Another hawker gets done!

[Puffin]

http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/11507869._/

A DELIVERY driver from Grays used a metal detector to steal a gold Roman coin from a private estate in Norfolk.

Roy Wood, 52, of Lytton Road, appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Monday, September 29, and pleaded guilty to using sophisticated equipment to find a gold Roman coin at Castle Acre, Norfolk.

The coin originates from the period of the Emperor Valentinian, and was valued at £200.

[Strollingby]

Serves him right.

Low valuation though don't you think ?

[centurian]

Thieving git.

[Old Git John]

I think that, anyone who breaches the law, should be brought to justice, and, we all need to remember that, a claim of lack of knowledge is no defence.

Also, if anyone who gets a prosecution should be banned from membership of any club or organisation connected with the hobby of metal detecting,
as well as any rally.

Theft is theft what ever form it takes.

[popsandme]

I think that, anyone who breaches the law, should be brought to justice, and, we all need to remember that, a claim of lack of knowledge is no defence.

Also, if anyone who gets a prosecution should be banned from membership of any club or organisation connected with the hobby of metal detecting
as well as any rally.

Theft is theft what ever form it takes.

quite agree john, however banning someone from any membership of any club or organisation connected with the hobby of metal detecting wont stop them from buying another/owning a detector, they should be served with an ASBO or whatever they like to call them now which would make it a criminal offence to own or have in their possession any electronic item related to the hobby of metal detecting. oh, and cut their fingers off so they cant hold a detector just for good measure lol

[Puffin]

BM picked up this guy as he tried to sell "more then one" gold coin and tagged it as a possible hoard? Guys like this really do deserve all that the law can throw at them.

[Deetektor]

It won't stop people like him, mores the pity.

[littlebloke]

Yet again. What a sod......

[Old Git John]

It won't stop people like him, mores the pity.

So, what do you suggest should be done to sods like this then ?

[Nige150]

I think that, anyone who breaches the law, should be brought to justice, and, we all need to remember that, a claim of lack of knowledge is no defence.

Also, if anyone who gets a prosecution should be banned from membership of any club or organisation connected with the hobby of metal detecting,
as well as any rally.

Theft is theft what ever form it takes.

A guy who was apprehended by police for hawking on a protected site is currently running a county detecting club. One of its members also stole a rare coin from a West Country museum. Defies belief.