About 10 years ago my mum was trying to get me to take her friends son for a round of golf i was going on........I play about 4 times a year with friends who do the same, we go for a laugh, good mates for 25 years......so i said no as didnt want a 'stranger' to spoil it (he was not aware of my mums suggestion, she just said it would be 'nice' for him to get out). That same afternoon he murdered his lodger, from what I can remember it was about 60 stab wounds, more than half to the head. Was mentally unstable and sectioned (or whatever the correct term is)
Oh how we laugh about my mums judge of character comments these days.
Would lodger still be alive if I had taken murderer to golf? Would I be alive?
My step dad was “the man from the Pru”.
He used to get lots of calls at home and if he wasn’t in I’d take a message.
One man phoned up to dicuss his wife’s life insurance. He had strangled her in his sleep as he thought she was a Japanese guard and he was a P.O.W.
Amazingly his defence was accepted.
The Pru paid out.
I went to school with Richard Elsey
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/sas-fantasy-killers-jailed-1439799.html
I apprentice trained with Simon Keeler (not a murderer but he’s been convicted of terrorist offences), when I knew him he was one of the people I’d least expect to turn into a religious extremist.
Not me, but my dad used to walk to school and occasionally hang out with Peter Sutcliffe when they were around 10 to 12.
Never really talked about it and sadly my dad isn't around any more to ask.
I went to primary school with two convicted, child sex offenders. Both in the same class.
Neither seemed ‘normal’ at the time. They were both very creepy, strange, twisted people - even at 11-12 years old.
Not me, but my dad used to walk to school and occasionally hang out with Peter Sutcliffe when they were around 10 to 12.
I’ve mentioned this before - my dad met both Brady and Sutcliffe post conviction. Apparently, both were Frightenly sociable and ‘normal’...
The 'hardest man in my school' was a real bad egg. He was built like a tank and had a huge scar across his neck from being slashed, aged about 14. He was always kicking shit out of lads from the rival town gang, but one day he got his couppance when a chap named beefy who was a couple of years older and equally huge, rocked up at lunchtime and gave him the most savage beating I have ever witnessed.
2 years later him and his chums were convicted of murdering a lad after a fight outside a pub. Only served 8 years, which seemed a bit lenient after stamping on someone's head so hard the evidence used to convict them was the footprints on the victims face.
