To ask for stories of people you knew who turned out to be criminals?

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Ok so I knew this guy at school and also at a club type thing (think scouts but different). He always annoyed me, I hated having to take orders from him as he was 'higher up' I would argue and get told off.. anyway, I moved away and a few years later it's in the news that he has committed crimes against under aged girls, between the ages of 14 and 16. I was shocked but I always thought he was creepy.

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That was MIL and DH's dentist as well!
And SIL's family is mentioned in the book (on which the series was based) because they were family friends

Just remembered as well, an older friend of mine has recently seen his godfather (also a master at his prep school back in the day) long out of contact, in the papers for interfering with pupils. It was a local sensation and a horrible shock as he'd never touched my friend, thankfully. Iirc he taught Latin and or Maths.

I was a TA in a rough secondary in the late 1990s. We had a boy in Y7 I really didn't like because he was rude and sullen. I can remember my colleague saying he gave her the creeps as there was "nothing behind his eyes"

I had a Y11 class with some really "hard" kids in but most were OK once you got talking to them. One I steered clear of because he refused to engage at all. (DH had been at school with this boy's dad and said he'd been someone to avoid too).

7 years later these particular 2 lads were arrested for kicking a man to death, and sent down for 25 years. It was reported as a race crime because their victim was Asian but TBH I think it would have been anyone they'd come into contact with on that particular day. Horrific.

I have come across kids who I fully expect to read that they have murdered someone. Like the 6 year old who tortured her pet to death and was very violent to younger kids.

Sadly, one of my favourite ever pupils is behind bars for armed robbery. Although he did get a slightly reduced sentence, for being polite to one of the people they held up... He was a lovely kid. But had a very broken mother. I think she did some damage after the time I knew him. He was a kind kid - most of my colleagues hated him, because he was a bit gobby and lairy but I just got on well with him from the start and always told him he could be anything in life (he was super intelligent, loved animals and wanted to be a vet). My colleagues used to say he'd end up using the brains for criminal purposes. He could have been anything, though, but the odds were stacked against him with such a vile mother.

I never had a moment's trouble from him in class but the teachers before and after me, did.

I haven't taught many obvious psychopaths but have been in the same school as them. I worked in one really rough school around the time of the James Bulger killing and we had maybe half a dozen kids in Y6 at that school who would, quite easily, have done something similar, given the chance. I was totally unsurprised by it as were my colleagues.

Colleague who left his wife and teenage children for younger woman (who also worked with us). They used to come into work obviously 'under the influence' and had several warnings. He ended up stabbing her after a violent quarrel and is serving life for her murder...

My grandparents decorator was later found to be a rapist and murderer. We were living with them at the time as we were in the process of moving house. I was 3 and my mum and I were regularly alone with him and she always got a weird vibe off him and she felt uncomfortable around him. She later found out he raped and murdered a random woman he saw in a park. Sends shivers down my spine thinking about it.

Born and raised in Belfast so know people who were freed as part of the Good Friday Agreement. Mostly lovely family men.

I went to school with a girl whose case has just been all over the papers as she was found guilty at a retrial after apparently lying to her girlfriend about her identity.

I still can't see her as a criminal, although I know there were also instances of 9k of fraud against her place of work after she was first in trouble, and I don't question that.

Music teacher in middle school was very touchy feely with the female students. We called him The Feeler. Fast forward 15 years and I saw in the papers that he had been convicted of grooming a 13 year old girl online. Also learned he was fired from my middle school over an 'indiscretion' with a female student in the music room but managed to secure a job elsewhere.