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Article: Serial egg stealer's eighth conviction.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 14, 2005
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Byline: By Helen Gabriel
A Coventry man yesterday became the UK's most convicted illegal collector of eggs.
Gregory Peter Wheal pleaded guilty at Coventry Magistrates' Court to the possession of 75 birds eggs and possession of items capable of being used for egg collecting. It was his eighth conviction.
The eggs, which were found at an address in the city on October 15, included those of kingfishers, little-ringed plovers, tree pipits and hawfinches. Among the items seized were books, maps with the location of nests marked on them, an egg blowing kit and binoculars.
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