Totally irrelevant. Tom Saunders (from the biography at the link) was 29 in 2010 and joined in 2004 ie 23 or thereabouts thereby getting into flying training before his 26th birthday (the RAF requirement).
What would be relevant is the tale of a mate of mine who went through IOT as Commonwealth student, having passed OASC, was trained in the USA and then flew a couple of thousand hours for his own country's defence force then joined the RAF pushing 30 (not as a pilot) and is now flying multis after a branch change in his early 30s.
The OP got a flying scholarship, 2 fails at OASC and is already 30 with no other declared flying history.
The differences to the OP are that my mate passed OASC, passed flying trg, got his wings and had plenty of P1 hours before the RAF gave him the nod and waived the age limit.