Salmon you always seem to know what's going on here,are you saying you've never read any posts relating to Jock McCracken and knew who he was in relation to different user names?

Thanks for replying,i think just about every regular apart from yourself knew.

racing post
By Graham Green 6:33PM 18 JUL 2013

A LAWYER handed over savings of £17,000 after initially responding to a horseracing betting mailshot in the name of John McCracken, a court heard on Thursday.

Giving evidence at Lewes Crown Court, Julian Prus said he received the brochure, which promised "magnificent profits", in April 2006 when working for the Crown Prosecution Service.

He said: "I went for the maximum [subscription], which was £1,000; the reason for that was the brochure referred to a horse called Exponential. This horse was 100-1 [before being backed down to 8-1 in landing a major gamble at Nottingham in August 2004], so I thought McCracken had a gift that no other racing tipster could offer."

Prus was given a telephone number to ring to get tips, which he described as "initially quite poor", but said they "started to get better".

He went on to tell the court that several months later a message was left on the recorded tele­phone service related to a scheme to import stallions from Australia who could be sold for four times their purchase value in England.

"The recorded message invited you to call an office number," he said. "Then I spoke to a couple of very highly manipulative people. They said could you do £20,000. I said, ‘No I can't, I haven't got it'."

Prus eventually invested £16,000 and admitted he left himself "rather short" in doing so. He said that after that, "nothing happened". There was no call from anybody about the investment and in September he started telephoning "various numbers" he had for McCracken.

After persevering for about a month, Prus said he finally got somebody on the phone, recalling: "They said be calm, keep cool, it's in the process of being sorted out."

Prus said he spoke to someone about three times, who gave his name as John McCracken, although he had no way of verifying whether the person was who he said he was.

Prus said he told McCracken he wanted his money back and that otherwise McCracken could face legal action. "He said he didn't really care about the consequences of legal action," he added.

"What he actually said was, ‘I have been in and out of prison before. I don't give a f***'.

"He said he lived in Spain but all his assets were in the UK. He said he worked for a group of very unscrupulous backers, that he was a victim as much as I was, and that these backers had made his life hell."

Prus was sent a cheque for £2,000 as a refund but did not see the rest of his money.

McCracken, 47, from Brighton, is charged with conspiracy to defraud between April 30, 2003, and February 13, 2008, along with co-defendants self-employed John Brice, 40, of Hove, and Matthew Thole, 40, a company director from Cardiff. They deny the charges.

The trial is scheduled to resume on Monday and expected to last another two to three weeks.

IF the Lawyer was any sort of a racing fan you would have thought he would have read in the Sporting press about the Exponential "gamble" and the fact it was Patrick Veitch who was behind it.

Never plead guilty if you ever get caught...

The trial is expected to run for another two to three weeks...!!

The Jurors who will not be the brightest (they are on the jury after all and could not find an excuse to bunk off) will take another week to find the man not guilty as they will not have a clue what is going on....

We live in a free capitalist society, some people have made themselves very wealthy by choosing the right investment at the right time. You may wonder why seemingly intelligent people fall for scams like these.
Perhaps the explanation is that there is a pressure in our society to get the most from your money, to make it work for you, to secure your future in a big way. It does happen, some people become wealthy by choosing the right schemes.
If an intelligent person is, at a certain time in his life, relatively cash-rich he may feel that the current low interest rates are simply not doing him any good and he arrives at a conclusion that he needs to take more risks in order to become really wealthy. So he has to make choices and this is the real difficulty, with hindsight he probably wished that he sat tight and contented himself with a low return.

2012    2.80
2011    2.75
2010    2.80
2009    2.21
2008    5.09
2007    5.55
2006    4.68
2005    4.92
2004    4.56
2003    3.73
2002    4.00
2001    4.31

Australian Stallions and brighton ? are we sure we are talking abiout horses here ?

Does anybody work for a living in Brighton?

mutley,you seem very angry,did you loss money in this "scam"

It's been a while since i invited someone for a drink on ere..

Nearly happened in the Cricket yesterday mind..

Genuine offer, ss, I would like to meet him.

I'm middle aged, SS..

I though that wouldn't go above yer head, SS.

Them blob shops have a lot to answer for..

Very considerate of the Judge to give everyone the day off today ...... he fancied a long weekend and so did the jurors ...... no doubt all sunning themselves on Brighton beach and bemoaning the fact that this trial likely to last as long as the good weather ,,,,,,,,luck of the draw.
Seems there is some bad blood or past vendettas being played out on here ........let it be said, I have had no run-ins with anyone involved in this case, or posters on this site, to cause me to lose any sleep .......... I just want the true facts published about the Court Case and not some editor's spin on the so called sensationalism and exaggeration to make headlines and sell papers ,,,,,,,

Be wary mot , saddo was a well known figure around perth car park back in the day

choice of weapons

Keeping it private is very selfish of you. Stick a cage up and go for it. I'll collect the entance fee for a small commission.

Chavman.

You ready for work next week

weekend of relaxation at the moment.primed and ready dickie.like a coiled spring