Entries from Londonist tagged with 'kidnap'
June 24, 2008
If you’re an estate agent reading this, then: a) quite frankly you should be looking on job websites instead b) if you think you’ve got it bad with the credit crunch, spare a thought for Waqas Malik, the East-London estate agent who was kidnapped and tortured after sacking an employee. Ambreen Gul, 23, was found guilty of false imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court yesterday. Her three accomplices, all of a similarly tender age, were......
Continue Reading "Estate Agent Gets Medieval"March 17, 2008
This Week In London’s History Monday – 17th March 1984: The Boat Race is postponed after the Cambridge boat crashes into a moored barge less than an hour before the race’s scheduled start. Tuesday – 18th March 1496: Mary Tudor is born at Richmond Palace. She would become ‘queen consort of France’ due to her marriage to Louis XII. Wednesday – 19th March 2005: As many as 200,000 protesters march through central London on......
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