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Article from: Birmingham Mail (England)
Article date: August 4, 2007
A MAN who conned pounds 7,000 out of a Solihull bank to fund his gambling addiction has been told to expect a prison sentence.
Anthony John O'Shea, 34, of Dudley Road, Coventry, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to three charges of fraud.
The court heard how the heating engineer used a stolen passport as proof of identity with cheques to withdraw sums of pounds 2,900 and pounds 4,100 from the HSBC in Solihull. The passport and cheques had been stolen during a burglary in Preston.
O'Shea was arrested the following ...
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