Saturday, November 07, 2009

Burglar sends in photo of himself on the run because he didn't like official police mugshot

An on-the-run burglary suspect has taunted the authorities with a home-made mugshot showing him standing next to a police van.

Matthew Maynard, 23, is wanted in connection with a burglary in the Mount Pleasant area of Swansea, south Wales, in September.

His mugshot appeared in a South Wales newspaper at the weekend, together with seven others, as part of a police appeal to track down wanted suspects.



Staff at the newspaper were then bemused to get a phone call from Maynard claiming he was unhappy with the photograph they used.

“He telephoned on Monday saying he was not happy with the picture and that he would send in another,” a spokesman for the newspaper said. “We just didn’t believe that he would do it.”

Maynard did send in a photo of himself via his mobile phone, taunting the authorities by standing in front of a police van.

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