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On the advice of a investment adviser, five German pensioners aged between 61 and 80 invested their savings in what was a booming property market in Florida. But the sub-prime mortgage market collapsed and the five lost £2.2 millions as a result.
The five got together and decided that they would kidnap the adviser who was then snatched from his home, driven three hundred miles in the boot of a car, hidden in a cellar, interrogated and beaten. After four days, the man managed to escape during a cigarette break in the garden and the five pensioners were arrested.
Yesterday, in a court in the Bavarian city of Traunstein, four of the gang were given sentences ranging from an 18-month suspended sentence and six-years in jail for the 74-year-old ringleader. One man is ill and will be tried later. Explaining his actions, the ringleader told the court that the five had taken the adviser to their home in Lake Chiemsee so that the ‘mountain air might help him to think better’.
While not condoning the crime, you have to admire the sheer stamina of these pensioners in overwhelming a 57-year-old man, binding him with tape, stuffing him into a removals company carton, lifting this on to a trolley which they rolled past unsuspecting people, struggling to get this into a car boot and then finally taking him into a cellar.
The presiding judge described their crimes as a ‘spectacular case of individuals taking justice into their own hands'. He was wrong.
It was a spectacular case of pensioners taking justice into their own hands!
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On the advice of a investment adviser, five German pensioners aged between 61 and 80 invested their savings in what was a booming property market in Florida. But the sub-prime mortgage market collapsed and the five lost £2.2 millions as a result.
The five got together and decided that they would kidnap the adviser who was then snatched from his home, driven three hundred miles in the boot of a car, hidden in a cellar, interrogated and beaten. After four days, the man managed to escape during a cigarette break in the garden and the five pensioners were arrested.
Yesterday, in a court in the Bavarian city of Traunstein, four of the gang were given sentences ranging from an 18-month suspended sentence and six-years in jail for the 74-year-old ringleader. One man is ill and will be tried later. Explaining his actions, the ringleader told the court that the five had taken the adviser to their home in Lake Chiemsee so that the ‘mountain air might help him to think better’.
While not condoning the crime, you have to admire the sheer stamina of these pensioners in overwhelming a 57-year-old man, binding him with tape, stuffing him into a removals company carton, lifting this on to a trolley which they rolled past unsuspecting people, struggling to get this into a car boot and then finally taking him into a cellar.
The presiding judge described their crimes as a ‘spectacular case of individuals taking justice into their own hands'. He was wrong.
It was a spectacular case of pensioners taking justice into their own hands!
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