24/04/2014 BBC London News


24/04/2014

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Good evening. The leader of a gang who stole more than ?1 millhon from

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high street bank computers has been jailed for more than five ydars

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Tony Colston`Haytor, who made his fortune running so`called acid raves

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in the 1980s, ran a gang whhch also intercepted credit cards sent to

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customers through the post. Nick Beake reports.

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They turned up claiming that they were from IT, here to fix the

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computer. But these men werd in fact setting up a massive cyber `ttack on

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London's banks. They walked into branches in Swiss Cottage and Surrey

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Quays after accomplices had smoothed away over the phone, and pltgged in

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an electronic device. It allowed them to log on elsewhere and steal a

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huge amount of money. For the first offence, ?1.25 million was stolen, a

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massive amount of money. Obviously we continue to investigate this

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group, and we are aware that there were two other occasions, and the

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third time, we were able to affect an arrest. If we hadn't, thhs group

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would have gone on and condtcted further attacks upon the banks, and

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would have stolen many more millions of pounds.

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At the heart of it all, 48`xear`old drug addict Tony Colston`Haxtor

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jailed today for 5.5 years. He made his fortune in the 80s holdhng acid

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house raves across the south`east. The guests can dance all night and

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we go on until ten of luck hn the morning. There is no club in London

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that you can dance all night in The judge said Crystal Method bdcome one

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of Tony Colston`Haytor's mahn addictions, although over the years

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he had tried many mind altering substances. Tony Colston`Haxtor had

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been at the hub of this operation, although it was masterminded from

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Nigeria. At a flat in Maryldbone, detectives found hundreds of credit

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cards that had been intercepted in the post. These men posed as bank

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staff and called customers to get their pin numbers. They then

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purchased goods worth more than ?1 million. This cyber crime w`s at an

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sophisticated, but also relhed upon barefaced lying, after simply

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strolling into the banks' front door.

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Police have carried out a sdries of raids in east London followhng a BBC

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London investigation into shops willing to deal in stolen

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smartphones. Our reporter M`rc Ashdown joins us. What more can you

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tell us? Traders in Ilford bought Samsungs and iPhones from an

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undercover researcher posing as a thief. London Mobiles Limitdd and

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one other shop both paid cash for the devices, despite the researcher

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making it clear they were stolen. Now officers from the National

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Mobile Phone Crime Unit havd raided both shops, along with a thhrd

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business. A nearby residenthal address was also searched. Officers

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found a laptop and two smartphones, all of which are suspected to have

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been stolen. A 33`year`old lan was arrested on suspicion of handling

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stolen goods and taken to a central London police station. He h`s been

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bailed pending further enquhries. The BBC understands the suspect has

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links to all three businessds. Thanks very much for that.

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15 people have been arrested by City of London Police in connecthon with

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what has been called a fake Californian gold racket.

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Investigators claim they uncovered evidence of people handing over

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six`figure sums for what thdy believed were mining rights. The

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scam is thought to have been run from an office near Bishopsgate

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There's growing anger in parts of north London following clails that

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some residents are not recehving their post. Just over a fortnight

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ago we reported that one wolan retrieved hundreds of letters dumped

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in bushes in Brent. TNT inshsts it is providing a good service and that

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the incidents are isolated. Here's Jean Mackenzie.

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Gone are the days of waiting for the postman. Deliveries at this

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cul`de`sac in Mill Hill are in our little less routine. Sometiles

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arriving late at night, somdtimes not at all. Deliveries at odd times,

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to deliveries a day, which hs unheard of, especially around here,

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or every other day. And delhveries at nine o'clock at night, obviously

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coming from a neighbour. Since TNT started delivering here, two of

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Alexandra's bank statements have not turned up. It is worrying, because I

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don't know where my bank st`tements. They could be in the bin, or in

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someone else's door. They could be in the wrong hands. This isn't

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confined to Mill Hill. Therd are anecdotes coming from north and West

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London have similar problems, some stories of post for a whole street

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being delivered through just one door. And this is just one of a

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number of complaints receivdd by the area's assembly member. One lady

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complained to me that a letter she had been waiting for from the

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hospital took days to arrivd. People complain about bank statements and

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other sensitive post being left in an unlocked bicycle. TNT delivers

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for a number of private bushnesses, including banks, and also the NHS.

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In three years, it wants to be delivering 40% of the UK's lail

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Last month, more than 200 ldtters were found dumped in a bush in a

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west London park. They should have been delivered by TNT. Earlher,

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those in the postal industrx voice their fears. I don't think they know

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where they are going. The anecdotes you hear from various places, they

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look like they are lost. Thdy will actually ask individual postman wary

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certain addresses. I would definitely refute that. We have

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seven stages of training. Wd map all of our rounds. We train our postmen.

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We operate a buddy system. Nobody goes out with actual mail bdfore

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they have walked around. Those in Mill Hill are now worried about

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their summer holidays, and what will happen when they are not around to

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carry out their mini deliveries Well, it is good night for le. Now

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let's check on the weather with Tomasz Schafernaker.

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Good evening. Fairly quiet `cross the capital now across the weather

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front, but for tomorrow, we will need our umbrellas, potenti`lly with

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thunderstorms around later on. It will start off Sharia and cloudy.

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This is the scene as we go through the course of the night. A little

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mist and fog forming by the early hours, too. You can see the rain

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gathering across Kent, and was we go through the course of the morning,

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the showers will trundle aw`y across London. Maybe a flash of lightning.

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But it isn't all bad. Temperatures could just about reach 20 Cdlsius.

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And then tomorrow evening, xou can see these lime`green colour is here.

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Potential thunderstorms on the way. The outlook as we head into the

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weekend, you can see what is going on. Sunday might be brighter. Now

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over to Louise Lear for the national weather.

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Good evening. Today has been a day of sunny spells and a few scattered

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showers, but where we see the sunshine, we have also seen some

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warmth, with temperatures in the high teens. A slightly disappointing

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story across the far north-east of

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