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Subject: Someone has apparently smashed up an Audi TT that belonged to a beggar
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Someone has apparently smashed up an Audi TT that belonged to a beggar
It comes a couple of days after Matthew Brinton, 35, said he received death threats when a Facebook video revealed he had previously owned the ?50,000 sports car
This was while he was asking for money and food on the streets of Newquay
A photo showed an Audi TT with a broken windscreen on a road in the town and it is thought this was the same one Binton owned at one point
A clip had apparently shown him loading up the boot of a similar vehicle in a car park on the same day he was begging with pet dog Hazel
But police said they believed Brinton, who is a heroin addict with mental health issues, had lost the car and any money he had and was now back on the streets
Newquay’s top cop, inspector Dave Meredith added threats had been directed at Brinton, but none were deemed to present an immediate risk to his safety
‘He had a few threats, with people making stupid comments on social media,’ he said
‘We’ve told him “you need to be careful because of the video on Facebook; there’s lots of ill-feeling and animosity because of it."
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