A swindler has been let off wearing an electronic tag because it doesn’t work in the low lying Exmoor valley where he lives.
William Hoveman was put on a tagged curfew as part of his punishment for a £13,000 fraud in which he fleeced a neighbour out of his savings.
He was brought back to Exeter Crown Court by tagging firm G4S because they could not get any signal from the monitoring device, which uses mobile phone technology to communicate with their system.
Hoveman, aged 61, says he abided by the curfew but was reported as being in breach because G4S could not get a signal or a response at his remote home in Parracombe, North Devon.
The former businessman will still have to stay at home overnight for the remainder of his four month curfew but it will not be tagged and will be monitored by police rather then G4S.
http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Parracombe-fraudster-let-tag-remote-Exmoor/story-19975691-detail/story.html#ixzz2lKLfZSOW
William Hoveman was put on a tagged curfew as part of his punishment for a £13,000 fraud in which he fleeced a neighbour out of his savings.
He was brought back to Exeter Crown Court by tagging firm G4S because they could not get any signal from the monitoring device, which uses mobile phone technology to communicate with their system.
Hoveman, aged 61, says he abided by the curfew but was reported as being in breach because G4S could not get a signal or a response at his remote home in Parracombe, North Devon.
The former businessman will still have to stay at home overnight for the remainder of his four month curfew but it will not be tagged and will be monitored by police rather then G4S.
http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Parracombe-fraudster-let-tag-remote-Exmoor/story-19975691-detail/story.html#ixzz2lKLfZSOW