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June 15, 2006

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Hugh Green

Andrew,

Has the possibility occurred to you that they may have just been saving money? Not everyone uses banks, you know.

Let's suppose for starters that they don't drink.

20 pints a week (a reasonable amount for a young buck) at £2.50 a pop over 5 years will cost you about £13,000.

And 10 fags a day for 5 years will cost you roughly £5,000.

So that's £18,000 so far.

Further police probing of the money will, hopefully, reveal a very different tale.

Why do you hope such a thing?

joc

Could be Hugh - but £50- notes is a bit suspicious tho.....

joc

I would back Andrew on hoping too....

I fully believe the police can cock up (and may have here), but it annoys me the way the beeb and the whole weepy industry comes out in force.

ernest young

Hugh,

And there's me thinking that it is against their religion to smoke or drink alcohol, - silly me!

You really should get a sense of reality - they live in their own house, with all that cash, and how old are they? 19 and 22? Now they must really have worked hard to amass what even by today's standards, is a sizeable sum...not to mention all the tax they must have paid on the income - unless, of course it was mostly 'the welfare'...

dearieme

I'd like to know which community the police's informant was from.

Madradin Ruad

Were they Northern Bank Notes ? ;)

Genghis

What's this "community" thingy which everyone is talking about?

If they're Pakistani, say so! If they're from India, again, say so! If they're group believers in the religion of Islam, which some clowns profess as the religion which will cleanse the world; again, say so!

I tend to collect all of the above together, and state that we, as a nation, have played host to many nationalities, faiths and disparate groups, but at no time has there been as much trouble as there has been once we started to let in the multifarious rag-heads from the Middle East and the sub-continent which hosts the unhappy bedfellows of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh!

Madradin Ruad

but at no time has there been as much trouble as there has been once we started to let in the multifarious rag-heads from the Middle East and the sub-continent which hosts the unhappy bedfellows of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh!

Canary Wharfe and Manchester bombings would argue otherwise ....

Hugh Green

Could be Hugh - but £50- notes is a bit suspicious tho.....

When my granny - a pensioner- died some years back, she left 12 grand in £50 notes in her bedside locker. What crime do you suspect her of? Cyanide bombs seem out of reach: perhaps the purchase of some RPGs?

Anyway, it turns out my savings theory, while plausible, was wrong.

Cash found in house raid was 'rent'

Ms Kalam said she had told police just two hours after officers stormed their house that they would find a "substantial" amount of cash in a suitcase in the basement of number 48, which she owns.

However, it was "neither sinister nor unexplained", she insisted. She said the money - reportedly in excess of £30,000 - had been held there by her mother for "safe keeping" during the four years she had owned the property.

"My mother has never felt it right to keep this money in a bank account, or to hold savings in a bank. Islam prohibits the keeping of money in circumstances where interest is earned or where it is paid," Ms Kalam said.

"My mother has always held our savings in this way; in the same way the money was kept by her for me to buy number 48. Now, in turn, I am providing my income for my mother to keep in the same way."

She said her brothers both contributed from their wages every month to the money held by her mother.

They had all explained to police that this was the sum total of their collective contributions, she said. However, Ms Kalam claimed officers had not once asked her mother about it.

"We cannot understand how and why a further false account is being printed about our family," she added. "What is being said is reckless and wrong and being recycled by those who wish to believe the worst of my family and ensure that their slur reaches the widest audience."


Genghis

"Canary Wharfe and Manchester bombings would argue otherwise ...."

True, but our locally-produced bunch of murdering nut-cases didn't want to blow themselves up along with their victims! The Sinn Fein/IRA murderers always wished to get away with their foul deeds, and did not emulate, to the best of my memory, the twisted killers who massacred the fifty-six nearly a year ago!

BB

The last time I checked keeping £30k+ in banknotes in your house wasn't a crime.

Umbongo

"The last time I checked keeping £30k+ in banknotes in your house wasn't a crime"

Oh yes it is - well anyway being in possession of more than £1,000 in cash is now an arrestable offence: you have to convince the police that holding this amount of cash is entirely legitimate. I assume that the brothers must have convinced the police of the legitimacy of the £30,000 under the bed since they were not charged with any offence at all. Or maybe they (the Met) were just fed up with having their ears bent by Gareth.

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