Crooked Stansted train ticket inspectors face jail
22.07.08
Two married ticket inspectors who used stolen credit cards to pocket thousands of pounds in fares from commuters are facing jail - while a colleague has been cleared and a fourth faces a possible retrial.
Alan Selby, 39, and wife Leanne, 22, from Waltham Cross, kept a bin bag full of hundreds of rail tickets printed off in advance and sold onto unwitting customers paying in cash. They were found with a stash of stolen credit and debit cards and a portable ticket machine stolen from their workplace.
The two ‘revenue protection inspectors’, who worked on the busy line between Liverpool Street and Stansted, netted more than £4,000 in what they thought was the ‘perfect crime.’ But the 10-month scam came grinding to a halt when Mr Selby pulled a pre-printed ticket out of his pocket and sold it to an under-cover scrutineer, posing as a commuter.
The pair admitted the scam at Southwark Crown Court and will be sentenced later, but a jury cleared their former colleague Paul Huckle, 58, from Hoddesdon, of conspiracy to defraud. Fourth defendant Vincenzo Cicirello, 45, of Waltham Cross, faces a possible retrial on the same charge after the jury failed reach a decision.
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