Jail for forgery clan who flooded Britain with counterfeit £20 notes

· Bank of England tracked down £14m worth of fakes
· 'Industrial scale' operation was the biggest seen in UK

David Pallister
Friday November 24, 2006
The Guardian

Nine members of a gang of money forgers, including three generations of the same family, were jailed for up to seven years yesterday for what the prosecution claimed was Britain's biggest ever counterfeiting operation.
Two-thirds of all the fake £20 notes circulating in 2005 were produced by the gang and the Bank of England recovered more than £14m. As the sentences were handed down at Snaresbrook crown court, London, family members and supporters screamed insults at police, court officials and journalists. The uproar intensified when one defendant, Tracey Byard, 41, collapsed in the dock when told she was being jailed for four years. Riot police had to be summoned to disperse the crowd. Reporters, who had been were singled out for......

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