LONDON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The heir to one of Britain's oldest titles of nobility probably won't be able to add "barrister" to his name, but he will stay out of jail.
Eton law student Andrew Curzon, grandson of the Third Viscount Scarsdale, received a suspended sentence Friday after pleading guilty to charges he tried to cash a pension check apparently mailed to his parent's home.
Curzon admitted he put his own name on the 177,533 pound ($218,164) check that actually belonged to an elderly woman who lives nearby. The Telegraph said the London judge took Curzon's clean record and mild Asperger's syndrome into account in imposing a suspended nine-month sentence.
The judge noted, however, that Curzon's planned law career was probably finished.
The Curzon family has been among British nobility since the title was created by William the Conqueror.
