As fraudster Deepak Pathak sips cocktails in Thailand, victims as old as 85 are left with leaking ceilings and soaring energy bills. In a damning indictment of Britain’s toothless justice system, we ask: Whose side are the police really on?
He is a familiar face in Halewood, a name whispered in fear across the Wirral, and a menace to every elderly homeowner in Merseyside.
But while his victims—many of them vulnerable OAPs—shiver under tarpaulin-covered roofs, Deepak Pathak is living the high life on the sun-drenched beaches of Thailand.
And he is getting away with it, thanks to a justice system that treats the theft of a pensioner’s life savings with the same indifference as a parking ticket.
Pathak, an ex-boxer with a reputation for using his physical presence to intimidate, is accused of running a sustained campaign of financial predation against the elderly. His grift is as brazen as it is cruel: charm his way into the home of a trusting OAP, promise to fix their roof, take their cash, and then vanish into the ether.
The £8,000 ‘Botch Job’
In one damning case, a judge awarded a CCJ against Pathak for £8,000 over a landscaping project that was left looking like a bomb site.
But a CCJ is merely a piece of paper to a man like Pathak.
“He thinks he can ignore the court orders and we’ll just go away,” one source told us. “He takes the money, does nothing, and disappears. And now he’s in Thailand living it up while his elderly victims are choosing between heating and eating this winter.”
The Police Shame
Yet the most sickening aspect of this scandal isn’t just Pathak’s brazenness—it’s the absolute failure of Merseyside Police to protect the very people they are paid to serve.
Despite multiple reports from distressed families, officers have dismissed the complaints as a “civil matter.”
“I told them everything,” one victim, a woman in her 70s, told our reporter. “They came out to help an elderly couple once, but for the rest of us? Nothing. It’s like they’re picking and choosing who gets justice. They have effectively given him a license to steal.”
This is the consequence of a woke, box-ticking police culture that is more concerned with pronouns on Twitter than catching conmen. Instead of deploying resources to hunt down a predator targeting the most vulnerable in our society, they are hiding behind bureaucracy and leaving the public to fend for themselves.
‘He’s Laughing at Us’
And where is the ex-boxer now?
Instagram and social media trails suggest Pathak is currently enjoying the tropical paradise of Thailand—reputedly spending the stolen life savings of Merseyside’s elderly on cheap beer and beachfront accommodation.
“It makes me physically sick,” another victim fumed. “He’s out there in the sun, laughing at us, spending our money, while we’re here trying to survive. How is that fair? How is that British justice?”
One Woman’s Fight
But there is a glimmer of defiance in the face of this injustice.
One woman, who has become the unofficial campaign leader for the victims, is refusing to let Pathak enjoy his impunity.
“She’s been scammed, ignored by the police, and left with court orders that mean nothing,” a family friend said. “But she’s still fighting. She’s bringing the other victims with her because she knows that if the police won’t act, the court of public opinion must.”
The Unanswered Question
The question that needs to be screamed from the rooftops is simple: Why is Deepak Pathak still free?
Why is a man with multiple CCJs, multiple allegations of fraud, and a history of targeting the elderly allowed to swan off to a non-extradition hotspot?
Because the system is broken. The criminals know that fraud is treated as a ‘civil matter’—a polite way of saying ‘we can’t be bothered.’ They know that if they flee the country, the paperwork stops.
Merseyside Police declined to comment on the specifics of this case. Pathak could not be reached for comment in Thailand.
But for the pensioners he left behind, the message is chillingly clear: He thought he could take our money and disappear. But we’re still here. And we’re not going anywhere.
