A crooked cop dubbed the Arfur Daley of the Metrop

A crooked cop dubbed the Arfur Daley of the Metroplitan
police was spared jail today despite admitting ‘clocking’ a second
hand car.

Car mad Pc Andrew Boyd, 30, resigned after his ‘nice little
earner’ was exposed in a national newspaper.

Southwark Crown court was told that since then his life had
sped from the fast lane on to the scrap heap.

The culprit, who boasted he had once clamped Princess Michael’s
car, had lost his job and was struggling to meet huge debts.

This downward spiral ran its course when his dodgy deal landed
him with 200 hours of community service in court.

Prosecutor Bruce Houlder said Boyd set himself up as a second
hand car salesmam while working as a pnds stlng 20,000 a year policeman
at Marylebone Station.

But the cop of 11 years of service didn’t play by the rules,
he said.

Instead, he wiped off 40,000 miles from the mileometer
of a Audi car and then sold it at a ‘bumper’ pnds stlng 2,600 price.

But his little scheme came unstuck when his unsuspecting
customer started having problems with the car.

Mr Houlder said: ‘At the time of the offence Mr Houlder was
buying and selling high mileage second hand cars.

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He revealed: ‘The case started as a result of an investigation
by reporters of the Sunday People newspaper.

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The newspaper dubbed him the ‘Arfur Daley of the Met.

Police.

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He said Boyd had suffered considerably since his double-life
had been exposed.

Passing sentence, Judge Gerald Butler QC said: ‘I have been
told that at the time of this offence you were a police officer.

By
reason of this offence your employment has come to an end.

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‘However you did not take advantage of your position as a
policeman when you carried it out.

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Boyd, of Beaumaris Green, West Hendon, who has been based at
Marylebone for the last six years was also ordered to pay pnds pnds
stlng 1,300 in compensation.

He pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining property by
deception on April 5, 1991.

Boyd denied dishonestly concealing material facts of
an insurance and two charges of obtaining property by deception
involving ‘clocking’ motor vehicles between February and August
1991.

Those pleas were accepted by the Crown and not guilty
verdicts entered.

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