As in..."It took an Act of Parliament to make you an officer, but it would take an Act of God to make you a gentleman"...the old ones are the best.

Grob Acro
 

Grob Acro ( Viking) with 644 VGS, much more to this story than you'd ever realise.

I've seen Donald Trump wearing a military jacket and he managed to totally avoid military service. (Vietnam being on at the time he was able to buy a medical waiver)
Does that make him a Walt? (As well as a dick)

Isn't he ex officio C in C of US Military Forces?

(God help them!)

Mr Trump in his younger days

http://skyvalleychronicle.com/999/ne...1953838860.jpg

If you look carefully you can see the life-threatening bone spurs that caused him to get his 5th medical deferment and sadly avoid selfless devotion to his country fighting in Vietnam.

His trousers look a tad short, too. That says a lot about the man.

Just heard he changed plea to Guilty and so he appeared last week.
Another suspended sentence...i.e. Let off.
I suspect his previous suspended sentence for flying without a licence had expired.

Well, it's on the RAF website, so it must be true.


https://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/news/ind...63F5AE28923A22

The Comet (Letchworth).

Letchworth fake pilot avoids jail again after admitting aircraft part thefts.

Wesley Tierney, of Lindon Green, received a suspended jail sentence in March after he admitted repeated unlicensed flying and forgery over a period of four years.

The self-styled “can-do, cocksure” 26-year-old was then found to have stolen and hidden around £10,000 worth of aviation items from North Weald Airfield in Epping Forest.

Tierney appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on Thursday charged with three counts of theft after the stolen goods were found in a storage room he was renting.

He changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty, upon which Recorder Sandeep Kainth – who also sentenced Tierney in March – imposed a fresh 16-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.

A former employee at North Weald Airfield – who asked to remain anonymous – told the Comet: “I’m shocked that he has got away with not going to prison.

“Considering he already has a suspended sentence, I can’t quite understand how he gets away with having another.

“He’s living the charmed life. As soon as cracks started to appear in his persona it got worse and worse.

“He fooled everybody into thinking that he’s a respectable young lad.”

The crimes happened between March 2015 and May 2016, with the stolen items including historic aircraft parts and propeller blades.

This conviction comes after Tierney received an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 14 months, in March – after admitting three counts of acting as flight crew of an aircraft without holding an appropriate licence and two counts of forgery with attempt to deceive, committed between 2012 and 2016.

He flew planes from the Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire and two RAF bases – RAF Wittering and RAF Kirton – for four years without a licence or training.

The court heard that Tierney had piloted a number of aircraft types over this period, and among other things taken his former partner and their four and five-year-old children into the air – along with other people “he wished to impress”.

He had no liability insurance cover – and Recorder Kainth told him on that occasion that if there had been a crash “there was a substantial risk of harm which cannot be quantified”.

Tierney told the judge at that hearing that he had “let lies escalate” and “let the situation get out of control”.

He said: “I was trying to fit in with others. I was trying to be able to fit into conversations.

“The only relief I have was the relief of finally being caught and having my cycle of lies broken. It was a relief not to have to pretend in the bar or the mess anymore.

“I was a can-do, cocksure individual – that was the person I was. My guidance in my teens was a little misguided.”

It was also said at that hearing that Tierney now worked in a London museum, taking home £1,900 a month.

In addition to his new suspended sentence, Tierney must observe an 8pm-to-5am curfew for six months.

Crikey, I was sure he would be sent down for this with his previous suspended sentence still extant.

He didn't offend (that we know of) after the first suspended sentence was imposed.

You can't lock him up for doing it again, unless he did it again.

What will get him jailed, is if he's found to have committed an offence, any offence, while service the suspended sentences.

8 months plus 16 months = 24 months prison, which is the limit for suspending a sentence.
He didn't commit the other offense while on suspension.

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You can't lock him up for doing it again, unless he did it again.

What will get him jailed, is if he's found to have committed an offence, any offence, while service the suspended sentences.[/QUOTE]

He can be jailed if the offence which preceded the suspended sentence crossed the cutody threshold and the Court decided it was serious enough not to suspend it.
Also committing any offence during the currency of a suspended sentence theoretically carries the risk of activation of the 'bender' as it's called, the sentence is rarely activated if the new offence is not itself imprisonable eg minor motoring, D and D etc

Hope that's all he's taking home from the museum each month.

Could always send stuff to himself....can't be many with the same name working as a curator in London.;)

Cannot understand why this point of fundamental origin was not sent to prison the first time - quite happy for him to be a danger to himself, but clearly a significant threat to others. Get him off the street, I say

Why don't we copy the US "Stolen Valor" Act ? and should we not reluctantly admire the Walt of All Time, the "Captain of Köpenick" ?

Anybody suggest a more worthy candidate for the title ?

I'm hazarding a guess this chap's a Walt... https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...of-free-speech

Didn't stop Clintom wearing one either and he avoided Vietnam by being a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.