I would be at all surprised to see our man Biggles having the last laugh!
He's a mason - so no prosecution!
He's a 'professional' mentor - paid for out of public funds.
From one of the sites associated with him "Mentoring, particularly in its traditional sense, enables an individual to follow in the path of an older and wiser colleague who can pass on knowledge, experience and open doors to otherwise out-of-reach opportunities. Coaching on the other hand is not generally performed on the basis that the coach has direct experience of their client’s formal occupational role unless the coaching is specific and skills focused.
Having said this, there are professionals offering their services under the name of mentoring who have no direct experience of their clients' roles and others offering services under the name of coaching who do. So the moral of the story is, it is essential to determine what your needs are and to ensure that the coach or mentor can supply you with the type and level of service you require, whatever that service is called."
He could well end up 'helping' many of the people in this profession!!!! And even better at the expense of the public purse - what rich irony!
Quite why a qualified(?) 'mentor' appears to be so resistant to learning or absorbing knowledge largely reinforces many of my prejudices about the sort of people who work for these semi-quangoes.
My summary - he was operating just beyond the level of his abilities, which normally would just expand his experience - if he got away with it. A fundamental oversight - fuel quantity - meant his capabilities reached breaking point and his survival was not down to rational thought - just dumb luck. As for his media peerformance? Presumably not a mentor in that area!