Blog 1 - Former public schoolboy dressed as lawyer before shooting drug feud rival

Source

Dodd, V. (2011, Nov. 10). Former public schoolboy dressed as lawyer before shooting drug feud rival. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/10/former-public-school-shot-drug-rival.

Rupert Ross and Leon St Aubin

Summary

Last Thursday former Dulwich College pupil Rupert Ross and Leon St Aubin, a London firefighter, were found guilty of the murder of the 20-year-old Darcy Austin-Bruce and jailed for 30 years. In May 2009 Ross and his accomplice killed the man outside the Wandsworth prison in London, while they were dressed as lawyers. The two men and their friend Austin-Bruce had a dispute over drugs. Ross and St Aubin even believed that Austin-Bruce and another man were responsible for a gun attack on their car, days before. When they found out that Austin-Bruce would visit the Wandsworth prison, they waited for him outside the prison and killed him at close range.

 
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That the world of a criminal can be dangerous and even lethal, I already knew. It is their own choice and responsibility if they want to waste their lives. What worries me the most is that public role models, like firefighters, are involved in criminal activities. In the Netherlands we also had public figures who were involved in criminal activities or even killed innocent people, like Sander V.. This police officer sexually abused and killed the girl next door in March 2010. These people are there to protect us and to help us in need, but how can we trust them? I think it is very important that The Hague will sharpen their policies of all these public professions to protect us for being harmed.