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Computer thief goes to victim's house to apologise for stealing laptop - only to pinch the replacement after he's invited in


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:51:31 -0500 (CDT)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118900/Computer-thief-goes-victims-house-apologise--invited-steal-SECOND-laptop.html

By Chris Parsons
Mail Online
22 March 2012

A shameless thief called at his victim's house to apologise for stealing his computer - before making off with his replacement laptop.

Ivan Barker called at the house of wheelchair-bound Jacque Mathley to say 'sorry' for stealing his laptop and cigarettes three months previously.

But after convincing Mr Mathely he had genuinely come to apologise, Barker was invited in by the man he had wronged, only to disappear with his replacement machine.

Barker, 21, had been allowed in to Mr Mathely's home after telling his victim the police had told him to apologise for the previous offence, when he had stolen a computer and cigarettes.

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