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UK's Worst Spammer Loses Appeal

John Leyden writes on The Register:

The UK's biggest spammer, convicted on a variety of charges ranging from fraud and blackmail to making threats to kill and sentenced to six years imprisonment, has failed in an appeal court bid to quash two of his convictions.

Peter Francis-Macrae, 24, of St Neots, Cambs, argued that two of his convictions - involving concealing criminal property and fraud - were unsafe.

But appeal court judges rejected arguments that the jury in the case had been misdirected by the trial judge's summing up of the case and dismissed the appeal, the BBC reports.

posted by Fergie @ 9/28/2006 03:16:00 PM