A MAN involved with an abortive scheme to regenerate Fort Hubberstone in Milford Haven is on the run after allegedly stealing approximately £42,000 from the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
The project in Pembrokeshire was called Camp Valour and Sean Pullen’s fake bona fides persuaded the Port Authority to become involved in his scheme before it pulled the plug on involvement with the shyster.
Sean Pullen, who used a variety of aliases and claimed to be a former member of the special forces, was last year exposed by The Pembrokeshire Herald as being a fantasist, unentitled to wear the decorations or claim the rank he used to try and get control of Fort Hubberstone for a pie in the sky project to convert it to a facility for ex-servicemen suffering from PTSD.
When The Herald exposed Pullen, we were threatened with legal proceedings – which never materialised – and, in a parting shot, a press release from the company he was using to front his attempted scam claimed that hostile press coverage had deterred them from going ahead with their plans for the historic fort. The writer of the Jac o’ the North blog was also threatened with legal proceedings for exposing Pullen’s unlikely claim to have been a paratrooper.
Proceedings came there none and now it appears that suspicions about Pullen were well-founded.
Sean Pullen resigned from his chairman role at the Liverpool Poppy Appeal and disappeared with an undisclosed amount of funds and RBL merchandise.
When investigators visited the property, they found the charred remnants of several collection tins, which Pullen had burned in the back garden of his rented £1500 a month home and collection tins with their seals broken and contents missing and unaccounted for.
Reports online at the Facebook groups Real Veterans Expose the Conmen and the Walter Mitty Hunters Club, state that Pullen’s landlord says he often received rent payments from Pullen containing a large number of £1 coins.
Sean Pullen, one of whose associates bizarrely claims Pullen is on a special assignment for MI5, was last seen in the Republic of Ireland.
