Two sentenced in Prince William photo flap

LONDON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Two men were sentenced in a London court to 100 days of community service for stealing a memory card containing photos of Prince William and his girlfriend.

Charlie Ewins and Leon Sesay had pleaded guilty to the theft at an earlier court hearing. They were reported to police after they attempted to sell the digital images of the prince and Kate Middleton, which were taken during a Middleton family vacation on the Caribbean island of Mustique last year.

The men said they found the memory card in the street after a car belonging to Middleton's sister was broken into, and her bag, along with her phone and camera, had been snatched.

''Counsel described you as 'Dumb and Dumber,'" The Daily Telegraph quoted recorder Martyn Barklem as telling Ewins and Sesay, referring to the iconic Jim Carrey-Jeff Daniels comedy.

"That is not that inaccurate a characterization of you both. You are essentially fools for whom things have spiraled out of control. ... I suppose years ago, you might have been sent to the Tower of London, but, of course, cameras and memory cards did not exist in those days.''