Jeff Kent is a liar. For most of his adult life, he’s lied to women to earn their trust, their love and access to their bank accounts. He moves in quickly, becomes part of their lives and, when the facade begins to slip, lies his way out, moving on to his next victim.

Jeff Kent is a fabulist. He makes up personas — the Maltese businessman, the professor of legal ethics, the children’s cancer specialist — intended to hide what he really is: a career criminal with few scruples a severe gambling addiction.

Jeff Kent is, in short, a fraud, a conman, a crook. But should he be locked away indefinitely?

This summer, an Edmonton Court of King’s Bench judge decided the answer to that question is “yes.” Kent, a man whose extensive criminal record is almost entirely non-violent, was declared a dan

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