Legal Cheek
A man who falsely presented himself as a barrister has been given a suspended sentence.
Cecil Decker, who impersonated a real lawyer named Andrew Otchie at an immigration tribunal, was “sworn in” and signed documents under Otchie’s name, BBC News reports.
The prosecution in Decker’s subsequent trial noted that one major giveaway that Decker was not Otchie was the difference in their ethnicities; Otchie being white and Decker not.
After admitting to impersonating a barrister, Westminster Magistrates’ Court gave the fake lawyer a suspended 26-week prison sentence.
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