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Home | Friday 3rd October 2008 | Issue 649

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COP ARREST OF THE WEEK

For not losing yer bottle...

A vintage nicking this week. The credit crunch has claimed 2 more victims with the arrests this week of two senior Sussex Cops for shoplifting wine from Marks and Spencer's.

Detective Chief Inspector Jim Torbet and Chief Inspector Sharon Rowe were nabbed by a security guard as they made their escape without paying for their vino.

The latter day Bonnie and Clyde have now been suspended from their jobs, which is just as well because Jim Torbet's position in the professional standards department would have meant him having to investigate his own misconduct, leaving a no doubt sour aftertaste.


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