Setback: He was playing Bond, will serve two years
41-year-old Michael Newitt was convicted Friday by a court in Leicester (Anglia) to two years in prison for impersonating a counterintelligence officer and possessing dummy firearms – Saturday reports “Daily Mail”. Fantasta was so convincing, that his wife and the policemen considered him an employee of the secret services, which he helped to stop a drunk driver. He also conducted investigations on his own. Newitt used several fake ID cards and was in the habit of going to bed with dummy firearms.. He also had a police truncheon, handcuffs and a radio receiver adapted to police frequencies. He was exposed by a policeman, when Newitt ran into the Hinckley Police Station, to pass collected “intelligence data” on drug dealers. The policeman's suspicions were aroused by the ID which defined Newitt's function: special operations commander (The. commander). At the news of the arrest, Newitta area, Louise, she told the police: – You trapped the wrong man. After all, my husband works for you. Newitt began to pretend to be a counterintelligence agent, when his telecommunications systems installation company ran into financial trouble. W 2005 R. he was even tried for debts and improper bookkeeping. His company collapsed. In December 2006 R., when the owner of the port pier threatened him with the removal of the yacht for not paying the parking fee, Newitt had sent him a copy of the Official and State Secrets Act.
He pretended to be a secret agent, when he was threatened with the confiscation of his Volvo car because of his debts. – The literary character of James Bond became completely real for him – one of the policemen said.
