PC Facing Bird

649 rare bird’s eggs were stolen from their nests by a police constable, apparently often when on duty for Suffolk police. At first PC Michael Upson blamed his father for collecting the hundreds of eggs before the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 came into effect. He showed officers index cards suggesting that the eggs belonged to E G Upson and that they had been collected in the 1940s. However, the police and the RSPB were not convinced and hidden in a water tank in the loft they found a sealed box containing the real cards and notebooks. The maximum sentence for collecting wild bird eggs is six months imprisonment. The officer is due to be sentenced on Thursday.

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