“You are not a man of great principle and were easily bought….You just accepted the job as you had accepted other grubby little tasks from EL before - for the cash he promised you.”
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In the Central Criminal Court 19 June 2026 Sentencing remarks of Garnham J Between: Rex -v- Roman Lavrynovych Petro Pochynok Stanislav Carpiuc
English judges’ extemporaneous judgments continue to amaze.
But what most strikes me about this is that the first line sounds like Tolstoy. It’s the patronymic, I think.
Innocent🕷Abroad
On one level, it was an absolutely bizarre case, but on another it was incredibly simple - people being recruited online to commit crimes for money, by people whose identity and motivations they neither know nor care about
This is becoming commonplace, and I will be reporting more on the trend soon
