The author of a popular memoir that was later revealed to be fraudulent has now been murdered, his body found in a Belgian garage, according to the Daily Mail. Using the pseudonym Tom Carew, Philip Sessarego claimed in Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan that he was an ex-British Special Forces (SAS) agent highly trained in covert operations who helped train the Afghan Mujahadeen fight Soviet forces during the 1980s. “Carew” claimed to have set up the first Western-sponsored jihad training camp in Pakistan and to have hijacked a plane, among other feats. Somewhat prophetically, the book was published on September 17, 2001. As Carew, Sessarego was a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows after the current war in Afghanistan began. The book rapidly sold over 50,000 copies before the BBC exposed Sessarego/Carew as a fraud who had never been a mercenary or SAS agent. He had applied for the SAS “in 1973 but failed,” reads the BBC’s November 2001 report. “He was allowed to stay on as a non-member in what was called Demonstration Troop — ordinary soldiers who did jobs for the SAS like play the enemy on exercises. Records show Mr Sessarego later tried to join the Territorial Army Reserve Squadron of the SAS and failed that selection at the end of 1975. On Wednesday he was challenged over the allegations. Mr Carew broke off the interview and on his way out punched a BBC camera.” And now, according to the Daily Mail, ”a decomposed body, thought to be his, has been found in a lock-up garage in Antwerp. Sessarego, who recently went by the name Philip Stevenson, had been living alone in Belgium for several years. Police in Antwerp will compare DNA with his two children in Hereford. A family friend said: ‘He upset a lot of people – his family fear somebody may have taken their revenge.’”