The Arrogant Solicitor: Episode188

UK True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As school, Angus Diggle had high hopes of great things, telling friends he would one day be Prime Minister. Instead, he became a conveyancing solicitor.

But then in early 1990's an incident happened that would define his life and effectively destroy him. Today, on the UK True Crime Podcast, I tell his story.

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Sources
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/sep/30/dailymail.pressandpublishing

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/18105779.Angus__Diggle/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Diggle

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/rape-shame-former-solicitor-convicted-1086453

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/solicitor-to-fight-attempted-rape-conviction-man-jailed-in-case-that-sparked-date-rape-debate-is-1392688.html

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12740052.lawyer-jailed-after-rape-bid-can-see-clients-again-in-year/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326133/Sex-scandal-solicitor-Angus-Diggle-handed-Asbo-banning-pubs.html

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/DECLINE+AND+FALL+OF+ANGUS+DIGGLE%3B+Pervert+lawyer%27s+ASBO+bars+him+from...-a0241149497

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/nov/04/hugh-muirs-diary

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6207261.disgraced-solicitor-in-court-after-insulting-police/

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/05/world/british-rape-case-stirs-call-to-not-identify-accused.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/11/03/letter-from-london/8f9804e2-3c51-4605-80d1-84fadb67fd61/

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aF2BZ97ZEYsC&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=angus+diggle+rape&source=bl&ots=n-q6IR6kXZ&sig=ACfU3U3kco4BHGgFs98B_IOlcV_rtTFJoA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGyYDFmffpAhXGN8AKHSOpDoA4ChDoATAHegQIBxAB#v=onepage&q=angus%20diggle%20rape&f=false

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/751060.stm

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/solicitor-banned-from-practising-1.124802

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/nov/04/hugh-muirs-diary

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12722061.solicitor-guilty-of-attempted-rape-solicitor-in-attempted-rape-case-found-guilty/

https://www.buzzsprout.com/12102/707261

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0:00.0	Have you ever had a truly awful, horrible work colleague?
0:06.6	I have.
0:08.1	Her name is Roach.
0:10.2	Yes, like the insect.
0:12.6	It's as disgusting as she is.
0:15.1	The thought of her makes my stomach roll and my skin burn.
0:19.2	Roach.
0:20.7	Salo.
0:21.7	Salon.
0:22.7	Avampire.
0:23.7	A leech.
0:24.7	Taking whatever she can from me.
0:27.5	Taking over my poetry.
0:29.4	Swallowing scraps of my past like a vulture.
0:32.6	Stealing whatever takes her fancy.
0:35.4	And I have to spend nearly every day stuck inside this bookstore with her.
0:41.2	Watching her pull apart the true crime section and savor it like a delicacy.
0:46.9	But she doesn't know my secret.
0:49.0	And I'll never let her have it.
0:52.1	Meet me, Laura, and my colleague Roach, in Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater.
1:01.8	Hello and welcome to episode 188 of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast.
1:07.4	Thank you so much for joining me today.
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