Another Beatles Bootlegger Avoids Jail
18 July 2006
Another Beatles Bootlegger Avoids Jail
LATEST: A man involved in trying to sell stolen Beatles recordings was given a four-month suspended jail term in London yesterday (17JUL06).
COLIN DILLON, 39, admitted handling stolen goods at Southwark Crown Court but was deemed to have had a "minor" role in a plot to sell tapes of unreleased material recorded by the Fab Four during 1969 sessions for their album LET IT BE album for GBP250,000 ($450,000).
He was arrested alongside NIGEL OLIVER in a police raid in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2003.
Mentally ill Oliver, who was found unfit to enter a plea, was given a two-year supervision order on Friday (14JUL06) after being found guilty to handling stolen goods.
COLIN DILLON, 39, admitted handling stolen goods at Southwark Crown Court but was deemed to have had a "minor" role in a plot to sell tapes of unreleased material recorded by the Fab Four during 1969 sessions for their album LET IT BE album for GBP250,000 ($450,000).
He was arrested alongside NIGEL OLIVER in a police raid in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2003.
Mentally ill Oliver, who was found unfit to enter a plea, was given a two-year supervision order on Friday (14JUL06) after being found guilty to handling stolen goods.
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