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Honest builder who handed in nearly £18,000 to police will get no reward, a High Court judge has ruled

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When I worked for a bank there was no rule then regarding paying in money its quite possible that money could be from a private car sale if it was a 1 off. The traces of cocaine are no evidence at all I bet many notes in circulation have traces doesn't mean the owner is Walter White just means someones once used it to snort. Jon the hat makes a good point though if it wasn't declared by anyone and went back to the finder anyone could do this to launder it legally.

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I don't believe in Karma at all, he should have kept it, you don't get fortune like that often in life. He may think it was a good deed but who exactly is it helping out?

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I don't believe in Karma at all, he should have kept it, you don't get fortune like that often in life. He may think it was a good deed but who exactly is it helping out?

 

A couple of MP's paying taxi cabs, a few terrorists out in Somalia, Robert Mugabe and Rincewind.

 

Yep, he should have kept it.

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What DOES happen to drugs siezed by the police?

 

If we ignore any potentially cynical theories around the police dealing it back on the streets which must be incredibly unlikely is there any moral way of extracting the money from it? Seems such a waste for a multi million pound cocaine haul to just be destroyed.

 

Maybe it gets donated for medical research?

They all get incinerated

 

I remember a cannabis factory we raided in West Wycombe, We found some hundred 20 kg bags of cannabis, and some two hundred plants growing in a cellar. ONE plant is kept for evidence, and photos taken of the haul, before they went straight to the incinerator. Likewise with all drugs.

 

I stank of cannabis for a week after that, even after a bath and a change of clothing!

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They all get incinerated

 

I remember a cannabis factory we raided in West Wycombe, We found some hundred 20 kg bags of cannabis, and some two hundred plants growing in a cellar. ONE plant is kept for evidence, and photos taken of the haul, before they went straight to the incinerator. Likewise with all drugs.

 

I stank of cannabis for a week after that, even after a bath and a change of clothing!

 

Lucky bugger

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AWFULL FOR HIM TO GET NOTHING, IM A BUILDER / LANDSCAPER WITH MY OWN COMPANY AND RUNNING A BUSNISS IS HARD AND IN THIS CLIMATE SO HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEF REWARDED FOR FINDING IT AND THEN GIVEN IT BACK IF ITS NOT CLAIMED, AFTER ALL THIS GUY IS CLEARLY HONEST AND OUT WORKING EARNING A HONEST LIVING WHICH IS MORE THAN CAN BE SAID FOR MOST PEOPLE.

Could you speak up a bit mate?
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Virtue is it's own reward, remember that.

 

lol

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I would have kept it without question, obviously the original owner has either forgot about it which means he would of been rich as you don't forget about 18k lying around in cash or the person has either been locked up or passed away... in any of these cases I would of kept it.

 

If I found a wallet on the street with a couple of hundred quid in I would hand it in but 18k in cash no chance, that's a years wage to most people which they would never save anyway.

 

Harsh that he didn't get anything but if he wanted it back that bad (3 court cases) or some kind of reward why hand it in in the first place?

 

And the laughable 'public perse' the magical money that never gets seen.

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Granted in the interest of fairness the man should have perhaps been granted a reward, but taking the matter to court is frankly ridiculous; and a waste of time and money. There is nothing in law that suggests a person should receive a reward for any act of kindness, there's not even a good Samaritan law in this country let alone that.

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What DOES happen to drugs siezed by the police?

If we ignore any potentially cynical theories around the police dealing it back on the streets which must be incredibly unlikely is there any moral way of extracting the money from it? Seems such a waste for a multi million pound cocaine haul to just be destroyed.

Maybe it gets donated for medical research?

They all get incinerated

I remember a cannabis factory we raided in West Wycombe, We found some hundred 20 kg bags of cannabis, and some two hundred plants growing in a cellar. ONE plant is kept for evidence, and photos taken of the haul, before they went straight to the incinerator. Likewise with all drugs.

I stank of cannabis for a week after that, even after a bath and a change of clothing!

dont you find hoodies gather round the chimney?

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