T***@yahoo.co.uk
2007-09-06 16:49:46 UTC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6981558.stm
[quote]
Daft burglar writes name on wall
A 18-year-old burglar who vandalised a children's campsite building
was caught because he wrote his name on a wall at the scene, a court
has heard.
Peter Addison, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport, and his friend Mark
Ridgeway of Poynton, Cheshire, smashed crockery and let off fire
extinguishers.
Addison received a conditional discharge. Ridgeway, 18, must carry out
60 hours unpaid work.
Both pleaded guilty to burglary at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court.
Addison was ordered to pay £725 compensation and £20 costs. Ridgeway
has to pay £20 costs.
Apart from writing his own name in black marker pen at the Toc H
centre in Adlington, Cheshire, Addison also left his gang's name on
the wall - The Adlington Massiv!.
The teenager vandalised a Garden Birds of Britain poster by adding "R
Gay".
He then left a final message to the campsite owners - "thanks for the
stay".
Police found him after entering his name in a computer system.
Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: "This crime is up
there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table.
"There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own
name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit.
"The daftness of this lad certainly made our job a lot easier."
[unquote]
Did they get such a lenient sentence just because they pleaded guilty,
or did the magistrates take pity on them for being so utterly stupid?
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[quote]
Daft burglar writes name on wall
A 18-year-old burglar who vandalised a children's campsite building
was caught because he wrote his name on a wall at the scene, a court
has heard.
Peter Addison, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport, and his friend Mark
Ridgeway of Poynton, Cheshire, smashed crockery and let off fire
extinguishers.
Addison received a conditional discharge. Ridgeway, 18, must carry out
60 hours unpaid work.
Both pleaded guilty to burglary at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court.
Addison was ordered to pay £725 compensation and £20 costs. Ridgeway
has to pay £20 costs.
Apart from writing his own name in black marker pen at the Toc H
centre in Adlington, Cheshire, Addison also left his gang's name on
the wall - The Adlington Massiv!.
The teenager vandalised a Garden Birds of Britain poster by adding "R
Gay".
He then left a final message to the campsite owners - "thanks for the
stay".
Police found him after entering his name in a computer system.
Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: "This crime is up
there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table.
"There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own
name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit.
"The daftness of this lad certainly made our job a lot easier."
[unquote]
Did they get such a lenient sentence just because they pleaded guilty,
or did the magistrates take pity on them for being so utterly stupid?
--
x If you have been, are you still?
/|\