£800 sticker scam at tills

Crook ‘beaten to death’ with lock in sock

ULTRA-VIOLENT US gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has been beaten to death in jail, allegedly on the orders of a crime boss.

According to reports, wheelchairbound Bulger was mixing with other inmates when three rolled him into a corner out of view of cameras.

There they battered his head with a padlock in a sock and tried to gouge his eyes out with a homemade knife.

During his reign as the feared boss of The Irish Winter Hill gang in Boston, Bulger was a sworn enemy of the Italian-American mob.

At least the equal of any

Mafia chieftain for sheer savagery, in his 60-year reign, he revelled in pulling out the teeth and tongues of his victims

It was Bulger and his side-kick Stephen Flemmi who bugged the HQ of New England mob boss Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo in 1983. Angiulo was later jailed for 45 years. Bulger, 89, serving life for

killing at least 11 people, but who boasted of slaughtering 40 men, died at high-security Hazelton, in West Virginia. He had been transferred from Florida. The head of Boston’s Irish mob and an FBI informant, he was convicted in 2013 of a litany of gangland crimes. Bulger was one of the FBI’s Most Wanted until his arrest in Santa Monica, California. His story was the basis for the 2015 Johnny Depp film Black Mass. At one point, only Osama bin Laden had a higher price on his head. For 16 years, he bribed FBI agents to protect him. Freedom ended in 2011 when a friend of his partner Catherine Greig saw him on TV. Bulger, who also inspired Martin Scorsese’s film The Departed, had a stevedore dad and an Irish-American mother. His life of crime began when he was 14. He got a 25 year term – cut by joining CIA tests on LSD. It left him prone to nightmares. In nine years inside, he studied military tactics, later used to deadly effect. MENACING Johnny Depp as Bulger in Black Mass Years Bulger spent on the run as one of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives A SHOPPER saved £800 by using old reduced-price stickers at self-service tills.

Robert Byrne, 36, felt a “buzz” by fiddling an Asda store in Swaffham, Norfolk.

The sales assistant, of Castle Acre, Norfolk, must do 150 hours’ unpaid work and pay back £800, King’s Lynn magistrates ordered.