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Burglary victim held as thieves swipe her pot

A woman has been arrested for growing cannabis after police found some in the pockets of thieves who had just burgled her house.

Burglary victim held as thieves swipe her pot

Some 45 cannabis plants were found at the 50-year-old woman’s house over the weekend.

Police were alerted to the area after a neighbour rang to say she had seen two youths in hoodies climb over the garden wall.

The thieves were caught red handed coming from the woman’s house and were in possession of cannabis.

When police interviewed the victim of the burglary, they also found the cannabis plants.

The 50-year-old admitted to growing the plant for personal use, “to take care of her own treatment [for illnesses].” 

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POLICE

Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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