THE SUN, Monday, April 3, 1989 3

I•Thumbs up as crafty pairfiddle freebooze quizE~CLUSIVE

By ROBERT KELLAWAY

CRAFTY Neil Weeks and MarkMullane downed countlesspints of free Guinness ... byfiddling a "foolproor' boozequiz.And last night brewery

bosses were fuming after theyfound their promotion hadgone wrong - for the secondtime in SIX MONTHS.Neil and Mark, both 26, took just

one night to crack the new, loop­hole-free quiz - called Master ofPure Genius.Pub landlords give punters a card

contaming eight general knowledgequestions - with three potentia! an­swers to each. Players rub a comover a box next to theirchosen answer - and atick or cross magicallyshows through.- Four--cucks w-inpint of Guinness.

Torch

Cheers .. Mark and Neil toast success

n..--WEDDIN'BANROCKSSTONEBill

.ee..

But Neil and Markwere drinking in TheSmugglers' Den, inHillbridge, Essex, whenthey found crosses couldbe erased by rubbing adry THUMB across them.The "wrong" box then

appears exactly as it didat the start.Neil said: "We told our

landlord"The previous compe­

tition was CANNED afterThe Sun revealed howshining a torch on thecard showed up answers.

From RICHARD WALLACE in AntiguaLOVELORN Rolling Stone Bill Wymanand his young bride-to-be Mandy SmithCANNOT find a church to marry them, herevealed last night.The 52-year-old rocker told me: "Mandy is a

Catholic and wants a church wedding, the full bit."She has been scouring London for a church

but so far there are notakers. I am Church ofEngland and divorced."Last night a Catholic

spokesman said thecouple could NEVERwed in church - unlessBill could show reasonto have his first mar­riage annulled.

Cameras

Catherine'swhirlybirthPROUD mum CatherineMacleod gave birthyesterday ... on board ahelicopter.A coastguard chopper

had been taking the 35-year-old teacher from theisland of South Uist , inthe Outer Hebrides, tohospital on Lewis.A midwife on board de­

livered the 71b 90z girl.

Meanwhtle, Wymanwon't be seeing Mandy,19, for A MONTHbecause he is busyworking on a newStones album in hisCaribbean hideaway."1 love her and miss

her draadfully," he said."But we speak on thephone every day."

IT'S A BITTERFLYPilot Ian Ashpole flew

his BEER CAN-shapedballoon lO,250ft aboveSwindon, Wilts, yesterday,to claim a world altituderecord for novelty craft.

Wyman ... "l miss her"

* FELLAS can really get a kickout of pretty Sarah Hollett

... she's just taken up karate.* The 18-year-old belter fromEssex is quite partial to the

martial art. And so is her mum - thetwo of them now go to self-defenceclass together.

Picture: BEVERLEY GOODWAY

EXCLUSIVEBy FRANK GILBRIDE and PATRICK HENNESSY

JOBLESS John Gallagher has discovered the secret ofthe FREE pint of Guinness - and damaged a £2millionpromotion campaign.Jolly John hasn't stopped guzzling his favourite brew

since he found it did not take pure genius to winGuinness's "scratch and reveal" card quiz EVERY TIM£.His trick is to shine a torch he bought for £1 from a market

stall through the card.Amazingly, the beamshows up which box con­tains the "tick" for a rightanswer. Three ticks win afree pint of Guinncsswhich can be claimedimmediately at the bar.A fourth right answer in

a row collects TWO pints.Customers in 6,000 pubs

have been struggling for awinning set of answerssince the campaign beganin March.

Drinking for free. , , John Gallagher

FUNBut bachelor John, 24,

said last night: "I was justplaying about with thetorch one night and Icouldn't believe it when Icould read all the answers."I tried a few more cards

and each time it worked."My face lit up and I

Jobless Johncracks £211'uinness gallethought, I'm going to havesome fun here."I got really sozzled that

night. I never got onewrong. I lost count of thenumber of pints of freeGuinness I knocked back."Since I found out how

to do it at the weekend Imust have had at least 40.Luckily I like the stuff."Happy John of Chelsea,

West London, slipped offto the 100 each time to dohis torch test. He added:"The Irish lads in the pub

were all pestering me for apint."They knew I had some­

thing on me but they didnot know what it was.

CLAIM"They thought I was

some sort of scientificgenius with an X-ray ma­chine in my pocket."The promotion campaign,

"Make Decisions withContinued on Page Two

Cheers .. John's Guinnesstriele goes down a treat

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Iy fflAHl(,GlURIDE _ PATRICKHEJI_YJQBLESS John GalJa&tler lias discovered the Slcr.t 0'the FREE pint 0' Gulnn.. s - and damaced I £2mllllonpromotion campalcn. . '. Y:,' :-{;;'~; k;' ' '£ 2 .Jolly John hasn't stopped guzzling 'hls (avourite .!?rew ,'J' ".since he found it did not take pure genius to win ...Gumness's "scratch and reveal" card quiz EVERY _TIME. -erac; ·5· mHis trick II to Ihlne, a torch he bou~~:lIro~h~~U~hmthem~ra~~t.

Amal.lngly, the beam, show. up which box con­tain. the "lick" (or 'a ria:htanswer. Three ticks win afr-ee pint of Gulnneuwhich can be claimedImmediately at the bar.A fourth right answer In

a row collects TWO. pints.~a~~J~~~ll~ 6jp~~ I'o~b:wlnnln. Jet ~ answera~Ince the Campaign began ..,In March.

'''inness gamethought, I:m going to havesome fun here."1 got really sozzled that

night. I never got onewrong. I lost count of thenumber of pints .of freeGuinncss I knocked back.- "Since I found out how.tc do it at the weekend Jmust have had at least 40.Luckily J like the .turf."H,ppy John of Chelsea,

• West London, slipped orr• to the 100 each .time to dohis torch test. He added:"The IriJh lads In the pub

FUN

were nil pestering me ror •pint."They knew I had some­

thing on me but they did.not know what it wJ!s.

CLAIMBut bachelor John, -24,said last night: "I was Justplaying about with thetorch one night and' Icouldn't believe It 'when Jcould read all the answers."I tried a (ew more card.

and each time it worked."My (ace Ht up and 1

s~':J~le~or1ho~,htsci~ntiri~genius with an X-ray ma­chine in my pocket. ..

.' ~~k:,roD:~\~io~a,mp~ft"hc",';nwd ~ Po~ Two

ChufS, , John's Guinnesstriclr. goes down a treatDrittiing "" frH ••• .hIM GoHogMr

Gutnncss" has been runnlnJ( t h r o u g h t thecountry.

h~n t~h~ic~a~he~ :ig~~a~~~swers to three questionsto win a free pint.The answers on the

card are covered by goldsquares which can bescrntchcd off by 11 coin ora fmgernall. On each linethere are two Xs and onetick.To win two pints the

f~~~:h q~e~filona~~~:~tIY~The chances or getting

all four right are about80 to 1.Brummie John picked

~'hll~isb~:~~~t 1I%~~t:jn~stall In Urlxton markel,South London.He added: It's so slm­

pie anybody can do It Ifthey have the right typeof torch."The Sun took John to R

pub runnmg the promo.tional quiz..

CHEATWe bought him several

pints or Gutnness andeach time bar staff gnvchim a game card.He pulled out t hc

torch, shone It lhroul{hthe cards and scratC'h('dthe correct answer eachtime.Stunned Guinn('!';s

spokesman SamanthaRowe said last night: "Ifpeople want to' cheatthen they arc not enter.!'~I!~~llslh~e:~~ri~o o~ i~

~~'sht~~r~n~r;P(~~ti~~~months now and is draw.ing to a close."It's not meant to be a

high-powered, compli­cated game. It's just apromotion. "

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I n~ W.U" •• ,'IiJ ..... : ... tisatlon, Enorp'v c::.pl':_

retary Cecil ParkinsorlCai'iSibe shareholders

in their own industry.o to be sold off.

. Nays, ports, air-............. +c- !::In.4 municipal buses.

~ to change as--_._- -_._-- --,-- me next decade .

• - _, - -, - moment too soon.the faint-hearts: -

_. _ g to be one heck 01

What often makes theirpoauron intolerable iswhen. having decidedupon the appropriate sen­tence. they arc told by

their clerk to think againbecause the proposedsentence cannot be Im­plemented for lack ofcustodial places or someother resourceThis is not a new prob­

lem-it has been with usfor years. It Is particu­larly serious bec nusemagistrates deal Withnearly all juvenilecrime-the main breedingground of more serious.crimlnals later on.By the time these juve­

niles reach the Crown

~~d~;;l~~~ab~;~de!~~~~'an unhealthy contempt

for .the forces of order. me, my assistants andany deputy. and it hadthe blessing of LordParker, the Lord ChiefJustice of that time.The result was that

police aS~:lUlt in all usforms become almostnon-existent.

THREE: The Crown mustbe given the rigrt to ap­peal ogalnst too lenientsentences and must havea direct voice in all con­siderations of parole andlicence.The new Crown Pros­

ccution Servlce has fallenalmost nul on Its face

from lack of staff, under­funding and too muchCivil Service bureaucraticlnrluence.But when It gels Into

Its stride, as it soon will,the CPS can strikemighty blows for us Incorrecting sort sentences.FOUR: We owe it to a lot

~ve i~h~ei~ t~~o~~emi~~months by restoring theonly penally which willdeter criminals .I am not talking about

domestic murders, which:~I Jal~~~fn:.;>~~~i~);about murder.

J would like to saveIota of victims (even pos­sibly their lives) in future

~rty~~;ng n~heed de~t~t peb;

~:s~: i ~f-;~;d~~~ b~idna~~ping, terrorism. hostage­taking, drug-trafficking,armed robbery andbl;'lckmail.

1 would not leave theresponsibility of passlOJ{the de n th sentence to nny

~~e A~~~e,o~~' tgf a !~~~would represent theprosecution.Let those who disagree

protest-they have strongarguments. too, nnd areennued to put them.Then let us all have a

vote on it!

HAVEN'T John asuffered em,ut;":They weep for their teenage son

Mark, one of six soldiers murdered- by an IRA bomb.

Now church officials add to thcir "grief by banning them from fixing ~a small picture of Mark on his ~tombstone because it would break -the rules.To hen with the rulebook.

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WHENthe Chief Constable of Sussexstands up and states thathe is short of police officers to corry out his orders, ordinarypeople should sit up and toke notice.They can be damned sure that all the male and female criminals

will! And when the Chief Constable of the West Midlands reports thatfour or five of his officers are being assaulted on duty EVERY DAY,clearly there is some-thing seriously wrong.One of the main planks

in the Tory platform forthe last election was"Law and Order."There is not too much

wrong with our criminallaw, except for the lackof the death penalty.It is in the neld of

order that things havebeen drastically wrongfor at least 25 years.But in the hope th:'lt

Mrs Thatcher will an­nounce at the end of the

~~~~ th~~ns~e;~~~~in~h:~re-work the Falklandsspirit in the field oforder, I venture to makea few suggestions.ONE: Most criminals aretried by mnglstralcs­more than nine out ofevery ten. Magistrates'powers are strictly IIm­lied by law.

MICHAEL ARGYLE, QC• JUDGE Michael Ar­gyle QC retired in Julyafter 18 colourful andcontroversial years atthe Old Bailey.Here the 72-year-old

legal eagle, who ison outspoken supporterof the death penalty,gives his solutions toBritain's growing crimeproblem.

~o~nrav!.rlul sinv~I~le"na~~against a policeman orpolicewoman doing hisduty MUST be regarded

;:'e:d;nsirl~)~ui~~~ v~h~Crown usmg only lts bestprncutloncrs nnd nil itsresources.Conviction should auto­

matically result in an im­mediate custodialsentence.When under the old

k~~~J2r ~rS~i~mi~gh:~~tfus was the rule both for