So she's back in the country with a face like a wet weekend wanting us all to feel sorry for her. 'I'm a terrible mother' she wails. True. 'My husband is a really persuasive man' she says. So what? I say. Nobody forced her to spend all that money she got in her insurance payout. Nobody forced her to hide him from the rest of the world. Nobody forced her to keep quiet to her two grieving sons or to keep the news that the dad they adored was actually alive and well. Dad was perfectly happy hiding away, planning how to spend their illgotten gains, mum knew he was alive and well and planning with him but the boys were kept in the dark. How selfish is that?
The sons Mark and Anthony have my deepest symapthy. Everything they had thought about their parents has been smashed to smithereens. Ok they're adults but that makes no difference. I also have to congratulate them for behaving with absolute dignity in all this. My heart goes out to them.
2007-12-09 20:11:19 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Because, for some people, money means more to them than behaving like a decent human being. When they get caught out, of course they are sorry....for themselves. They weren't sorry while they were getting away with it. This pair put a lot of people through a lot of unnecessary anguish, for what? A measly couple of hundred thousand? In what universe does that replace the love and affection of a family?
2007-12-09 20:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by Sun is Shining ❂ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She almost did get away with it. If he'd stayed in Panama, they'd still be partying.
I hope you're right about the boys, but some things about the case (eg both of them having recently quit their jobs - one the day before his Dad came out of hiding) just seem odd. One worked in international property, one in insurance - another strange coincidence. Have you thought of the possibility that the parents are taking the whole rap but the boys knew all along?
2007-12-09 21:03:21 · answer #2 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget between the news breaking and arrest, there was the rather significant matter of the newspaper exclusives that I saw reported she gave in a hotel in Miami. Now I don't know how much cash was involved, but my bet is that they are betting that he will do a short stretch and she will get a slapped wrist. They then retire with not only the cash, but also the bung from the papers.
2007-12-09 20:23:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because she is a pathetic weakling ,her and her wet lettuce of a husband are greedy self interested fools ,their behaviour toward their children's feeling has been a disgrace, I hope they throw the book at them .Like you my sympathy is with the sons they have behaved as you say with dignity, a lesson maybe the parents should learn.
2007-12-09 23:05:55 · answer #4 · answered by ǝuoʎʞɔɐʍ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If found guilty, she won't be alllowed to retire with the cash 'after a short stretch and a wrist slap'. It is unlawful to benefit from the proceeds of a crime, so these moneys would be recovered.
This event may turn out to be more complex with this family than currently described.
2007-12-09 20:45:11 · answer #5 · answered by kinning_park 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
living a lie for 5 years how did she do that I cant keep anything from my lot for 2 minsI suppose that once the lie was set it must have been like an out of control bull dozer trundling down the hill she must have had the mindset that she couldnt stop their biggest mistake was to come back what a waste of a cunning plan
2007-12-09 20:20:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe she was controlled by her husband.
No, you are right, no one forced her to do anything like spend the money etc, but when you are being controlled by your partner you do not have a mind of your own, all semblance to what you once were vanishes.
I dont know of course if this is the case, just pondering the possibility as she said he was "persuasive". Who knows what goes on behind closed doors, and he is a bit of a freak anyway, even his own Dad said so.
2007-12-09 20:41:14 · answer #7 · answered by ditto 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Now they will both have to go and paddle their own canoes. However, how will the sons cope with all of this fracas and disruption to their lifes.
The stuff good novels are made of...stuff you could'nt make stories up like this and Nick Gleeson and Barings bank fiasco.
2007-12-09 21:11:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can understand the motive for faking your own death, getting rich in the process, putting your past behind you, and having the chance to start a new life. To many people, that would be their greatest fantasy (it's the Reggie Perrin, Robert Maxwell,John Stonehouse theory) .
...but to walk into a London police station and give yourself up just as you appear to be home and dry....that to me is the biggest mystery of all.
Why would someone do that?
2007-12-09 21:09:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here here
Think thoughts two are a bunch of muppets that get what is given to them but the law.
Feel for the two son's at they must of been hard thinking their father was dead.
2007-12-10 03:03:28 · answer #10 · answered by Clio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋