A GILLINGHAM MAN WHO RAN AN AIR TICKET ‘BUCKET SHO

A GILLINGHAM MAN WHO RAN AN AIR TICKET ‘BUCKET SHOP’ TODAY
(THURSDAY) HAD HIS JAIL SENTENCE FOR DECEPTION VARIED BY THE CRIMINAL

APPEAL COURT IN LONDON.

KENNETHTHUR GATES DEAN, 61, OF RAILWAY STREET, WAS SENTENCED
AT SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT IN APRIL TO SERVE TWO YEARS CONSECUTIVE TO A

THREE-YEAR TERM PREVIOUSLY IMPOSED.

MR.

JUSTICE DRAKE COMMENTED IN THE APPEAL COURT:’MAKING THE
TWO YEARS CONSECUTIVE TO THE REMAINING PART OF THE SENTENCE HE STILL
HAD TO SERVE LED TO A SLIGHTLY LONGER SENTENCE THAN WAS REQUIRED IN
ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES’.

HE SAID THE TWO-YEAR SENTENCE WOULD NOW BE MADE CONCURRENT
WITH THE OTHER.

THE JUDGE SAID DEAN SET UP LIKE MOVE TRAVEL IN JUNE 1984 ‘AS A
CUT-PRICE AIRLINE TICKET OFFICE — OR BUCKET SHOP’.

THE COMPANY FAILED , OWING ABOUT #43,OOO, IN OCTOBER 1984 —
WHEN DEAN APPEARED AT MAIDSTONE CROWN COURT.

THAND CHEQUES WHICH DEAN HAD MADE OUT WERE DISHONOURED -BOUNCED

– THE COURT HEARD.

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