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Beatles Seller Avoids Slammer

Tags: paul McCartney + the beatles + Ringo Starr

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Posted by tiffany 3 years 4 months ago

All you need is luck--and a psych evaluation--to avoid jail time.

A schizophrenic man who allegedly tried to sell boxes of stolen tapes of rare Beatles recordings is free as a bird Friday after a British judge decided not to order him locked up on account of his mental illness.

According to the BBC, Judge Jeremy McMullen of London's Southwark Crown Court ruled that 55-year-old Nigel Oliver will not have to serve what would have likely been a four-year prison term, citing a jury's finding at an earlier hearing that the defendant was...

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