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

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 28/07/2017 21:03

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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Queenofthestress · 28/07/2017 23:33

My creepy ass music teacher got jailed for sleeping with two underage girls, both of which I knew quite well and I still see one now

Timefortea99 · 28/07/2017 23:43

Depressing how many men have this sexual interest in children. Scary and depressing.

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 28/07/2017 23:46

Also the other day I got the shock of my life when an ex-colleagues son was on front of the local paper for raping a 4yo. It's when I worked in a shop as a student that I knew him, he worked next door and was forever popping in for a chat and to say hi, came across so nice and charming - but then they all do don't they, that's how they get away with it Sad

BabychamSocialist · 28/07/2017 23:47

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ExplodedCloud · 28/07/2017 23:52

The alarmingly common paedophile teacher :(
A uni acquaintance who was a fraudster
A fellow govt employee in my dept who was corrupt.

OkPedro · 28/07/2017 23:53

What being "respectable" and "middle class" has to do with someone commenting a crime I'll never know. I live in a deprived area and shock horror 90% of us work and don't commit crime 😡

gabsdot · 28/07/2017 23:54

A family member of DHs best friend recently was convicted of child sex offences.
I was really shocked. He was an odd guy but I never suspected that.
Turns out there had been several previous incidents that had not been proven.
Also
My uncle was interned in the 1970s in Belfast for suspected IRA membership. I don't think he was in the IRA but according to my dad he was probably up to something illegal.

JustCallMeKate · 28/07/2017 23:56

I went to school with a lad who ended up being a pimp in London, came back home and murdered an 18 year old girl. I shudder to think what the girl went through.

My aunt lived next door to a mother and son. She went to visit the mother one day and found her dead in the kitchen, the son had murdered her.

leedspirate · 28/07/2017 23:58

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RortyCrankle · 29/07/2017 00:00

One of my neighbours when I lived in London. He was a super bloke, would help anyone - turns out he was a master jewel thief - got arrested and put away and never seen again. As soon as he was inside, there were a lot of burglaries in my road, including my flat - it seems he had kept the burglars off his patch.

goose1964 · 29/07/2017 00:03

A boy in my son's class converted to become a Muslim and was caught by the police planning to bomb a Bristol shopping centre. Son said he always was a douche

ChickaaaaannDipppaaaaassss · 29/07/2017 00:04

So...you had suspicions about him that you didn't report and now you want to rubberneck at over people's tragedies? You're a fucking charmer, OP.

Oh do fuck off.
A child (I'm guessing cadets) not having the confidence to report.
Again, Do fuck off.

Alpacaandgo · 29/07/2017 00:11

A boy I went to school with killed his neighbours rabbit when he was 9 years old. For fun. 8 years later he murdered a girl because she wouldn't go out with him.

WinifredAtwellsOtherPiano · 29/07/2017 00:18

Used to work for a very respectable blue chip company. I was made redundant when they closed my office down but these thing happen... One year later a massive scandal comes out of the woodwork. Arrests galore, my boss committed suicide and my sodding pension is now the responsibilty of the UK Pension Protection Fund.

Another co-worker was the subject of an embarrassing raid at the office from the rozzers when his uncle (member of notorious east end gangster family) was caught up in a high profile bank heist. Given the nature of the co-worker's job in the City of London. this was spectacularly unfortunate, but he was only questioned, never arrested, and his future career seems to have been unimpaired by this little local difficulty.

One teacher at my school ran off to Australia with a sixth former, which was not illegal then but would be now.

DeleteOrDecay · 29/07/2017 00:21

Guy I went to school with got sent down for 18 years for being an accomplice in murdering a care home resident. It made the local news, I would link it but the details are truly horrific.

He was always a little odd at school but mostly harmless, although I didn't know him that well. It's scary what some people are capable of and you'd never in a million years have suspected them.

DixieNormas · 29/07/2017 00:22

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FreyaJade · 29/07/2017 00:27

An ex-flat mate was done for stealing fentanyl from his workplace & injecting it...

toastandbutterandjam · 29/07/2017 00:30

From school, there are 7 that went to prison(that I know of):
3 people for (seperate) murders - one of these was in the media, all got life sentences
1 person for manslaughter
2 people for gbh
1 person for rape

Two step relatives were child abusers, only one convicted (got 75 years), died in prison.

A ex friends cousin planned a murder of someone (didn't carry it out himself) - Got 25 years.

Friends husband - murder

Cocklodger · 29/07/2017 00:35

I went out drinking with friends (at 15, I know I know Blush ) and there was a very strange man trying to be near me constantly and talk to me I was Hmm Hmm and a bit freaked out. He was 19/20ish and when I went to the toilet one of the girls had to stop him following me in (didn't know that until after).
A few years later when I was about 18ish I saw in the papers that he'd been arrested and jailed for raping a 14 year old girl Sad Angry

DixieNormas · 29/07/2017 00:38

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ArchieStar · 29/07/2017 00:38

Very interesting thread.

I went to school with a girl who was subjected to a horrific honour killing.

With regards to Shipman... a lady in court was giving evidence against him about her mother, I've heard through the grapevine he muttered that he should've bumped her off and not her mother!!

Scary stuff.

BlooBagoo · 29/07/2017 00:40

More than a few but the one that really shocked me was an old crush from secondary school being jailed for child abuse and child porn charges.

AnneGrommit · 29/07/2017 00:50

Quite a few kids at my school had records for shoplifting, burglary, joy riding and assault by the time we left.

One kid is now a convicted serial rapist. He was always very violent and also used violent sexual language even when we were around 11 years old. At the time I hated him and was scared of his mean streak but now as an adult I do wonder what must have been going on in his life that he could come out with stuff like that when he was so young.

HollaHolla · 29/07/2017 00:52

My old high school headmaster was done for embezzling a lot of cash from the School accounts.

Also, a friend's wife embezzled £200k from her workplace. Didn't tell friend until after they were married - which I think was low.... she got community service because she was depressed. (I've suffered from depression and didn't steal from my Employer! Hmm )

mathanxiety · 29/07/2017 01:26

I grew up with a boy who later did time for holding up the local newsagents with a sawn-off shotgun. He was a junkie for a while, and had all sorts of dodgy people calling to his parents' house at night looking for him even years after he left. One of his nocturnal callers got the address wrong and banged on my mum's door in the wee hours of the morning a few years ago, shouting angrily for him. Mum most unwisely got up and came downstairs and read him the riot act instead of calling the Gardai.

I used to attend a summer Irish language camp (known in Ireland as 'Irish college') and heard some gossip the first time I went to the effect that teenage boys were not safe around the founder of the programme. Decades later and the organisation has expunged all reference to him from its history. I learned that several men came forward to say that they had been assaulted as teens. The man was never charged and is now deceased.