{"id":57140,"date":"2014-12-16T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57140"},"modified":"2014-12-15T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:36:17","slug":"liam-obrien-a-fantasist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57140","title":{"rendered":"Liam O&#8217;Brien; &#8220;A fantasist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk\/news\/11668046.Jail_warning_to_fake_soldier_who_collected_for_Help_for_Heroes_and_kept_the_cash\/\">United Kingdom<\/a> about this fellow, Liam O&#8217;Brien, who they call &#8220;a fantasist&#8221;. He pretended to be a Royal Marine among a bunch of other things. I guess he&#8217;s expecting to be sentenced for the seven charges that he&#8217;s facing;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> He admitted telling people he was a serving member of HM forces and entitled to collect for Help for Heroes in October and November this year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in April and May, he twice made representations to people that he was in the military with a view to gain by deception.<\/p>\n<p>In the same months he also used bank cards, including to a loan company, when he wasn&#8217;t entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>During the first week in April he handled stolen documents belonging to the Guyers House Hotel in Corsham containing personal details of manager Neil Glasspool.<\/p>\n<p>He also had a Royal Marine uniform and bogus military ID in the names Sgt Liam O&#8217;Brien, Sgt Davis and Sgt Malcolm Porter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a defense, his lawyer told the judge that this isn&#8217;t the first time Liam has been punished for this sort of behavior.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said: &#8220;The court may benefit from a pre-sentence report to examine why it is this defendant seems unable to stop committing the same sort of offences.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the judge held off on sentencing poor Liam, but assured the court that the fellow is going to jail. But you should read the article &#8211; those folks use the language very well. Like, instead of calling him a homeless bum, they write &#8220;O&#8217;Brien, of no fixed abode&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link from the United Kingdom about this fellow, Liam O&#8217;Brien, who they &hellip; <a title=\"Liam O&#8217;Brien; &#8220;A fantasist&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57140\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liam O&#8217;Brien; &#8220;A fantasist&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}