Thursday, December 4, 2008

Man can keep £10,000 in cut-up banknotes.

A street cleaner who found £10,000 in cut-up bank notes has been told he can keep the cash - as long as he can piece it back together.
No-one has claimed the money so Hill has been told he can keep the cash - providing he can piece each note back together.
Graham Hill has in front of him the most lucrative jigsaw puzzle in history, a combination of £10 and £20 notes he found while emptying bins.
Police said there was no evidence the money was stolen and, having kept it unclaimed for six months, said Mr Hill can have it, and any of it he can piece back together will be legal tender.
Mr Hill, from Gainsborough, Lincs, said: "I was gutted when I looked in the bin and saw all the money cut up."
He found the money chopped up and dumped in a bin in Lincoln's Central Market, along with a second bundle found in a bin near a restaurant. They are thought to have been thrown away on the night of May 7.
Lincolnshire Police launched an investigation but gave him it back when no-one came forward.
Det Con Nick Cobb said: "Following extensive inquiries, there was no evidence that the money was stolen or linked to any criminal activity.
"We liaised with the Bank of England and established that the money was genuine.
"Having had no person claim it, we returned it to the finder, who according to the Bank of England, is obliged to try to piece it back together.
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