https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dngyk69d0o
Free the mandem!
He clearly pissed some important people off
>Thomas Robinson supplied high-end establishments such as Edinburgh's Balmoral Hotel and the Dorchester in London

>Thomas Robinson also conned aspiring tea growers by selling them plants he claimed had been "specially engineered" to grow in Scotland's climate - but in reality they had simply been bought in from Italy.
>The 55-year-old, who was known to his many customers as Tam O'Braan, spun an elaborate backstory claiming among other things that he was a former bomb disposal expert, had lived in the Amazon and had invented the "bag for life".
>One magazine feature introduced Robinson as having previously lived "on a canoe in the Amazon, bitten by a deadly snake in Brazil and shot at on the Thailand-Burma border" before he turned to tea.
>"He claimed at certain points to be a chemist, a scientist and an agronomist. He claimed to have served in the Army as well as many other things.
A Brit pretending to be a mick? And his name is Tommy Robinson? Who writes this script? What a lad.

>While sentencing Robinson at Stirling Sheriff Court, Sheriff Keith O'Mahony said his crimes were not victimless and involved "significant and persistent planning".
Clearly punishing him for mick fraud

>Robinson denied the fraud at his trial and claimed paperwork that would have proved his innocence had been destroyed in a flood.
the classic "dog ate my homework" defence