Co-op knife robber went on crime spree after Folkestone Magistrates' Court blunder
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Updated: 08:45, 13 January 2021
A court typo left a knife robber free to strike at a Thanet supermarket after an arrest warrant was mistakenly dated with the year 3030.
Folkestone magistrates had ordered Kent Police to take drug addict Richard Champion into custody after he failed to appear in court to face an assault charge.
Richard Champion - psyching himself up for the robbery Picture: Kent Police
But when staff dated the arrest warrant more than 1,000 years in the future, it was thrown out by officers, leaving Champion at large and free to go on a mini crime spree last year.