Why does his Google history show he was at an industrial estate at night

Again, your head is in your work. I’m grateful that what you speak about is not half as common as you make it out to be. Your experience must be very localised (and I do wonder why this apparent hotbed of serious criminality hasn’t been shut down my law enforcement if it’s as well known as you suggest).

You certainly did insinuate that OP’s DH was involved in this, but nice attempt to backtrack.

I’m confident that I’m not the rude one in this dialogue. Sorry that you couldn’t see the genuine, tongue in cheek comment in my first post and took it extremely seriously (whilst also being wildly inaccurate).

OP all things considered that is a relief. Happy for you.

Boy I thought I was streetwise until I read some of these posts!

@OldCrocks

Sex trafficking and schengan... Abuser dream

I’m also experienced in this field and although people trafficking is more prevalent than people acknowledge (nail bars and car washes anyone…?), it isn’t a daily event for people to ‘deal’ in trafficked people in industrial estates. Likewise, keep them captive in said containers, thankfully.

YouTube shorts very kindly showed me a clip of an American hospital drama last night, in which an ER doctor (correctly!) identified that a patient was being trafficked by the subtle clue of a barcode tattooed on her neck.

Popular culture has fully embraced some very literal visions of people trafficking.

Cheeky spliff

"Kindly", I think you missed my point. I wasn't suggesting that OP's DH was trafficking women himself (which would indeed be unusual for an ordinary family man), just that industrial zones are very common areas for trafficked women to be made to work, often in extremely seedy environments, such as vans or shipping containers, with an equally seedy line of men (undoubtedly including lots of husbands and fathers) queuing up outside to be serviced. OP is not in the UK, but certainly this is a common sight in European towns and cities at night, and has been for decades (it escalated after Schengen but is also rife in the UK and ROI now). If you really are experienced in this field, it's strange to have made a sarcastic comment about crime fiction when you must know this is very much a fact.

There was nothing whatever in the OP that suggested the DH had come home with an unexplained quantity of scrap metal or a random catalytic converter, however common in general such crime may be.

Maybe just accept you were unnecessarily rude?

Don’t say anything yet. It might be completely innocent but it might not. It’s weird it’s only there once. It’s weird it’s an hour. It’s weird to sit in an industrial estate at that time of night alone. However, maybe he was parked there for peace and quiet to scroll on his phone or read. Or listen to music uninterrupted. You don’t want to wrongly accuse him of anything. I would def drive there at the same time myself. You don’t need to stop but just take a drive around the estate and see what’s happening there. Maybe check his phone to see if there’s any weird activity on there. Check the bank to see if he took any cash out before going there. You’d have to pay a prostitute in cash.

😂

Ah ok sorry - I misunderstood from you saying ‘they smoked it there and then’ - so he had some left? I still think it’s highly unlikely he was sat in a car smoking weed if you didn’t smell it when he came back. Maybe he just needed some ‘me’ time on his own. Who knows…

edit: just seen your last post. Fair play. It is a bit grim and dodgy.

Food and then got chatting or sat in his car and played on his phone or checked his emails, looked at property etc.

My initial thought wouldn't be prostitutes and dogging or drugs.

What is sad is that you can't talk to him about it so that already indicates a relationship that isn't doing well.

Well this was quite a reach, twist and stretch to deploy the LTB advice regardless.

What, contemptuous of illegality?!

Are you really going to try to get down on her for that?

Feels like an acceptable lie.
Did you smell weed on him, his clothes, his car? It lingers for days.

Well if you're not going to smoke in the house and you have to go elsewhere it probably will be a random car park. They're not going to go looking for a National Trust beauty spot or something are they?

Yes, it regularly tells me my phone is in Belper - which is miles away and I’ve never been there.

leave the bastard

Hmm, sure...."smoking weed"

What are LTBs?

Fight club?

You'll never get him to admit it though, because of the first two rules.

Well I think quite a few people are rather sceptical about the explanation OP has been given.

Classic how there's still LTB die hards even though the only thing that was going on was two middle aged men smoking a spliff!

Kindly, I think your head is very deep in your work…!
I’m also experienced in this field and although people trafficking is more prevalent than people acknowledge (nail bars and car washes anyone…?), it isn’t a daily event for people to ‘deal’ in trafficked people in industrial estates. Likewise, keep them captive in said containers, thankfully.
I’m not sure why you think the suggestion of stealing catalytic converters or metal are odd, when they are extremely common crimes, both especially so on industrial estates, unlike your assumption of people trafficking which seems like a bit more of a reach…!

Smoking weed in an industrial estate, so driving under the influence and much more likely to be caught due to furtive night time movements. Just smoke it at home when not going to risk killing someone whilst driving.