The worlds' dimmest conterfeiters

[Gromit]

Six people are on trial at London's Southwark Crown Court, for passing counterfeit notes. Prosecutors said the plan was flawed because they tried to cash �500,000 at the Bank of England. �500,000 notes have never existed.

The trial, expected to last six weeks, continues.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7080692.stm

Wonder why this is taking 6 weeks to arrive at a judgement?

[jake-the-peg]

Ah well the BoE will exchange any notes that ever existed for face value.

I'd guess that was the basis of the scam - detecting a counterfit note from 100 years ago might be difficult.

If the defence is that the notes are genuine and/or held in good faith the trial could easily be complicated don't you think?

[jno]

perhaps because they are not counterfeiters? A counterfeit is a copy; you cant copy something that doesn't exist. I wonder if the prosecutors have spotted this small flaw in their case.

[Gromit]

From the Mail, but here is an earlier link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=489190&in_page_i d=1770

[Gromit]

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