I received an email today from one of our readers and Betting System Truths associates…
Hi James
Just had some great news that will make a good story on your site. 4 years ago these B*****ds took one of my clients for £5000 on their “Philip Norton” helicopter scam. They reappeared as The Guildford Vet scam.
I was the first person to get Hampshire CID Fraud Squad involved. The wheels have moved slowly and only six months ago Hampshire were very unsure of getting them to court as the DPP have a benchmark amount of money before they could prosecute for mass fraud.They had a list of many of those who had been scammed but found that people were too embarassed to come forward. Suddenly the amount has gone to £5 million so somebody in Sussex and London has been digging deep.
Open the link to read the report in the Brighton Argus.
- By Emily Walker, Chief Reporter » <== Click Here to See Original Article
Twin brothers from Brighton have each been jailed for seven years after being convicted of obtaining around £5 million in a horse racing betting scam.
Paul and Gregory Spicer, 35, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud following a five-week trial at Brighton Crown Court, a Sussex Police spokesman said.
A third man, Lee O’Donnell, 62, was jailed for 21 months for his lesser role in the scheme, which was carried out over a four-year period.
Police were first alerted to the scam in 2006 following complaints from victims throughout the UK who had received unsolicited leaflets through the post advertising a scheme to join a horse racing betting syndicate.
The series of leaflets and brochures were printed including the names John ‘Jock’ McCracken, Robert Carter Racing, and Paul Howell Racing.
Paul Spicer, of Dyke Road, Brighton, Gregory Spicer, of The Drove, Brighton, and O’Donnell, of Eaton Gardens, Hove, were then arrested last year following a joint investigation between Sussex Police’s major fraud unit and London Borough of Merton Trading Standards, codenamed Operation Cantonese.
The three men were found to have conspired with each other and with others between April 30 2003 and February 13 2008 to defraud prospective and actual participants in various purported betting services and purported investment services, doing so by making false claims in relation to the investment services and seeking and receiving payment in relation to that which the services referred to.
Restraint orders have been put in place for the defendants’ possessions and police now plan formal confiscation proceedings against them.
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