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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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mathanxiety · 29/07/2017 01:27

Also, an aunt by marriage of exH's did a good few years for embezzlement of a considerable sum.

TwoGhostsGoToWar · 29/07/2017 02:21

Stopped by my best friends house after leaving school early to pick up something trivial I had left there but saw her mums best friends car in the drive and didn't want to disturb them so just went home. Transpires the best friends boyfriend was driving the car, had gone in to the house to say he couldn't find the best friend (his DP) when in reality he had just killed her with a baseball bat and her body was in the boot of the car. The car I had seen.

MySqueeHasBeenSeverelyHarshed · 29/07/2017 02:51

A guy I saw frequently at social events, I wouldn't have considered him a friend but he would have considered me to be one of his. Was always hinting that we get together, but I have no interest in men and in any case he was well known to be unstable and tended to go off his meds for stupid reasons then brag about it. Not the creepiest guy on the scene but not far off.

He attacked a girl at one of these events, he's going to prison for a significant amount of time. Sent shockwaves through the community but pretty much everyone has been supportive of his victim and have cut all contact with him.

inaclearingstandsaboxer · 29/07/2017 03:13

I think a few of us had relations who were Dr Shipman's patients.

Apparently he had a 'lovely bedside manner' when he visited my Gran in Chartist House...

Tobebythesea · 29/07/2017 07:04

When I was 16 I worked for a well known high street shop on Saturdays. One of the girls in the office was always going shopping. I wondered at the time about how she afforded it but then thought nothing of it. Later found out that she was stealing from the tills.

MrsJayy · 29/07/2017 07:12

Friend of Dh her dad went to prison for paying boys for sex he also ran a hobby club with mainly boys in it i always wonder what else he did, everytime i see Dhs friend my heart breaks for her the neighbours hunted her out of her house.

shirleythefamilyguy · 29/07/2017 07:15

I forgot - at my last workplace I found out a fairly senior member of staff had been convicted years ago of murdering his wife. He was a policeman and it was horribly premeditated. He served time but had a reduced sentence after apparently showing remorse but he was a charming and manipulative guy so it all sounded a bit dodgy.

lmer · 29/07/2017 07:22

A not very close relative of mine has just been charged with abusing her dd- it happened to her as a child and she's been extremely messed up since so nobody's really surprised.

And a guy I knew all through school slept with an underage girl (15) but got of those charges (I'm unclear of all the details but know they'd met in a club and the place they met got hefty fines after that)

clairewilliams999 · 29/07/2017 07:39

Friend of a friend who is a bit of a character is serving 5 years for importing drugs. My friend, who is a bit dizzy, commented that it wasn't as bad as it sounds as he wasn't using the drugs himself but was only selling them!

BonnibelBubblegum · 29/07/2017 07:41

Worked with a bloke who had come over from another country. He came across like a proper gentleman and he was respectful and he went above and beyond for the company. He was really polite and well spoken. Everyone thought he was great.

He was off sick for a few weeks and no one knew why. It came out in the papers that he and his younger brother had kept his sister and disabled mother prisoner in the basement. They were treated like slaves and beaten and starved for over a year.

They are now is prison and their excuse was that it was normal in their culture to do those things.

AlpacaPicnic · 29/07/2017 07:47

A friend of ours has just been convicted of rape and sentenced to 8 years. When he was first accused we didn't want to believe it - never got any 'off feeling' about him. Now I'm questioning my judgement...

Did have a very creepy customer and the young lady we assumed was his daughter but he got angry and told us it was his wife. He did give off a terrible vibe. That ended in murder.

We also had a teacher struck off for inappropriate relationship with pupil... but unusually it was a female teacher and male pupil.

duracellred · 29/07/2017 07:51

My former headmaster has just been sentenced to prison for child abuse.

ChrisPrattsFace · 29/07/2017 08:05

My NDN when I was younger, two boys and a girl same ages as me and my brother.
Oldest went to prison for murder/stabbing person 1, then the youngest brother went for attempted murder of person 2 (someone in the same family) - also stabbing... and then the middle girl attacked person 2 again... you guessed it, with a knife.
Best friends growing up, difficult upbringing for them and we grew up in the worst area of our town. Not surprised to hear about each one.

HotelEuphoria · 29/07/2017 08:14

Young woman was attacked in the canal bank early one morning whilst walking to work. Attacker pinned her down and pulled her skirt up, poor woman was terrified and screamed and the attacker ran off. Was caught on CCTV getting into his car.

Turned out it was my neighbour a few doors down, divorced and living with his elderly parents. Had a knicker fetish and stole them from washing lines too.

Now in prison for several years.

AhhhhThatsBass · 29/07/2017 08:20

Gabsdot i read your post as your uncle interned at the IRA and my unchecked thoughts decided that they must have run a very slick organization in the 70s to have a summer internship program for students. D'oh. In fact I just realised I actually do no a crim. An ex client at a blue stocking asset management firm in the City was convicted of insider trading. Not v exciting really.

AhhhhThatsBass · 29/07/2017 08:20

*know

Marmalady75 · 29/07/2017 08:33

I taught a little shit challenging child, who at age 7 used to hit/punch/kick the other children and threaten to stab/burn/blind them. I always said I'd read about him in the papers - I did when he was done for torturing and murdering a pensioner for drug money.
I taught a girl whose dad murdered the mum in front of her.
I raised concerns about a male colleague and his inappropriate behaviour towards some of the young boys in his class. I was told he was a happily married man and to stop being a gossip. You can imagine what happened a few years later.

HemmieH · 29/07/2017 08:38

Boy in my year at school moved into a bedsit with a girl and her baby daughter. Both the boy and girl were 16 at the time. Boy hated the little girl who was mixed race and would racially abuse her. He swung her against the wall and killed her. He claimed she choked on a piece of cake Hmm
Someone who was in OH's year at school (We attended the same high school one year apart) broke into an old lady's house and raped her. He stole a pack of playing cards and nothing else. He was found covered in blood wondering the city afterward.

MamaHanji · 29/07/2017 08:47

*Tofutti
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I was summing up the story. Piss off with your calling me ignorant. You don't have a clue. The fact was, he is Muslim, and they SAID she bought dishonour in their family, so they killed her.

Gotta love people that as soon as you say the word 'Muslim', start shouting racist/ignorant.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with me saying it.

Also it was indoctrination as he had been turned into a fanatic...

steppemum · 29/07/2017 08:58

the husband of a close friend of mine. Totally normal bloke, if a bit boring, very 'boy next door' nice husband/dad etc.

Just served 9 years for rape of a small child.

I always worry about the whole
'we always knew he was a nasty character - I could tell'
lots of people seem to think they would spot someone who was nasty. Well, you can't. The easy to spot ones are easy. It is the nice people, the 'we would never have thought it coudl be him' ones who are so dangerous

x2boys · 29/07/2017 08:58

My bil went to school with and was in the same class as someone who raped and murdered an elderly women in the bus station ( he was a bus driver) it was over 20 years ago but he wasn't caught for a long time and was caught through DNA on a minor offence ( I think) it's a very notorious crime in the town .

steppemum · 29/07/2017 09:09

my mum taught a lad who she was concerned about, when he went to secodonary she sent a report saying he should never be left with any equipement eg science stuff unsupervised.

Ages 11 he put his sister's eye out with a pair of scissors

Wheelycote · 29/07/2017 09:13

Ex boyfriend as a teen has been in and out of prison for burglary. Didn't expect that

Then a lad I went to school with ended up murdering someone and in prison. He was a hard knock but never expected that

Grew up in a rough area

Optimouse · 29/07/2017 09:20

Best man at my sister's wedding became a serial killer when he killed four people and went on the run... Seems very strange when we see the wedding photos now 🙀🙀

Valderal · 29/07/2017 09:44

I was friendly with the "gang" who bundled an unsuspecting teenager into a car, physically abused him, set him alight and left him in the car park of a working mens club in Scotland.

Absolute horrors. Hope they rot

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