TWO THIEVES CAUGHT RED HANDED FITTING A SET OF STO

TWO THIEVES CAUGHT RED HANDED FITTING A SET OF STOLEN DOORS TO

THEIR VAN WERE GIVEN A CHANCE BY A JUDGE AT SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT.

MARTIN SHARPE AND PAUL DAVID WHO WERE FOUND GUILTY OF STEALING

THE DOORS WERE FINED #150 AND TOLD ‘NOT TO DO IT AGAIN’ BY JUDGE

WALKER.

THE COURT HEARD THE PAIR WERE SPOTTED STANDING BESIDE A
RED VAN IN HEWLETT ROAD CAR PARK, BOW ON APRIL 8 THIS YEAR BY PC
PAUL JOHNSON.

THERE WERE ‘TWO WHITE VAN DOORS LYING EITHER SIDE OF THE RED

VAN AND SHARPE STANDING WITH A SPANNER IN HIS HAND,’ SAID MRS

PHILIPPA JESSEL PROSECUTING.

BUT THE UNEMPLOYED 20-YEAR-OLD TOLD THE OFFICER FROM BOW ROAD

POLICE STATION HE HAD BEEN GIVEN THEM BY HIS UNCLE.

‘THE OFFICER WAS SATISFIED WITH THE EXPLANANTION AND LEFT THE

TWO MEN PUTTING THE DOORS ONTO THE BACK OF THE VAN,’ SAID COUNSEL.

BUT LATER THE SAME DAY PC JOHNSON DISCOVERED A STOLEN WHITE

ESCORT VAN PARKED IN LEFEVRE WALK GARAGES, BOW – WITH IT’S TWO BACK

DOORS MISSING.

THE COURT HEARD THE VAN HAD BEEN STOLEN TWO DAYS EARLIER ON

APRIL 6 THIS YEAR WHILE IT WAS PARKED IN VICTORIAN PARK ROAD,

HOMERTON.

WHEN THE OFFICER SPOTTED SHARPE AND DAVID AGAIN JUST HOURS

LATER HE ARRESTED THE PAIR WHO EARLIER CLAIMED THE DOORS HAD BEEN

GIVEN TO THEM BY AN UNCLE.

DURING QUESTIONING SHARPE ALLEGEDLY ADMITTED HE HAD TAKEN THE

DOORS OFF THE STOLEN VAN – BUT THOUGHT IT HAD BEEN ABANDONED.

DAVID, 20, UNEMPLOYED, OF SANDALL HOUSE, HEWLETT ROAD, BOW

AND SHARPE, 18, UNEMPLOYED, OF LEFEVRE WALK, BOW WHO BOTH DENIED

STEALING THE CAR DOORS WERE FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY.

THEY WERE FINED #150 OR 30 DAYS IN JAIL IN DEFAULT.

ENDS