BIRD MAN IS CAGED.Byline: NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. NORTH A BANK worker was jailed yesterday after he embezzled more than pounds 2million (pounds 2.9million) to buy rare cockatoos and macaws. Lee Gardiner was sentenced to nine years after stealing from elderly or disabled Lloyds TSB customers to pay for his collection of 100 exotic birds. The 32-year-old stole up to pounds 41,500 at a time from accounts by targeting elderly customers who he thought would be unable to spot his frauds. He then built up the second largest rare parrot collection in Europe which included blue and gold macaws, pairs of palm cockatoos worth pounds 20,000, pesquet's parrots worth pounds 15,000 and gang -gang cockatoos worth pounds 25,000. Gardiner, who kept the aviary aviary Structure for keeping captive birds, usually spacious enough for the aviculturist to enter. Aviaries range from small enclosures to large flight cages 100 ft (30 m) or more long and up to 50 ft (15 m) high. Enclosures for birds that fly only little or weakly (e.g. at his home in Kent, pleaded guilty to 24 counts of theft between 1992 and last August. Sentencing him at Maidstone Crown Court Maidstone Crown Court is a Crown Court in Maidstone, England. It, together with Maidstone County Court is located at the Maidstone Combined Court Centre in Barker Road. The Maidstone Magistrates' Court is at a separate location. The court was built in 1983. , Judge Andrew Patience said: "Fraudsters like you can only undermine public confidence in the banking system which the courts will not tolerate." |
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