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Ex-Tube driver jailed for fraud
07.07.09
A former Tube driver has been jailed for eight months after attempting to steal £35,000 in a “sophisticated” fraud.
Stewart Mills used forged documents to pretend he was a company director before demanding the cash in US dollars at a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Woking, Surrey.
But staff became suspicious and the 48-year-old conman fled empty-handed. Mills, of King's Cross, admitted fraud and other charges at Wood Green crown court.
Reader views (5)
Is anyone else aware that at Saturday's Pride Festival in Trafalgar Square, Bob Crowe was booed by the crowd?
- Robert, London
I take it this will mean another series of strikes on the Underground and London buses until he's released, then?
- Nowan King, London
I wouldn't be surprised if Bob Crow and his pickets were on their way down to Woking as we speak, to blockade the local branch of RBS.
- Richard, Madrid, Spain
I know a few MPs who commited “sophisticated” fraud and are still free today, I bet the Police never allowed this former former Tube driver to drive a tube while being investigated
- James, Putney
Wasn't that sophisticated then!
He would have gotten more money for doing a lot less had he not been sacked.
- Frank, Home Counties, England.
