Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Was It The Stereotype That Caught Him Out?

Sussex Police special branch officer Darren Graysmark, was convicted of laundering more than £80,000 made by his boyfriend’s drug dealing to boost his salary.

Graysmark, 44, of Coney Furlong, Peacehaven, was jailed for 16 months in August after admitting laundering £80,921 by spending it on lavish home improvements.
That's a lot of cushions, drapes and throw rugs!

12 comments:

  1. From the comments:

    "The real mystery here though is that they actually thought they could improve a property in Peacehaven."

    Ouch.

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  2. Its a lot of bleedin' Quiche too ...

    Still .. I expect the boyfriend rather enjoyed the "Secret Policemen's Balls" ..

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  3. "That's a lot of cushions, drapes and throw rugs! "

    An MP wouldn't have aproblem with that.

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  4. It's like that old joke about how you know you've had gay burglars. Nothing's missing, but all your furniture's been re-arranged.

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  5. The Modern Police Farce! A shame that real police officers have to put up with the antics of the quota driven recruits!

    Still!


    Takes all sorts! The world would be a very boring place if...etc...ad nauseum......

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  6. I wonder when the excuse 'I was only practising to be a Peer of the Realm' will first be heard as a defence?
    Bent cops, you just can't beat them - or is that another part of the sordid tale?

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  7. No doubt there will be a new section added to the codes of practice to stop this sort of thing from happening again. All we need now is a section on war crimes and they'll have included pretty much everything.

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  8. "That's a lot of cushions, drapes and throw rugs! "

    Reminds me of what John Lennon said getting back into the car with the rest of the Beatles when they were leaving after a visit to Elvis's Gracelessland...

    I didn't believe it was possible to spend a million dollars in Woolworths.

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  9. it would be interesting to know whether he was recruited on the basis of his 'diversity' rather than the qualities you would hope to find in a Police Officer. If that was the case, no one is going to admit it...

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  10. "Ouch."

    Quite!

    "It's like that old joke about how you know you've had gay burglars. Nothing's missing, but all your furniture's been re-arranged."

    :D

    "A shame that real police officers have to put up with the antics of the quota driven recruits!"

    I did wonder...

    "All we need now is a section on war crimes and they'll have included pretty much everything."

    Listening to some of those hysterical students wailing and you might wonder if they think there should be one, too...! ;)

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  11. "Reminds me of what John Lennon said getting back into the car with the rest of the Beatles when they were leaving after a visit to Elvis's Gracelessland...

    I didn't believe it was possible to spend a million dollars in Woolworths."


    Ouch again! Maybe Lennon is alive and well and commenting on local newspaper threads?

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  12. apparently some of the money was spent on a penis enhancement and the consfication order is likely to leave him without a sausage.....

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