Very sad story

[VOC]

Whitstable diver Alan Nichols feared police treasure probe before taking own life in West Blean Nature Reserve

 

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[TheRingFinder]

I hear ya VOC - Pathetic laws made by pathetic people can be devastating.

 

[doc-d]

Sad, a permanent solution to a temporary problem…..

 

[jeff of pa]

to bad the Law makers and enforcement can't be held responsible for contributing to his death

 

[G.I.B.]

to bad the Law makers and enforcement can't be held responsible for contributing to his death

Yes, it has nothing to do with his own personal life decisions.

It's totally the fault of the police and corrupt laws.

Professional diver Woolsgrove was jailed for two years in September after he falsely claimed to have found three rare 17th-century cannon in international waters so he could sell them to the highest bidder, rather than surrendering them to the nation.
He told the authorities he had found the cannon outside British waters on an unidentified wreck, which allowed him to pocket about £50,000 by selling them to an American buyer.
After two years of painstaking detective work, investigators proved the cannon were actually taken from the warship HMS London, which sank in 1665 off Southend in Essex.
By then the cannon had been exported and were sitting on the front lawn of a collector’s home in Florida.
Woolsgrove, 49, of Ramsgate, Kent, admitted fraud in relation to the cannon and asked for 61 offences of failure to notify the receiver of wreck (RoW) of other finds to be taken into consideration.
There was no evidence that Mr Nichols was to be prosecuted.