Medal thief jailed for three years

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Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:39a.m.

Keith Davies stole more than 700 medals and has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment

Keith Davies stole more than 700 medals and has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment

A former Waiouru Army Museum employee who stole hundreds of military medals from the museum has been sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay $50,000 reparation.

Keith Davies, 57, pleaded guilty on October 6 to seven charges including obtaining property by deception, false accounting and theft of 744 medals between 1995 and 2002.

Today he was sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay $50,000 reparation at Wellington District Court.

The combined value of his medal haul was $233.155 and only around 300 medals have been returned.

Davies was arrested after returning to New Zealand from Australia in September.

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