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Deliver Driver Admits to the Stealing Of iPhones (9 December 2011)

Date: 09/12/2011
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Deliver Driver Admits to the Stealing Of iPhones

A courier who provided an international crime gang with a supply of stolen mobile phones has admitted his guilt to his involvement in the £4.5 million fraud. Warren Horne, 44, stole nine iPhones while working as a delivery driver for DHL and handed these phones over to a gang of fraudsters, London’s Old Bailey has been informed. The fraudsters used the phones to repeatedly call premium rate phone numbers abroad that resulted in the owners of the stolen phones receiving huge bills. Mr. Horne, of Coppull near Chorley, admitted to the charge of fraud by abuse of position. A charge of theft was left to lie on Mr. Horne’s file.

The court was informed that Mr. Horne had stolen handsets worth £4,050 while in employment as a Preston-based parcel courier. Mr. Horne was granted bail and is due to attend a sentencing hearing in January of next year. Mr. Horne is one of ten DHL delivery drivers to be sentenced for their involvement in the swindle. Five other gang members were handed prison terms in October of this year for conspiracy to defraud O2. Three of the gang members were handed three-year prison terms, one gang member was handed a 27-month prison term and another was handed an 18-month jail term. Detective Superintendent Bob Wishart, who works for the City of London Police, described the gang’s actions as “highly sophisticated and co-ordinated”.

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