Unknown person stings Jeremy Clarkson

Outspoken Top Gear presenter, and The Sun and The Times columnist, Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he was wrong after a reader set up a direct debit from his bank account.

Clarkson had published his bank account details in his Sun column, along with details of how to find his address, after rubbishing the furore over the loss of the HMRC data disks, the BBC has said.

“All you’ll be able to do with them is put money into my account,” he wrote. “Not take it out. Honestly, I’ve never known such a palaver about nothing.”

However, he has since written in his Sunday Times column that he “opened my bank statement this morning to find out that someone has set up a direct debit which automatically takes £500 from my account. The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.”

I for one commend Mr Clarkson on his stupidity, and congratulate his wonderful donation to Diabetes UK – along with his change of heart: “Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy.”

Hear, hear.