viscount Manley, and Wendy Stanton- who was conned by the gang using the same story for all four marks, each mark being told that their involvement with the gang would require them to contribute £100 000 to help the British ambassador to Thailand bribe a Thai judge for various reasons (Mead's story apparently involved him helping Emma's character ensure her idiotic younger brother's release from a Thai prison, although precisely what financial rewards he would receive for this action were unspecified).