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<\/p>\nA 65-year-old man has admitted to dressing as a navy admiral without permission during a Remembrance Sunday event.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Carley, from Harlech, Gwynedd, was arrested on 14 November, after photos of him wearing the uniform of one of the most senior ranks went viral online.<\/p>\n
He was charged with wearing a uniform or dress bearing the mark of His Majesty’s Forces without permission during a Remembrance Sunday event in Llandudno.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Carley pleaded guilty at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on Monday. He previously told police in an interview after his arrest that he had wanted a sense of “belonging and affirmation”.<\/p>\n The 65-year-old also told officers that the naval uniform was issued to him legitimately when he was in the cadets, but he had rear admiral rings added by a tailor and had bought medals online.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: District Judge Gwyn Jones fined him \u00a3500 and ordered him to pay \u00a385 towards prosecution costs and a \u00a3200 surcharge.<\/p>\n “It’s a sad reflection upon you that you chose to do such a thing on a very difficult day for so many,” the judge added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old man has admitted to dressing as a navy admiral without permission during a Remembrance Sunday event.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-353509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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