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Reporter quizzes culprit over his £1k bill dodging

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“You ate t-bone steaks didn’t you, and fine wines?”

Bernard McDonagh and his wife Anne dine-and-dashed to the value of more than £1,000 at five different restaurants last year.

Their meticulous act, which involved their children, went unnoticed over a period of eight months, until a CCTV image of the family running up a £329 restaurant bill went viral.

Speaking to the BBC’s Strange But True Crime podcast, South Wales Police Inspector Andrew Hedley recalled how there was a “huge outcry” over the social media post and a “need to get a grip of it really quickly, before it escalated”.

The pair pleaded guilty in May 2024, and our reporter Colette Hume asked Mr McDonagh why he believed he was above the law.


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