David Mills
Legal advocate David Blacker, said by the reporter to look a lot like Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies (his hair comes down to about his sternum), appeared in court with on his robe “a set of ceremonial St John Ambulance medals on his left breast along with colourful ribbons,” which apparently is just not done. And that is not all: “Mr Blacker goes by the full name of Dr The Right Honourable The Lord Harley of Counsel of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem,” an Irish title he says he inherited from his father.
And that is not all either:
Mr Blacker lists an extensive number of qualifications, languages and society memberships on his LinkedIn professional networking web page. It carries glowing testimonials which describe him as the “Mozart of the courtroom” and “almost a national treasure”.
And he also states he is fluent in Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, and the Luo language of Kenya and Tanzania.
I hope this is all true. The judge he faced at Cardiff Crown Court was not amused.
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