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Warm-up·Theft & Property Offences

The Phone on the Table

Daniel Okafor, 31 — Delivery driver

The Situation

A woman leaves a café, forgetting her phone on the table. Two minutes later Daniel sits down, notices it, and watches the screen light up with a call from “Mum”. He switches the phone off, puts it in his bag and leaves.

Laws in Play
Theft Act 1968, s.1
Your Client

No previous convictions. Says he assumed the phone was abandoned.