Posing as Kaye, BBC reporter Philippa Goymer arranged to meet him for a “date”.
“It’s Rob, isn’t it?” she said, as she approached him at the agreed meeting place.
“Yeh,” he said, a moment before spotting her microphone and the camera crew.
“It’s not Rob though, is it,” Goymer said. “It’s Ray, or are you Mark today?”
Asked why he was back on dating apps, McDonald said he was “just looking for friendship”.
“I just want to meet someone nice,” he claimed.
“No, you’re not looking to meet someone, you’re looking to steal from them,” Goymer replied.
“I have apologised,” McDonald said when Goymer pointed out that people had lost their homes because of him.