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Equipped for Burglary: Screwdrivers in His Shorts
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by Jordan Yerman | October 14, 2007 at 02:18 pm
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The report below could be taken to mean that the suspect was clad only in his boxer shorts, but that is unlikely to be the case. On the other hand, were he wearing trousers, couldn't he have put the screwdrivers in one of the pockets? It all raises more questions than it answers.
WHEN police searched a suspect, they found he had two screwdrivers in his underpants, a court heard. Both had blue handles, Calderdale magistrates were told.The alarm had been raised after Richard David Bull, 32, of Grove Park, Ovenden, Halifax, was seen by a witness climbing out of a window at disused premises at Holmfield, Halifax. Police arrived and found Bull with his head inside a fridge-freezer.
He told them he was looking for scrap metal. He was arrested.
Andy Wills, prosecuting, said: "When searched, two blue-handled screwdrivers were found in his boxer shorts."
Bull admitted going equipped for burglary.
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Jordan Yerman
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at 07:17 on October 19th, 2007
jordan, We have had an enormous amount of theft of roof lead from church roofs in the UK recently. The scrap price is now £1050 ($2150) per tonne. So the police are right to be looking out for scrap metal thieves.