Man jailed for selling railway station
A Hungarian confidence trickster sold a Budapest railway station to a friend after claiming he had been left the property by a distant uncle.
Istvan Bosa sold the station for the knock down price of £8,000.
His friend only found out the paperwork was worthless when he told the station manager he would be using his office in future.
Bosa, aged 39, then went around the country visiting parish priests and making off with around £2,000 in handouts by claiming his wife had been killed by hooligans on a train while working as a ticket collector.
A court in Szolnok, central Hungary, heard that Bosa had never been married. It sentenced him to two years and four months in prison.
