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Ex-conductor Pleads Guilty to Theft
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11E1 OBERT FREDERICK LAYCOCK, I aged 23, of Gower Street, Derby, was charged at Nottingham Guildhall, last week, with stealing money from Nottingham Transport Department buses.
As a former bus conductor, Laycock was stated to have known where the money was kept and so at the week-ends would mount a bus at the terminus and remove money from the ticket box, kept temporarily under the stairs. He pleaded guilty to three charges of this kind and asked for 22 other offences to be taken into consideration.
Laycock was caught on August 12 by a transport department employee who saw him mount the platform of a bus and lift cash from the ticket box. When questioned, Laycock said that he was looking for some keys his wife had lost. He then got away but was caught again soon afterwards and admitted the offence.
Mr. Danks, prosecuting, said that Laycock said in a statement: " I am fed up of lying about it. Since March I have been coming to Nottingham and stealing money from buses. I got about £5 each time. 1 once worked as a conductor in Derby, so I knew where the money was kept."
Laycock took the money that he stole home to his mother pretending that he had been at work. He was separated from his wife and two children.
"You have caused a great deal of distress to conductors and conductresses by committing these very mean offences," said the chairman, Mrs. M. A. Crooks, on sentencing Laycock to six months' imprisonment.