In 2012 he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment (of which he served half; he is currently out on licence) for the rape of a young woman in a hotel room in the Welsh town of Rhyl.
They have always been under the misapprehension that his rehabilitation simply involves the serving of a custodial sentence (and he is only out on licence having served half of it).
After the bomb squad had been and gone, and the thief traced and arrested, it transpired he was out on licence for another robbery, of another Ladbrokes, with another lone-working employee, in 2010.
Journalists from outside are warned against driving through the region in a car with out-of-state licence plates.
Villagers began spotting BMWs and other luxury cars with out-of-town licence plates parked in the hill's vicinity.
The group blamed out-of-date licences, and called on the Environment Agency to revoke the most damaging ones by 2020.
Around 9.45pm on Friday, 3 December, at "Styles", their house in Berkshire, Christie drove off and eventually abandoned her car, lights on – containing a bag of clothes and an out-of-date driving licence – on the edge of a chalk pit, by an eerie natural spring known as the Silent Pool near Guildford.
Hey, remember being 15, not being able to buy weed and getting turned out of every off-licence because your "European driving permit" didn't stop you sounding like a choirboy on a rollercoaster?
Trapping, anaesthesia and biological sampling of badgers were carried out under licence from the UK Home Office (licence number PPL60/3609) according to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
