Anyone ever recognised anyone on Crimewatch?

[blindswelledrat]

This is a repost of one of my old threads.
Something tells me there might be one or two more interesting tales with the current more sizeable membership.

ANyway-anyone? I have always watched that programme hoping I could recognise and grass someone up but have drawn a blank so far.

[10 Pence Short]

I rcognised that Nick Ross bloke. He's from the telly.

[Si 330]

Yes an old friend was an actor in a reconstruction.

[Dai Capp]

the brother of an ex girlfriend made an appearance in one of the rogue galleries a year or so back for assault and armed robbery...

He always was the bad egg in an otherwise really lovely family...

DC

[sunbeam_alpine]

blindswelledrat said:

I have always watched that programme hoping I could recognise and grass someone up but have drawn a blank so far.

Don't you like your kneecaps then?

[blindswelledrat]

sunbeam_alpine said:

blindswelledrat said:

I have always watched that programme hoping I could recognise and grass someone up but have drawn a blank so far.

Don't you like your kneecaps then?

Yes thank you though my opinion of parts of my anatomy are normally reserved for other threads or PM's from ladies.

[bigmac146]

Not quite crimewatch but the mother of someone i used to play rugby with was on a traffic cop show about 10 years ago, pulled over for drink driving i think.

[Davi]

A few years back I phoned in after they asked for witnesses seeing a certain truck on a certain day as they were trying to track it's movements. I told them when and where I'd seen it, was thanked and told I'd be called back shortly so they could take a statement, never heard back!

[LHDisbest]

An ex-boss of mine who was wanted for serious insurance fraud, IIR about £5million!

He ended up getting 8 years in the jail when he was arrested.

FWIW he was a total bellend!

[BRGBert]

This was back when my parents had their shop open so 10-15 years ago. There was a photofit of someone on Crimewatch that had come in to try and sell gold chains/rings and such to them and other customers.

Nothing came of it other than my dad phoning to say he was here on such and such a date.

How exiting was that!

[oobster]

I'd love to recognise someone on Crimewatch but it hasn't happened yet. Dunno if i'd grass the person up if I did recognise him/her though, it would depend on the crime.

Quite like the new format with Kirsty though. Apart from that Mathhew Amroliwala or whatever his name is. Smarmy git.

[mel]

I sat there and saw someone I used to go to school with crop up, he was living just round the corner from mum at the time and was later interviewed for Jill Dando's shooting (due to the Crimewatch connection) he is a bit of a naughty boy and is currently serving six years for firearms offences. One of the Project Managers at a clients also became the overnight talk of the office when her Boyfriend appeared on it and was sat next to her at the time! She'd made the mistake of introducing him to most of her work collegues a week or so before at a works do.

[blindswelledrat]

BRGBert said:

This was back when my parents had their shop open so 10-15 years ago. There was a photofit of someone on Crimewatch that had come in to try and sell gold chains/rings and such to them and other customers.

Nothing came of it other than my dad phoning to say he was here on such and such a date.

How exiting was that!

Exciting when you recognized him though surely?

[Alex97]

I always worry that a photofit will look like me and i'll get people thinking i'm a criminal.....

[mel]

bigmac146 said:

Not quite crimewatch but the mother of someone i used to play rugby with was on a traffic cop show about 10 years ago, pulled over for drink driving i think.

Did we ever get to the bottom of the one where a blue Griffith 500 gets pulled in East London for curb crawling? It gets shown on repeats every now and again and he's got to be on here somewhere, it caused me grief at the time as it was the same colour as my old one and my only saving grace was it had different wheels!

[mackie1]

I've always wondered how often people ring in when they recognise the actor in the reconstruction.

[cabby_gaz]

do you look like this?


because thats the only way that you are going to look like one of those photofits!

[Gylen]

This always reminds me of this, which I'm surprised no-one has posted yet...



I've never recognised anyone on it though I do occasionally watch it in case I do. I'm also slightly concerned that I may one day be wrongly wanted for a crime I didn't commit so I reckon watching Crimewatch is my best chance at an early warning alarm so I can scarper.

Also, one of my friends was asked to participate in a line-up once (not as a suspect, but as a 'control member') but he said no.

[LHDisbest]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

After the company i worked for folded, he started another insurance broker's business, the only thing was he wasn't paying the insurance underwriters the premiums.

Their specialty was business insurance (in particular Orange Lodges in N.I apparently) so he was taking the premiums and not paying the underwriters. Which is fine until someone needs to make a claim......

It all went tits up when one of the businesses had a severe fire and went looking to claim on their insurance and found out they had no cover.

He was on the run for about 4 months, i think, and when he was put on crimewatch he eventually came forward.

At the trial (i went to see for a day, just because he was a prick and i wanted to see him get what he deserved) i think the judge would have given him more jail time but they could only prove so much of the fraud. Still him, his wife and his son (company directors) all got the jail.

And i didn't go for a large gin to celebrate

[BigBen]

Some of my colleagues from a summer job in the Granary restaruant at Gatwick were on crimewatch as the sister branch at Pease Pottage services got robbed including a chap who was a bell end being shot in the leg (sadly not the face)

Ben