SPEEDWAY ‘STAR’
Smuggling Charge
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 15. A former speedway star, “Split” Waterman, will appear in court today charged with attempting to smuggle gold bullion out of Britain.
Waterman, aged 44, the former England speedway captain and twice runner-up in the world championships, was detained at Newhaven, Sussex, yesterday with a blonde companion, Avril Priston, aged 38, after gold bars believed to be worth about £lO,OOO were found in their car.
Both wiU appear at the Magistrates’ Court in Lewes later this morning. Customs officers posing as holidaymakers followed the car into Newhaven, a southern England cross-Channel port, yesterday. They pounced as it queued to board the French ferry Valancay for Dieppe.
Investigators spent five hours stripping the car down to the chassis and found the gold in specially-welded compartments. The raid was believed to have resulted from an underworld tip-off.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31449, 16 August 1967, Page 17
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