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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 11, March 15, 2015, Article 30

MAN JAILED FOR PASSING COUNTERFEIT £1 COINS

Counterfeit paper money stories are a dime a dozen, but counterfeit coins are much less frequently seem in the news. Here's a story about a UK man jailed for trying to exchange fake one pound coins at a post office. -Editor

A ‘foolish’ man who tried to exchange fake £1 coins at a Rossendale Post Office has been jailed. David Crompton entered Crawshawbooth Post Office with a bag of 500 counterfeit £1 coins and tried to exchange them for Euros. Burnley Crown Court heard how he was ‘turned away’ and later arrested in Burnley. When interviewed he told police he got the money from a bank and later claimed he won it ‘playing poker’ When officers attended the scene Crompton, of Milnrow Road, Rochdale, tried to flee but was caught with the bag of counterfeit coins. He told police ‘him and his mates’ were going on a ‘lads holiday’ and got the money from the bank before later claiming it was through playing poker. Mr Longworth said: “Even thought it was a clumsy operation, it was clearly planned by the defendant and quite possibly others.” udge Jonathan Gibson said the coins ‘looked bright and new’ however several had old dates on them. Sentencing, he said: “No doubt if a person was looking at them in a casual, for example a small number were being passed at a shop, they might well go unnoticed. Under the trained eye they were very soon seen as false.”

To read the complete article, see:
JAILED: Man who tried to exchange 500 fake £1 coins at the Post Office (www.rossendalefreepress.co.uk/news/jailed-man-who-tried-exchange-8802929)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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