Surveillance camera technology proved a crime did not take place and resulted in a man told to carry out 175 hours' community service. The husband had reported a fictitious 'mugging' to police to avoid the blame for losing more than £1,700 of his wife's money. Alex Jones provided a detailed description of the 'perpetrator', but his story fell apart when officers found no sign of the phantom mugger on CCTV. Therefore Mr Jones was arrested for perverting the course of justice.