Alert over Forged Notes

Police in Horncastle have issued an alert after two counterfeit twenty pound notes were seized.

The notes, both bearing the same serial number of BH05 257138, had been given to a woman in Belchford as payment for sacks of potatoes that she sells from her premises. They were paid by a man described as being in his mid 50s, black hair, with glasses and a distinctive mole on one of his cheeks. He was driving a blue van.

PCSO Keith Briggs, from Horncastle Police Station, said, “These forgeries are of a high standard and it would be easy for people to be duped. We advise everyone to check notes carefully and report anything suspicious to Police”.