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crook was caught after accidentally recording his confessions on his mobile phone.Wayne Axtell was arrested while riding a stolen Segway scooter and police seized his phone.They found recordings of calls in which he bragged about burglaries that he “got away” with.They included crimes that police had not even linked him to, a court heard.Defending, Peter du Feu told Oxford Crown Court that his client did not know that his phone’s default setting was to record its calls.Prosecutor Alex Radley said the calls led police to link thefts in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 2021.Axtell, 39, who had a lock knife on him when arrested, talked about thefts of high value ride-on lawnmowers and gardening tools. Mr du Feu said: “It is an extraordinary piece of evidence and a real own goal for him.”Axtell, who was jailed for four years, admitted conspiracy to steal, burglary, handling stolen goods and having a blade.
Three mobile customers will be forced to start paying a daily roaming charge while in the EU from Monday 23 May 2022, as the network reintroduces charges first abolished in 2017.Three mobile users will be charged £2 per day in Europe for using their phone after the network changes its terms and conditions last September.Their customers will also face a £5 per day charge on holidays outside of the EU, even though this was previously free under Three's 'Go Roam' plan.Before Brexit, the EU outlawed roaming charges which meant anybody could use their phones in Europe without any additional charges.Despite the fact that the infrastructure to offer free roaming is already in place, greedy mobile networks including Three, Vodafone and EE will now all charge for EU roaming.O2 remains the only network to continue to allow free EU roaming, as well as giffgaff. These networks initially said they had no plans to charge roaming customers after Brexit, but all backtracked on this promise once the UK left the EU.
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