Lew Yates began boxing at the age of six and as an adult he was ruthless in pursuit of his dream of becoming world heavyweight champion. But when his license was revoked following an assault on a referee, he turned to the murky world of unlicensed boxing. Documenting how Yates rose to the top of ...
DS Saunders and DC Chapple led me through the back to an interview room. In the corridor outside was a storeroom and on the door a sign read: ‘Risk of health hazard, Rettendon exhibits’. In that cupboard, behind that door, were my friends’ clothing and personal effects, no doubt soaked in their b...
The author, Clarence Rook, claimed to have identified the word's origins in the deeds of a south-London-based Irish criminal called 'Patrick Hooligan'. A doorman with 'an exuberance of lawlessness', this probably fictional character was said to have died in prison after beating a policeman to dea...
Apart from young people fornicating in the bushes or breaking into the numerous garden sheds that cover the ten-acre site and crops being stolen or damaged, very little of interest ever happened. There had been one unusual problem during the spring of 2001 – a keen plot-ho...
@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } 8 FOUR FUNERALS AND A DEATH THREAT Roger Mellin was a really nice kid. Young and impressionable, he had never been in trouble in his life and lived with his girlfriend Tracy, who had a disabled child. Roger was desperate for money and h...
A voice shouted: "QRF! QRF! Heli-pad now!" Bunk-beds creaked in unison as I and the other uniformed soldiers sprang to life from our half-sleep. As part of that night's QRF - Quick Reaction Force — we had to be on the helicopter and away within three minutes of getting the call. We rarely knew wh...