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A man who robbed a sports bar tried to claim it couldn't have been him because he was busy doing his laundry at the time.
But Hone Daniels was on electronically-monitored bail at the time, so the ankle bracelet he was wearing placed him at the scene.
Daniels tried to counter that by saying he was at the nearby laundromat but his alibi efforts have been described as "ingenious but ineffectual".
A judge, sentencing Daniels after a jury found him guilty of the Hamilton robbery, has even labelled it as "entertaining".
"Of course, that was rejected by the jury, and equally, I found it more entertaining than anything that type of
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