On Mar 25, 7:43 pm, "Matt" wrote:
> "Steve Walker" wrote in message
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> > Matt wrote:
> >> "Bob Robertson" wrote in message
> >>news:Z5cGj.30115$kN5.20925@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
> >>> I saw on one of these police programs a guy was caught on CCTV late
> >>> at night taking an unlocked bicycle and riding it around. When the
> >>> police caught up with him he was a youngish lad probably in college
> >>> who seemed a bit upset that his late night drunken antics was going
> >>> to leave him with his first criminal record.
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> >>> I was wondering, could he just have argued that he was going to put
> >>> it back where he found it once he finished riding it, hence not
> >>> 'permanently depriving' the owner? He was probably going to keep it
> >>> as a trophy but how would the police know?
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> >> Apply your theory to a car/any household goods/etc.
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> >> It was theft
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> > Not really - that's why we have an offence called TWOC
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> TWOC can be classed as theft, dependant on it's circumstances and dervives
> from the Theft Act 1968
Correct, Its s12(1) but has a lesser punishment. |