CIGAR BOX SOUVENIR

So the Metropolitan Police are on the case of yet another master criminal! A robber? rapist? murderer? fraudster? No, it's none other than the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. He visited Iraq in the aftermath of the invasion and was strolling round the looted rubble of Tariq Aziz's mansion. He then saw a cigar case lying with all the rubbish on the floor and picked it up and put it in his pocket as a souvenir. Hardly worth mentioning when one considers what else was going on in Iraq at the time. But he did happen to mention this in article he wrote. Someone from the Labour Party saw the article and realizing a great crime had been committed informed the Met. Of course they're only too happy to put manpower and time (= taxpayer's money) into this as it means the squad involved won't have to tangle with real villains for a while. And Tariq Aziz wrote to Boris telling him he was happy for Boris to have the case as a gift.