A British retiree in her 60s went to a bank and delivered a threatening note to the teller to give money, but the bank staff did not understand it because of the bad handwriting and the use of metaphorical expressions.
The criminal was recently caught by the police four months after the crime through CCTV tracking.
According to the New York Post, 67-year-old Alan Slattery entered a bank branch in Eastbourne, Sussex, England on the morning of March 18 and handed a blackmail note he wrote to the teller.
However, the writing was so bad that the staff couldn't understand the content and couldn't get the money out.
Then Mr. Slattery quietly left the bank empty-handed.
The memo reads, 'Your barrier will not block what I have.
Just pass 10 and 20.
Think of other customers'.
10 and 20 meant the 10-pound note and the 20-pound note.
Only after he left did the bank staff barely understand the contents of the memo, and only then did they find out that Mr. Slattery had attempted the robbery and called the police.
Mr. Slattery, who failed the first offense, attempted two more bank robberies (?) with the same method over the next two weeks.
At the second bank branch we visited, the staff understood the threat memo, so we were able to get a note worth about 3.8 million won in our money.
In the last crime, he did not look like a robber, but the staff resisted him, so he failed again.
The police analyzed CCTV footage obtained from inside and outside the crime scene to find out which bus Mr. Slattery rode right after the second crime, and tracked and arrested him.
He was brought to trial on charges of robbery and attempted robbery, and was sentenced to four years in prison and two years of probation.
A local police official said, "Even if it was clumsy, trying to steal money from a bank is a serious crime, and it is fortunate that the severity is reflected in the sentence."
(Photo = Provided by Sussex Police, UK, Yonhap News)