QUOTE (Turin Machine @ Jun 7 2011, 11:29 AM)
Naah ! 'Yuman rites' means they will get off again no doubt. Good old scummers charter. "sorry milud, broken home, drug abuse, got kids aint I " Now, Where's that crane jib ??
Well this one certainly used all the excuses. ( They never worked though
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Harry Potter Book Thief Jailed.Stuart Matthews, defending, told magistrates that McGirr had been under immense stress at the time of the theft because his brother, mother and sister had all been suffering with various forms of cancer.
He said he had also been under pressure because he had lost his house renovation business because of the recession, and that his latest relationship had ended after McGirr stole the book as his partner’s children had been bullied at school.
“He feels like it is the most foolish thing he has ever done for a long period of time and he cannot explain why he did it,” said Mr Matthews.
The court was told that McGirr had previous criminal convictions, including a theft of some tools in May last year for which he was given a conditional discharge – breached by the theft of the Harry Potter novel.
McGirr, of Oxford Road, Kidlington, was jailed for six weeks and told he would serve another one week concurrently for breaching his conditional discharge.