Zim Flyer
April 20th, 2005, 07:08 PM
I like the blokes style - revenge is a dish best served cold:
Taken from BBC News Online:
A man who sent hoax anthrax packages and death threats after an eBay deal turned sour has been given 240 hours community punishment.
Daniel Finch, 31, of Cherry Tree Close in Humberston, Lincolnshire, admitted posting two envelopes containing white powder to David Mackie, from Stafford.
Cannock Magistrates' Court heard Finch sent the packages after a DVD drive he ordered from Mr Mackie did not arrive.
Finch, who sent threatening letters, was told to pay £750 compensation.
'Your sins'
The court was told Mr Mackie, 22, from Doxey, had received the two packages between 20 January and 3 February this year.
He said the first package contained white powder, which spilled over his hands when he opened it.
A letter with it read: "For your sins to all the humans and their lives. You touched the Jihad. It's starting with you. You now have 22 hours of life left."
Chris Marston, prosecuting, said Mr Mackie was shocked, thinking the powder could be anthrax and that he had feared for his life.
He contacted a doctor and the police.
Factory powder
Two days later another envelope came which was opened by Mr Mackie's girlfriend, Hayley Smith, and again white powder burst over her hands, but this time they knew it was a hoax.
Mr Marston said: "Mr Mackie racked his brains to think of anyone with any motivation for this."
Finch pleaded guilty to threats to kill.
Ernie Lidster, mitigating, told the court Finch posted the packages because he was "disappointed" when a £40 DVD drive he ordered on the internet auction site failed to turn up.
He said he had obtained the powder, an "inert" material called titanium dioxide, from a chemicals factory in north-east Lincolnshire, where he had worked as a maintenance technician.
"He has lost his good character, and this has brought turmoil into his private life, all through his reaction to an eBay transaction that went wrong," said Mr Lidster.
Finch was ordered to pay £42 costs.
Taken from BBC News Online:
A man who sent hoax anthrax packages and death threats after an eBay deal turned sour has been given 240 hours community punishment.
Daniel Finch, 31, of Cherry Tree Close in Humberston, Lincolnshire, admitted posting two envelopes containing white powder to David Mackie, from Stafford.
Cannock Magistrates' Court heard Finch sent the packages after a DVD drive he ordered from Mr Mackie did not arrive.
Finch, who sent threatening letters, was told to pay £750 compensation.
'Your sins'
The court was told Mr Mackie, 22, from Doxey, had received the two packages between 20 January and 3 February this year.
He said the first package contained white powder, which spilled over his hands when he opened it.
A letter with it read: "For your sins to all the humans and their lives. You touched the Jihad. It's starting with you. You now have 22 hours of life left."
Chris Marston, prosecuting, said Mr Mackie was shocked, thinking the powder could be anthrax and that he had feared for his life.
He contacted a doctor and the police.
Factory powder
Two days later another envelope came which was opened by Mr Mackie's girlfriend, Hayley Smith, and again white powder burst over her hands, but this time they knew it was a hoax.
Mr Marston said: "Mr Mackie racked his brains to think of anyone with any motivation for this."
Finch pleaded guilty to threats to kill.
Ernie Lidster, mitigating, told the court Finch posted the packages because he was "disappointed" when a £40 DVD drive he ordered on the internet auction site failed to turn up.
He said he had obtained the powder, an "inert" material called titanium dioxide, from a chemicals factory in north-east Lincolnshire, where he had worked as a maintenance technician.
"He has lost his good character, and this has brought turmoil into his private life, all through his reaction to an eBay transaction that went wrong," said Mr Lidster.
Finch was ordered to pay £42 costs.