I was reading a story today about a serial bag thief who after serving a third of his sentence (does anyone serve full time these days?) was given £3k by the Government to fly back home to Algeria. Funnily enough, he came back into the UK days later (through our strict border controls.. ahem) and no one knows his whereabouts.

Hold on a second..£3k for a ticket to Algeria? Did they send him on a round the world plane ticket home via Los Angeles and Sydney?