Can the old get away with murder? - Page 4

garinda · 15-05-2008, 23:43

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Originally Posted by cashman

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?

i take me hat off to the crafty old swine.

thats how frail he is dummies.

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.

cashman · 16-05-2008, 00:05

i totally agree he shudda got "Bird" also that hes been a fraudster most of his life, but i still gotta laugh at how he conned every ******.

BERNADETTE · 16-05-2008, 00:08

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Originally Posted by cashman

i totally agree he shudda got "Bird" also that hes been a fraudster most of his life, but i still gotta laugh at how he conned every ******.

Haven't watched it yet but does make me wonder why he wasn't sussed before now

cashman · 16-05-2008, 00:12

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Haven't watched it yet but does make me wonder why he wasn't sussed before now

he was bernie but as scotland yard only have 2 art fraud officers in the country, it was put on the back burner after his first offence, they were about to travel to Bolton to arrest him, n were taken off the case (more than once) for more pressing frauds, how pathetic is that?

BERNADETTE · 16-05-2008, 00:18

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Originally Posted by cashman

he was bernie but as scotland yard only have 2 art fraud officers in the country, it was put on the back burner after his first offence, they were about to travel to Bolton to arrest him, n were taken off the case (more than once) for more pressing frauds, how pathetic is that?

Maybe they had more important things to work on but to be honest art fraud is the least of our problems.

cashman · 16-05-2008, 00:27

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Maybe they had more important things to work on but to be honest art fraud is the least of our problems.

yeh but much of the loot he gained after not being arrested came from " Public Money" i would call that "Our Problem"

garinda · 16-05-2008, 00:32

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Originally Posted by cashman

yeh but much of the loot he gained after not being arrested came from " Public Money" i would call that "Our Problem"

Strange old family.

Five adults living in that little house, and the middle aged man sharing a bedroom with his auntie.

No wonder he was alway in the shed all the time, probably after some privacy.

They didn't even seem to be doing it for the money, all very odd.

BERNADETTE · 16-05-2008, 00:36

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Originally Posted by cashman

yeh but much of the loot he gained after not being arrested came from " Public Money" i would call that "Our Problem"

Should keep my gob shut till I watch it

Benipete · 16-05-2008, 00:36

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Originally Posted by cashman

he was bernie but as scotland yard only have 2 art fraud officers in the country, it was put on the back burner after his first offence, they were about to travel to Bolton to arrest him, n were taken off the case (more than once) for more pressing frauds, how pathetic is that?

Sorry -new to the thread,but it looks like the end of Parliament as we know it, certainly the house of Lords, and you may be going back to Spain. But we will find you.See you tonight at sydney St.

garinda · 16-05-2008, 00:48

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Originally Posted by jambutty

Good luck to the old geezer. He showed up what a pretentious load of prats the so called art experts are.

The nice old geezer, who when he was a nice young geezer, spent the war in the slammer for desertion, and then spends the next sixty years acquiring fraudulent war medals.

jaysay · 16-05-2008, 10:21

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Originally Posted by garinda

Strange old family.

Five adults living in that little house, and the middle aged man sharing a bedroom with his auntie.

No wonder he was alway in the shed all the time, probably after some privacy.

They didn't even seem to be doing it for the money, all very odd.

I could have sworn that this family came from Bolton, not Burnley. Middle aged man sharing a bedroom with his auntie