Aberdeen Crimewatch

[tutankamun]

Who's been exposing themselves on King Street then?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-28657163

Police issue CCTV in Aberdeen public indecency probe

 

Police have issued a CCTV image of a man they are searching for over a public indecency offence in Aberdeen.

 

Officers have been investigating the incident on King Street in the early hours of the morning on Thursday, 6 March.

 

The man they are looking for is described as being 5ft 10in tall with short brown hair and was wearing a dark waist-length jacket and jeans.

Officers also said the man may have had a squint.

 

PC Robert Woods said the offence was "a distressing incident for the victims".

[dave_min]

I'd like to remind y'all that I was out the country on Thursday, 6 March.

[tutankamun]

"Officers also said the man may have had a squint."

A squint what?

[ChutneyLove]

Looks like dayts going by the Dingwall 5 photos.

 

dayts;

are you 5' 10"?

do you have a dodgy yak?

do you distress people by getting your knob out?

where were you on the evening of March 6th?

 

incidentally, the thought for the day back then:

 

6th March

An essential attribute of a good conversationalist is to be an equally good listener.

Errol White

[Henry]

A thief has stolen more than £18,000 worth of jewellery from a shop in an early morning raid in Aberdeen.

The robber grabbed the haul of jewellery at around 9.30am on Tuesday at Northern Diamond on Union Street.

A member of staff said they had lost "at least £18,000" worth of jewellery. Two rings and a bracelet were stolen during the theft.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "There was a slight struggle between the suspect and a member of staff during the incident.

A man in his 30s grabbed jewellery and is believed to have made off in the Golden Square direction.

"The suspect is described as eastern European and has black hair. He was wearing jeans, trainers and a blue jacket with a white stripe across the chest.

"Police Scotland were alerted to the incident at 9.28am and are in attendance."

[daytripping]

Looks like dayts going by the Dingwall 5 photos.

 

dayts;

are you 5' 10"?

do you have a dodgy yak?

do you distress people by getting your knob out?

where were you on the evening of March 6th?

 

incidentally, the thought for the day back then:

 

6th March

An essential attribute of a good conversationalist is to be an equally good listener.

Errol White

 

Just seen this,

 

I'm way more stylish than that lad, nae me. Doesn't sound like he did much wrong outwith being a twat.

[Henry]

Aberdeen is a “mafia stronghold”, according to a report published by a European crime think tank.

The Transcrime study, which investigated how criminal groups invested their money across Europe between 2007 and 2013, claims the city is a base for the notorious Camorra clan.

Researchers said the Camorra are involved in catering, public works, and real estate in Aberdeen.

They reported: "The Camorra stronghold is Aberdeen, the third most populous city in Scotland, where it controls the catering, public works, food retail and wholesale and property sectors."

Alleged Camorra boss and Aberdeen restaurant owner, Antonio La Torre, was extradited to Italy and jailed for extortion and racketeering in 2005.

He is the brother of Augusto La Torre, who later confessed to the murders of 40 people.

Transcrime found evidence that two other Italian criminal organisations are active in the UK.

It claimed the Sicilian mafia organises illegal gambling in London, while the 'Ndrangheta are active in the property market.

[Poodler]

My pal was riding that La Torre's daughter and when this story came out he was absolutely shiting himself [emoji81] I think he reads here so [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106] MD [emoji81]

[dave_min]

The mafia need to get a better control of this place as the standard of Italian Restaurant round here is poor.

 

Also need to get the ISIS boys to sort out the Kebab situation.

[Henry]

The mafia could also have a look at the poor quality of cocaine in Aberdeen while they're here.

 

© Roberto.

[minijc]

Which places do these cunts own?

[muttonhumper]

Pavarotti's was one but nae noo.

[dave_min]

Ciao Napoli must be Mafia owned, it's by far the best Italian in Aberdeen.

[Bluto10]

ever been to Naples david min?

naples is the same city as napoli is by teh way.

[dave_min]

Indeed I have.

 

Thought it was a shithole.

 

There's a decent record store there though.

[Bluto10]

interesting.

 

 

ah italy.

 

is there anywhere on earth that can boast such riches....

 

rome

venice

florecnce

tuscany

amalfi coast

the italian lakes

 

?

[Jigot]

Off topic a bitty but when I went to my pick up on Monday morning after a trainspotting-esque,post derby sesh,I discovered that it had been tanned and all our power tools had been chored . I heard today that a gang of travellers (yannies,pikeys,wood tinks or wharever you want to call them) hit my toun on Sunday night. The next time a braw shiney Trasit stops at our job and the cunt with the funney fuckin acsent asks if we want to buy tools he better have been buying some lucky white fuckin heather, coz I,'m gonna kick one of his claespegs up his scabbie fuckin nose.

[Henry]

 

Having a second home in Aberdeen, Europe’s energy capital, is a profitable business.

House prices in the city are rising at a rate of £5,000 a month, making property the safest of investments for those who are basking in the riches that oil and gas have given Scotland’s north-east corner.

It is the place the recession forgot, where good engineers can pick up signing-on fees akin to Premier League footballers just for moving companies.

But it’s not just about the money – the region’s beauty and slower pace of life have seen Donald Trump and the Queen make the city and its surrounding area their home from home.

But unbeknown to most, apparently so has the Mafia.

An EU-funded report claims that Aberdeen is a stronghold for Italy’s deadly Camorra syndicate, a loose affiliation of family crime networks believed to be responsible for more than 3,600 deaths since 1975 – more than the IRA, the Basque separatists Eta or their Sicilian counterparts, La Cosa Nostra.

The Transcrime research centre will publish its full report later this year, but early details have been released by Italian politician Oreste Rossi, who has been campaigning for tougher laws to clamp down on Mafia money laundering across Europe.

“The Camorra stronghold is Aberdeen, the third most populous city in Scotland, where it controls the catering, public works, food retail and wholesale and property sectors,” Mr Rossi says in the report.

To put this into context, Aberdeen is relatively crime free. Aside from Scottish Midlands drug gangs looking to cash in on young people with money to burn, it is not plagued by the same level of organised crime as Glasgow or the capital, Edinburgh. So the revelation that the Mafia is in town should have shocked the city’s folk to the core. But it didn’t.

Barney Crockett, who until May was the political leader of the city council, said the Mafia’s presence was no secret. “I think the attraction of Aberdeen is the fact that they can swap over a lot of money, because it is such a busy business environment,” he told me after the report came to light. “However, I am totally confident that there is no involvement in public works of any description.”

I have lived here all of my 29 years, the last four in senior roles at the city’s Press and Journal newspaper.

Have I ever had to write stories about Mafia bloodshed? No – but the Camorra has made the headlines here in the past.

Roberto Saviano, whose book inspired the film Gamorrah, believes the Mafia has been operating in the city since the 1980s.

In 2005, the restaurateur Antonio La Torre was arrested and later jailed for 13 years in Italy for extortion and racketeering. He is the brother of the gang’s former boss, Augusto La Torre, who later confessed to murdering 40 people in Italy.

Antonio had moved to Aberdeen in 1984 to open Pavarotti’s, an Italian eatery in the city centre which was allegedly used as a base to launder money.

Raffaele Cantone, the prosecutor who helped bring the La Torre clan to justice, described Scotland as the “perfect HQ”, because it was safe and quiet. However, the suggestion that the city remains in the grip of mobsters has been denied strongly by Italians in Aberdeen, who claim that it is an insult to the city’s 600-strong community.

Nino Lepre, a restaurateur originally from Naples, dismissed the claims and said he feared the report could lead to “racial discrimination”.

“I have been in Aberdeen for 17 years and my brother has been here for 23 years and is married to a Scottish woman,” he said.

“In all my time here I’ve never been approached or threatened by anyone saying they were from the Mafia.

“There was a story about a gangster here many years ago, but I only know about these things from reading them in the newspaper. In Italy there is no denying that there is a problem with the Mafia but I don’t see that situation in Aberdeen, honestly.

“For me it doesn’t make sense for a big gangster to come to Aberdeen when he could be relaxing on a sunny beach with a bottle of beer and a cigarette. We are sick and tired of people thinking we are Mafia because we are Italians.”

His fears appear to be backed up by the case of Ciro Schiattarella, another Aberdeen restaurant boss who was extradited to Italy to face Mafia-related charges.He spent three months in the notorious Busto Arsizio prison in Varese, northern Italy, before being released.

Mr Schiattarella said that the allegations – which were later downgraded to charges related to the bankruptcy of a company – had cost him everything.

The 61-year-old had to give up his restaurant and house to fight the charges. He now works as a chef and lives in a council house.

He had been working for a company linked to La Torre before his arrest, which he believes led to his implication. He said Italian prosecutors tried to “destroy him”.

“I would put my head on the block and say categorically that there is no Mafia in Aberdeen,” he said.

“I have lived here for 35 years – Aberdeen is one of the safest cities in Europe.”

The Scottish police also say there is no intelligence to support the report’s comments, but the paper has left many politicians feeling uneasy.

Former MEP Struan Stevenson, said the claims were “absolutely staggering”, while current Brussels member Ian Duncan is seeking urgent talks with police.

“It is well known that criminal gangs in Scotland use legitimate business operations to turn their dirty money into clean money,” he said. “Aberdeen is booming and the last thing the north-east of Scotland needs is criminal elements blighting society.

“Wherever there is organised crime there is human suffering, and we must take a firm stand against those who would seek to exploit and abuse the vulnerable.”

[The Boofon]

Looks like dayts going by the Dingwall 5 photos.

 

dayts;

are you 5' 10"?

do you have a dodgy yak?

do you distress people by getting your knob out?

where were you on the evening of March 6th?

 

incidentally, the thought for the day back then:

 

6th March

An essential attribute of a good conversationalist is to be an equally good listener.

Errol White

Sounds more like Roberto. He loves getting his cock out. ^^^^^^

[Henry]

A bank worker jailed for stealing £120,000 from a wealthy customer she falsely accused of sexually assaulting her has been released from prison – just a month after she was sentenced.

Satnam Kaur was jailed for a year on July 30 after she failed to convince a sheriff she had been given the cash as “hush money”.

Sheriff Christopher Shead ruled she had swindled Robert Brown into signing a blank banker’s draft before plundering his account over a period of a month.

Kaur paid the money into the account of another customer – Robert Mann – before forging his signature on a blank cheque which was deposited in her own Lloyds TSB account.

The theft happened at the Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Aberdeen’s Albyn Place and more than half the money was sent to an account in India.

Kaur’s solicitor, Peter Keene, told the Press and Journal last night that his client had been released early from prison on a tag – despite outstanding proceedings to try to recover some of the cash she took.

In October last year the Indian national walked free from court after a Crown blunder led to the original case against her collapsing.

She was initially due to go on trial in front of a jury at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, but vital words were missing from the indictment served on her.

As a result, Kaur’s trial was conducted under summary proceedings, meaning the maximum sentence she could be given was 12 months.

If she had been convicted on indictment, a sheriff may have been able to jail her up for up to five years.

Kaur is due to appear in court again later this month for a proceeds of crime hearing, where the Crown will try to recover some of the stolen money.

However, the court previously heard the Crown Office has been unable to trace the missing cash and Mr Keene said she was unable to say where it was hidden.

Giving evidence at her trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, 32-year-old Kaur claimed Mr Brown had given her the money because she threatened to report him to the police for touching her inappropriately.

She said there were a number of incidents involving him trying to kiss her or touch her on the leg.

The former customer adviser claimed Mr Brown said he worked in the offshore industry and did not want to have any convictions on his record.

Kaur, who formerly stayed at Fraser Place in Aberdeen but has been living in Glasgow, claimed he offered to pay her cash in exchange for keeping quiet.

She claimed she asked Mr Mann if the cash could be transferred into his account first.

The court also heard evidence from the two men, who insisted they had not given Kaur permission to access their accounts.

Fiscal depute Craig Harris said Kaur had told an “absolute pack of lies” about how the money had gone into her personal account.

The Home Office now has to decide whether Kaur will be deported when she is freed of her tag.

[Henry]

A man who robbed an Aberdeen bookmakers at knifepoint but was then caught after posting a Facebook selfie has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.

James Robertson, 26, held up a Ladbrokes shop in Rousay Drive in the Mastrick area of the city in February.

He posted a picture in the same outfit he wore during the raid.

Advocate depute Keith Stewart QC, prosecuting, told the High Court in Glasgow: "This was a foolish piece of bravado by the accused showing off."

Police also recovered text messages including one which said: "Wait until you see the morn's paper."

Robertson, who has 90 previous convictions, was found guilty of committing the robbery after an earlier trial.

Robertson's 17-year-old cousin, also called James Robertson, was jailed for three years.

Judge Lord Armstrong told the pair: "This robbery was pre-meditated and planned.

"Shop workers must be protected against people like you who show no regard for the law."

They had their faces masked and brandished a knife at an employee, before taking £1,485.

 

[Dandyesque]

90 previous convictions!

 

Amazing he finds time to carry out a robbery in between court appearances!

[Poodler]

A respectable tally. He could feature in the under 5's with that record

[ChutneyLove]

Of a bum injury

[looksgoodinred]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/police-patrols-target-oil-workers-drunk-on-trains-1-3570272

 

A crackdown on drunken offshore workers plaguing trains between Aberdeen and other parts of Scotland and England has been launched by police following an increase in unruly incidents.

 

Forbes warned that all trains and stations had CCTV. He said officers in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle would stop drunks boarding trains.

 

Dr. Alix Thom, employment and skills manager for Oil & Gas UK, which represents offshore firms, said: "The offshore oil and gas industry does not tolerate antisocial behaviour. Incidents identified by BTP, apparently involving individuals representing our community, detail the sort of behaviour this industry does not condone."

[Bluto10]

When me and my crew used to do the east coast mainline as students we were a lot worse than a few grease monkeys let loose on the ale on the way home to their wife and kids

[Henry]

Were you and your crew train-spotters Bluto min?

[Bluto10]

No.

High flying academics actually.

[Henry]

Oh.

 

I was picturing trainspotters.

 

[360]

Harcus has his conveyor belt of banter on at full pace today.