A fantasist who posed as a military policeman at a Chelmsford hotel handcuffed a customer to a lift, manhandled a male receptionist and offered a female receptionist £50 to take her knickers off.
Now Miley Byrne, 25, who pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Magistrates Court to two offences of assault while impersonating a police officer and having police items in his possession has been made subject of a community order.
Magistrates ruled that Byrne, of 103, Challis Lane, Braintree, must also carry out 200 hours of unpaid work, pay a £60 victim surcharge and £85 legal costs.
The offences were committed by Byrne, who has a previous conviction for a similar matter, on 28 February this year.
As he sentenced him chairman of the magistrates, Brian King told him : "You may like to live this way and think its exciting. Your victims don't think it is."
The court was told that Byrne went to the hotel claiming to be protecting the 15 year daughter of a US ambassador and over the course of six hours fulfilled his "fantasy" involving staff and customers.
A female receptionist was persuaded to put her hands on the desk while he "used his feet to spread her legs" and told her : "I'll give you £50 if you take off your knickers."
He also placed a male night receptionist on the ground in a "sleeper" hold and handcuffed a customer to the inside of the hotel lift. When arrested, he had military police and a fire fighter's uniforms in his possession.
Andrew Andrews, mitigating, said: "He accepts living a life through a fantasy. He genuinely believed he was acting as a police officer and going about his business as a police officer."
He said that at the time Byrne was a hotel worker though he has now lost his job.
Mr Andrews added :"It was part of the persona he was following at the time. The offence was spur of the moment during his fantasy role as a police officer."
Kathy Wilson. prosecuting, said: "He made a booking at the Travel Lodge as Mr N. (Military Police) and on arrival he was dressed in what staff believed was a Military Police uniform.
"His T-shirt had written in white 'Military Police/Close Protection' and he wore police trousers, a belt, boots, and an ear piece and had handcuffs and a torch.
"He approached the counter claiming he was a protection officer for a 15 year old girl who was the daughter of a US Ambassador and said she was in room 221 being guarded by bomb disposal experts.
"He told staff not to enter the door of the room because they would get a bullet in the head and suggested that a sniper team had surrounded the building."
Miss Wilson added that Byrne, had previously claimed at a hospital to have been guarding someone who had come in from Heathrow Airport.
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