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Meanwhile in another court

July 17, 2012 by Joe Saward

An amateur attempt to blackmail the Ecclestone Family has ended up in the Southwark Crown Court with a 41-year-old dental technician Martin Peckham pleading guilty to demanding £200,000 from Ecclestone, claiming that he had kidnapped Bernie’s daughter Tamara. Peckham came up with the idea after hearing of a similar scam on television. Judge Alistair McCreath will pass sentence in September. A long sentence is expected. Ecclestone went straight to the police.

In February Tamara gave evidence in an other alleged blackmail case, in which it is claimed two men tried to get £200,000 by threatening to reveal secrets of her sex life. The pair deny the allegations.

Posted in F1 Drivers | 15 Comments

15 Responses

on July 17, 2012 at 6:30 pm Nick Planas

What in idiot! As well as being a criminal and immoral thing to do, this seems so lacking in intelligence on so many levels. Perhaps when they lock him up they could convince him he’s just on holiday in a land of cuckoos…
on July 17, 2012 at 7:29 pm JUKS

It appears GBP 200.000 is somekind of a favourite amount for blackmailers in the UK…
- on July 18, 2012 at 3:55 pm jeremy chandler @transworldgp
  
  I think there may be stamp duty on blackmail … anything over £200k puts you in a higher tax bracket …
  - on July 20, 2012 at 12:42 pm dave1
    
    Haha, Im from the UK and i would never of thought of that. Are you experienced in these kind of things :-p
on July 17, 2012 at 9:38 pm 6 wheeled Tyrrell

I refuse to pay extortionist anything under 40 million!…
on July 17, 2012 at 10:19 pm Anthony (@PTaruffi)

I hope that you, our English brethren, have a TV show equivalent to our stateside’s “America’s Dumbest Criminals,” because this one would surely carry off an award thereon.
on July 18, 2012 at 5:23 am mark powell

maybe he has a mortgage and some bills to pay!!!!
on July 18, 2012 at 6:48 am Andrew

Surprised Bernie did not recognize the ‘potential’ in this entremanure and hire him as a Press relations consultant
on July 18, 2012 at 7:23 am James Cowell

Someone tried to blackmail Bernie and he went straight to the police…..

Maybe they should have threatened his trust fund rather than his daughter, he pays out for that.
- on July 18, 2012 at 8:27 am Andrew
  
  Somewhere theres a Dental Technician who wishes he had thought of that, anyone else out there with a mundane job looking for a creative solution?
- on July 18, 2012 at 9:10 am Mark
  
  I was thinking exactly the same thing as James.
- on July 18, 2012 at 10:20 am rpaco
  
  Ha Ha excellent! But Grib is appealing so apparently a confession of guilt means something different in Germany.
- on July 18, 2012 at 4:56 pm Roman
  
  well said
on July 18, 2012 at 10:20 am Rich T

What, in BE’s world is the difference between a ‘Shakedown’ and ‘Blackmail’? Oh, $49 million, or thereabouts.
on July 19, 2012 at 8:19 pm mark powell

What a chump, he didnt think eccles wouldnt go to the fuzz did he.