LONDON, Nov 9: A mystery man who assumed the identity of a dead baby over 20 years ago — a ploy made famous by the Frederick Forsyth novel ‘The Day of the Jackal’ — was jailed for 21 months in Britain on Tuesday.
For over two decades the man who called himself Christopher Buckingham lived a relatively uneventful life, marrying and having children.
He was jailed for obtaining a passport in the name of the infant, who died in 1963, but still refuses to reveal his real identity and even his family do not know who he is.
Buckingham on occasion passed himself off as an aristocrat, Lord Buckingham, although the title had been extinct for hundreds of years, Canterbury Crown Court heard.—Reuters
