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13th February 1982
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AS A LONG-distance lorry driver, John Brown always carried instructions out to the letter and even cross-country deliveries were made to the minute. The only problem, Newcastle crown court was told, was that nobody had asked Brown to make the deliveries.

Brown, aged 25, an unemployed farm labourer, of Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, had a fatal fascination for heavy lorries. He would break into compounds, the court heard, carefully read the delivery instructions left in the cabs and then set off to deliver the load. He admitted taking and driving away without consent, with six similar offences taken into consideration, and driving while disqualified.

On one occasion he even drove a load of aircraft parts to Heathrow and then posted the correctly completed sales dispatch forms back to the Tyneside firm.

After talking to Brown, probation officer Jack Coates told the court: "He aces to a terrific lot of trouble to comply exactly with the instructions on delivery notes. And he is very concerned about what the haulage firms think about his work for them."

Describing brown as a "complete nuisance", Judge Myrella Cohen placed him on probation for two years. He was also warned "to stop being the Good Samaritan".

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