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The Daily Record reports that two brothers were convicted earlier this week of blackmailing a banker over his frequent visits to a Scottish sauna, and escapades with a vice girl known as 'Cindy'.
Leslie Hogarth, 55, an IT professional over at Royal Bank of Scotland, apparently met Cindy (real name Catherine Purcell) at the sauna for twice-weekly sessions over a three-year period. He clearly became infatuated with the 'masseur', and began to drive her to and from 'work', and showered her with gifts, including once allegedly giving her money for heroin, which, she claimed, helped ease the pain she said she suffered due to Crohn's disease. In reality, Ms Purcell is said to have been a heroin addict.
Anyway, Ms Purcell had a boyfriend, 39-year-old Stephen Dobson, and Dobson and his brother John, 36, thought it would be a good idea to blackmail Hogarth, by threatening to reveal his shenanigans to his wife. But the brothers Dobson didn't stop there. In fact, they threatened violence against Hogarth (saying that they would cut off his little 'finger'), and his family, unless he paid up. And pay up he did - to the tune of $16,000.
The whole sordid little episode ended up in court, and the brothers Dobson were convicted of extortion. Taking the moral high ground, Ms Purcell said at the trial that 'any man who has to come to a sauna to pay for sex is a bit perverted'. She also claimed that she was unaware of the plot her boyfriend had hatched against Hogarth.
Hogarth, who was described at the trial as a man who had 'mug' written all over his face, said that his wife was now 'considering a divorce'.
And there's a post-script to this story, too. As this matter was being investigated, it was discovered that Edinburgh sheriff (basically a judge) Andrew Lothian, 66, was a regular client of Ms Purcell too (he was apparently into spanking and whipping sessions). Anyway, he was forced to resign following the revelations. You couldn't make this stuff up!
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