Twitter's fake riots police officer Ellis Ward is jailed

“This guy was arrested and sentenced to community service in Gloucestershire for the same thing about 6 years ago, he failed to complete a single hour.
He stole, defrauded and lied continually and to my knowledge his mother was still alive in 2006 ! He claimed to be a police officer, he stole/defrauded money from numerous individuals and moved from location to location.
The only truth this man has ever got right, is his real name.
'Superdad' is correct, there is a long back story and any mention of his sad childhood are all fabrications.”

“superdad
we only know what we are told”

“This an extreme case of a severely mentality challenged individual. Five years for deceiving many honourable people seems very excessive, I do not condone this mans actions but I do believe that instead of being sent to prison for those amount of years, he should be made to pay back the £600 he earned from the Daily Telegraph along with the £12,000 he duped out of his three victims. He should have also received the care that he so obviously needed, he has been let down by the system and so has his victims and followers. What I find incredulous is how this clearly unstable man was able to contact and describe fictional events to well known newspapers and TV stations without ever being questioned or these events being clarified or investigated beforehand.”

“This an extreme case of a severely mentality challenged individual. Five years for deceiving many honourable people seems very excessive, I do not condone this mans actions but I do believe that instead of being sent to prison for those amount of years, he should be made to pay back the £600 he earned from the Daily Telegraph along with the £12,000 he duped out of his three victims. He should have also received the care that he so obviously needed, he has been let down by the system and so has his victims and followers. What I find incredulous is how this clearly unstable man was able to contact and describe fictional events to well known newspapers and TV stations without ever being questioned or these events being clarified or investigated beforehand.”

“You know nothing - this man was a menace and deserved everything he got. There's a whole backstory which hasn't been reported but which I know of personally. I beieve he was only charged with a sample set of crimes to avoid more grief to otherwise innocent victioms. He wrecked peoples lives and stole all their life savings. He defrauded public and private services using false warrant cards to the tune of thousands of pounds. He pretended to be a wounded soldier to gain sympathy thereby tainting the deeds and memories of the real heros. He sold loads of stuff (cameras and other attractive items) on ebay and failed to fulfil any of the orders, transferring the money out of his paypal account before it could be recovered. I don't know how many people were taken in this way but it was many dozens.
You've been taken in by a self-confessed and convicted con man's sob stories - how naive can you get.”

“It sounds to me as though the only thing this guy is really guilty of is having had a very poor upbringing. This is one of those cases where the individual needs care and support to come to terms with his life rather than punishment for the (relatively) minor crimes. Five years seems extremely excessive to me.

If he could be helped to develop a meaningful life and gain employment he would be in a position to repay the women he conned. Everyone, including society, would win.”

“where are these tough judges when they are needed? what has he done wrong, conned some gulible women out of money, i supposed, appart from that it was the papers fault for not checking”