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Nwicker60
30-Sep-11, 14:05
Crimes were 'sophisticated' says
sheriff after trial lasting five weeks

TWO men who broke into a Highland post office and grabbed a safe were
jailed at Wick Sheriff Court today.
John Hind 54, from Colne, Lancashire and Matthew Peters 40, from
Bournemouth, had denied the offence at Glenuig, Lochailort, in south
west Inverness-shire but were found guilty at one of the longest trials
ever held at Wick Sheriff Court, lasting five weeks.
They were disturbed by police, who had mounted a surveillance operation
on the pair, in October 2007. Hind and Peters fled into the hills,
leaving the safe on the premises but were taken into custody later.
Hind was sentenced to 15 months.
Peters denied an additional charge of breaking into the Sutherland post
officed at Embo in September 2007, and stealing the safe containing
£7000 in cash and almost £2000 in stock. He was also found guilty of
that charge and was today sentenced to two years in prison.
Originally, the two accused had pleaded not guilty to 18 charges but
the bulk of them were eithr dropped or were the subject of
no-case-to-answer rullings by Sheriff Andrew Berry.
He described the crimes he sentenced Hind and Peters on, as "sophisticated".