Ever met someone you later learned had done something really bad? **Content warning: thread contains mentions of child abuse**

[user2848502016]

Just asking because a few months ago someone I worked with suddenly stopped coming to work... then we found out he had been found guilty of possessing child porn 😬
He hadn't been working with us for long so didn't know him that well but he just seemed like a nice, slightly boring middle aged man! I know you can't ever tell by looking at someone but it just made me think anyone I know could be doing anything behind closed doors.....

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I imagine that this was actually quite common.

I’d really like to know how he came to be driving a van home from an office when at the time of the murders he was working as a grave digger, and later on as a long distance lorry driver.

And what do you mean he saw her as respectable ? Or are you another who thinks he only murdered sex workers ? He was thought to have been responsible for as many as 35 murders, and at least seven serious assaults from as early as 1969, and of the 13 he was convicted of, only a handful of them were sex workers. In the unlikely event that this is true, l would think the reason this lady didn’t end up as a victim would be more likely to be because the trail of evidence would lead right back to him. He may have been a monster but he wasn’t stupid - he got away with his crimes for nearly 12 years.

The grave diggers I know are also maintenance men and drive vans of their equipment back and fourth to different locations?

But she wasn't there so how wary the girls were of her is irrelevant.
She wasn't responsible directly or otherwise for what Huntley did, by the time she returned home they were dead and had been dumped.
Its absolutely awful and perhaps her providing the alibi slowed The Police down a bit but thats all

Yes. A lovey elderly gentlemen age 70+ occasionally speaks to me on his dog walks.

Wouldn't assume anything else other than an old retired man.

Found out he was a big cocaine importer in the 70s. All on Google.

Done time in prison most of his life in multiple countries and killed people. 😳

A friend of my family didnt see wife and husband as regular anymore just out af different times at the bus stop. We found out he has been done for looking at indecent images and his wife tells most people he is dead. He seemed a really nice man.

I’m not having a go but when I was a teenager i used to work in an old people’s home, many had dementia and they always lived in the past in their heads as though it had happened yesterday, they couldn’t remember what had happened an hour before though.

same as everyone else here it would seem, we employed a tradie who was hardworking and good at his job, we could tell he had likely been in trouble with police at some point in his life but to my horror, some months later I googled him in order to give someone his recommendation and I got his name wrong which bought up details of his conviction for child abuse images. It was definitely him as his photo was attached.

@Pallisers

Such a weird take.

People calling out the term CP. Do you really presume we think the posters is saying the child consented. That's shocking!!

It's just an awful way to describe it that's all.

@Pallisers

When does a child abuse picture become a porn picture - when the victim is 12? 13? 14? 15? 16? - oh 16 over the age of consent probably just porn.

• Erm 18. What's going on in your head?

@almondmilk123

There's no creeping around or unexplained lost time, I always know where he is and what he's doing. Check.

I have access to all his email addresses and passcodes to all his devices, have done since I can remember. Check.

• I think you need your see someone about that.

That's why it is so scary and a lot of people don't believe it. They simply can't compute that so many men are nonces and one of them may be related to them.

Are you for fucking real?

Given that he killed prostitutes, it's highly unlikely.

Actually several had no connection to sex work at all. Remember the Leeds University student Jacqueline Hill? With others the link to sex work is disputed. Sutcliffe just hated women generally and took the opportunity to attack women he thought didn't matter when he found them in a vulnerable situation.

My Dad had a business contact in London who was a really lovely man. He and his wife couldn't have children so he always spoiled us when he visited, turned up to collect us from school in his Rolls Royce etc and slipped us cash when he left. My Mum was never keen on him and I didn't know why.
Turns out he was an enforcer for The Krays in the 60's - I know a lot of people claim this but I looked him up and it seems it was true.

This is really interesting given how people also talk inaccurately about Jack the Ripper’s victims as prostitutes. It’s a sort of weird othering, as if we can only deal with these crimes by thinking of them as happening to people not like us.

It's not child "pornography" it's recorded images of child rape.

About 5 or 6 years after we left school, my close school friend's dad was charged and imprisoned for videoing women in the toilets. He did this at work (he was a doctor, so this involved patients as well as colleagues), as well as at home, whenever they had guests over. For his female colleagues, who he recorded regularly, he kept a spreadsheet of when they were on their periods.

Unfortunately, I visited his house with a group of other girls several times since the police believe he began doing this, so I was almost certainly one of his victims.

He was always weird- very stern and mildly creepy- but I obviously didn't expect he was doing that for a large part of the time I knew him!

Because many of the recordings were of children (underage patients, children of patients and children at his parties at home), he was sent to a specialist prison on the Isle of Wight for sex offenders against children. In the transport van, he was handcuffed to none other than... Gary Glitter!

@IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine

he was sent to a specialist prison on the Isle of Wight for sex offenders against children. In the transport van, he was handcuffed to none other than... Gary Glitter!

• and you believe this?

I agree this bit is quite farfetched! I have it about fourth-hand as well: my mum's friend was his receptionist, so as one of his main victims, was kept regularly informed by the police. She claims the police liaison told her this, she told my mum, my mum told me. But you're right, since I obviously wasn't there, it could be bollocks.

These two were in my class at school. When they were 14/14, they tortured and murdered an old lady, dragged her body around town in a wheelie bin and dumped her in a canal 😳

Both out of prison as of earlier this year.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/teen-killer-who-brutally-murdered-29064033

Omg I saw a documentary about this and it's been in the news!!

That is so creepy.

It's against regulations to handcuff a prisoner to another prisoner but I'm not sure how long that has been the case.

I'm not attacking her. As somebody who was an educator, it interested me that she was a TA. I think children don't see past " Oh it's Miss A from school" That would have been on their minds. And they would have been interested in his pet dog.

I had no idea there was a documentary!