Wirral singer Charlie Landsborough is victim of sick hoax

Nov 4 2009 Birkenhead News

WIRRAL country music legend, Charlie Landsborough fell victim to a sick hoax – for the third time.

Charlie had been due to perform a charity concert in Bangor, Ireland, when the event organiser received a phone call telling him the singer’s wife had died.

The caller, who spoke with a Scottish accent, claimed to work for the concert’s promoters, David Hull, and said the country music star would no longer be able to perform because he was “devastated”.

Following the phone call, event organiser Bill Keery set about cancelling the concert, which was in aid of Bangor Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB).

Mr Keery said: “I had to tell everyone at CAB, who were so disappointed, then ask everyone to stop selling tickets and put up ‘cancelled’ signs over all the concert posters.”

It was only a few days later when he rang the promoters to see if Charlie could perform at a later date that Mr Keery discovered he had been the victim of a hoax.