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9:43am Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in News By Kelly Smale
FOUR members of the same Romanian family are to be sentenced after pickpocketing sleeping train commuters.
Brothers Robert, 23, Marin, 25, and Romulus Rostas, 18, all of Norfolk Road, Gravesend, have admitted a charge of conspiracy to steal.
They were joined by their 22-year-old cousin-in-law, Cornel Rostas, of Springhead Road, Gravesend and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Robert Rostas pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing while the other four changed their pleas to guilty on the fifth day of a trial at Blackfriars Crown Court.
Between January 2009 and August last year, the group would target passengers who were sleeping on late night trains between Charing Cross and Gravesend.
They predominantly stole mobile phones from people's pockets or bags before leaving the train.
Detective Constable Tim Weekes, from British Transport Police, said: "These men are career criminals who have all previously been arrested, charged or convicted for theft related matters."
He added: "The items we found during house searches, along with CCTV and mobile phone analysis, indicated that these men were agents involved in a highly-organised conspiracy to steal, aimed at generating as much money as possible to pass back to other family members in Romania to buy land and property.
"We know there were over 180 crimes - over £60,000 worth of stolen property - linked to this group, but these are minimum estimates and the true figure could have been much higher because many thefts may have been reported as lost property or not reported at all."
The four men have been remanded in custody while the 17-year-old is on bail.
All five will be sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court on April 20.
Comments(42)
PaulErith
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12:04pm Wed 22 Feb 12
DonnaTxx
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12:13pm Wed 22 Feb 12
ionella
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4:04pm Wed 22 Feb 12
ionella
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4:04pm Wed 22 Feb 12
ron1952
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4:30pm Wed 22 Feb 12
treesrgreen
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11:21pm Wed 22 Feb 12
PaulErith wrote:Sad but true Paul.
No doubt when caught, they can't be sent home due to their human rights!
ionella
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8:11am Thu 23 Feb 12
jackrussell1960
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9:40am Thu 23 Feb 12
Indigenous Pensioner
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9:52am Thu 23 Feb 12
rescaaffering oldey
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10:02am Thu 23 Feb 12
Indigenous Pensioner wrote:indeed 'war-hero'... you make a lot of sense my good man!! - get your own back on 'em by voting for a political party they keep telling you not too!! winds them right up!! rofl!! ...i see the arthritic fingers are still giving you some problems - ...should be a lot better with the warmer weather approaching - take care. rescaaffering oldey.
WE liberated europe now they repay us by sending us there criminal thugs hard working commuters paying there taxes to keep these thugs in my country this makes me very angry some of these people could have been pensioners the very people who put the great into britain only to find there wallets robbed these th ugs need the smirks wiped of there faces i shouldnt wonder they were part of a bigger gang of thugs operating on the r ailway system drugs ect they need 3 year in a military glass house to teach them this is not the british way of life.THank you.
DonnaTxx
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11:22am Thu 23 Feb 12
the wall
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5:05pm Thu 23 Feb 12
Indigenous Pensioner wrote:Romania was on the axis side.
WE liberated europe now they repay us by sending us there criminal thugs hard working commuters paying there taxes to keep these thugs in my country this makes me very angry some of these people could have been pensioners the very people who put the great into britain only to find there wallets robbed these th ugs need the smirks wiped of there faces i shouldnt wonder they were part of a bigger gang of thugs operating on the r ailway system drugs ect they need 3 year in a military glass house to teach them this is not the british way of life.THank you.
goldenbroomboy
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9:10pm Thu 23 Feb 12
ionella wrote:Pickpocketing & stealing luggage from sleeping travellers is a common Gypsy practice. Whilst one is unlikely to be mugged on an overnight train in Romania, my friendly advice to solo travellers on overnight trains is to find a compartment which contains at least one other traveller. If challenged, Gypsies will insist that they are good people, & they will leave quickly, since they do not want to be turfed off an overnight train in the middle of nowhere.
what human rights?they're not going to be killed or tortured in Romania, they''ll only go to jail, where they should spend the rest of their miserable life...they''ll never get straight...it's in their blood...
longshanks2
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8:16am Fri 24 Feb 12
76543Don
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9:42am Fri 24 Feb 12
PiemanFourAll
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9:53am Fri 24 Feb 12
Good To Go
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9:57am Fri 24 Feb 12
bible scoffer
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10:12am Fri 24 Feb 12
Good To Go wrote:...morning all!! - perhaps errastus is now torking all dirty-like on dem chat lines!! no wonder the blog was shut dahn wen there's some cash-in-hand to be made torking all dirty instead of writing all dirty!! lmao!! mind you - i had a feelind she may have gorn dahn to the 'poo-alley' story on da shoppa to shovel-up some new material for a new blog!! rof...rof...rof!! :)
Shopper even takes revenue for "sex" chat lines........Huh!
bobbi beauty
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10:18am Fri 24 Feb 12
bible scoffer wrote:oh babes you make laugh out loud ! ep has lost those teeth on another story on here lol
Good To Go wrote: Shopper even takes revenue for "sex" chat lines........Huh!...morning all!! - perhaps errastus is now torking all dirty-like on dem chat lines!! no wonder the blog was shut dahn wen there's some cash-in-hand to be made torking all dirty instead of writing all dirty!! lmao!! mind you - i had a feelind she may have gorn dahn to the 'poo-alley' story on da shoppa to shovel-up some new material for a new blog!! rof...rof...rof!! :)
bible scoffer
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10:28am Fri 24 Feb 12
PiemanFourAll wrote:...everyone knew that at the time - 'lester' was just showing herself up by blogging same-old-same lies and garbage - she was just a figure of fun on here and was not taken seriously at all... my favourites two blogs were... 'neighbours flag' ...where she was proven to be fibbing - then the me second bestest one was... thinking she saw jim davidson the comic on black and white telly!! rofl!! those two will stay with me until my very last day!!
Bunch of g-g-g-gutless mongs the lot of them... Hypocrite Members of Parliment 2 mongs as well bit like that errastus peggott who blogged about the bnp and slagged them off on here using the newsquest media facilities but said nothing about the newsquest group accepting bnp cash of banner and video adverts! mong mong mong lol
bible scoffer
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10:31am Fri 24 Feb 12
bobbi beauty wrote:...we laff out loud together 'b.b' the world is a much happier place if we can all laff out loud together!! rofl!! i'll check out that 'teethy' thread laters... :)
bible scoffer wrote:oh babes you make laugh out loud ! ep has lost those teeth on another story on here lolGood To Go wrote: Shopper even takes revenue for "sex" chat lines........Huh!...morning all!! - perhaps errastus is now torking all dirty-like on dem chat lines!! no wonder the blog was shut dahn wen there's some cash-in-hand to be made torking all dirty instead of writing all dirty!! lmao!! mind you - i had a feelind she may have gorn dahn to the 'poo-alley' story on da shoppa to shovel-up some new material for a new blog!! rof...rof...rof!! :)
ron1952
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6:03pm Fri 24 Feb 12
jackrussell1960
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10:09am Sat 25 Feb 12
Swirling Waters
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10:14am Sat 25 Feb 12
ron1952 wrote:It was not the BNP who were drunk in the commons it was Labour and Tory MPS getting arrested What with their expenses and now this why bother voting for these clowns? :)
Can any one tell me why are all these BNP clowns so obsessed with this old gentlemen Mr Piggott. I think they are suffering from Teleiophilia, a load of very sad people and really should seek a lot of help.
WatchaTalkinBoutWillis
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11:49am Sat 25 Feb 12
jackrussell1960 wrote:This is why this country has been flooded with foreign criminals
says a lot about this country where we let in a bunch of theiving muppets without checking their papers first to allow them to then steal off our own people who are exhausted after a days work of keeping this country going only to have their valuables stolen when they have a cat nap! sick or what
goldenbroomboy
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7:42am Sun 26 Feb 12
WatchaTalkinBoutWillEven the Daily Mail article mentioned that these criminals are Gypsies, rather than Romanians!
is wrote:
jackrussell1960 wrote: says a lot about this country where we let in a bunch of theiving muppets without checking their papers first to allow them to then steal off our own people who are exhausted after a days work of keeping this country going only to have their valuables stolen when they have a cat nap! sick or whatThis is why this country has been flooded with foreign criminals http://www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-politics-16 616411 How many foreign criminals are in Britain? No-One really knows. The honest migrants who have come here to work (and work **** hard some of them do, I know a Polish builder who puts in 12 hr days! If you know any builders you will know how unusual this is) are being tarred with the same brush. I have to mention also that one of the most active nations in B&H (28) are Romanians, not forgetting to mention they also have some of the most hardcore football hooligans http://www.cafyd.com /HistDeporte/htm/pdf /4-4.pdf Lets also mention here the properties they are building in Romania with the profits from benefit fraud, pickpocketing and various other criminal enterprises. http://www.dailymail .co.uk/news/article- 2106131/Pickpockets- palaces-The-Romanian -mansions-built-targ eting-UK-commuters.h tml http://www.dailymail .co.uk/news/article- 1389282/Benefits-bou levard-Built-Romania --YOUR-money.html When you read articles like this, it becomes clear why The EDL, the BNP and some of the so called fringe groups are increasing in popularity. The 14 words seem more and more appealing to people today.
goldenbroomboy
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7:42am Sun 26 Feb 12
WatchaTalkinBoutWillEven the Daily Mail article mentioned that these criminals are Gypsies, rather than Romanians!
is wrote:
jackrussell1960 wrote: says a lot about this country where we let in a bunch of theiving muppets without checking their papers first to allow them to then steal off our own people who are exhausted after a days work of keeping this country going only to have their valuables stolen when they have a cat nap! sick or whatThis is why this country has been flooded with foreign criminals http://www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-politics-16 616411 How many foreign criminals are in Britain? No-One really knows. The honest migrants who have come here to work (and work **** hard some of them do, I know a Polish builder who puts in 12 hr days! If you know any builders you will know how unusual this is) are being tarred with the same brush. I have to mention also that one of the most active nations in B&H (28) are Romanians, not forgetting to mention they also have some of the most hardcore football hooligans http://www.cafyd.com /HistDeporte/htm/pdf /4-4.pdf Lets also mention here the properties they are building in Romania with the profits from benefit fraud, pickpocketing and various other criminal enterprises. http://www.dailymail .co.uk/news/article- 2106131/Pickpockets- palaces-The-Romanian -mansions-built-targ eting-UK-commuters.h tml http://www.dailymail .co.uk/news/article- 1389282/Benefits-bou levard-Built-Romania --YOUR-money.html When you read articles like this, it becomes clear why The EDL, the BNP and some of the so called fringe groups are increasing in popularity. The 14 words seem more and more appealing to people today.
DonnaTxx
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12:21pm Sun 26 Feb 12
Slonik
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6:49pm Sun 26 Feb 12
Jeepo 11
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9:19pm Sun 26 Feb 12
Good To Go
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9:50am Mon 27 Feb 12
Jeepo 11 wrote:Some things reported in the press/media we can actually believe, for example this news story about pick-pockets is factual.. then things we can see for ourselves.. ie immigration we can see has dramatically increased in the last decade.. these things when reported in the media we say, yes, i can see this for myself.. then we read that 25% of criminals arrested in London are "foreign" again we can probably say well, if these stats are being released by the police and the Government authorities then it must be correct?.. then we read that a Labour politician dancing the "gay gordon" on the terraces of the Houses of Parliment.. showing signs of drunkeness was later was arrested for common assault by the police for attacking Conservative Mps is this true? maybe? was he arrested? yes.. was he drunk? dont know.. so not everything you read is actually true.. The Daily Mail has on one of its pages a regular column for "corrections" and "apologises" only believe in the things you read and can see are true!
Well it will be interesting to see if Mr Griffin takes legal action over this claim. Don't hold your breath waiting though. After all it was in the Mail on Sunday so it must be true....I guess. LOL
bible scoffer
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10:12am Mon 27 Feb 12
Good To Go wrote:...indeed 'g.to.go.'... i actually read that elvis is going to stand for mayor in tower hamlets ? do i believe this because i read it ? of course not!! actually, if you look at this daily wail story, then check out the readers comments on it, you'll find the overwhelming majority think it's an early april the first joke!! - you can scroll up and down the comments giving 'red' or 'green' arrows to the comments you 'approve' or 'disagree' with... loads of 'greens'... or as brian would say - noodles!! rofl!!
Jeepo 11 wrote: Well it will be interesting to see if Mr Griffin takes legal action over this claim. Don't hold your breath waiting though. After all it was in the Mail on Sunday so it must be true....I guess. LOLSome things reported in the press/media we can actually believe, for example this news story about pick-pockets is factual.. then things we can see for ourselves.. ie immigration we can see has dramatically increased in the last decade.. these things when reported in the media we say, yes, i can see this for myself.. then we read that 25% of criminals arrested in London are "foreign" again we can probably say well, if these stats are being released by the police and the Government authorities then it must be correct?.. then we read that a Labour politician dancing the "gay gordon" on the terraces of the Houses of Parliment.. showing signs of drunkeness was later was arrested for common assault by the police for attacking Conservative Mps is this true? maybe? was he arrested? yes.. was he drunk? dont know.. so not everything you read is actually true.. The Daily Mail has on one of its pages a regular column for "corrections" and "apologises" only believe in the things you read and can see are true!
bible scoffer
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10:18am Mon 27 Feb 12
englishman333
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10:30am Mon 27 Feb 12
DonnaTxx
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11:39am Mon 27 Feb 12
miss sweethuney
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10:14am Tue 28 Feb 12
goldenbroomboy
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11:58am Tue 28 Feb 12
miss sweethuney wrote:If it is any consolation, I have it on good authority that when the Gypsies made their way into Austria after 1989, all the swans disappeared from the Vienna lakes.
we got to be the only country in the world that allows in criminals ! lol
ron1952
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12:05pm Tue 28 Feb 12
Jeepo 11
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4:17pm Tue 28 Feb 12
bizzymum
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5:05pm Tue 28 Feb 12
Locked and Loaded
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8:08pm Tue 28 Feb 12
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10:03am Wed 22 Feb 12