Court’s compassion in cancer case

APPEAL Court judges have lifted the punishment given to a London dealer convicted of handling £1.5m worth of stolen silver after hearing how he had committed the crimes in order to pay for his wife’s cancer treatment.

Lawrence Perovetz, a 53-year-old dealer from Hampstead, was given a two-year suspended jail sentence…

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