Welsh Book Thief Steals To Burn Books.

[Hermit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-42881077

Pontypridd librarian jailed for stealing Aberfan book

A librarian stole books from her workplace - including one on the Aberfan disaster - and tried to sell them online for up to £400.

Elizabeth Macregor, 57, burned several books in a bid to escape justice.

Macregor, of Hirwaun, stole hundreds of books from Pontypridd Library in Rhondda Cynon Taff.

She was jailed for eight months at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court after being found guilty of two counts of theft and perverting the course of justice.

Her employers noticed books had started to go missing and Macregor was suspected of being the culprit.

A police investigation found some of the missing titles on sale on her eBay account, including the book Aberfan - A Disaster and its Aftermath by Joan Miller which she tried to sell for £400.

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Misleading thread title.The librarian did not steal books in order to burn them. As the article mentions, she burnt some of them in a bid to escape justice. No worries, though. Most of us are getting used to your wilful misrepresentations by now.

[rainbow]

"Pontypridd" --inspires criminal thoughts in me. "Pontypridd"!

..pronounced 'pontypreeth'.

I'm half Welsh for my sins.

Wooly hair?

[JimC]

"Pontypridd" --inspires criminal thoughts in me. "Pontypridd"!

..pronounced 'pontypreeth'.

I'm half Welsh for my sins.

Wooly hair?

Smelling faintly of leeks?

[cronus]

Most folk know we live in the post-fact era nowadays and not to go by tabloid headlines, even mine.

[Hermit]

Most folk know we live in the post-fact era nowadays and not to go by tabloid headlines, even mine.

Stop spreading the disease, Crumpelstilzchen. Emulating Goebbels is bad form for any Engländer, and especially your type. If the EDL and UKIP find out what you're doing you'll be expelled from both.

[Rum]

Most folk know we live in the post-fact era nowadays and not to go by tabloid headlines, even mine.

Stop spreading the disease, Crumpelstilzchen. Emulating Goebbels is bad form for any Engländer, and especially your type. If the EDL and UKIP find out what you're doing you'll be expelled from both.

To be fair he's only copying what his favourite newspaper, the Daily Mail does pretty much every day.

[Hermit]

Most folk know we live in the post-fact era nowadays and not to go by tabloid headlines, even mine.

Stop spreading the disease, Crumpelstilzchen. Emulating Goebbels is bad form for any Engländer, and especially your type. If the EDL and UKIP find out what you're doing you'll be expelled from both.

To be fair he's only copying what his favourite newspaper, the Daily Mail does pretty much every day.

So he isn't original. Why am I not surprised?

[cronus]

Don't like the English. I'm half Scottish. Prefer that half.

[Svartalf]

lol, I have only a smiden of Scottish and Irish blood (one ancestor fled after being on the losing side at the battle of the Boyne, the other was a supporter of the old pretender and settled in normandy rather than going for the first >Jacobite rebellion, though I lost a couple grand nuncles who fought at culloden with Bonnie Prince Charlie), but for some reason, I have great affinity for those areas of my ancestry, much more than, say, the South Western gallo Roman ancestry that makes up half of my heredity.