A crook was caught with wads of counterfeit £20 notes stashed in his socks and they all had a hilarious spelling mistake in the word ' pound '. William Hickson, 33, was found with £820 in his socks, but the cash wasn't stolen or otherwise ill-gotten - it was hidden because it was completely fake.
The paper money looked incredibly convincing, but eagle-eyed police officers knew it was fake because of one tiny detail - the word 'pound' had been spelt wrong. The criminal who had made the notes had missed out the 'u' and added another 'o', so these were £20 'poond' notes.
