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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Andrew Penman

Reminder for the police: fraud is a crime, that means offenders should be prosecuted

If only all crimes were this easy to solve.

Care worker Kerry Collinson stole two cheques from the home of a dying man, made one out for £200 and cashed it.

The proof of her guilt was as plain as her name on the cheque, yet after officers finally got around to interviewing her, they decided that a caution was all she deserved. It would seem that they did not consider such an obvious case of fraud to be a criminal offence.

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