Jury retires in antique collector forgery trial (From Daily Echo)
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Jury retires in antique collector forgery trial
1:15pm Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in News By Ed Stilliard, Senior Reporter
Allan Formhals
A JURY in the trial of a Hampshire antique collector charged with fraud has retired to consider its verdict.
Allan Formhals is charged with a total of 15 counts of fraud for selling books with allegedly forged signatures of famous people including Sir Winston Churchill and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The 66-year-old from Keyhaven Road, Milford-on-Sea, denies all the charges.
The jury retired this lunchtime after Judge Peter Henry concluded his summing up of the case at Southampton Crown Court.
