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Thief Jailed for Orangutan Statue
Derek Lundgren, 61, of Sawston, was sentenced to one year and 11 months after he pleaded guilty to stealing a £799 orangutan statue from a Cambridgeshire garden centre and riding off with it on his bicycle.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
The guilty plea to theft from a shop is a conviction. The year and 11 months also covers three suspended sentences he broke. Nobody was hurt. The term is the judgment.
Derek Lundgren, 61, of New Road in Sawston, was sentenced Monday to one year and 11 months in prison.
Cambridgeshire Police said he took a £799 orangutan statue from Scotsdales Garden Centre in Horningsea on Sept. 7. Cameras showed him leaving without paying, with the statue across his bicycle handlebars. He pleaded guilty to theft from a shop and to breaching three suspended sentences. Ipswich Magistrates' Court imposed the term.
All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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