Theft by finding

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

'by finding'?

 

A couple who bought a suitcase from a second-hand shop in Australia found they had picked up more of a bargain than they thought - 100,000 Australian dollars.

 

The money - worth about £60,000 - represented the life savings of an elderly couple from Beaconsfield, Melbourne, and the cash was sewn into the lining of the suitcase.

 

However, the wife did not know her husband had hidden it there and gave the case to a local Salvation Army shop.

 

When her husband discovered what had happened, he rushed to the shop to try to retrieve it.

 

But it was too late. The case had been sold.

 

The suitcase was eventually traced to a couple - a woman in her 30s and a man in his 40s - who had bought it using a debit card.

 

The money had been removed from the case and put into a number of newly opened bank accounts, police say.

 

Most of it has been recovered, although some remains undetected.

 

The couple who bought the suitcase have seen their luck change- they have been charged with theft by finding.

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