Subtle....
Subtle....
Presumably lack of practice ?
One wonders if wages snatches will make a comeback ?
Keystone Kops? I did like the comparison!
Seeing as no one payes wages in cash anymore, I doubt it...
Decent criminals ("links to drug trafficking, extortion, hijacking and large-scale fraud...witness intimidation and connections with senior police officers and MPs"), and not that grooming teenage girls scum.
I loved one of the newspaper headlines (don't remember which, it was on the Sky news review last night).
"Diamond Wheezers"
Banks still seem to use cash. I see armoured vans parked on the pavement outside. I presume they are not just delivering the stationery.
They take all the money collected from shops' takings to be sorted (and crumpled notes removed), and then it's delivered back to the banks to fill the cash machines.
Some small shops have self-fulfilled cash machines where the shop takes the money from the till and puts it in their cash machine for the customer to take out and spend it in the shop.
Owain
In message , Jethro_uk writes
They need Jack Regan :-)
I was thinking of those with an empty box (or a box full of trinkets) that have just sent in their insurance claim in for their missing diamonds.
The problem is that most of the owners appear to have been using the safe boxes instead of having insurance.
And a bottle of scotch!
Nightjar It could also make it worse for anybody who would rather the Police
Seems odd they were found in possession of the haul, but have only been charged with conspiracy to burgle ...
My client had been collecting diamonds as an infllation hedge for many years, when he was offered a diamond core drill cheap, there was a misunderstanding....
Seriously, diamond marking is a whole thing in itself, they`re all cut like that mate.Is it real , as in mined , or was it pressed out yesterday, nature identical synthetic..
They have to be charged with something if they are to stay in custody. Conspiracy should be fairly simple to prove, so is a good charge to hold them on, even so one had to be released on bail. I would be surprised if further charges were not brought against at least some of them as the investigation progresses.
Can they still be interviewed, or does the investigation for other offences have to continue without further interviews?
SFAIK, people can still be interviewed about other offences even after having been tried and convicted. Whether the interviews will be of any value is another matter. Everyone has a right to remain silent.
One of the pre-requisites for insurance, is that the items being insured are described in enough detail to confirm (1) their existence and (2) their value.
I suspect the people using safety deposit boxes would rather not announce (1), making (2) difficult.
Didn't the Met have a swoop on safety deposit boxes a while back, confiscating any illegal items (drugs, guns) and requiring the owners to account for any sums of cash ?
And (prompted by recently watching "Mad Men" and seeing how ubiquitous smoking was) a few packets of Players
They could have the packet from the 70's I've got. Gran wanted Grandad to give up smoking but as he was in his 70's he said bugger that they kept me going through the trenches and i'm not stopping now, he did do it in secret though . He died in 1973 and packets were found hidden in various places and I still have one. Must be safer than modern ones as there is no health warning on them.
G.Harman
Some of the time, absolutely. Especially if the rumours about The Adams Family are true.
But given the location, a heck of a lot of the customers will have been perfectly legitimate diamond traders. Insurance for stock left on their premises will be exorbitant, compared to the cost of a box.
But, right now, I'll bet that cost/benefit analysis is looking a bit flawed...
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