Jail for town mayor found guilty of breaking into homes to steal women's underwear

အမ်ဴိးသမီးေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီမ်ားခိုးသည္ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္

အမ်ဴိးသမီးေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီခုိးသည္ ့မဟာသေရစည္သူ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္...

Jailed: Ian Stafford today

အဂၤလန္နုိင္ငံမွဆိပ္ကမ္းၿမဳိ ့ေလးၿဖစ္ေသာ Knott End ၿမဳိ ့မွ ၿမဳိ ့သူၿမဳိ ့သားမ်ားဟာ သူတုိ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေလး
ရဲ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္အၿဖစ္ Ian Stafford ကိုေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ ့လုိက္တဲ ့အခါမွာေတာ ့ထုိသူဟာ ဂုဏ္သေရရွိ၊
အမ်ားေလးစားထုိက္တဲ ့ကိုယ္ရည္ကုိယ္ေသြး ေတြနဲ ့ၿပည္ ့စံုေနၿပီးသူတုိ ့ကုိ ဂုဏ္တက္ေစလိမ္ ့မယ္
လို ့ေမွ်ာ္လင္ ့ခဲ ့ႀကပါတယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့အဲဒီေမွ်ာ္လင္ ့ခ်က္အစား သူတုိ ့ရရွိၿမင္ေတြ ့လိုက္ရတာကေတာ ့အသက္ ၅၉ ႏွစ္ရွိ ထုိ
ဂုဏ္သေရရွိၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ႀကီးဟာ ၿမိဳ ့နယ္အတြင္းက အမ်ဴိးသမီးေတြရဲ ့အိမ္ေတြကုိေဖာက္ထြင္း ၀င္
ေရာက္ၿပီး သူမတုိ ့ရဲ ့ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီမ်ားကုိခုိးယူခဲ ့မိပါတယ္လို ့၀န္ခံခဲ ့လို ့ေထာင္ဒါဏ္ ၂ ႏွစ္
အၿပစ္ေပးလိုက္တာကုိပါပဲ...

ၿမိဳ ့နယ္အတြင္းေနထုိင္သူေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားဟာ သူတုိ ့ရဲ ့ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီေတြထည္ ့သိမ္း
ထားတတ္တဲ ့အံဆဲြေတြထဲက အတြင္းပစၥည္းေတြေပ်ာက္ဆံုးဖန္မ်ားလာတဲ ့အခါမွာေတာ ့စုိးရိမ္
ပူပန္လာခဲ ့ရပါေတာ ့တယ္...အဲဒီအထဲမွ တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးကေတာ ့ခုိးသူတရားခံကုိသိရွိဖမ္းဆီးနုိင္
ဖုိ ့သူမရဲ ့အိပ္ခန္းအတြင္းမွာ လွ်ဴိ ့၀ွက္ကင္မရာတစ္ခုတပ္ဆင္ထားခဲ ့လုိက္ပါတယ္...

ဒါေပမယ္ ့ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီေတြကုိ ခုိးယူေနေလ ့ရွိတဲ ့သူခုိးဟာ တစ္ၿခားသူမဟုတ္ပဲ Lancashire
နယ္က Preesall နဲ ့Knott End ၿမဳိ ့ေတြရဲ ့ေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ေၿမာက္ခံရတဲ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ႀကီး ၿဖစ္ေနတယ္
ဆိုတာသိလိုက္ရလို ့ၿမဳီ ့သူၿမိဳ ့သားေတြအဖို ့အလြန္ကုိအံ ့ႀသထိတ္လန္ ့တုန္လွဳပ္သြားခဲ ့ႀကပါတယ္...
ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ ့၀င္ေတြဟာ ဂုဏ္သေရရွိၿမိဳ ့ေတာ္၀န္လူပ်ဴိႀကီးကုိ သူကုိယ္တုိင္အိမ္ေတြထဲကုိခုိး၀င္ခဲ ့ၿပီး
အမ်ဴိးသမီးေတြရဲ ့ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီေတြ ခုိးယူၿပီး မဖြယ္မရာေတြၿပဳလုပ္ကာ ထားပစ္ခဲ ့တာကုိဖမ္း
ယူရုိက္ကူးထားတဲ ့ဗီဒီယုိအေခြကုိေပးအပ္ၿပသလုိက္ပါတယ္...

မေန ့ကေတာ ့ ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ ့ရဲ ့ဖမ္းဆီးခံရအၿပီးမွာၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္အၿဖစ္ကေရာတစ္သီးပုဂၢလေကာင္စီ၀င္အ
ၿဖစ္ကပါႏွဳတ္ထြက္ခဲ ့တဲ ့Stafford  ကုိ တရားသူႀကီးက အမ်ားၿပည္သူရဲ ့ယံုႀကည္ကုိးစားမွဳကုိအလဲြ
သံုးစားၿပဳကာခ်ဴိးေဖာက္ခဲ ့အတြက္အၿပစ္ထင္ရွားေႀကာင္းနဲ ့ေထာင္ဒါဏ္ခ်မွတ္လိုက္ေႀကာင္းေၿပာ
ႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ယခင္က ေတာက္တုိမယ္ရအလုပ္ေလးေတြလုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ဥယာဥ္မွဴးမာလီအၿဖစ္ပါ လုပ္ခဲ ့ေသးဖူးတဲ ့
အိမ္ေထာင္မရွိသူ လူပ်ဴိ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ဟာ သူ ့ရဲ ့ရာထူးအရ ၿမဳိ ့နယ္ထဲက အိမ္ေတြကုိ တံခါးမရွိ၊
ဓါးမရွိ ၀င္ထြက္ခြင္ ့အာဏာအပ္ႏွင္းထားၿခင္းခံခဲ ့ရပါတယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့ခါးေအာက္ပုိင္းဗလာက်င္းထားၿပီးေလွ်ာက္သြားေနတဲ ့ပံုကုိ လွ်ဴိ ့၀ွက္ကင္မရာက
ရုိက္ကူးထားတာကုိေတြ ့ၿပီးတဲ ့ေနာက္ေတာ့ ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ ့ဟာ သူ ့ရဲ ့ေနအိမ္ကုိ ၀င္ေရာက္စီးနင္းရွာ
ေဖြခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အဲဒီၤမွာပဲ ရဲေတြဟာ ေပါင္စတာလင္ ၉၀၀ ( ေဒၚလာ ၁၃၄၀ ) ေက်ာ္တန္ဖိုးရွိတဲ ့အမ်ဴိးသမီးအတြင္း
ခံေဘာင္းဘီေတြကုိေတြ ့ရွိခဲ ့ရပါေတာ ့တယ္...
တစ္ခ်ဴိ ့ေသာေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီမ်ားဆုိယင္ ပုိင္ရွင္မ်ားရဲ ့အမည္ေရးထားတဲ ့အိပ္မ်ားအတြင္းမွာ
ထည္ ့ထားတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္....
” ဒီအၿဖစ္အပ်က္ႀကီးတစ္ခုလံုးေႀကာင္ ့ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ့အေနနဲ ့အလြန္အမင္းပဲ အရွက္ရခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ဒီအၿပဳအမူေႀကာင္ ့ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဟာ အင္မတန္ရုိးေၿဖာင္ ့ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ ့မိတ္ေဆြမ်ား ကုိထိခုိက္
နာက်င္ေစခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ့အေနနဲ ့ဘာမွပုိၿပီးေတာင္းဆုိနုိင္ခြင္ ့မရွိေတာ့ပါဘူး...ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ့အေနနဲ ့တစ္ေယာက္
ေယာက္ကုိဖြင္ ့ဟတုိင္ပင္ အကူအညီေတာင္းခဲ ့သင္ ့ပါတယ္...အခုကိစၥအတြက္နဲ ့ေတာ ့ကြ်န္
ေတာ္ ့အေနနဲ ့ဂုဏ္သိကၡာတစ္ခုမွမရွိေတာ ့ပါဘူ.... ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဟာတစ္ကယ္ ့ကုိေအာ ့ႏွလံုးနာ
စရာလူတစ္ေယာက္ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ပါၿပီ...တတ္နုိင္ယင္ အခ်ိန္ေတြကုိသာ ေနာက္ၿပန္လွည္ ့လုိက္ခ်င္ပါ
ေတာ ့တယ္....” အဆုိပါ ဂုဏ္သေရရွိၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီသူခုိးႀကီးကေၿပာခဲ ့ပါ
တယ္...

မေန ့ကေတာ ့Preston Crown တရားရံုးမွာ လူေလးစားခံရေလာက္တဲ ့၊ ဘုရားေက်ာင္းလဲမွန္
မွန္တက္ေလ ့ရွိတဲ ့သူႀကီးက အိမ္ေတြကုိေဖာက္ထြင္းခုိးယူမွဳ ေလးခုကုိ ၀န္ခံထြက္ဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
တရားခံေရွ ့ေနႀကီး Richard Howarth က သူ ့ရဲ ့အမွဳသည္ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္ေဟာင္းႀကီးဟာ ခုိးယူ
ေဖာက္ထြင္းခံခဲ ့ရသူေတြကုိ သူ ့ရဲ ့ေႀကကဲြ၀မ္းနည္းစြာနဲ ့အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ေတာင္းပန္မွဳေတြေၿပာ
ႀကားေပးပုိ ့ပါေႀကာင္း၊ သူ ့အေနနဲ ့သူလုပ္ခဲ ့တဲ ့လုပ္ရပ္အတြက္ဒီအရွက္ရမွဳနဲ ့အရိပ္မည္းႀကီး
ကုိ တစ္သက္လံုးခံစားသြားရေတာ့မွာ ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္ လုိ ့ေၿပာဆုိေလွ်ာက္ထားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

တရားသူႀကီးမ Heather Lloyd ကေတာ ့ တရားခံဟာ ၿပည္ ့သူ ့၀န္ထမ္းတစ္ေယာက္အေနနဲ ့
ေရာ မိတ္ေဆြတစ္ဦးအၿဖစ္နဲ ့ပါ သူ ့ကုိယံုႀကည္အပ္ႏွင္းထားမွဳကုိ အလံုးစံုခ်ဴိးေဖာက္ခဲ ့တာမုိ ့
ေထာင္ဒါဏ္ နွစ္ႏွစ္ေပးခဲ ့ေႀကာင္းေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ၿမဳိ ့နယ္သူ၊ၿမိဳ ့နယ္သားေတြအေနနဲ ့အခုလုိ ယံုႀကည္အားထားမွဳကုိ ဒီလုိေအာ ့ႏွလံုးနာစရာ အေန
အထားမ်ဴိးနဲ ့အလြဲသံုးစားၿပဳမူခံႀကရလိမ္ ့မယ္လုိ ့စိတ္ေတာင္ကူးခဲ ့မိမွာ၊ အိမ္မက္ေတာင္မက္ခဲ ့ႀက
မိမွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူးလုိ ့ တရားသူႀကီးမ ကဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
” သင္ကုိ လူေတြက Preesall ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၀န္အၿဖစ္နဲ ့ေလးစားခဲ ့ႀကၿပီး သင္ကေတာ ့အခုလိုႀကီးက်ယ္
ထင္ရွားတဲ ့ရာထူးနဲ ့ေတာင္မွ ဒီလုိၿပစ္မွဳမ်ဴိးကုိ က်ဴးလြန္နုိင္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...” လို ့သူမက ဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
သူမက အမိန္ ့ခ်မွတ္ေနစဥ္မွာ ခံစားမွဳလံုး၀မရွိတဲ ့ပံုစံနဲ ့ေနတဲ ့ Stafford ကုိ( စိတ္ ) ေရာဂါကုသ
မွဳ ခံယူဖုိ ့အႀကံေပးခဲ ့ပါတယ္...ထုိအခ်က္ကုိ ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္းဘီအခုိးခံရတဲ ့စတုတၱေၿမာက္အမ်ဴိး
သမီးကလည္းေထာက္ခံခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

တရားရံုးေတာ္ကုိစာေရးေပးပုိ ့ခဲ ့ရာမွာ တရားသူႀကီးမ က ” သူ ့ကုိၿပင္းထန္စြာအၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့လိုက္ပါ

ၿပီ...သူ ့အေနနဲ ့အခုလိုအၿဖစ္ဆုိးကိုအတိတ္မွာထားခဲ ့နုိင္ၿပီး လူအမ်ားသူ ့ကုိသိထားခဲ ့တဲ ့ခင္မင္ေဖာ္

ေရြကာ၊ႀကင္နာဂရုစုိက္သူအၿဖစ္ တစ္ဖန္ၿပန္လည္ၿဖစ္လာနုိင္ပါေစလို ့ဆႏၵၿပဳဆုေတာင္းပါတယ္...” လို ့

ေဖာ္ၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

Lancashire  နယ္က ရဲမွဳခင္းစံုေထာက္ Steve Montgomery ကေတာ ့ အခုအၿဖစ္အပ်က္ေႀကာင္ ့

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When they chose him as mayor, residents of the seaside town of Knott End no doubt hoped Ian Stafford would personify their decent, respectable values.
Instead, the 59-year-old was yesterday beginning a two-year prison sentence after admitting breaking into local women's homes and stealing their underwear.
Several residents had become worried by the disappearance of items from their underwear drawers, and one even had a covert camera installed in her bedroom to catch the culprit.
But local people were shocked when they learned the thief was none other than the twice elected Mayor of Preesall and Knott End in Lancashire.
Police were handed tapes showing the respected bachelor breaking in and helping himself to personal items, carrying out sex acts and then leaving. Yesterday Stafford, who resigned as mayor and as an independent councillor following his arrest, was told by a judge he was guilty of a 'revolting' breach of trust and jailed.
The bachelor, who worked as a handyman or gardener, was entrusted to enter the houses on his own.
But after the damning CCTV footage showing him wandering around, naked from the waist down, police raided his home. There they found up to £900 worth of women's underwear - some in bags with the names of victims written on them.
When interviewed, Stafford told them: 'I feel deeply ashamed at the whole scenario because I have hurt people who have been excellent friends - I could not wish for better.
'I wish I had said something to someone earlier. I am not proud of any of this, I am sickened. I wish I could turn the clock back.' Yesterday at Preston Crown Court the respected church-goer admitted four counts of burglary, one for each house he had broken into.
Richard Howarth, defending, said the ex-mayor wished to send his 'profuse and abject apologies' to his victims and had to bear the 'stigma and shame' of what he had done.
Jailing him for two years, Judge Heather Lloyd told him he was guilty of 'a gross violation of the trust placed in you as an employee and friend'. 'The victims would never have dreamed that trust would have been abused in such a revolting fashion,' she added.
'You were well respected as the Mayor of Preesall and you were in that prominent position when these offences were committed.'She advised Stafford - who showed no emotion as he was sentenced - to undergo therapy, a call backed by his fourth victim.
Writing to the court, she said: 'He has been punished severely but I hope he can put it all behind him and show himself to be the kind and caring man known to so many.'
Detective Constable Steve Montgomery of Lancashire police said: 'This has been a distressing ordeal for the victims who are pleased with the sentence.'