[Misc] Nice people you have known who you later discovered had a dark side.

[tonyt]

Gus Poyet?

 

[Weststander]

The court case was 1993. Amazingly, I (and several other victims) weren't called to give evidence. The police were convinced that he'd get several years in chokey and were amazed/hopping mad that he got off relatively lightly.

No solace for you, but you may be relieved to know that in the last 20 years long jail sentences is the norm in every case. Examples:
Senior partner in Bexhill firm Graham Durnford jailed for 10 years.
Legal Secretary Leanne Harris of Arscotts, Hove got 4 years.

Both firms collapsed - reputation, costs and uninsurable.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My nephew was an acquaintance of Fred West. He said he always seemed a pleasant and normal chap.

End of fred, shirly?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I hope you've told her she needs to take a look at herself.

 

[StonehamPark]

I was friends with who I thought to be a decent guy, he's currently in jail for a well publicized local murder.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

A near neighbour seemed like a nice 70 year old guy, the proverbial chatty grandad.

But as time moved on, it became apparent that he was a shit-stirring busibody and more.

1. He made up a laminate “Don’t park here” and put it under the wipers of a car he deemed as taking his spot. (Grandad had a lovely wide drive that could take 2 cars, but he felt territorial about street spaces).
2. When the car stayed there, he Nitromorsed it.
3. Knocked on our own neighbours door to ask to look at their connected drains, as we were having an extension. Our neighbour lived 100m from grandad and had never spoken with him before. Grandad then rang BHCC Building Control to snitch on our breach; they visited us unnannouced within an hour. (Grandad was a retired surveyor). BHCC said we’d done everything correctly.
4. Other elderly neighbours pulled up in their car, with one of them having a very severe asthma attack. Grandad refused to stop blocking their drive with his car, so they couldn’t park up, as they called 999.

So smiling grandad was a curtain-twitcher on steroids.

He keeled over of a heart attack a year later.

You may have read on another thread that anyone whoever crosses me comes to a sticky end without my lifting a finger, from jobsworth power mad school prefect (dead within a year), ex flat mate who transgressed the unwritten code (raddled with health problems), ex-wife (a long list of misfortunes too heart-rending to relate) etc. If you like I can pop round and say hello to your nighbour, and if he shits me about I guarantee he'll be dead before his arse hits the Chesterfield

edit - only just spotted your last line.

Perhaps you also have 'the gift'.

 

[Blue3]

Well my wife seemed like a kind and rational person. But she now loads the dishwasher as if it works like a washing machine.

My wife does the same my explaining of the merits of an orderly load go completly unheaded or is this her dark side

 

[Gwylan]

No solace for you, but you may be relieved to know that in the last 20 years long jail sentences is the norm in every case. Examples:
Senior partner in Bexhill firm Graham Durnford jailed for 10 years.
Legal Secretary Leanne Harris of Arscotts, Hove got 4 years.

Both firms collapsed - reputation, costs and uninsurable.

That's very gratifying. In our case, the judge thought that the loss of professional reputation and being struck off was a heavy punishment in itself

 

[bluenitsuj]

You may have read on another thread that anyone whoever crosses me comes to a sticky end without my lifting a finger, from jobsworth power mad school prefect (dead within a year), ex flat mate who transgressed the unwritten code (raddled with health problems), ex-wife (a long list of misfortunes to heart-rending to relate) etc. If you like I can pop round and say hello to your nighbour, and if he shits me about I guarantee he'll be dead before his arse hits the Chesterfield

edit - only just spotted your last line.

Perhaps you also have 'the gift'.

I know a couple of people I would love to introduce you to

 

[BNthree]

Not someone I've known but saw this article today which seems to be a perfect example of this

https://torontolife.com/city/queen-west-voyeur/

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I hope you've told her she needs to take a look at herself.

If you had to deal with her you really wouldn’t find that funny. Just trying to have a count up of how many lives she has and is negatively affecting.
And yes, I did tell her what I thought of her. They don’t like the truth.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

A mate of mine always used a local taxi driver who he'd built up trust with over a number of years, ferrying him to Heathrow and back for business trips. He always asked for this guy when his teenage daughters needed driving home from night clubs etc. He is of course the infamous guy now serving multiple life sentences for abduction and murder of (at least) two local girls.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Whilst in Antigua a couple of years ago we stayed at Jolly beach.
First day on the beach we had the usual beach hawkers coming round trying to sell us various trips around the island, and one chap stood out in a Chelsea shirt. We had a good laugh with him and he said he would show us the real side of Antigua rather than the usual touristy parts. This appealed to us as he said he would bring the beers and we could spend as much time in each place we wanted to.
He turned up the next day still wearing the Chelsea shirt, so I soon corrected that by giving him a Brighton shirt to chauffeur us about the island. Soon as we set off he lit up a spliff (eek!) and we cracked open the beers. We had a great day with him,taking us for street food and back to his shack/ shop in the shanty town part of St Johns. While there it did feel a bit edgy but he was a good laugh and made us feel safe.
The next day, he met us again on the beach and chatting about the previous day then my mates Mrs asked out of knowhere he knew about the honeymoon couple that were murdered a few years back. He paused for a minute and then told us he was the main suspect. After he left we had a quick google and discovered the newspaper cuttings about him. Good laugh thou.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...a-honeymoon-murder-My-meeting-with-Cloud.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...wife-prime-Antigua-murders-suspect-Cloud.html

 

[SpongebobSquarepants]

I wouldn't say he was 'nice' but I worked with a fella who was sent down for having child porn on his computer.

As said I wouldn't call him nice, but he definitely wasn't even close to the top 10 of a*******s in that particular office.

I had the same with a guy I worked with. I wonder if it was the same office (although that means I might have been in top 10)