Posted on 08/17/2006 2:06:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The 19-year-old heir to Britain's Scarsdale title has confessed to stealing a $221,455 pension check from his neighbor.
Andrew Curzon, a student from one of Britain's oldest families, could face jail time after he admitted to writing his name on a check that was mistakenly delivered to his family's Wimbledon house, The Telegraph reported Thursday. He attempted to deposit the check, which belonged to a 70-year-old neighbor, in his bank account.
Suspicious bank officials told him to come back in a week and notified authorities. Curzon, who has been studying to be a lawyer, was arrested when he returned.
Curzon pleaded guilty to forgery and using a false instrument but magistrate Frances Wellby rejected a request by his attorney, Mandeep Sehmi, for a community service order and sent the case to crown court for sentencing.
"He cannot explain why he did what he did. The temptation must have got the better of him. He accepts what he did was totally wrong," Sehmi said.
No court date has been set and Curzon was released on unconditional bail.
Duh
That's quite a pension.
"Curzon, who has been studying to be a lawyer, was arrested"
Not hitting the books too terribly hard, I take it.
British pensions are higher than mine.
Apparently he's studying to be a defense attorney.
"Curzon, who has been studying to be a lawyer"
obviously the man was just preparing for his future vocation is all
Now he can be a jailhouse lawyer.
"Now he can be a jailhouse lawyer."
or a politician
Wonder what all the old prison lags will think of this plummy-voiced youth in their midst?
"The boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball"- Foghorn Leghorn...
Sounds like a lump-sum distribution, and the poor pensioner will be living on the interest from that sum -- about $10,000/year.
Wonder if the old dude has ever heard of direct-deposit.
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Suspicious bank officials told him to come back in a week and notified authorities. Curzon, who has been studying to be a lawyer, was arrested when he returned. you've GOT to be kiddin me...
this POS is too stooopid for words. they might wanna give their DNA a chance to breath and sterilize this jerkoff and throw a little clorox into their genepool while they are at it.
in-breeding dope
We certainly find out ,in this case, that the UK postal
system is similar to the US postal system.......fenway
Im not sure upper-class twits understand how checks work. He probably just assumed it was his latest trust fund check from the tenant farmers on the family estates.
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