Re: Can the old get away with murder?
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Originally Posted by cashman
(Post 577217)
well after watching the programme tonight, it seems like the crafty old git conned the judge as well, they were speaking to the bloke next door, who said the wheelchair has been discarded, hes NEVER seen him in it since the trial, so its not just the art critics that are numpties is it?:D i take me hat off to the crafty old swine.:bingobang:thepint: thats how frail he is dummies.:D
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This story did have a certain charm. Artfacts knocked up in a shed behind a council house in Bolton, which fooled the experts in the art and antiquity world, and the son had an enormous, if illegal talents.
However, I still think if someone is convicted of a crime, and that crime deserves a custodial sentence, that's what should happen, regardless of age.
As his neighbours told the interviwer, the only time they'd ever seen the old fraudster in a wheelchair, was on television going to court.
You could also tell what sort of man he was, when it was revealed he'd spent years writing to foreign countries in order to get the war campaign medals he said he'd never received, when in fact he'd spent the six years of the war in prison in the U.K. for desertion, whilst his fellow countrymen were fighting for this country's freedom.:mad: |
