"Thieving postman who stole bank cards and PINs on morning rounds is jailed"

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Thieving postman who stole bank cards and PINs on morning rounds is jailed



A thieving postman stole letters containing bank cards on his rounds and then used them to get goods and cash totalling thousands of pounds.

But Mudathir Khamis was caught after a Royal Mail investigation led to him being found with another two undelivered letters, Warwick Crown Court has heard.

When Khamis was questioned by Royal Mail investigators they found he had letters containing a New Look account card and PIN on him, but relating to two different addresses.

And on his phone was a folder with a ‘fraud bible’, images of other people’s bank cards and financial information, and a picture showing his purchase of 96 three-digit security codes.

Khamis, 27, of Masser Road, Holbrooks, was jailed for 22 months after pleading guilty at the court to six charges of theft and 11 of fraud.

Jailing Khamis, Judge Barry Berlin told him: “You were a Royal Mail postman at Nuneaton delivery office, and your dishonesty started within a month of that appointment.

“You were stealing items which, from your knowledge, looked like replacement bank cards and letters to the same victims that you recognised would be the pin numbers related to those cards, and you used them dishonestly.

“This is high culpability, a breach of a high level of trust and the utterly shameless use of cards and pin numbers to obtain thousands of pounds in cash and goods.

“These offences were prompted by a high degree of dishonesty mixed with greed. Appropriate punishment can only be achieved by immediate custody.”