A man who conned a pub into believing he was TV star Louis Theroux has walked free from court.
Allan Debenham, 39, was given a 12-month community order with supervision by magistrates after previously pleading to two charges of making a false representation by claiming he was “Louis Theroux from the BBC”.
Debenham, of Hamilton Road, Taunton, returned to South Somerset Magistrates’ Court in Yeovil to be sentenced for fraud offences and a separate matter of assaulting his former partner.
Debenham had booked a room at the £70-per-night Duke of York pub at Shepton Beauchamp, near Ilminster, in the name of the documentary maker, magistrates were told at an earlier hearing.
Debenham was ordered to pay compensation of £165 to the pub, £14.70 to a taxi firm and a victim surcharge of £60.
He was also told to pay his former partner £100 compensation and given a restraining order not to contact her for 12 months.
