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11 hours ago, bickster said:

Fear not the crème eggs were found. The police cracked the case really quickly. Units were scrambled and fortunately they didn’t have to bring in the soldiers. It boiled down to good deteggtive work and a local man was arrested

Could be made into a hard-boiled detective story.

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Hopefully he's going to be cooped up for a long time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-64640596

Man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs convicted

A man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, causing a police panic about Easter, has been convicted in court.

Joby Pool was surrounded by a mountain of the foil-wrapped chocolate when police caught up with him at the weekend.

Recognising he was foiled too, he surrendered to officers with his hands up, prosecutors said.

He is due to be sentenced in Crown Court next month.

Pool, 32, used a stolen lorry with false plates to snatch a trailer containing the eggs from an industrial unit in Telford on Saturday, Kidderminster Magistrates' Court heard.

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1 hour ago, Lichfield Dean said:

Hopefully he's going to be cooped up for a long time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-64640596

Man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs convicted

A man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, causing a police panic about Easter, has been convicted in court.

Joby Pool was surrounded by a mountain of the foil-wrapped chocolate when police caught up with him at the weekend.

Recognising he was foiled too, he surrendered to officers with his hands up, prosecutors said.

He is due to be sentenced in Crown Court next month.

Pool, 32, used a stolen lorry with false plates to snatch a trailer containing the eggs from an industrial unit in Telford on Saturday, Kidderminster Magistrates' Court heard.

If he stole a cab and changed the plates he didn't just wing it then. 

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1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Loopy job. 

Caught on the ring road. Hope they chuck away the key now he’s in the clutches of the law. When he goes up in front of the beak he’s gonna see his case wrapped up quickly. His plot to steal the crème eggs was foiled.

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A man famous for featuring in the famous Accrington Stanley advert as a boy has been jailed for murder.

Kevin Spaine, 43, - who wasn't seen on camera during the iconic advert - was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years for the murder of Learoy Venner, who died after he was brutally kicked and punched in a horrifying assault in the Belmont Drive area of Anfield, Liverpool.

Spaine starred in the famous television advert for the Milk Marketing Board in 1989 in which he delivered the well-known line "Accrington Stanley, who are they?"

John Harrison KC represented the now jailed killer in court and said Spaine was once a "very promising young footballer."

Kevin Spaine, who is he?

Link - Daily Mirror

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My God

https://news.sky.com/story/accrington-stanley-milk-advert-actor-jailed-for-murdering-gentle-soul-in-liverpool-12817798

'Accrington Stanley' milk advert actor jailed for murdering 'gentle soul' in Liverpool

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Spaine delivered the iconic line “Accrington Stanley? Who are they?” in a commercial by the Milk Marketing Board in 1989. On Wednesday, more than 30 years later, he was jailed for life for the murder of Learoy Venner in Anfield last July.

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But Spaine was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 18 years behind bars on Wednesday after inflicting "multiple forceful blows" on Learoy Venner, 53, causing a brain injury.

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John Harrison KC, defending Spaine, told the court he was once a "very promising young footballer" and had starred in the famous milk advert, the Liverpool Echo reports.

He was one of two boys seen in the 1989 clip but only appears briefly on camera.

 

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