A "house husband" with a low IQ ended up in court after he installed a safe in a child's bedroom with nearly £50,000 inside. Michael Bentley has an IQ in the bottom five percent of the population and even lower in terms of his verbal comprehension, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
His criminally-convicted brother Samuel Lowe, a self-employed removal man, asked him to install the safe which had £49,460 inside. Both brothers pleaded guilty to possessing criminal property after the safe was found at Bentley's home on March 2, 2019, in a police raid.
The safe was screwed into an airing cupboard behind suitcases, boxes of clothes, and could only be accessed via electronic keypad. Additionally, around a kilo of cannabis resin was under insulation in the loft, but neither man had been aware it was there. They were only sentenced over the cash.
