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Slot Machine Thief Strikes Jade Goody

Jade Goody might want to look into the people that she allows to watch her children. Perhaps a background check might be in order, as the woman was recently taken by a man who already had a record for attempting to rip off a slot machine.

For those of you unaware of who Jade Goody is, she was a Big Brother contestant who did not win. She was friends with one Luke Rustem, who turned out to be a career criminal. Goody allowed Rustem to watch her children while she was away from the home.

Rustem turned out to be a conman who had a previous conviction for stealing from a previous employer and stealing from a man who owned a slot machine. The slot machine offense came from when Rustem had told Thomas Cook that the slot machine he was playing had taken his money, when in actuality he had not put any money in.

Rustem is 29 years old, and already had two convictions before he watched Goody’s children. Over the course of 14 months, Rustem wrote checks out to himself from Goody’s checkbook and forged her signature. All told he took more than £12,000 from her.

Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC of the Chelmsford Crown Court was told of Rustem’s dealings, and said that he was deeply disappointed in his behavior. He said that he had broken Goody’s trust and destroyed the friendship, all the while not disclosing to her his previous convictions.

He said that Rustem was a “man widely marked by shame and dishonor” and imposed an eight month suspended jail sentence on him. Rustem admitted the theft and said that he was one of Goody’s most trusted friends.

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