3yrs jail for pounds 5m racing horse fraud; JUSTICE.A FANTASIST fan·ta·sist n. One that creates a fantasy. Noun 1. fantasist - a creator of fantasies creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things fooled some of racing's top names into buying him horses worth millions of pounds. Penniless Michael Baker, 28, negotiated online deals for animals worth more than pounds 5million, plus a pounds 45million yacht and a pounds 14million house. But he never got his hands on any of them and lived in his parents' back bedroom in Hollingbourne, Kent. Baker was yesterday jailed for three years. He had admitted fraud and deception. Among those he fooled was Royal Ascot winning trainer Henry Cecil who bought a pounds 45,000 horse at auction for him. Mr Cecil later had to sell the animal at a loss. Described by his barrister as a fantasist, the judge at Maidstone crown court Maidstone Crown Court is a Crown Court in Maidstone, England. It, together with Maidstone County Court is located at the Maidstone Combined Court Centre in Barker Road. The Maidstone Magistrates' Court is at a separate location. The court was built in 1983. said he accepted Baker had a personality disorder personality disorder Mental disorder that is marked by deeply ingrained and lasting patterns of inflexible, maladaptive, or antisocial behaviour to the degree that an individual's social or occupational functioning is impaired. . Baker's dad Keith said: "He is sick." |
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