In Oxfordshire, crime happens in waves. It’s thought to be linked to different ways of life. Underneath the normal activity there are nefarious things at play. There are plots and plans to disrupt and make a profit out of other people.
The rural areas are a source – and a target – of this. The market towns are the same. The institutional centres, as varied as they are, can also be taken up in it. The type depends on who gets involved, and what looks possible as targets are chosen.
One such group was “Curse Them Before You Die”, a group that was numerous but hard to track. It hid and concealed its communications by codewords and cyphers. In particular, it used images like photos as keys to encode commands.
The group itself was a desperate cult. Inside, members were suffering from all kinds of psychological dysfunctions. The impulse to attack others was in part driven by it. The aim was to take revenge on those they felt wronged by without evidence.
Their law was to take matters in their own hands – to exclude law enforcement – and to run their own sorts of crime and their own types of punishment. The conspiracy was widespread albeit their successful attempts were few in number.
