After his beating the entirely innocent man was arrested by police on suspicion of burglary. The victim of the theft later saw the man in the street and attacked him. Lucy Hanks pointed the finger at a man she claimed to have seen running from a friend's flat with two bags of Asda shopping. Woman's Asda bag lies led to innocent man being beaten upĪn innocent man was beaten up in the street after a lying neighbour blamed him for a burglary.The garage became suspicious when they started receiving a string of parking tickets but Watkins refused to return the Discovery for almost five months. Watkins also used a false name in a completely separate fraud in which he conned a garage in Ottery St Mary into giving him a courtesy car while they renovated his clapped-out old Land Rover. He bought the car from a dealership on credit and the first the victim knew of the swindle was when he was sent details of the £480 a month payments for which he had become liable along with Watkins’s speeding tickets, which were in his name. Paul Watkins intercepted the victim’s mail while house-sitting for him and obtained all the details he needed of his driving licence and bank account to pose as him. Paul Watkins (Image: Devon and Cornwall Police)Ī confidence trickster was jailed this week after he stole a friend’s identity and bought a £17,000 BMW in his name.
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