A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Never previously heard of the term 'cuckooing' but it fits perfectly the crime I once heard as a juror. The accused had gone to work leaving his front door open deliberately, and according to him, in order to allow his dog access to the landing outside the flat. By chance, the premises were visited by the police who found a stash of counterfeit £20 notes secreted in some shoe boxes.
We the jury accepted it was probable he knew nothing of the money, but we agreed it was near certain that he knew the place was being used for illegal purposes. He was charged with 'handling', although it is unlikely he ever touched the stuff. We thought him guilty as f*ck anyway and weren't prepared to let him off on a technicality.
It would have been hepful if the term cuckooing had been mentioned during the trial, or even known by any of us at the time, because it describes perfectly what we thought was going on there.
If he was complicit in the activity, then it's not really cuckooing. Cuckooing is when someone takes over having inveigled their way in.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
- Invited journalist to bombing raid chat - Told his wife and lawyer about bombing raid. - Added an unsecured internet connection to his office - Posted his Signal phone number on Facebook and a gambling site, two of the most secure places on the internet
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
You are both annoying twats, for sure. He does a lot more damage, because no-one in their right mind would ever put you in charge of anything. Then again, the same is true of him.
I thought you were talking about me for a minute 😁
https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/04/25/michael-gloss-story/ ...In the status of his page in VK he wrote: “A supporter of a multipolar world. I hate fascism.” In one May video from Türkiye, Michael shows his middle finger: “Fuck Nazis!” and adds: “Peace and love.”
“Last time I saw him, he was constantly talking about negative stuff like poverty and the collapse of civilizations,” — recalls an acquaintance of Gloss’s who sheltered him for a night in Istanbul. — “He was convinced that hegemony of the West was fading and BRICS [informal cooperative institution of Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS countries’ undermining of Western hegemony is one of the narratives of Russian propaganda. — Ed’s note] would take over it soon.”
Another acquaintance of Michael’s, who he stayed overnight with while traveling in Türkiye, said: “He was usually watching videos about Palestine and was so angry at America. He started thinking about going to Russia. He wanted to war with the USA. But I think he was very influenced by the conspiracy theory videos.”..
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Never previously heard of the term 'cuckooing' but it fits perfectly the crime I once heard as a juror. The accused had gone to work leaving his front door open deliberately, and according to him, in order to allow his dog access to the landing outside the flat. By chance, the premises were visited by the police who found a stash of counterfeit £20 notes secreted in some shoe boxes.
We the jury accepted it was probable he knew nothing of the money, but we agreed it was near certain that he knew the place was being used for illegal purposes. He was charged with 'handling', although it is unlikely he ever touched the stuff. We thought him guilty as f*ck anyway and weren't prepared to let him off on a technicality.
It would have been hepful if the term cuckooing had been mentioned during the trial, or even known by any of us at the time, because it describes perfectly what we thought was going on there.
If he was complicit in the activity, then it's not really cuckooing. Cuckooing is when someone takes over having inveigled their way in.
Understood, but it's a helpful concept when thinking about the crime of allowing someone to use your flat/car/office to do something illegal but 'don't tell me about it, so I can plead innocence'.
I suppose in the case we heard, the accused was effectively arguing he had been cuckooed, whereas the jury concluded that he had colluded, implicitly or otherwise.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
I have to apologise for my earlier posts. I have made this thread all about YOU.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Never previously heard of the term 'cuckooing' but it fits perfectly the crime I once heard as a juror. The accused had gone to work leaving his front door open deliberately, and according to him, in order to allow his dog access to the landing outside the flat. By chance, the premises were visited by the police who found a stash of counterfeit £20 notes secreted in some shoe boxes.
We the jury accepted it was probable he knew nothing of the money, but we agreed it was near certain that he knew the place was being used for illegal purposes. He was charged with 'handling', although it is unlikely he ever touched the stuff. We thought him guilty as f*ck anyway and weren't prepared to let him off on a technicality.
It would have been hepful if the term cuckooing had been mentioned during the trial, or even known by any of us at the time, because it describes perfectly what we thought was going on there.
If he was complicit in the activity, then it's not really cuckooing. Cuckooing is when someone takes over having inveigled their way in.
Understood, but it's a helpful concept when thinking about the crime of allowing someone to use your flat/car/office to do something illegal but 'don't tell me about it, so I can plead innocence'.
I suppose in the case we heard, the accused was effectively arguing he had been cuckooed, whereas the jury concluded that he had colluded, implicitly or otherwise.
That's just "art and part" in Scotland or aiding and abetting in E&W. I would guess there are lots of cases where it's very difficult to make a determination.
- Invited journalist to bombing raid chat - Told his wife and lawyer about bombing raid. - Added an unsecured internet connection to his office - Posted his Signal phone number on Facebook and a gambling site, two of the most secure places on the internet
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
Lol. That is a great piece of projection, as I seem to remember you said that about mine. Like the Orange Narcissist, you can't cope with mockery, which is highly unfortunate as you, like him, are so easy to mock.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Never previously heard of the term 'cuckooing' but it fits perfectly the crime I once heard as a juror. The accused had gone to work leaving his front door open deliberately, and according to him, in order to allow his dog access to the landing outside the flat. By chance, the premises were visited by the police who found a stash of counterfeit £20 notes secreted in some shoe boxes.
We the jury accepted it was probable he knew nothing of the money, but we agreed it was near certain that he knew the place was being used for illegal purposes. He was charged with 'handling', although it is unlikely he ever touched the stuff. We thought him guilty as f*ck anyway and weren't prepared to let him off on a technicality.
It would have been hepful if the term cuckooing had been mentioned during the trial, or even known by any of us at the time, because it describes perfectly what we thought was going on there.
That's not cuckooing, if you thought this individual had some agency. It's typically a highly vulnerable person who is taken advantage of to facilitate crime.
(And I think you've just admitted to finding someone guilty of a crime you thought they didn't commit... not a big fan of that, might be worth a clarification)
The term cuckooing certainly fits in that the counterfeiters were using someone else's premises for their own purposes. The extent to which the resident at the 'nest' was vulnerable is an open one. I should say that on the whole he was not. His complicity seemed fairly obvious, vulnerable or not.
The jury didn't convict him of a crime he didn't commit. It may have taken a broad view of what constituted 'handling'. It may also have favored substance over form. Either way I believe the jury acted well within its remit.
Ok - just be aware that in police vocabulary, the taking of advantage of someone is the key component of "cuckooing". In drama, there are some good examples of it in Happy Valley.
I don't know enough about what "handling" means to know whether that was an appropriate decision. I hope you understand why I was a bit concerned!
Oh, I understand completely, Eabhal, and so did the jury at the time. There was a lot of healthy discussion about this before a verdict was agreed.
In fact my biggest take away from my time as juror was that the smarter the jury, the less likely the guilty would get off. It was this geezer's misfortune to have a very smart jury hear his case.
i sat on another case where a not guilty verdict was returned parlty because most of the jurors were extraordinarily stupid and concerned mainly with getting home early. The Judge's remarks when the verdict was returned made it plain we had erred.
Would improve public transport immensely but what a dreadful reflection on society. There should be no need for a such a law, and it's quite mad that it's the Lib Dems proposing it.
I'd be really interested in a transport breakdown by voting intention. I reckon train commuters in the SE must be a key Tory/LD battleground.
I can't imagine choosing a party on the basis of their stance on people playing music on the train, though I agree it's a minor nuisance. But TBH that's true of an awful lot of local issues. One leaflet in my area (I'll be discreet about the source) focuses on access to a supermarket carpark - you might get delayed by a whole minute, shock horror. Another vaguely calls for "some investment" in local services when new housing is built. Is it odd that turnout at local elections is typically under 50%?
It is a lot more than a minor nuisance. It is a total PITA. And in many cases it is a form of intimidation - some Chav just wanting people to ask them to turn it off so that they can escalate into a confrontation.
Far too many people are totally inconsiderate, or even thrive on upsetting others. This is just one manifestation. They think they can act with impunity - well it is time to sort the feckers out.
Or we could invest in things like surestart and youth clubs to actually change the next generations behaviour rather than come up with more new laws that will be very rarely enforced.
Sterilising the current generation of vermin would prevent the next from arising.
Would improve public transport immensely but what a dreadful reflection on society. There should be no need for a such a law, and it's quite mad that it's the Lib Dems proposing it.
I'd be really interested in a transport breakdown by voting intention. I reckon train commuters in the SE must be a key Tory/LD battleground.
I can't imagine choosing a party on the basis of their stance on people playing music on the train, though I agree it's a minor nuisance. But TBH that's true of an awful lot of local issues. One leaflet in my area (I'll be discreet about the source) focuses on access to a supermarket carpark - you might get delayed by a whole minute, shock horror. Another vaguely calls for "some investment" in local services when new housing is built. Is it odd that turnout at local elections is typically under 50%?
It is a lot more than a minor nuisance. It is a total PITA. And in many cases it is a form of intimidation - some Chav just wanting people to ask them to turn it off so that they can escalate into a confrontation.
Far too many people are totally inconsiderate, or even thrive on upsetting others. This is just one manifestation. They think they can act with impunity - well it is time to sort the feckers out.
Or we could invest in things like surestart and youth clubs to actually change the next generations behaviour rather than come up with more new laws that will be very rarely enforced.
Sterilising the current generation of vermin would prevent the next from arising.
A call for a return to eugenics, and it's not even 4pm.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
She's in the game accepting organised criminals and druglords as clients. If she wants to profit from the misery her clients create then she's got to live with the consequences of their actions and irresponsibility. Did she think she was somehow immune to the law?
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
Be sure to let me know when I destroy world trade, as against commenting on an obscure British politics forum
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
Be sure to let me know when I destroy world trade, as against commenting on an obscure British politics forum
As mentioned upthread, both of you are RADICAL RIGHT LUNATICS!!!
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
Be sure to let me know when I destroy world trade, as against commenting on an obscure British politics forum
I'm sure we are all familiar with the phrase "When in Rome...", but there's no way I'm going to spend a city break standing in a queue to see a corpse.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
Be sure to let me know when I destroy world trade, as against commenting on an obscure British politics forum
The constant outrage at every crass, stupid, unamerican, thing Trump did was also a feature of his last Presidency. Some of it was no doubt valid, but looking back on the period, it was actually rather benign by comparison to what came before and since - certainly from a British perspective. This term may well turn out the same.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
Again an absolutely irrational response:
a) I don't complain about your multiple posts do I? b) I campaigned to get you reinstated when you got banned, didn't I? c) I read your posts
So how am I part of your LDS? And how is it that I sound mad then?
Your comprehension level has plummeted today.
I am just pointing out that your conclusion that I was suggesting you were like Donald Trump was probably one of the most illogical posts ever posted on PB. I did not say, infer or even could it be deducted in any way anything of the sort.
I was just pointing out that your deduction that you should be flattered by people talking about you is irrational and I explained why, but I will try again:
When people talk about someone a lot it isn't necessarily a good thing. In fact more often than not it is a bad thing. And in these cases it is a bad thing so you should not be flattered.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
Be sure to let me know when I destroy world trade, as against commenting on an obscure British politics forum
The constant outrage at every crass, stupid, unamerican, thing Trump did was also a feature of his last Presidency. Some of it was no doubt valid, but looking back on the period, it was actually rather benign by comparison to what came before and since - certainly from a British perspective. This term may well turn out the same.
Back in 2016, just after he was elected, I made the point that the change he made in the US would not be sudden, but gradual. And it was. His first presidency was far from benign, and this one is proving to be positively hostile.
That is not good for this country. Trump is not good for this country. Heck, he's not even good for the USA.
Now, there may be opportunities for the UK in what he is doing, but even then we are also losing a heck of a lot in the process, and the world will be much more uncertain and dangerous place. You may like that danger and uncertainty, but I'd suggest that it would be silly to do so.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
Again an absolutely irrational response:
a) I don't complain about your multiple posts do I? b) I campaigned to get you reinstated when you got banned, didn't I? c) I read your posts
So how am I part of your LDS? And how is it that I sound mad then?
Your comprehension level has plummeted today.
I am just pointing out that your conclusion that I was suggesting you were like Donald Trump was probably one of the most illogical posts ever posted on PB. I did not say, infer or even could it be deducted in any way anything of the sort.
I was just pointing out that your deduction that you should be flattered by people talking about you is irrational and I explained why, but I will try again:
When people talk about someone a lot it isn't necessarily a good thing. In fact more often than not it is a bad thing. And in these cases it is a bad thing so you should not be flattered.
Now surely you must now get this?
PS and just for clarity I was not complaining. I was just trying to explain to you what you failed to understand.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
Be sure to let me know when I destroy world trade, as against commenting on an obscure British politics forum
The constant outrage at every crass, stupid, unamerican, thing Trump did was also a feature of his last Presidency. Some of it was no doubt valid, but looking back on the period, it was actually rather benign by comparison to what came before and since - certainly from a British perspective. This term may well turn out the same.
You think Trump's second term is "benign"? You definitely have a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
Don't encourage our travel correspondent! Otherwise he will be posting photos of the cat chowder he sampled on a remote Pacific island.
You’re really quite obsessed with me. Don’t you ever ask yourself why?
It's not some homo-erotic fantasy if that's what you are alluding to.
But you mention me constantly even when I’m not here. It’s borderline weird
I don’t come on here and go on about “mexicanpete”
I guess I should be flattered. Just don’t start stalking me. You’d find the air tickets too expensive anyway
For someone supposedly bright I don't know how you don't get this. If @Mexicanpete come on here posting as frequently as you and often hijacked the thread people would be talking about him. Just because someone talks about you doesn't mean you should be flattered, particularly if you are annoying people.
People talk about Trump all the time. 99% of the time it isn't good.
So he talks about me a lot coz I’m like…. Donald Trump. Er, ok
Oh come on @Leon even you are not that stupid to not understand that post are you? At what point did I say you were like Trump? I used him as the current example of someone people talk a lot about and being talked about isn't necessarily flattering. You can substitute Fred West, Hitler, Mao, Eamon Holmes, Liz Truss, or whoever if you like. None are like you, all are very different and all are talked about and none in a positive way.
You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
It's interesting that whenever *DS is first used - whether it is Musk Derangement Syndrome, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Boris Derangement Syndrome etc - the people saying it are proved wrong, and the people who are supposed to be 'deranged' are actually correct, as they were in those cases.
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
Be sure to let me know when I destroy world trade, as against commenting on an obscure British politics forum
The constant outrage at every crass, stupid, unamerican, thing Trump did was also a feature of his last Presidency. Some of it was no doubt valid, but looking back on the period, it was actually rather benign by comparison to what came before and since - certainly from a British perspective. This term may well turn out the same.
You think Trump's second term is "benign"? You definitely have a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I think it's difficult to see what it is with the huge volume of real and imagined outrage in our daily diet at present.
A lawyer from Aberdeen has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine.
Amanda Lothian, a criminal defence lawyer who specialised in organised crime, had her house raided by police in August 2020, during the pandemic.
Officers, aided by a sniffer dog called Buster, searched the 65-year-old lawyer's house and Volvo and discovered around £72k worth of Ketamine in two bags - enough Cat Valium to sedate not just a clowder of cats, but a family of elephants as well.
Police also seized a further £15k worth of the drug from a man, James Hanlon, who said he had collected the Ketamine from Lothian. And officers also found cash totalling almost £4k around the lawyer's property.
Lothian, who represented herself at the trial, said that she had "absolutely no idea" about the drugs at her house. "I certainly wasn't selling Ketamine," she told the court.
She claimed she was a victim of cuckooing by Hanlon, suggesting that he had used her home as a base for drug dealing, without her knowledge, and that she was "furious" with him.
When the prosecutor told the court that Lothian's DNA was found on a shopping bag that contained some of the drugs, Lothian stated that she had moved the bag, believing that it contained a muscle-building supplement.
The prosecutor said it must have been "incredibly poor luck" for Lothian's DNA to be on illegal drugs that she claimed to know nothing about.
The jury found Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict, according to a report. She will be sentenced next month.
She's in the game accepting organised criminals and druglords as clients. If she wants to profit from the misery her clients create then she's got to live with the consequences of their actions and irresponsibility. Did she think she was somehow immune to the law?
It is in the nature of justice that defence lawyers will represent wrong'uns.
Would improve public transport immensely but what a dreadful reflection on society. There should be no need for a such a law, and it's quite mad that it's the Lib Dems proposing it.
I'd be really interested in a transport breakdown by voting intention. I reckon train commuters in the SE must be a key Tory/LD battleground.
I can't imagine choosing a party on the basis of their stance on people playing music on the train, though I agree it's a minor nuisance. But TBH that's true of an awful lot of local issues. One leaflet in my area (I'll be discreet about the source) focuses on access to a supermarket carpark - you might get delayed by a whole minute, shock horror. Another vaguely calls for "some investment" in local services when new housing is built. Is it odd that turnout at local elections is typically under 50%?
Minutes do actually add up. The idiots in my local council* have decided to make a moderately dangerous junction on my way to work considerably more dangerous by adding traffic lights - just over a bind brow (There has already been at least one accident since they put up temporary lights a month or so ago to do the work!). I realised that if it averages out to a minutes delay each way a day (plausible), I'll waste over a working day a year sat there.
*This is the same bunch of morons who are currently spending 3 millon quid putting averaging cameras and a 50 limit on a different part of my route to work they've decided is dangerous, despite all their published evidence making it quite clear it isn't - it doesn't even meet the threshold for the road signs to have yellow backgrounds. The supposed crisis in local goverment funding is clearly imaginary, the actual crisis is that their money gets spent on the wrong things, often because it arrives as ringfenced grants.
You guys have repeatedly broken this limit which leads to images being shrunk as a result, please stick to the limit or the ability to post pictures might be removed.
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You really aren't that dumb surely to misconstrue or misunderstand that are you?
- Invited journalist to bombing raid chat
- Told his wife and lawyer about bombing raid.
- Added an unsecured internet connection to his office
- Posted his Signal phone number on Facebook and a gambling site, two of the most secure places on the internet
https://bsky.app/profile/coachfinstock.bsky.social/post/3lnnfym7a5s2x
https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/04/25/michael-gloss-story/
...In the status of his page in VK he wrote: “A supporter of a multipolar world. I hate fascism.” In one May video from Türkiye, Michael shows his middle finger: “Fuck Nazis!” and adds: “Peace and love.”
“Last time I saw him, he was constantly talking about negative stuff like poverty and the collapse of civilizations,” — recalls an acquaintance of Gloss’s who sheltered him for a night in Istanbul. — “He was convinced that hegemony of the West was fading and BRICS [informal cooperative institution of Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS countries’ undermining of Western hegemony is one of the narratives of Russian propaganda. — Ed’s note] would take over it soon.”
Another acquaintance of Michael’s, who he stayed overnight with while traveling in Türkiye, said: “He was usually watching videos about Palestine and was so angry at America. He started thinking about going to Russia. He wanted to war with the USA. But I think he was very influenced by the conspiracy theory videos.”..
Trump: “We’re leaving and going to Rome, where we’ll be attending the funeral of Pope Francis…It's going to be very interesting.”
I suppose in the case we heard, the accused was effectively arguing he had been cuckooed, whereas the jury concluded that he had colluded, implicitly or otherwise.
I am diagnosing Leon Derangement Syndrome. My favourite symptom is when one of you says “oh I never read his comments I skim past them, they’re so dull”
I deserve the ban.
In fact my biggest take away from my time as juror was that the smarter the jury, the less likely the guilty would get off. It was this geezer's misfortune to have a very smart jury hear his case.
i sat on another case where a not guilty verdict was returned parlty because most of the jurors were extraordinarily stupid and concerned mainly with getting home early. The Judge's remarks when the verdict was returned made it plain we had erred.
President Trump will be sat not in the front row, but between the presidents of Eswatini and Ethiopia at the Pope’s funeral tomorrow.
This is because, following the reigning monarchs, heads of state will be seated in alphabetical order - in the French language, per
@BBCMaryam
https://x.com/juliamacfarlane/status/1915778356647281119
So if I were you, I'd be careful about narcissistically creating a Derangement Syndrome about yourself, because the people you accuse of it are probably right...
He failed TWICE..
a) I don't complain about your multiple posts do I?
b) I campaigned to get you reinstated when you got banned, didn't I?
c) I read your posts
So how am I part of your LDS? And how is it that I sound mad then?
Your comprehension level has plummeted today.
I am just pointing out that your conclusion that I was suggesting you were like Donald Trump was probably one of the most illogical posts ever posted on PB. I did not say, infer or even could it be deducted in any way anything of the sort.
I was just pointing out that your deduction that you should be flattered by people talking about you is irrational and I explained why, but I will try again:
When people talk about someone a lot it isn't necessarily a good thing. In fact more often than not it is a bad thing. And in these cases it is a bad thing so you should not be flattered.
Now surely you must now get this?
NEW THREAD
https://x.com/yarotrof/status/1915734391143158172
That is not good for this country. Trump is not good for this country. Heck, he's not even good for the USA.
Now, there may be opportunities for the UK in what he is doing, but even then we are also losing a heck of a lot in the process, and the world will be much more uncertain and dangerous place. You may like that danger and uncertainty, but I'd suggest that it would be silly to do so.
*This is the same bunch of morons who are currently spending 3 millon quid putting averaging cameras and a 50 limit on a different part of my route to work they've decided is dangerous, despite all their published evidence making it quite clear it isn't - it doesn't even meet the threshold for the road signs to have yellow backgrounds. The supposed crisis in local goverment funding is clearly imaginary, the actual crisis is that their money gets spent on the wrong things, often because it arrives as ringfenced grants.
The last time I can recall posting two images in a day (which was probably 7-10 days ago), one was a quote from a thread the previous day.
Is this a problem for the system?
(Aside: comment noted and I'll take care.)