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Ex-Tube driver jailed for fraud

7 Jul 2009


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.

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Is anyone else aware that at Saturday's Pride Festival in Trafalgar Square, Bob Crowe was booed by the crowd?

- Robert, London, 08/07/2009 07:33
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I take it this will mean another series of strikes on the Underground and London buses until he's released, then?

- Nowan King, London, 07/07/2009 13:01
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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, 07/07/2009 11:29
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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, 07/07/2009 09:07
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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., 07/07/2009 09:03
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