The man was convicted of fraud for trying to deceive people using the death of the deceased queen. It happened in the United Kingdom.
A man was convicted of fraud in United Kingdom after I tried take advantage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II through the auction of a cane that he claimed belonged to the late monarch. He was found guilty at Southampton Magistrates’ Court.
Dru Marshall, of Hampshire, in the south of Englandclaimed to be a high-ranking lackey in the Windsor Castle and attempted to sell what he claimed was a cane used by Elizabeth II. In this way, he ended up being sentenced for defrauding buyers of eBay.
Fraud in the United Kingdom: what the deception was like
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The 26-year-old man offered the “antler cane“and assured that the proceeds from the sale would go to cancer research.
Even the auction had already reached a total of $686 when Marshall decided to cancel it because he learned that the police had begun an investigation against him.
United Kingdom: the sentence for the man who tried to profit from the death of Elizabeth II
Dru Marshall was found guilty of fraud by false representation at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. This Monday he was sentenced to a 12 month community order duration.
As stated Julie MaceyBritish Crown Prosecutor, “Dru Marshall used the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to try to deceive the public with a fake charity auction“.
In addition, he clarified that the plan of the man convicted of fraud was “thwarted before he could cheat successfully to any unsuspecting victim”, ruling out that there are people to whom he could have sold the fake cane.
The prosecutor too lament that Marshall used the death of Elizabeth II to try to deceive other people with a “false charitable auction”, motivated “by greed and a desire to attract attention“.
Source: Ambito
