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February 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Eddie Wrenn
Last updated at 12:14 PM on 13th February 2012
A desperate husband reported a fictional ‘mugging’ to police in a bid to avoid the blame for losing more than £1,700 of his wife’s
money.
Alex Jones had been helping his wife out with her work as a cash collector, but then left the money in a bag on top of his car.
Desperate to cover up his mistake – and save his wife’s job – Jones dashed into a post office and told
staff he had been robbed in the street.
He even went on to give police a detailed
description of the mugger, but his story quickly unravelled when officers found no sign of the mystery attacker on CCTV.
Fictional account: Jones ran into the post office in Willington (pictured) and told staff about the ‘mugging’
Jones, whose wife was a cash collector for a finance company, was
helping with the banking on a Saturday morning last September.
Teesside Crown Court heard how Jones, 30, had put the money on the roof of his car before forgetting
where he had left it.
Realising his mistake, he then ran into the post office in Willington, County
Durham, and told staff that a bag containing £1,767 had been snatched.
Terrified that his wife would lose her job because of his mistake, Jones then gave a five-page statement to police.
But CCTV checks showed
no robbery, and Jones was later arrested for perverting the course of justice.
Prosecutor Jacqueline Edwards said that Jones admitted to police he had made up the story to try to cover up his
mistake.
‘Pack of lies’: Judge Walford ordered Jones to carry out 175 hours of unpaid work at Teesside Crown Court
David Callan, mitigating, said: ‘There was no realistic chance of anyone being
arrested for this because the CCTV showed nothing happened.
‘The police cottoned on to this story very quickly… this is a stupid case and
a wasteful case, in the sense that he wasted police time.
‘He and his wife were trying to get their lives back together, working on
behalf of this credit company, collecting money.
‘He was helping out. He knew, as has happened, she would lose her job, and he came up with this
ridiculous story, really on impulse.
‘It was not premeditated.’
Jones, from Crook, admitted perverting the course of justice
and was given a community order with supervision.
Judge Walford also ordered him to carry out 175 hours of unpaid work.
He told Jones: ‘It was not done to have anyone else arrested.
‘I am prepared to accept that what motivated you to tell this stupid pack of
lies was an earnest desire to protect your wife’s job and preserve that.
‘Making up false stories to give to both the police and post office employees
is always a serious matter, and I trust you realise that.’
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I fail to see where the Perverting the course of Justice charge comes in, Wasting Police time yes but to pervert the course of justice needs a crime for you to cover up or hide evidence. No crime had been committed just a made up one so surely Wasting Police time is the most appropriate here. I am sure someone will set me straight on this.
– Mike, Dundalk, 13/2/2012 12:20
—————– Presumably because in the course of the investigation he admitted that his intention was to falsely claim on his insurance and he needed a police crime report number. What other reason could he possibly have had for reporting a crime? If he merely wanted to protect his wife’s job he would have kept quiet and repaid the money himself.
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What a shameful
Person
Who took the money! I left my purse containing £200 on the roof and went into the shop, five minutes later a man walked in holding it with my id in his hand found me and gave it back!
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Better to have told the truth and face the reality of the situation.
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Poor man! In the innocent days of 1967, my husband put the wages on his roof drove off – to our amazement, a pensioner from the almshouses opposite picked it up and handed it in to the local post office!!!!! Couldn’t happen in these days of every man for himself…….altruism is dead except for the few of us who still believe in doing a good deed when we can.
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Oh how much do I want to hear his description of the ‘mugger!!
– Jelz, Thorn in your side!, 13/2/2012 13:54
“He was 14ft3, green hair, purple eyes and had a tatoo saying mugger on his forehead. He was wearing a Burbery cap and an Addidas tracksuit”
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I washed and cleaned my Land Rover last summer, I put everything from the inside, ie. my wallet, phone, watch, sunglasses etc on the roof, went indoors to make a cup of tea, when I went back out my wife had taken the car shopping!!, who was the mug?, never found anything.
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I think collecting cash from people who have loans, is slightly different to debt collecting. As awful as it might appear, some parts of the population cannot get money from elsewhere.
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175 hours of unpaid work..? Harsh…
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Payback comes to the debt collectors. I hope thye person who found it had a party on them. Im sure it didnt come close to touching the xtortionate 200% apr these companies charge the desperate, the poor and the stupid.
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Seems pointless to ask the obvious question but here goes: why would anyone put a bag full of cash on a car roof?
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