Company director dresses as woman to fool photographers outside court

A male company director appearing at court tried to evade the waiting media attention by dressing as a woman. Dressed in female clothing including a stripy top, black knee length skirt and high heels, Martyn Crute left Lincoln Crown Court hoping to give the cameramen the slip.

But his disguise was noticed within seconds by the waiting photographers primed to snap him as he exited. And as they gave chase, he flicked his hair across his face in a bid to hide his manly stubble and chiselled jawline.



The bid to make sure his identity remained a secret came as Crute, a director of UK Oil and Gas Ltd, appeared in court charged with trading for 15 months without being registered to gas safety body CORGI. His business was said to have put lives at risk due to the poor standard of work it carried out during the period.

Crute, from Retford, Notts, admitted a charge of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act. He was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £41,000 prosecutions costs and was also banned from being a company director for seven years.