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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

UK's Weaselboy fails to show up in court

"Britain's most prolific spammer, 23-year-old Peter Francis-Macrae, is on the run from both the police and UK domain registry Nominet after he finally pushed his luck too far," reports The Register.

"Francis-Macrae, who lives in the tiny village of St Neots in Cambridgeshire with his father, failed to turn up to a hearing at Huntington Magistrates court and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. He is charged with five criminal counts from threats to kill, sending offensive messages and threatening to burn a trading standards office that was investigating him for a variety of Internet scams."

Comment: The Times published a fascinating piece about Weaselboy, which you can read on the Spamhaus site, here. Also see Spamhaus's other links about Peter Francis-Macrae.

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