Alan Conway - Early Years

Early Years

At the age of 12 Conway was sent to a borstal for theft. Around this time, he began frequently changing his name and inventing personal histories. Among other stories, he told people he was a Polish Jew who had been imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

During the 1980s Conway (who was gay) left his wife for a lover, who later died of AIDS. Conway's business soon collapsed and he fell into alcoholism.

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