Jacob can go potting once more

Tuesday 26th April 2011, 2:29PM BST.

Abi, 5, and Jacob Jenner-Arnold, 4. with fisherman Dave Markwick and the pots he gave them after Jacob’s was sabotaged. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1127313)

JACOB Jenner-Arnold was devastated when someone sabotaged his crab pot but a kind-hearted fisherman has given him three of his own after seeing the four-year-old’s story in the Guernsey Press.

Jacob put his pot down a month ago with his father to catch crabs and lobsters to sell to raise money to buy swings for the garden in the family’s new home.

But three weeks later they found it had been deliberately cut, meaning that anything entering it would be able to escape.

Jacob’s mum Hayley said she got a phone call from fisherman Dave Markwick soon after his story appeared in this paper.

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damo

April 26, 2011 at 2:49 pm

Good luck Jacob…

I know Dave and you might like to know you won’t have to catch much to beat him ! (sorry Dave ;-)

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Ray

April 26, 2011 at 7:09 pm

Be careful Jacob

Tax rules say one pot = Hobby
3 pots = small business

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Oscar Puffin

April 27, 2011 at 5:51 am

Another piece of advice. Don’t drop ‘em off under the SPP lighthouse next time. Those line fishermen have got short tempers and sharp knives.
2 winks and 3 fishes for Jacob!

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Hayley

April 28, 2011 at 1:35 pm

Thanks for the nice comments – these I will read to Jacob x

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Dave

April 28, 2011 at 10:37 pm

Bet you Dads happy to get his pots back. Maybe he should say that Jacobs Porsche has been vandalised!

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