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The Beckhams

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  • 14-10-2008 11:40am
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    JP Liz
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    Two housekeepers working at the English mansion belonging to David Beckham and his wife Victoria have been arrested on suspicion of stealing memorabilia belonging to the football star, media reports said on Tuesday.

    Newspapers said possessions belonging to the Los Angeles Galaxy player and his "Posh Spice" wife were allegedly taken from their home, dubbed "Beckingham Palace," in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, about 30 miles to the northeast of London.
    Personal items including football boots, sportswear and designer clothes were then put up for sale on Internet auction site eBay, the reports said.
    "An incident has taken place," a spokesman for the Beckhams confirmed. "The matter is now in the hands of the police."
    Eric and June Emmett, who were named by the media as the suspects, said the reports were inaccurate.
    "What is in the papers is fabricated nonsense. Totally fabricated -- 99 percent of it is totally untrue," Eric Emmett was quoted as saying by Sky News when approached by reporters at the couple's home in a village in Essex.
    Police confirmed they had arrested two people, a 56-year-old woman and a 55-year-old man from Essex, on suspicion of theft from a private address in Sawbridgeworth after officers were alerted last Friday.
    The arrested couple are due to return to a police station on November 22, a police spokeswoman said.
    The Beckhams currently live in a $22 million (12.6 million pound) Beverly Hills mansion but maintain the Hertfordshire mansion as a base in Britain.

    So start bidding on ebay now :rolleyes:


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    JP Liz wrote: »
    So start bidding on ebay now :rolleyes:

    :rolleyes:


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    JP Liz
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    A third person has been arrested in connection with allegations of theft from the British home of Victoria and David Beckham.
    Two former housekeepers at the couple's mansion in Hertfordshire, England - dubbed Beckingham Palace by the British media - were taken into police custody on Monday.
    And another man has also been quizzed by officers as part of the investigation, it has emerged.
    The probe centres on allegations that personal items belonging to former Spice Girls singer Victoria and her soccer player husband David were put up for sale on internet auction website eBay.
    They were said to include designer clothes, sportswear, and a pair of David's football boots.
    The two former housekeepers who were held by police have been named as Eric Emmett and his wife June, from Essex, England - and they have hit back at reports that they were involved in the items' sale on eBay.
    Eric Emmett tells the BBC, "What is in the papers is fabricated nonsense. Totally fabricated, 99 per cent of it is totally untrue."
    The Emmetts have been released on bail until 22 November. The third person - a 25-year-old man, also from Essex - has been bailed and is due to return to a Hertfordshire police station in November.


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    ejmaztec
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    JP Liz wrote: »
    A third person has been arrested in connection with allegations of theft from the British home of Victoria and David Beckham.
    Two former housekeepers at the couple's mansion in Hertfordshire, England - dubbed Beckingham Palace by the British media - were taken into police custody on Monday.
    And another man has also been quizzed by officers as part of the investigation, it has emerged.
    The probe centres on allegations that personal items belonging to former Spice Girls singer Victoria and her soccer player husband David were put up for sale on internet auction website eBay.
    They were said to include designer clothes, sportswear, and a pair of David's football boots.
    The two former housekeepers who were held by police have been named as Eric Emmett and his wife June, from Essex, England - and they have hit back at reports that they were involved in the items' sale on eBay.
    Eric Emmett tells the BBC, "What is in the papers is fabricated nonsense. Totally fabricated, 99 per cent of it is totally untrue."
    The Emmetts have been released on bail until 22 November. The third person - a 25-year-old man, also from Essex - has been bailed and is due to return to a Hertfordshire police station in November.

    He's obviously not too hot at maths. If it's totally fabricated, how can it be 99% untrue?

    If they did do it, the can probably plead insanity, saying that this was probably caused by their association with the "Zoolanders".


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