Postmistress jailed for fake robbery story

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Margaret Player, a 46-year-old postmistress from Croxton Kerrial, has been jailed for a year. She stole £3,800 from the tills at work over a period of five months, and hatched a bizarre plot to cover up the crime: she called police and pretended to be the victim of armed robbery
Margaret Player, a 46-year-old postmistress from Croxton Kerrial, has been jailed for a year. She stole £3,800 from the tills at work over a period of five months, and hatched a bizarre plot to cover up the crime: she called police and pretended to be the victim of armed robbery

Margaret Player, a 46-year-old postmistress from Croxton Kerrial, has been jailed for a year. She stole £3,800 from the tills at work over a period of five months, and hatched a bizarre plot to cover up the crime: she called police and pretended to be the victim of armed robbery.

Unfortunately for her, after a huge team of officers spent hundreds of hours searching for the gunman, holes started appearing in her story.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%

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