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Bofahibee

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I was just reading up on James Keatings appearance in court. Sounds like he’s banged to rights. Silly boy - shame as I liked him as a person and I know he suffered from MH problems in the past which isn’t going to be improved by time in the big house.
 
Bofahibee said:
I was just reading up on James Keatings appearance in court. Sounds like he’s banged to rights. Silly boy - shame as I liked him as a person and I know he suffered from MH problems in the past which isn’t going to be improved by time in the big house.
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A first offence. He may get lucky.
 
1875 said:
James lost his way after he left Hibs. I wish him the very best. Remember James is the man that ran the other way and regardless of his mistakes, he is one of our own.
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Not condoning what he did but habitual thugs often get less i.e. probation for violent assault. Probation and counselling I would have thought more appropriate .
 
His skill level was immense at times, and of course he played his part in winning us the cup.
I hope he sorts himself out, and I would like to think the Hibs family reach out to him. We are due him a favour.
 
In all seriousness...
I'm no lawyer - might've been, mind, if I'd not flunked out of a law degree after the first year.
Having lasted 10 months last season, on a planned permanent relocation back to the UK, after 32 years overseas, I've not exactly on the ball on legal matters.

I have noticed that "money laundering" appears to be something of a "buzz crime" in UK political circles. Every politician of every stripe seems keen to condemn it regularly.
It's no longer possible to walk into a London casino and have £5,000 on red or black on a spin of the roulette wheel. Forms must be filled-out and sources of income verified. This takes a few days. It seriously pisses-off casinos (I know a few folk in that game), as Sheikh Ali-Abu Allah bringing a few high-rolling cousins along when he popped into Crockford's or Aspinall's for one of his regular visits was a great earner. (I think Crockford's and Aspinall's have both closed!😳)
Of course, if one of the Sheikh's pals wants to buy the building housing the casino for £5m, he pays a few quid to the Cayman Islands government to set up a shell company in the Caymans, lists the directors as Spiderman, Paddington Bear & King Charles III, and purchases the property with no questions asked... But he can't have £5,000 on a hand of blackjack.
Anyone in finance will tell you that London is the capital of the world principally because it's the easiest civilised (well, sort of civilised) place to launder money.

I digress...
Point being, surely the threshold for knowingly being in "possession of laundered money" cannot be similar to that required for a charge of possession of illegal narcotics or unlicensed firearms, can it?🤔

I mean, "Jimmy, I've this wee bag of white powder that I'd like you to drop over to a pal of mine in Easterhouse. It's talcum powder, chalk and soda crystals..."

Being asked to transport a quantity of cash as a courier cannot be legally deemed to carry an identical level of responsibility to verify that the money has been lawfully obtained as delivering a bag of white powder or a firearm, surely?🤔

Genuine personal story...
When I was living in London in the late 1980s, I'd a pal who was quite high up in a shipping company. I regularly used to go to Rochester, 30 miles SE of London, on business. Said pal found out about this and asked me to do him a favour. His firm's merchant vessels came into Chatham docks - right next door to Rochester. The sailors, usually Filipinos, needed paying when they got in. In cash. I'd guess a Securicor type of firm usually did it, but I guess they charged plenty. So, said pal paid me £50 to go to a bank in "The City", with a letter of authorisation, draw out fair amounts of US dollars and take the cash to a ramshackle corrugated portacabin at Chatham docks. I did it four times, before no longer needing to go to Rochester. The last run involved $38,300.
This was not long after I'd been slung out of Australia as an overstaying illegal immigrant. There was a slight temptation to jump on a flight to Sydney with the cash.

Details on JK's involvement in acquisition of the cash are absent from the reports. What illegitimate activities was the cash being laundered from? What was JK's connection to those activities? What was his connection to the people for whom he was carrying it?
I can see this prosecution is likely to have been brought under an "overkill" law, but there had to be plausible avenues for the defence to wriggle JK out of this.
 
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Glenmore Road said:
Details on JK's involvement in acquisition of the cash are absent from the reports. What illegitimate activities was the cash being laundered from? What was JK's connection to those activities? What was his connection to the people for whom he was carrying it?
I can see this prosecution is likely to have been brought under an "overkill" law, but there had to be plausible avenues for the defence to wriggle JK out of this.
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Just came on to post that I've just seen a piece saying that he became reliant on painkillers and started self medicating, obtaining through illegal means. And what he was using was the same as was prescribed.
He was offered a substantial quantity in exchange for this delivery...

Jail, if that's the facts?
Sounds pretty harsh.
No grassing then.
 
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