Best Man Cancels Bachelor Party Because He Says He Has Terminal Bowel Cancer...Keeps All The Money To Pay His Bookie

Mirror – A cheating best man lied to his mate about having terminal cancer while fleecing him and their friends for non-existent stag parties.

Martyn Galvin, 30, claimed to be organising stag dos to Prague and York Races for a school friend he had known for 18 years, the Gazette reports .

Instead he pocketed the £7,945 he received from the lads and poured it into his own gambling habit and extravagant spending.

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Worst Best Man Ever? Umm maybe, but how about worst Groom and Friends of Groom ever? I mean the guy was in huge debt to his bookie. Yeah that’s not bowel cancer but it’s pretty fucking bad. Not the most pleasant experience having your door kicked in and ribs broken and kneecaps shattered. Not exactly a walk in the park having maxed out credit cards and 0 dollars in your wallet. Just saying it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to have a little sympathy for the guy, bunch of prudes acting like they’ve never gambled before or something.

Flip side though, 17 bros showing up at the airport to spend 3 days in Prague and the horse track and finding out nothing got booked and all their money was stolen is a pretty fucking bad feeling too.

The stag group of 17 reached Newcastle Airport to discover no flights or hotel rooms had been booked, leaving them high and dry.

Galvin had falsely told the groom he had been treated for bowel cancer, and that it was terminal, Teesside Crown Court heard today.

Galvin was asked to be best man at his best friend’s wedding before his mate had even proposed to his partner, said prosecutor Jenny Haigh.

He volunteered to arrange the two stag parties as it was the “best man’s duty”, contacted the groom’s friends and set up a Facebook page.

They were meant to enjoy a three-day trip to Prague in August last year, followed by a trip to York Races in October.

All I know is you gotta be in some SERIOUS fucking debt to tell all your buddies you have terminal cancer when you don’t. How awkward is it when it’s like 4 years later and you’re still alive look exactly the same?

As the nuptials neared, Galvin moaned to the groom he was out of pocket from not getting money from the men.

He claimed he had tests and an operation for bowel cancer and needed radiotherapy.

When he did not attend meetings between the men, he made excuses about hospital visits and bad reactions to medication.

As it was revealed there were no plane or hotel bookings on August 28, the groom still thought it was a “wind-up” or “mix-up”.

When challenged, Galvin – whose own father died of cancer when he was a teenager – said he was terminally ill with cancer, while maintaining he had booked flights.

Galvin’s mother broke the news to the shocked stag that his best friend did not have cancer as he claimed.

Got to question the groom’s judgement of character if this is the type of guy you’re making your best man.