Man steals £15,000 to buy radios

Meet Stephen Hudson. This 56-year-old gent from Halifax stole £15,000 from his 71-year-old partner and spent it all on radios. He enjoyed playing them all at the same time.

"He used the money to buy radios – two black bin liners with radios in them were produced." Hudson admitted three offences of forgery, three of using a false instrument and asked for a further 93 similar offences to be taken into consideration. Bradford Crown Court heard Hudson had suffered from an obsessive compulsive disorder for 30 years. It manifested itself in him buying radios.

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[#1 posted by Maddy , February 12, 2008 10:55 AM]

Judges will lighten your sentence if you put stolen money to creative uses ...

[#2 posted by Moon , February 12, 2008 10:56 AM]

Wow. What an odd compulsion and/or obsession.

[#3 posted by ill lich , February 12, 2008 11:39 AM]

Now that's what I call "surround sound"!!

I wonder if he's fond of John Cage's "Imaginary Landscape No. 4"?

[#4 posted by Paul Coleman , February 12, 2008 1:26 PM]

The Flaming Lips should do a performance of Zaireeka in honor of this guy.

[#5 posted by spinach , February 12, 2008 3:04 PM]

I feel for the guy. I kinda have the same problem. I'm a junkie for audio systems.

[#6 posted by velocity girl , February 12, 2008 3:34 PM]

@4: That was my first thought too.

[#7 posted by seanyboy , February 12, 2008 3:44 PM]

Wow. My local rag on boing-boing.

[#8 posted by Neuron , February 12, 2008 7:13 PM]

Wouldn't take me long to spend L15,000 on radios.

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