This is an HTML copy of the original VICTIM PERSONAL STATEMENT I sent to the UK Crown Police, which was to be read in open court on February 27, 2020 before Christopher Angus was sentenced.
The initial sentence for 8 counts of wire fraud and his investment fraud was 8 years, though they gave him a 1/3 rebate for confessing, so it was 5 years and 4 months. Inmates typically serve no more than 50% of the sentence in jail, meaning he got out within 2 years and 7 months. That maximum sentence was confirmed by the fact he was out of prison and posting spam and scams to Facebook in 2022.
In the UK if you steal millions of pounds across many discrete acts of wire fraud you can serve at most a couple years in jail and get right out, even without paying any sort of restitution. A decade after his criminal fraud campaign Christopher Angus remains gainfully unemployed and is jobless, as the money he stole was stashed away.
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Please complete this statement referencing the following points, where relevant, to express the effects the crime has had on the victim. (Continue on a separate sheet if necessary).
1. Emotional (details of any reaction that has been suffered as a direct consequence of the crime e.g. anxiety, stress, sleeplessness, fears of going out or any other relevant factor).
2. Physical/Personal Injury (details of the impact of any physical problems/injury suffered in connection with the crime e.g. temporary or permanent incapacity/restriction of movement/disability including a brief summary of treatment at hospital or GP surgery if applicable).
3. Social/Psychological (e.g. details of any impact the crime has had upon confidence, social skills and/or relationships with family, partners, friends, colleagues).
4. Employment (details of any affect the crime has had on occupation e.g. ability to perform at the same level as prior to the crime; can be physical or psychological).
5. Financial (details of any financial impact suffered as a consequence of the crime e.g. loss of earnings/loss of or damage to personal property/non-NHS medical expenses i.e. dentistry) (Submit a separate MG19 form if applying for compensation).
6. Other (any area not covered by the above e.g. concerns with regards to bail of the offender, whether the offender is known to the victim, whether there is any impact on other family members).
Emotional (details of any reaction that has been suffered as a direct consequence of the crime e.g. anxiety, stress, sleeplessness, fears of going out or any other relevant factor).
After my daughter was born my wife had high blood pressure and was put on medication for it.
This medical condition is called postpartum preeclampsia. Her blood pressure was 200 over 100+ on multiple occasions. She was hospitalized multiple times for this & nearly had a stroke or heart attack (a girl in the hospital bed right next to her getting the same treatment she was literally had a stroke). It was a very serious condition.
When Christopher Angus told me he was a criminal fraud who lost over 99% of my money (almost certainly stole & stashed away, or lost to himself through layering accounts) I told my wife what he said & she punched me in the back of the head so hard that she thought she broke her hand. Her blood pressure was sky high and there was nothing I could do.
That was the singular most helpless feeling I ever had in my life.
And just the site of me would spike her blood pressure.
The person I loved most was about to die.
There was nothing I could do.
And it was my fault because I trusted a criminal fraud psychopath.
Christopher Angus deserves to rot in hell for eternity.
But there may be no afterlife, so he needs to directly & personally experience the years of pain & torture he put others through with his fraud scams, so his criminal conduct impacts him at least a small fraction of how it impacted others.
After Christopher Angus confessed to being a criminal fraud I told him to stop sending me his “just checking in” styled emails he would send because each time he would send them my wife’s blood pressure would spike.
He continued sending emails.
He confessed to being a criminal fraud in October of 2017 & the emails continued into March of 2018, when he lied saying he was about to sell his house and would send some of the funds to me.
I am uncertain if he was trying to run the clock, drive a divorce or actually kill my wife, but constantly lying to and tormenting victims after confessing to being a criminal fraud is not the mark of a decent human being.
After he was arrested for being the criminal fraud that he is, he was informed not to contact his victims.
So he instead took to twitter to make sure to let me know publicly that his emails did indeed intend to cause physical harm to my wife.
He let us know that while I made a major mistake in trusting a criminal fraud psychopath, he made no
mistakes in his criminal conduct.
Chris tweeting out wishes for clogged arteries & making choices shows that he had intent to commit criminal fraud from the onset.
Psychopaths like to tell off colour jokes to try to gauge how their prospective victims will respond to being victimized.
Christopher Angus sent me the following gem after getting the first wire from me: “I mean, I might just turn off Skype and disappear tomorrow”
He claimed to have been a successful trader in messages dating back to 2013. But there is no way one can have years of success in investing then become the world’s single dumbest investor promptly after taking someone’s money, keep showing fraudulent returns to steal more & more, try to leave victims utterly destitute, confess to being a criminal fraud then STILL market oneself publicly as an investment expert even after confessing to be a criminal fraud.
Here is a screenshot like the one he regularly used to display fraudulent account balances.
He also made videos where he stated “the money is in the account” where there was live market data moving in the video & a fraudulent account balance showing that he slid his cursor over.
He never had any intent to invest the money & provide returns. And when I saw him publicly marketing himself as a finance, investment & risk expert after he nearly killed my wife with his fraud scam I had a public obligation to ensure he was stopped so that his intentional and malicious criminal fraud would not lead to the untimely death of others.
If he put 10% of the effort into being a decent human being and/or hard working human being as he put into being a malicious criminal fraud he would not have offered a return below -99% during a bull market.
When Christopher Angus visited me to draw up fraudulent backdated contracts before confessing to being a criminal fraud he told me a story about how he ran someone over with his car and killed them and felt nothing. He also told me a story about how his ex-wife had a boyfriend who was going to put a hit job on him but he had that taken care of.
Before confessing to being a criminal fraud (only after leaving), in person he tried to rely on giving the impression that he had access to violence and using violence was a second nature thing for him. He knew his ability to hide his fraud was about to end, so he hoped violent threats would keep me quiet about what a criminal fraud he was.
He also made other violent statements in the past. A screenshot of one of the more extreme ones is attached. In it he states he feels having someone taken care of (as in murdered) because they cost a client a million GBP was “it’s just business”
Because of his violent threats, I had to ensure that when he knew where I lived we had the windows blocked so he (or more likely any goon he might try to hire) could not see when we were home or where we were at in the house. I then also moved & am needlessly paying exorbitant rent so that Christopher Angus does not know where I live.
Physical/Personal Injury (details of the impact of any physical problems/injury suffered in connection with the crime e.g. temporary or permanent incapacity/restriction of movement/disability including a brief summary of treatment at hospital or GP surgery if applicable).
I have physical scars from where my wife’s fingernails were buried in my forearm after Christopher Angus announced he was a criminal fraud.
Multiple Bernie Madoff victims jumped off buildings, shot themselves in the head, hung themselves, or committed suicide via other means. What Christopher Angus did to me was worse than what most Madoff victims faced because Chris communicated with me & lied to me on a near daily basis for well over a year while conducting his fraud.
And he only ever stopped the fraud campaign when he thought he had me utterly broke & destitute.
It wasn’t enough to show fraudulent returns to keep the money he stole off the start. He had to keep coming up with excuses & lies to steal more (his dad was backing out, platform was considering pulling the rebate due to lower trading volume, etc.) & only stopped the behaviour after he thought he had me utterly destitute hoping that in doing so I might not be able to afford hiring a lawyer.
People who live through wars or other major emotional strains tend to die younger outside of the direct impacts of dying in battle. The emotional wounds created through facing the trauma create other internal wounds. To this day my wife is still taking medications. The precise amount of internal organ damage that Christopher Angus caused is unknown, but it is certainly not zero.
Harriet suggested I see a psychiatrist because to her it was obvious I was breaking down from the stress.
I am not sure if you have ever lived with a person who has had high blood pressure, but they become easily triggered & after exposure to that every single day for over a year it wears you down as a human being.
I couldn’t leave because I had a direct obligation to ensure my wife recovered and my daughter would be ok. I thought of suicide regularly. I went to sleep praying to not wake up hundreds of times.
Eventually my blood pressure was 150+ over 120+ and I ended up on blood pressure medication as well. That stuff zapped my energy & lowered the quality & quantity of my work.
My wife’s mother cooked a feast for New Year’s Eve and I had a rare side effect from that blood pressure medicine where my digestive system was not processing food correctly. The stomach pain was excruciating & I woke up choking on foam I was puking up.
Social/Psychological (e.g. details of any impact the crime has had upon confidence, social skills and/or relationships with family, partners, friends, colleagues).
At advice of police I have not publicly told people about what a criminal fraud Christopher Angus is.
Chris committing such malicious fraud against us zapped my wife’s confidence & drove a deep wedge between us in our marriage. We have been married for 12 years.
For nearly a decade of being married the concept of divorce never came up other than as a joke, but it has probably come up about 50 times since Christopher Angus tried ruining our lives. Christopher also articulated his views on fraud over Skype.
When a person is a criminal fraud psychopath their goal is to cause as much chaos and division as they can, hoping their victims will kill each other or commit suicide or do other self-destructive things so that the psychopath can get away with their past crimes & commit more crime.
My sister had breast cancer. And listening to her and my mom both cry while also dealing with all this legal stuff and trying to help bring my wife back to her former cheery self was more than a bit stressful.
And it took a good amount of luck to have been able to afford to help pay for my sister’s breast cancer treatment after all the mounting legal bills and all the money criminal fraud Christopher Angus stole.
Employment (details of any affect the crime has had on occupation e.g. ability to perform at the same level as prior to the crime; can be physical or psychological).
I work in online publishing & it is no secret that Google & Facebook have made the ecosystem very hard for anyone else operating in it to build a sustainable business.
Into those major structural headwinds I also had to be a first time dad, help out with a baby who had colic (uncontrolled daily crying for hours on end), and deal with trying to bring my wife back to a stable place emotionally & mentally after all the damage Christopher Angus did.
Ahead of my daughter being born I shut down my main website and business so that I could be there for my wife throughout the pregnancy process and after the child was born in case anything came up.
A big part of the reason I chose to shut that site down was due to the absolutely fraudulent returns Christopher Angus showed me repeatedly through his investment fraud scheme.
So in addition to the millions of pounds Christopher Angus stole directly in his fraud scam, he also cost me millions of pounds in additional losses through the atrophy of my brand after I had shut down my main business for which I was (formerly) widely known.
The thousand or so hours I have spent reading through all the messages Chris sent me, listened to the videos he sent, transcribing them, etc. were hours that were not spent earning an income.
Because Christopher Angus has not been immediately incarcerated for his intentional, outrageous & malicious criminal conduct, I now assume most of humanity is trash & the role of government is to enable crime versus stop it.
It is hard for me to name *ANY* institution or person I trust beyond my wife and my mom. I have known Christopher for nearly a decade & I only realized he was a psychopath in the past year or so. That makes me question my ability to read people, which in turn makes it hard for me to trust people. I have to presume most people are garbage because I cannot trust myself to be a good judge of character because I misjudged criminal fraud psychopath Christopher Angus.
Christopher Angus announced he was a criminal fraud a couple years ago & was free to repeatedly publicly taunt my wife and I, spiking my wife’s blood pressure, putting my wife at risk of stroke or heart attack while Harriet was busy going on leave, going on holiday, going on vacation, or working on other cases that are so extreme they are worse than a psychopath stealing millions of pounds and trying to kill people.
Financial (details of any financial impact suffered as a consequence of the crime e.g. loss of earnings/loss of or damage to personal property/non-NHS medical expenses i.e. dentistry)
(Submit a separate MG19 form if applying for compensation).
In total Christopher Angus was wired $3,375,366.50. That equated to £2,340,000, though the GBP has fallen against the USD since then.
| Date |
USD Sent |
Xfer Fee |
Sent + Wire Fee |
GBP Received |
| 1/26/2016 |
$144,140.00 |
$45 |
$144,185.00 |
£100,000.00 |
| 3/8/2016 |
$503,650.00 |
$45 |
$503,695.00 |
£350,000.00 |
| 3/15/2016 |
$465,855.00 |
$45 |
$465,900.00 |
£325,000.00 |
| 4/1/2016 |
$470,242.50 |
$45 |
$470,287.50 |
£325,000.00 |
| 5/2/2016 |
$518,490.00 |
$45 |
$518,535.00 |
£350,000.00 |
| 5/16/2016 |
$508,865.00 |
$45 |
$508,910.00 |
£350,000.00 |
| 5/23/2016 |
$439,500.00 |
$45 |
$439,545.00 |
£300,000.00 |
| 9/8/2016 |
$324,624.00 |
$45 |
$324,669.00 |
£240,000.00 |
| Total |
$3,375,366.50 |
$360 |
$3,375,726.50 |
£2,340,000.00 |
After stealing all the above money via intentional & malicious criminal fraud, Chris sent me a single wire for £10,000. He promised to send more over time, but told me he wouldn’t be able to pay if he was in prison. I wasn’t holding my breath & instead read that statement as “I have no intent to repay what I stole from you and will only give money back when the court forces me to.”
To these massive losses one could add
- About $100,000 sent to US and UK lawyers in relation to this case
- Not getting any interest or return over the past 3.5 years on the money Christopher Angus stole via his criminal fraud scheme (in the US – where the money Christopher stole came from – this would be about another $100,000)
- A thousand hours of labour spent on this case. I used to charge clients between $500 and $2,000 an hour for consulting, but my ability to do so has been greatly diminished due to dealing with the fall out of this case.
- Many hundreds of hours trying to bring my wife back to health
- Millions in losses of brand equity & the lost revenue from shutting down my main business
Christopher stated the following on April 19, 2016:
"If you could rob a bank online, financial fraud, and you could get a million pounds, and no one would find out, no one in the world, zero, okay, what would you do? Would you steal it or not?
And there's zero chance of you getting caught. Now, I hate the banks as much as anyone. And then I ask them that question. And if they say yes, they would steal it, then I usually say trading is
not for them, because if you're not honest with yourself and an honest person in general, then you can't really trade because you end... Dishonest people lie to themselves a lot, and if you're
lying to yourself all the time, you don't have clarity in terms of trading and you don't have the discipline, like you say, "Okay, I'm in a losing position. I'm gonna get out." Or if you don't have a
lot of self-honesty, if I put it that way." - Christopher Angus, video 3, April 19, 2016 @ 29 minutes & 50 seconds
At that point in time Christopher had already stolen over a million pounds, but he then proceeded to steal another million plus. He only stopped stealing when he thought he had me utterly destitute.
Other (any area not covered by the above e.g. concerns with regards to bail of the offender, whether the offender is known to the victim, whether there is any impact on other family members).
When a flagrant criminal publicly wishes clogged arteries upon their victims they are not making much of an effort to hide the fact that they are a psychopath.
If you guys ever let Christopher Angus out from behind bars he should either get a frontal lobotomy or go directly to a mental institution, so that society can be protected from such a psychopath.
All humans make mistakes. We are the sum of our decisions good and bad.
But a person with no guilt, no shame, and no remorse for heinous crimes never turns the corner.
To showcase Christopher’s character, consider the following.
While in London visiting Chris in December of 2016 he could afford fine gold accessories but did not want his picture taken because he knew he was a criminal fraud who had stolen my money.
The following day after taking the above left picture I nearly died. I only didn’t die because the originalhotel I was staying at didn’t have rooms & the hotel I was moved to was right across from St Thomas' Hospital. Right before I was to jump on a plane to leave to the Philippines I felt the pain was so extreme that something was seriously wrong & it was.
I had a sepsis infection that required immediate medical treatment. Without multiple massive IV antibiotic doses I would have certainly died. Something like 1/3 to 40% of people who go to the hospital with sepsis die at the hospital.
The cause of my sepsis stemmed back to a decade ago when a racist black guy sucker punched me and chipped one of my teeth. That knocked a tooth loose & led to an infection which ate at the root of that tooth, a bunch of my jawbone & eventually caused the sepsis blood infection.
The infection came back 4 more times, so I kept having to deal with that potential death sort of thing while this case was ongoing.
Eventually many of my teeth needed to be ripped out and replaced with 3D printed teeth. And the infections continued to occur even after having the 3D printed teeth installed.
Knowing I nearly died from getting sucker punched Christopher Angus tweeted the following.
The most tragic part of the current situation is not that Christopher Angus…
- intentionally committed criminal fraud
- only stopped stealing when he thought he left me destitute with a pregnant wife & family
- let me quit my primary job based in part on showing fraudulent returns
- flew out to draw up fraudulent backdated contracts before confessing to being a criminal fraud
- showed zero remorse for trying to ruin my life
- publicly joked about how I almost died
- nearly killed my wife & publicly wished a clogged artery
- Continued to publicly market himself as an investment expert, regularly updating his investment services website until the day he was arrested for being the criminal fraud that he is.
In my eyes, all of the above are relatively minor relative to what is to come.
You see, Chris is so evil he did all the above in spite of me never doing anything but helping him and being kind to him. He saw kindness as naïve weakness he could ruthlessly exploit.
He did all the above evil criminal fraud when I was an influence who changed his life for the better.
According to him:
"Thank you once again for being so generous with your time. I downloaded your book a few years ago and it was a turning point in my life, I was an average salesman selling very competitive products and to be honest it was really tough work, I kept missing my sales targets and getting fired.
After reading your book, I decided to give SEO a go and it just clicked for me, I fell in love with search. A few years later I'm making $100,000 a month, reading your book changed my life for the better." - Christopher Angus
Now I am the guy he will blame for his condition when he is locked away with a cell mate.
A psychopath blames everyone but themselves.
If he held himself to the standard he clearly articulated on Skype he would have committed suicide after stealing the first million pounds. But instead he stole another million. And he hasn’t committed suicide twice. Instead he then he wishes clogged arteries on other people.
Psychopaths believe they are above the rule of law & morals are beneath them.
The real tragedy is the idea that such a psychopath almost certainly still has some of the money he stole in his fraud scheme stashed away somewhere & if he is ever removed from being institutionalized for the remainder of his days he – like any evil & malicious psychopath – will likely try to seek revenge on me because he has no guilt, no shame, no morals.
I implore you to lock him up for as long as the law allows, find out what he did with the money he stole, keep him locked up until the money he stole is resurfaced, & please ensure he is admitted to a mental institution when his prison sentence has been completed – the safety of society relies on psychopaths who ignore the laws & act on evil urges being institutionalized.
