Theft of games has made it into the news a couple of times recently—back in January £700-800 of games from the HandyCon library were taken from Paul Frohnsdorff-Harris’ car.  This week, Paul Mangal (58), of Haringey, London who admitted twenty-three counts of theft of board games worth a total of £3,000 over a two year period has been sentenced to twelve months imprisonment (suspended for two years).  Investigating officer, Sergeant James Elliott, said Mangal’s offending “appeared to ramp up before, during and immediately after Christmas, then almost daily up until his arrest”.  The offenses concerned multiple copies of family games including Monopoly, Risk and Trivial Pursuit mostly from Waterstones in Crouch End.  On one occasion he was caught on CCTV making off with several games in a suitcase which led to him being additionally banned from being in possession of a suitcase in both Crouch End and Hornsey.