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Members of the same Romanian family are to be sentenced after pickpocketing sleeping passengers on trains to Gravesend

Cornel Rostas, Marin Rostas, Robert Rostas and Romulus Rostas Cornel Rostas, Marin Rostas, Robert Rostas and Romulus Rostas

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)

ron1952 says...
10:03am Wed 22 Feb 12

3 months of bed breakfast and evening meal in HMP hostel should teach them.

PaulErith says...
12:04pm Wed 22 Feb 12

No doubt when caught, they can't be sent home due to their human rights!

DonnaTxx says...
12:13pm Wed 22 Feb 12

The EU, the gift that never stops giving.

Hello Ron boy, nice to see ya, to see ya nice. xx

ionella says...
4:04pm Wed 22 Feb 12

First of all, they are gypsies, not Romanians...ppl should make the difference...
and DonnaTxx, you are right and I understand your point of view, but not all immigrants are here to commit crimes.

ionella says...
4:04pm Wed 22 Feb 12

First of all, they are gypsies, not Romanians...ppl should make the difference...
and DonnaTxx, you are right and I understand your point of view, but not all immigrants are here to commit crimes.

ron1952 says...
4:30pm Wed 22 Feb 12

ionella you are very right, good and bad in every race luv. I'm sure Donna Txx point was we are letting in riff raff criminals from other EU countries. We only need the honest working types from the EU. Although the swarthy looking one top left looks a hunk I must say. I bet he just needs a firm hand, I'd straighten him out sharpish like.

treesrgreen says...
11:21pm Wed 22 Feb 12

PaulErith wrote:
No doubt when caught, they can't be sent home due to their human rights!
Sad but true Paul.

This is how they thank the country that has given them a home.

Send them back to their own country to commit their crimes, we have enough of our own evil people.

ionella says...
8:11am Thu 23 Feb 12

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...

jackrussell1960 says...
9:40am Thu 23 Feb 12

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

Indigenous Pensioner says...
9:52am Thu 23 Feb 12

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.

rescaaffering oldey says...
10:02am Thu 23 Feb 12

Indigenous Pensioner wrote:
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.
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.

DonnaTxx says...
11:22am Thu 23 Feb 12

Echo Echo Echo Echo.

Indigenous Pensioner, then rescaaffering oldey appears like magic, ( or another one of Karls sockpuppets )

Echo Echo Echo Echo.

Do run along now, get back on the Voice of Freedom where you belong. Toilet paper, or what was the term you liked Karl, ohh yea "fish wrap". ROFL

the wall says...
5:05pm Thu 23 Feb 12

Indigenous Pensioner wrote:
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.
Romania was on the axis side.
You really are a muppet with this puppet.

goldenbroomboy says...
9:10pm Thu 23 Feb 12

ionella wrote:
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...
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.

longshanks2 says...
8:16am Fri 24 Feb 12

From where i work, you see it every day, trying to push trolley loads of goods out the store, I say every time they get caught, they should have thief tattooed on there Foreheads, and thrown out the country, with the tattoo they cant get back in

76543Don says...
9:42am Fri 24 Feb 12

How can we have any faith in a collection of MPs to sort out this problem of allowing criminals in from Europe or outside of Europe when we see the following...........
...."One witness claimed: It was horrific and shocking. There were tables overturned and drinks smashed everywhere. There was blood everywhere." ........So Ok you may wonder where they quote came from ~~~~ well its from Todays Daily Mail Online version of a brawl in the House of Commons bar!!!!! yes!!!! so what chance have we got when Labour-Tory MPs start behaving like THUGS!!!!!???????
We should bar EU criminals before they arrive Here JUST LIKE America, Australia, N.Zealand!!

PiemanFourAll says...
9:53am Fri 24 Feb 12

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

Good To Go says...
9:57am Fri 24 Feb 12

Shopper even takes revenue for "sex" chat lines........Huh!

bible scoffer says...
10:12am Fri 24 Feb 12

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!! :)

bobbi beauty says...
10:18am Fri 24 Feb 12

bible scoffer wrote:
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!! :)
oh babes you make laugh out loud ! ep has lost those teeth on another story on here lol

bible scoffer says...
10:28am Fri 24 Feb 12

PiemanFourAll wrote:
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
...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!!

bible scoffer says...
10:31am Fri 24 Feb 12

bobbi beauty wrote:
bible scoffer wrote:
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!! :)
oh babes you make laugh out loud ! ep has lost those teeth on another story on here lol
...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... :)

ron1952 says...
6:03pm Fri 24 Feb 12

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.

jackrussell1960 says...
10:09am Sat 25 Feb 12

one bunch of muppets in govt let another bunch of muppets in to steal from us what was these muppets doing in london ,working the dippers in london , then travelling back to their council paid tax payer homes you couldnt make this up

Swirling Waters says...
10:14am Sat 25 Feb 12

ron1952 wrote:
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.
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? :)

WatchaTalkinBoutWillis says...
11:49am Sat 25 Feb 12

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 what
This 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 says...
7:42am Sun 26 Feb 12

WatchaTalkinBoutWill
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 what
This 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.
Even the Daily Mail article mentioned that these criminals are Gypsies, rather than Romanians!

Since you obviously cannot tell the difference, Romanians are a latin people who superficially resemble Italians. Gypsies are a brown skinned people originally from India.Romanians do not like Gypsies any more than anybody else does.

Yes some Gypsies have huge homes in Romania, just as some Irish travellers are very wealthy. If you want to know how they get their money, you can always ask them, but I do not recommend it.

goldenbroomboy says...
7:42am Sun 26 Feb 12

WatchaTalkinBoutWill
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 what
This 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.
Even the Daily Mail article mentioned that these criminals are Gypsies, rather than Romanians!

Since you obviously cannot tell the difference, Romanians are a latin people who superficially resemble Italians. Gypsies are a brown skinned people originally from India.Romanians do not like Gypsies any more than anybody else does.

Yes some Gypsies have huge homes in Romania, just as some Irish travellers are very wealthy. If you want to know how they get their money, you can always ask them, but I do not recommend it.

DonnaTxx says...
12:21pm Sun 26 Feb 12

Ohh dear in the Mail on Sunday Fattys been exposed, or should that be exposed himself. ROFL

Meow meow, 'mates'. LOL

Slonik says...
6:49pm Sun 26 Feb 12

I'm sooooo glad the EU brought us open borders.....

Jeepo 11 says...
9:19pm Sun 26 Feb 12

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

Good To Go says...
9:50am Mon 27 Feb 12

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. LOL
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!

bible scoffer says...
10:12am Mon 27 Feb 12

Good To Go wrote:
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. LOL
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!
...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!!

bible scoffer says...
10:18am Mon 27 Feb 12

...as it happens - 'lester's' filthy blog was closed dahn cos of lies... and the 'open-air' disgusting gay sex blog!! there were so many complaints it was a done deal to shut it dahn... quite right too!! j.d. pmsl!!

englishman333 says...
10:30am Mon 27 Feb 12

i read this report and i think its wrong that gangs of criminals should prey on commuters and if they are foreign they should be expelled from the country it is ridiculous

DonnaTxx says...
11:39am Mon 27 Feb 12

All I want to know is Griffin a Jew ?
After all I have seen fatties schmekle. Oi vei 'mates'. xx

miss sweethuney says...
10:14am Tue 28 Feb 12

we got to be the only country in the world that allows in criminals ! lol

goldenbroomboy says...
11:58am Tue 28 Feb 12

miss sweethuney wrote:
we got to be the only country in the world that allows in criminals ! lol
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.

ron1952 says...
12:05pm Tue 28 Feb 12

Well just as a side.... I love Swan Lake. Well endowed men in tights....what more can a man want for.

Well only Spartacus of course mates.

"I'm Spartacus"

Jeepo 11 says...
4:17pm Tue 28 Feb 12

ROFL....well as I've been called Tom, Erastus, Locked, Lets Agree, etc etc etc yawn yawn.
I wanna join in here,
"I'm Spartacus"

bizzymum says...
5:05pm Tue 28 Feb 12

Hang on, I think I might be Spartacus :)

Locked and Loaded says...
8:08pm Tue 28 Feb 12

No chance, you lot are all imposters.

I'm Spartacus. :)

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