‘Player’ is jailed for doing a runner at restaurant
‘LOTHARIO’ FLED WITHOUT PAYING £447 BILL
A MANCHESTER man once dubbed ‘Britain’s biggest player’ after boasting of sex with thousands of women has been jailed for walking out on a £450 restaurant bill.
Daniel Wagster, 29, first hit national headlines in 2016 when he claimed to have slept with around 2,500 women over the past decade.
The personal trainer described his sex life as ‘fast and furious’ and said that he’d only cared about two of his partners during that time.
Now Wagster is behind bars after an incident at Piccolino restaurant in Stockton Heath, Warrington, in July 2016. A court heard how Wagster and three pals spent the evening ordering steaks and champagne while celebrating a birthday. At the end of the meal, Wagster was left with the bill but complained about the quality of two of the steaks - which was deducted from the total - and that the service had been slow. Wagster continued drinking in the outside area but then made a swift getaway without making any attempt to pay the bill, a court heard. He was jailed for eight weeks at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. Zoe Earle
Wagster was also ordered to pay the outstanding £447.50 bill to Piccolino.
Defending, Zoe Earle said: “Wagster had been out celebrating a friend’s birthday.
“Four of them went for food, two males and two females and more friends joined for drinks.
“After complaining about the steaks, Wagster said he would pay for the bill and continued drinking for several hours.
“He was left by his friends to pay for the bill. He has been made a scapegoat in this matter.”
Chairman of the bench of magistrates, Alan Davies, sentenced Wagster to eight weeks in prison. The court heard Wagster has 12 previous convictions for 16 offences including assault, burglary and harassment.
In an interview with a national newspaper in 2016, Wagster said he first attracted a lot of attention from women when he was 18 and started working out at the gym.
He claimed to have never gone more than two days without having sex and bedding an average of four or five women a week.
He boasted of having threesomes and to having once slept with four women in the space of 24 hours in a Manchester hotel.