Seems a bit like kleptomania type of acquisitions
Agreed. Whilst the headline about the £2,600 salt and pepper grinders is juicy, I think the bigger story is the fact that he bought eight different sets of salt and pepper grinders. No-one needs, or even wants, that many.
I should be clear though, I am not excusing him and interesting that he has not, so far, used any mental health related compulsive behaviours as mitigation for defence.
Apparently he spent over £5 grand on Le Cruset*. No one needs that level of luxury, I mean that has to be at least, what? 5 coffee mugs? maybe even a casserole dish.
* I may have spent my entire lunch break looking at the list of stuff he bought...
how does one spend £1900 on umbrellas?!
gradually...then all at once: https://www.james-smith.co.uk/
Apparently he spent over £5 grand on Le Cruset*. No one needs that level of luxury, I mean that has to be at least, what? 5 coffee mugs? maybe even a casserole dish.
My contribution to flex culture is my Le Cruset butter dish. making it rain muthfokazzzzzzzz
Seems a bit similar to the Winona Ryder shoplifting and IIRC other similar rich folk shoplifting? I just find it so bizzare
I should be clear though, I am not excusing him and interesting that he has not, so far, used any mental health related compulsive behaviours as mitigation for defence.
He has not had the opportunity to present any mitigation yet. Today was the crowns chance to tell its story in detail, the mitigation will be at the sentencing hearing.
If we are wildly supposing and inventing the explanation, my amateur psychology says: he became infactuated with Nicola when she was 18 and I think he was 25?, and like many men probably spend the early part of the relationship showering her with gifts and signs of his affluence. But then she overtook him in the financial and status world and he’s struggled to keep up in a patriarchal world and felt compelled to find ways to manage.
More cynically, he’s pumped most of his salary into pension to avoid tax and so found he needs a bit of a slush fund to support a lifestyle!
i could be completely wrong on both counts!
I should be clear though, I am not excusing him and interesting that he has not, so far, used any mental health related compulsive behaviours as mitigation for defence
If the rumours are true, I suspect he was giving them away as presents to... "acquaintances"
Looks like wee Nicky Crankie got a bit greedy in her old age
Stay classy monkey
I will.
how does one spend £1900 on umbrellas?!
Have you seen the weather in Uddingston?
Having looked at the umbrellas in Dakuan's link, I can see why someone would spend a few hundred quid on an umbrella elegance, quality material, craftsnanship etc
Fortunately for me I live in Lochaber where such an umbrella would be no use to man or beast.😊
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I think he bought the camper after he bought 108 bog rolls and thought **** where can i hide them!
Its a mess. Not a fan of Sturgeon but least thought she was honest.
Big stooshie fanned up by the unionist press over a relatively small sum of party funds. Meanwhile Mone is still outstanding £122M plus interest of taxpayers money.
Seems a bit similar to the Winona Ryder shoplifting and IIRC other similar rich folk shoplifting? I just find it so bizzare
Sometimes whats behind some of these kinds of behaviours is a sort of an addiction to the risk of getting caught. The actual form the offending takes is sort of secondary - it could be financial but sometimes it can be fetishistic or sexual such as voyerism or flashing, but fundimentally its the risk of being found out thats addictive and drives people to keep doing it.
(theres a very interesting issue coming to light at the moment in regards to certain Parkinsons medications where these patterns of risk-taking behavours can be a side effect and while they take many forms but are all principally the same issue)
Compared to other instances of embezzlement where the perpetrator is either driven by a desire to have a lifestyle they can't afford or by debts from other issues (gambling/drugs/prostitutes) it doesn't really seem like he couldn't have reasonbly afforded any of the stuff he stole. Its a huge sum in total but averaged out across the duration of offending its not really beyond his means - especially as between the headline grabbing luxury pepper pots theres a lot of really surprisingly mundane low value stuff.
My contribution to flex culture is my Le Cruset butter dish. making it rain muthfokazzzzzzzz
I just buy the unfashionable colours that end up in TKMaxx. *nods towards lilac salt pig on the worktop*
I am aware of the wife of a police office who was sacked for syphoning similar amounts from a bank. If she managed for a few years given how regulated banking in then I can see Murrell getting away with it.
But yes ultimately Alexander de pfeffel probably pocketed more but who's counting and it's pennies compared to Nigel, man of the people, Farage.
Declan Nowell is hardly headline news. So is it the crime or who they represent/are associated with?
I am aware of the wife of a police office who was sacked for syphoning similar amounts from a bank. If she managed for a few years given how regulated banking in then I can see Murrell getting away with it.
My mates ex was a bank manager who stole a total of 6 figures from customers accounts before getting caught
theres a very interesting issue coming to light at the moment in regards to certain Parkinsons medications where these patterns of risk-taking behavours can be a side effect and while they take many forms but are all principally the same issue
thread diversion but I have seen this happen and its well known. A gambler and someone sexually propositioning every woman he met.
