A real-life Basil Fawlty ran an ‘awful’ hotel and swore at his guests after drinking ‘quite a few vodkas’, a court heard.
John Dixon Hart appeared before Hull Crown Court after wrongly claiming rooms at his guesthouse were either three-star or four-star and advertising online with misleading photos.
Judge Mark Bury branded him Basil Fawlty, John’s Cleese’s famously rude hotel owner in Fawlty Towers...