Having been a GM on a tiny, short lived, no name server once upon a time, I understand the temptation that comes with wanting to use GM powers to leech legit characters. I never did it (my legit on that server never got past a, like, level 50 archer or somesuch horribly lowleveled char) but I can't tell you how many times I was tempted.
I'm also one of those people who despise cheating, and I thought to myself "How would I feel if I was going up against someone in PvP/WoE and I knew I had worked hard to level my characters and they just haxgm'd themselves?"
I'd wanna kick them in the face, that's what I'd feel.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm high and mighty and never used the @item command on my GM account, I did. I gave myself every single type of cute-pet availible in the game (this will not be a surprise to some) to my GM account, with @item. Sat in town and talked to the impressive population of three players and switched pets like every two minutes. I also abused the command to raise pet loyalty (I don't remember the actual command right now) so my fifty jillion pets loved me. >.>
But on my legit account I hunted for that Rainbow Carrot hardcore.
My point being, as wrong as the actions were (and they were. Bad Hermes, no cookie >:O ), there IS some hardcore temptation there. And doesn't the saying go 'to err is human, to forgive is divine'? Something like that. Not that it's my choice, or my spiel will have any difference on the outcome, I just think we should give him the option of making things right on a new, clean account. Such is my opinion, for what little it is worth.