Man imprisoned for misusing Apple proviso permitting him to trade in for money iPhones for £27,000

An iPhone dealer attempted to get one over Apple however he fizzled at last. 

Edward Hornsey thought he'd outwitted the tech organization subsequent to gaining £27,453.80 
by abusing a proviso that included trading 51 utilized mobiles for new ones. 

At the same time, the 24-year-old is presently made a beeline for correctional facility for six months subsequent to confessing to taking care of stolen merchandise. 

'You used the repair or supplant administration worked by Apple so as to wash stolen cell telephones,' Judge Neil Bidder let him know at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, in Wales, today. 

Apple had no cross referencing framework – and didn't understand he was swapping such a large number of telephones. 

Hornsey sold the new gadgets through business accounts he had set-up on Gumtree and eBay yet this finished when he was assaulted at his guardians' home in the Llanrumney suburb of Cardiff last May. 

Altogether 45 of the gadgets were enlisted as lost or stolen. 

Hornsey incompletely thought about this, which implied he was taking care of stolen merchandise. 

Police got him after one of the telephones was connected to a robbery.