Senior officials within SOCA point to an apparent attempt over the last few months by The Brethren charter in Cambridge to muscle in on the security and door trade in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire as being the spark which lit the fuse leading directly to the violence at the Brethren’s event. ‘This region was regarded as belonging to local independent clubs: Capricorn MC of East Anglia and The Dead Men Riding MC of Yorkshire,’ said a spokesman. ‘Initially it was feared that the recent upsurge in trouble, which started with the murder in May of Archie ‘Boom-Boom’ Norman, vice president of the Lincoln charter of the Dead Men Riding, outside the Aurora nightclub in Lincoln where he was in charge of security, followed by the firebombing of a Capricorn MC linked nightclub in King’s Lynn, was the result of a local power struggle between the two clubs.’ However according to police sources, it now seems that the attacks were actually conducted by members of The Brethren who had decided to move in and take over and there is speculation that the fatal shooting in Leeds on 28 July of Jeremy ‘Chugger’ Arnold, a recently made up member of the Cambridge charter of The Brethren may also be linked to the dispute.
