Antiques dealer jailed
AN ANTIQUES dealer was jailed for ten months yesterday for handling a stolen Second World War Enigma encoding machine.
Dennis Yates, 58, was sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court, having pleaded guilty in the same court last month to handling the Abwehr Enigma G312 machine. The machine was stolen from Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, on 1 April last year.
A charge of blackmail was ordered to lie on file.
The father-of-three from Sandiacre, Derbyshire, maintained he had only acted as an "honest broker" for an unnamed buyer in India. But he admitted that he had written a series of letters to Christine Large, the director of Bletchley Park, following the disappearance of the machine, demanding a 25,000 ransom for its safe return, and threatening to destroy it unless the ransom was paid.
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