Les Buckley was a smooth-talking salesman who conned Mavis Riley when she was left in charge of The Kabin for several days while Rita Littlewood was away visiting friends. His said his purpose in visiting the shop was to buy a bag of Everton mints, supposedly to help him in his quest to quit smoking and he soon started to chat ten to a dozen and flatter Mavis. He told her about his sales job and the fact that he’d just pulled off a good deal for high-quality ladies tights which retailed at 10p each. Telling her that he found her easy to talk to, little by little, on two visits he started to overcome her nervousness to the point where she asked to buy one gross (i.e. 144) of tights off him. In between visits he made a call from the Rovers to an unseen associate, told him that he had another