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BIZARRE FAKE ID FOR LOANS
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Green-fingered Douglas Smith holds his recordbreaking tomato.
Weighing three kilos, it was so heavy it had to be held on the stem with a pair of tights.
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The monster beefsteak tomato measures 27.5 inches in circumference and beats the previous UK record holder, Peter Glazebrook, whose tomato last year weighed 2.9kg.
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Douglas said: “This has been an ambition of mine for a couple of years. This time,
I edged it.”
A FRAUDSTER conned more than £50,000 out of banks using false names and identities including Mr A***hole, a court heard.
Daniel Robertson, 30, roped in family members and friends who let him set up accounts or put their name to dodgy loan applications.
During a two-and-a-half year period he made nearly £200,000 of fraudulent loan applications to banks and building societies.
He used fictitious
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names – including one “Daniel
A***hole”, Swindon campaign. He was jailed Crown Court for four years and one heard. month after admitting Robertson made 198 fraud and making or controlling loan applications although an article for use in not all were successful a fraud following a trial last and he pocketed year.
£52,000. Robertson, from The con was unmasked Thorney Park, Wiltshire, when a loan company reported has been back in court as their concerns in prosecutors try to claw June 2017. back his ill-gotten gains. Robertson even roped in The case had to be adjourned loved ones – including his until November mum and his girlfriend – for Robertson to secure legal who let him use their representation. names as part of his scam