Blurry pictures of men in pseudo-military attire with unrecognisable facial features were what Paul Berryman purported to be him while on active duty with the armed forces.

An image Paul Berryman claimed to be him while in the army (Image: Newsquest) The 62-year-old had hoped they would serve as irrefutable testimony to his claims about a distinguished military career spanning almost 30 years with service in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Falkland Islands.

An image Paul Berryman claimed to be him while in the army (Image: Newsquest) The reason it was so important jurors believed him was that he was trying to put forward his army service as a reason for him to be exempt from serving a mandatory five year prison sentence after he was found with a prohibited firearm in 2018.

An image Paul Berryman claimed to be him while on active service in the army (Image: Newsquest) But jurors took just over an hour to see though the lie told by the former binman who although had enlisted in the army in 1979 was discharged less than two weeks later - before he........

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