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Accountant “Arrested” Outside Home by Men Posing as Police Officers
The bogus officers told Andrew Ramsay’s partner to call the station, but when she did, they had no record of his arrest.
Andrew Ramsay was a 51-year-old accountant living in the Cardonald area of Glasgow, Scotland, with his partner, 55-year-old Beverley Sinclair. He had two adult children and was divorcing his second wife, Eleanor, after a 25-year-long marriage. Beverley, a hospital receptionist, also had two adult children and was the widow of a police officer.
At 7 PM on February 22, 2006, the couple left Quo Vadis, a bar on Paisley Road West, and began walking toward their terraced villa on Berryknowes Road, a few minutes away.
As they approached their front door, an unmarked black Honda Accord did a U-turn and pulled up beside them. Two men exited the car and introduced themselves as fraud squad officers.
They claimed that Andrew was being taken to the police station for questioning and told Beverley she could call the office in four hours. Andrew was handcuffed and put in the back seat, and the officers drove off at high speed.
Beverley went home and called some friends and family. She contacted the station at 11 PM, but there was no record of Andrew’s arrest or any officers being sent to their home. Then Detective…
