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Sincere apologies!x I made a HUGE mistake....absolutely no clue why but my friend Sgt T has corrected me! I said the nice...friendly...helpful Inspector who assisted my move into voluntary care and oversaw my 'hooligan' years was Ian Negus....it wasn't...it was Harry Gelsthorpe.....and apologise profusely for making such a mistake!x Ian Negus and I had relationships during the 90's and 2000's....another fine Inspector....but Harry was.....as good as a Dad to me....and sorry for forgetting it was him x Thanks Sarge x (I had 5 official Dads through mams marriages....and perhaps 3 surrogates in me time...sorry I forgot Harry!x)
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...whilst we are on the subject of fine Policing and Police folk.....these 'auditors'....hmmm. I speak with DJ through emails...he's 'professional' and courteous and not out to wind anyone up but to be just honest....frank and sincere in raising the standards to at least the level Police Forces expect in their own policys!!x It was AB that hit Parkside. Whilst his nonchalant attitude doesn't attract warm responses...his position is always solid and really unquestionable. Sadly the officers here did not do themselves...or Parkside any favours. I was gobsmacked when the plain clothes Officer said the building wasn't of any interest. Its a shame that Parksides history isn't revered and remembered. It held the Cambridge Rapist...convicted one of its own Officers a Sergeant if I recall who was abusing prisoners in the cells. The likes of Ian Negus....who convicted another Policeman in Huntingdon for sexual offences...was based there. SUPER Police positive stories that DJ...AB...and THE PEOPLE....should hear. But sadly...the 'siege' mentality...and over zelousness of folk with a bit of power....doesn't allow for such positive dialogue to happen. If folk are that so far behind with the basics...ie identifying themselves....informing folk that their cameras on...trying to force folk to give their details when they don't have too....and suggesting they are being awkward by asserting their rights...is all....pi** poor. I've watched over 100 of these 'audits' from around the UK. SHOCKING...is my response to the level of Police knowledge of their own job!x It does need improving. Each Force also needs its own review as to how they need to liase with this kind of approach. Local Authority's had to do the same. Before the internet....they used paper trails to prevaricate. Hid behind Town Hall walls....but then 'we' came down the telephone lines...across the air waves via emails...and on their screens via websites...telling the truth. They couldn't stop it...so they had to work 'with' it...and learn the new way. Employing DJ to train a core of Officers about the drone laws would be a good move too! A Chief Inspector I know has offered £3k for him to do just that...train his Officers to catch up with 'the law'!! I've done what they do....arrive unnanounced to bring folk to account....done it for 30 years...covertly. Generally about more serious matters than Police not knowing their own Policy's...and it has been a struggle to be honest. What they do is easy....the Police are easy meat too. Especially when they so casually abuse their powers. What each station now needs is a friendly liason officer who jumps into action with a happy smile and takes them on a tour!!! There...the new 'bridge' between Public and Police. The 'viewers'...are there to be won over.....that's what its about...not the 'messenger'!!x

....and then there's the time that a lad run up that staircase into the arms of 20 officers....and another who had sauce all over him.......sigh....Parkside ain't interesting??? They need a history lesson...X "What's going on??.....I ask the same......



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P.S...AB...you're reading........call Cambridge a little Oxford again....and we will fall out....uneducated hippie hehe....!x

EDIT.....the flag. I wear it EVERY day in some way shape or form. I have different coloured ones too. I wear them to suit the occasion. At all night functions I would often wear the black one. I considered it 'underground'...everyone else is asleep whilst we woz 'on it'...kind of feel. I understand the black Union flag worn by Police is to commemorate fallen Officers on duty. Respect X My respect for you all flying that flag is based on the likes of Keith Blakelock...Yvonne Fletcher...and the hundreds of Police who died during the blitz...and i've seen commemorative stones Nationwide recording local Police dying as a consequence of WW2...as well as the RUC Constables many of who were assassinated in cold blood. Their commemorative stones are all over Belfast....i've walked the streets. These auditors appear shallow in their summary of the Police flying the black flag.....perhaps if educated more they would appreciate it...X However...it does leave it open as these auditors expose...to criticism which is justified. Your in 'public'. The Uniform is 'neutral'...and I suggest it should be. If there is a flag to be flown...Fly the Union flag....it would represent ALL the fallen people in the business of Law enforcement here in BRITAIN...as well as promote our Country...proudly. Both 'sides' have suffered....is my opinion x

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Sgt T** sez...."May I ask, why did you smuggle the cigarettes? Was it really to help Cambridge United?"

For those reading the previous part of this story...my youth as a U's fan and eventually getting into a fight that sent 22 'lads' down from Cambridge...then here is the next 'chapter'!x I've written it whilst on a long trip as a passenger. I will write the next bit on the way back!!x

The fight in Buntingford happened in Febuary 1978. A fight I had in a disco escalated over 4 weekends into 22 of us going to Buntingford to sort it all out once and for all....kids sh*te but there you go!! We drove into the High Street to find 120+ waiting for us.....doh! As we went to their place with intent then all 22 of us were going down whatever! It took a year before we were all sentenced...February 5th 1979 at St Albans Crown Court. Whilst we were all Cambridge fans...it was a fight totally unrelated to the club or football. At the actual trial I saw the picture of the 2 lads I was supposed to have caused ABH too. I became ecstatic as I realised it was the 2 lads who i'd stopped my mates beating as they were innocently in a pub and nothing to do with what had occurred. I physically protected them and helped them up and sent them on their way!! I believed that i was innocent and may get away with it!! Yes I was there and had hit someone for sure...in self defense! 22 of us and 120+ of them coming after us....yes....in defense!!hehe! But the 'Barrister' who i'd only just met went off to see the Prosecutor...came back and said ok they'll drop them and charge you with GBH...instead of ABH...and RIOT instead of Unlawful Assembly...(next to treason!)...and offensive weapon! Sigh...I relented..so I was sent down for something i technically didnt do....! In 79 there was prison strikes UK wide. All 22 of us were shipped to Wormwood Scrubs...I was handcuffed to a Policeman...young lad...been given 5 years for stealing from lost property!!! He cried all the way there...felt sorry for him...but I was scared too! Due to the strike the prison was way over populated. 4 to each 2 man cell...23 1/2 hour bang up...the cell door opened just to empty the pee pots and get food trays in and out! It was a quick assessment centre...should have been there for 1 week max....thankfully 6 weeks later 5 of us were sent to Gaynes Hall Borstal now called Littlehey Prison near Huntingdon/Grafham Water where Rolf Harris and Max Clifford resided!



Just found this write up on the net whilst searching for a pic...the only sight of 'The Scrubs' I saw as the prison van entered! Only saw 4 walls after that of my cell!! "The prison has had a long and chequered history. In 1979, there was a major disturbance on D-wing (lifers and long-termers) when prisoners held a peaceful sit-in in order to try and gain better visiting rights. Squads of prison officers from other prisons stormed D-wing, where over 60 prisoners were injured, many of them with head injuries. An inquiry into this incident, in 1982, blamed the difficulties on failings in prison management. John McCarthy, the governor of the prison, had quit his post just before the riot and, in a letter to The Times, he described Wormwood Scrubs as ‘a penal dustbin’"....errr...even dustbins are emptied within 6 weeks...hehe!!x


Now...5 'lads'/mates all fighters arriving at Gaynes Hall Borstal which had an established 'order'...is gonna cause problems! The black guys from London ruled the place...and the 'screws' were happy with it. I knew nothing of this culture among Black people...or 'gangsta' sh*te! I was the only coloured lad among the Cambridge lot...we had led a sheltered life somewhat!! Scum the film had just been released...it was the way the film portrayed. Violent places where the staff enjoyed bullying all. Upon arriving at your Borstal you can make an appeal on your sentence! You have to see the Governor for that. I was optimistic so asked to see him! I was marched in...just like the Scum when Carlin goes in front of the Governor!! He looks up at me from his desk through the 2 'guard screws'....threw his pen on the desk and said calmly...."you're one of those fu**ers that came to my Village and caused havoc aren't you?".....!!!!....he followed with...'I suggest you get your Pa*i ar*e out of my sight'.....with that the 2 guards just man handled me outta the office!!! Hows your luck?!x So I knuckled down and was working in the kitchen....picking ants off the plum duff in the fridge usually my 1st job!! Needless to say my mates were being picked off 1 by one despite us all wanting to just get on. All 4 had been approached and been beaten or threatened. I was the last...and it came on a Saturday morning as I was brushing my teeth. In walked black guys Nortley and Lewis...Nortley 6ft 4 with gold teeth...and Lewis...had 1 eye missing and he left it as a white ball...goatie beard and a vicious attitude. He said...'You're not black and youre not white you are nothingggg boyyy so take your dues..'...and they began their attack. I defended myself as best could but they had landed a few blows that hurt....and then the screws piled in....to drag ME to the Block!!!! I was deemed the leader I suppose so I had to be taken down by both factions...screws and inmates...sigh. I told Ray Winstone this story in the 2000's over dinner at a Charity event...he gave me a cuddle at the end and had genuine tears in his eyes...here's why!x


The 'Daddy' in front of the Governor...even wearing the same jacket and jumper!! Scum 1979!

I was somewhat relieved to not be hit by Nortley and Lewis anymore...but it was only the beginning. The block was empty...Saturday morning. I was slung in a cell and told I should say my name and number when meeting officers and nowt else unless asked. 20 minutes later...I heard the echo of footsteps cracking down the corridor as he 'marched' and his Blakeys/Segs...studs...scuffed the floor.....keys went into the door...i'm stood to attention.....door opens I begin to shout my name and number....'EDWAR....... PUNCH!!!!...he smacked me square in the face and I hit the floor. He began kicking me screaming that he'd had to leave his wife and kids to come and sort me out. I suffered about 20+ kicks....he banged my head against the wall several times whilst holding my hair....and it lasted about 3 minutes this first attack. I couldn't stand up...he left....I was seriously in pain with blood all over the walls...couldn't see out of my eyes due to the swelling of my head!! It didn't stop there. I was shaking as he came down the corridor with what I assumed was my dinner....key...opens door..."EDWARD.......SMASH...he pushed the metal tray of food into my face and rammed me against the wall. I was screaming...crying....begging....but he didn't stop. Kick after kick. That night I didn't sleep. The next morning started around 9pm that night as I waited for his footsteps...trembling...and tried guessing the time all night until 7am! I was barely standing...opens door....I never even had a chance to say my name....he punched me in the stomach....I couldn't breathe and was writhing around gasping for air. It saved me...he kicked me once and left. Lunchtime someone slid my food tray under the flap! Tea time....he was back. This time I got my name and number out....he walked around me...and hit me with a baton on the back of my legs....as i fell to the floor....he hit me 3 times with the baton...shoulder...hip and leg. You cry for your Mam at these moments...I found. He left. Through the night I sussed a way out. If I covered myself in poo and asked him to kill me....thats it....it will all stop. So I did. He opened the door...took one look at me cowering in the corner covered in it and screaming 'Kill ME'.......and he mumbled summink....and that was the last I saw of him!....until about 20+ years later!x I never wanted to be a Daddy....I wanted me Mam....sigh!!x


Mr Mackay would have been an Angel!!!!

I was in the hospital for several days and given 2 Mogadon tablets a day.....I still don't remember 2 visits I had from my then girlfriend over 2 weeks! I was called to the Governors Office! I got there....frightened...but there was no need....I was about to be 'saved'!!! Sitting in the Governors office was...Mr T*********!!! The nice Man that used to visit Kneesworth House when I was there just 8 months earlier!! The Governor left us to talk. Mr T said in essence we are at a juncture....do you want to better yourself and sort your life out? YES was my answer I must have give...2 mogadon was taking its toll. He then told me of a facility...unique like Kneesworth...called Grendon Underwoood! It was run on a therepeutic basis 24/7...everyone under scrutiny! He also said that if I go there...my sentence is 'irrelevant'. If I stayed in Borstal i'd have been home in about another 8 weeks. Mr T said he thought I may need around 4-6 months in there...but as soon as my sentence had been served...I was free to go...or stay!! So we went!


Gaynes Hall Borstal. The main hall was detached from the Borstal. It was the base for the Special Operations Executive in the 2nd WW! Hitler named it the 'Hornets Nest'....the locals 'Spy school'!! The Borstal again was set up after the war for bright intelligent boys...with leadership potential according to Hansards recording in 1966!! Mr T was familiar with the place anyway...!!

Grendon was set up in the 60's with the intent of helping 'anti social' folk become more sociable by exploring their personality's and feelings in the first person helping one understand human beings!! By 1979 it had evolved into an intensive therepeutic environment where all were 'equal'...'screws'...rapists...paedos...murderers...and violent folk which I was categorised under...all 17 year olds. 40 of us were in my Wing. Now..I had left a unique facility called Kneesworth that used 'accelerated learning' techniques and my brain had evolved into lapping up anything...!!! Here...I was in HEAVEN!! 7 other inmates on my group...all 17 year old...Bill from Grimsby...paedo. Ian from Reading...rapist. David from Cardiff...killed his girlfriend...horrifically. Brian from Walsall...whipped his mate to death tied to a chair...over 3 days...for snogging his girlfriend...when aged 15. William Wallace from Bristol...a victim...of his girlfriend! Peter...looked like the Big Indian off Cuckoo's Nest film...rapist. Jeff from Luton...football hooligan...and me along with Joe Chapman...a BRILLIANT screw...and Bernie...our groups psychiatrist! All 40 of us 17 year olds lived together...1 rule...no violence or instant shipping out to a normal prison. This was a 'chance' to learn about yourself...understand why we do what we do and use it to control your actions in the future. I lapped it all up....loved it!!!! I became 'Number 1' in charge of the Wing within a few months and had my feet right under the table after 10 months!!! Nobody had broached the subject of 'why I haven't gone home?'!!! I was happy!! But it had to end...and sadly...it soon did..but not voluntarily!!x



I was in charge of the workshop too...we were packaging kids Knock n Nail sets. One day David from Cardiff who killed his girlfriend horifically...had a problem. We were all due to leave and get the search before going back to the Wing. He wouldn't move...just sat in a trance fisting the work bench. I knew enough about him to be wary...and I had asked him twice to clear up as we were ready to go...without response. I went back to him a 3rd time....and he turned to me and I saw DEATH...black eyes....soul less....I instantly envisaged that look that his Girlfriend may have seen before he killed her.....frightened me to feel so threatened that I punched him...in pre meditated self defense....his look made me do it!!!!


Knock and Nail sets...boxed 1000's of them!!

Now....he had swung back in his self defense...but fighting is a no no end of. David was transferred out to another prison immediately as he was at the start a 10 year minimum sentence. I was transferred to the hospital wing to be a 'porter' for the last 2 weeks of my stay as I was being discharged....honourably!!!!x I deserved that as I had give to many...including staff!x Part of the duties of the porter was to welcome all new inmates to the induction wing attached to the hospital! This is how I had my first ever joint!! Wilf Stubbs...from Manchester! Looked like Shaggy off Scooby Doo...! We were playing cards and he said 'do you want a smooooke?'....I'm thinking yes i'll have a tailor made cigarette...so he began leading me to my pad!! He took out a 'joint'...lit it...took 2 big pulls on it...and handed it to me! I took 3 or 4 draws on the long cigarette...and he then took it back and nipped it and put it in my bedside drawer saying have it later! Fine....so we go back to playing cards.....and a tingling started in my toes....rising to my knees...travelling up through my belly...heading towards my head.....and I thought I may faint....so jumped up and ran to my pad!! I laid on the bed....holding on to the sheets clenched fists hoping the bed would stop tipping from one side to the other...!..........and Wilf walks in.....HE's GONNA RAPE ME went through my mind...and I think I would have been defenseless....that first hit eh!!!x He leans over me and sez...its good smoooke init....spark that stub up later and have a wa*k....its like the real thing!!!! Wilf was a drug addict...unhealthy...scruffy......but as far as i'm concerned he was as honest as a day is long.....he was bang on!!!x



Next 'episode' I explain how I met Charlie Richardson...and help him escape...and how my career as a football fan came to an abrupt end...for 10 years...until John Beck came into my life and I will put it up this evening!!!!!x

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...oh...and the Borstal Block screw who tortured and beat me for 3 days....he ended up in a private smart old peoples home. I visited it under a ruse in the late 90's. He was playing the piano and making merry for all the residents. I asked the Manageress did she know his history? She said he had nice shiny military type shoes which he always polished. But she had never asked what he'd done in his life...and had no family visiting...but assumed he was 'military' of some kind! I gave him a clap whilst stood at the back of the room. Strangely...I had no ill will towards him...it had gone perhaps when I went to Grendon. I was happy to have gone there and without him...I may not have had that chance! It changed my life...forever!X I do try to be positive....!x



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Dear Met Police. I have just returned from delivering aid to the Ukranian army. When I left on Friday night there was one thing for you all to do...your job. What a fu**ing let down. WE have abondoned Afghanis who helped us and put their lives and families lives in peril by doing so. WE promised we'd look after them...and we have abondoned them. The report on the 'withdrawal'...or to be more precise when we scarpered out of Afghanistan...is out and it is.....embarressing. We told the Govt for months to 'get on it' and start bringing these people to safety. To date they are all mainly in hiding. I and many others respect these folk...relied on them and indeed they protected us. I also return to find that Liz Truss was present when Nazanin was made to sign a false confession to the Iranians at the airport...whilst she creamed qdos for escorting her home. The womans a charlatan end of. Irish ain't impressed with her either...and the collateral to all that bo**ox could well land on your patch. We confronted the Triads when leaving Hong Kong in the late 90's...and won their respect. 25 years later nobody can face the Iranians? WE...are in dire trouble.  All this 'mess'...imcompetence...embarressing unprofessionalism...is eminating out of Boris's camp. You've cherry picked the fines...and avoided YOUR responsibility....to put this Country back on the right footing. Cop out....simple as. Nobody would have had an issue with your decisions if you'd had issued him another fine. IT IS DUE. Why you've bottled it is....well.....pathetic. REAP the collateral to YOUR incompetence...fining one in the room and not another...wtf??? You've left it all open for criticism. If you'd have fined him....the Met would have been irrelevant in the scenario. Now...your the focus...and rightly so.

So I return to a self preservating incompetent Govt...backed up by the Met who consider they are serious about tackling 'race' issues within their force. How about dealing with the white folk first? Huge let down to the Nation...I reckon. I write this after being inspired by several 'Special Ops' guys....4 'Military Advisors'......and over 20 British Mercenaries who said in essence...go back home and give em stick Soots....they're all 'ar*eholes.  Some of us are fighting to fly the flag around the World......get off your cosy ar*es in your offices and do something of use to 'the people'. Sue's report should do it. I really hope so....as even I can't be ar*ed to respect you all if this prevarication continues. It's damaging this Country....MAN UP.



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The above was written for my FB...toned down for Public consumption. YOU who this is aimed at read this....so read carefully. Some of us have built respectful relationships with folk over the past 30 years. They...are laughing at our Govt. I...and many others...don't appreciate YOU pi**ing our efforts over time...down the fu**ing drain. GET A GRIP.


...if you can't or won't do the right thing. Then let loose the dogs of WAR. Easy sorted...I reckon.

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Lets have a happy Police story...we need one...X

I promised the next 'chapter' but priorities and all that and I wasn't in the mood for sharing history this morning. The here and now....is much more important...X
Before I carry on with the hospital wing experience and helping Charlie Richardson escape...I will tell you of an amazing day I had at Cambridge Magistrates in December 1979 as I went to ask to have my outstanding hours of Community Service gathered prior to going into Borstal written off to give me a fresh start when leaving Grendon. It pivots around what turned out to be a decent...conscientious and remorseful...Cambridge Policeman...who took the opportunity to right a huge wrong in my life...that he...had done!x
Joe...a SUPER Prison Officer in Grendon had the job of accompanying me to the Court. We had made friends as you did with all the Officers in Grendon...as stated before were all 'equal' and it generated that fellowship. Joe was funny...a drummer in a band...and after leaving Prison my partner and I visitied him and his then partner for a weekend!! He was an old 'hippy' really...in uniform...but with proper savvy. Great Lad and we got on. Today he is an advocate for Prisoners mental welfare and more and is a respected speaker among that fraternity and on Boards all over the place...and features here in a documentary made in '94 that covers the 'adult' wings proper. I was on the 'Youth' wing...all 17 year olds....14 years earlier!



Joe and I were in 'civvy's' and arrived at the Court in good time...but I had to go down to the cells as a serving prisoner. To my astonishment...surprise and yes delight...there was 'Tojo'...now the jailor!! Tojo was a LEGENDARY Copper...associated with the football matches...would be the 'Liason Officer' today in the main and knew all us 'Hoolis'. Over the previous 3 years we had numerous encounters...him chasing me...arresting me...slapping me!! BUT...on occasions we stood side by side 'defending' our ground too such as when opposing Oxford fans came running across the pitch to invade 'our' stand...honest!! We were all in a line in front of the goal...Tojo shouted "STAND FIRM" as around 200 came running towards us possibly 20+ Cambridge Hoolis...Tojo...and Baby Face...another Football Copper legend....sheeesh...one felt proud AND CONFIDENT to be by their sides...and the advance wilted...and WE stood!!x You have to realise there was kids...women...in the stands they were heading for...screaming. It weren't always about bravado...but protecting your Community!! 2 or 3 Coppers weren't enuff back then!!



The relationship betwixt Police and me was good though....as i've said my Mam went down to Parkside Police Station one time to have me released and said to the then Chief Inspector Harry Gelsthorpe in front of Tojo...'there's no point in arresting him each time...he don't care about that....SLAP HIM...!' From then on...Tojo never did arrest me....and yes...I accepted a slap/punch around the back of the stand and sent home/back to the childrens home whichever!!! It was called mutual respect.
So here we were re-united...in the cells of the old Cambridge Magistrates in the market square! We had a chat and I told him what i'd done by going to Grendon and hopes for the future! He escorted me to the Courtroom and stood by me in the dock. I made a speech to the bench requesting the quashing of the outstanding 300+ hours of Community Service to give me a new start....and incredibly...Tojo stepped forward and asked to speak to the Bench! He then came out with a fantastic appraisial of our 'history' together and said he'd listened to my plea and felt I was sincere and he hoped the Bench would rule in my favour! In essence he'd spoken on my behalf off his own back.....unbelievable. It was granted...obviously. We went back down to the cells. I thought I was getting a bit emotional....but then I couldn't hold back after what he next said.....and it was this 'shocking' news....."Michael...i'm sorry. I hope in some way i've made up for what I did wrong. I was the Copper that did you for the bike on the path........!" I had never clicked....never realised...didn't have a mental picture of that Policeman. Tojo was the 'racist' Copper used by an Inspector who abused girls in a massage parlour...to do me in my Cadet uniform riding a bike with no lights on the pavement some 3 or 4 years earlier...which killed my chances of going into the RAF...and to 2 years later being in Borstal. I never had a clue...he hadn't used any 'racist' term to me as a 'Hooligan'...never. He'd called me a chocolate drop...once...when we didn't know each other...and he had been told to 'frighten' me by the sex pervert Inspector.....that was it. I burst into tears....and we HUGGED...together.



Yes I forgive him. The RAF wouldn't have given me at 18 what Grendon had. I genuinely felt in a good place...and what had gone before...all had to happen for me to be who I then was. That was my figuring x I also figured whilst chatting to him that 'chocolate drop' weren't that 'scary'....he laughed at that as did I...!!X I also asked if his guilt was what stopped him from giving me the biggest beating of my life for covering him in tomato sauce when i threw my chips at him before running into the Parkside Police car park into the arms of 20+ Officers returning from the match!!.......he replied by saying very sternly NO...he still owed me for that...and another laugh kicked off between us!!! We left as best friends....and that was that. Life eh?!x


Me and John here....local Histon man...was 'used' to do the dirty deed on this occasion by his superiors in the Boardroom to try and stifle my then protests about the then Chairman! It happens. Been seeing it for 45 years. We're still friends.......time served.....!x

What happened next was just....deserving!!! Joe collected me and I thought we were heading straight back to prison....and we should have! It was by coincidence my birthday...16th December 1979! I wondered why we'd gone the way we had...until he turned into my Mams road in Trumpington! We pulled up outside.....he'd secretly arranged a 'visit'....and me Mam..Siss and her fella now Husband....and my Girlfriend...were waiting...with my birthday AND Xmas presents!!!!! I returned to Grendon...happiest prisoner on earth...THANX to Joe!!!x No he shouldn't have done it....BUT...I was in Grendon 'voluntarily' now...had been for over 6 months...so not reaaaalllly risking anything apart from his job...was he?!!!x Friends to this day X Back soon with the Charlie Richardson story...X



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...excuse me a minute x

Dear researchers from that place. Report this. I and many others consider your 'Conservative' attitude towards your leader and inaction on behalf of the people hostile and disrespectful. 73% polled want Boris removed. You folk are entrusted to act on behalf of the people...not your Political interests. You've failed...shockingly. You don't deserve 'respect' or any further consideration. This isn't a threat...but a promise. I will utilise every network i've established GLOBALLY to find whatever sh*te you lot have sat out there. I usually am reserved when dealing with red tops. However...every newspaper who is compromised with me...will be reeled in and supplied info where pert to generate as much 'sensationilism' as possible...UK wide. You Conservatives have chosen a siege mentality. Super...as I used to say to my football club when we differed....stay in your 4 walls...and be safe from scrutiny. Whenever you step out of that safe house....your on mine...and friends territory. Audit? We're everywhere. Many of you have already been 'audited'. You think a few sex perverts caught is it? That's all that's been felt neccesary to expose to date. You've chosen to act 'dirty' and avoid your collective responsibility. As in any confrontation...one meets such force with ABSOLUTE SH*TE..as much as possible. Reap it. You think your lots expense scandal exposure was bad?....yawn...we woz playing. Accountability. A good British trait.

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Fellow dirt diggers........Boris has sh*t the Queensbury's out of the window. Tally ho!!X Churchill my ar*e...more like over the hill......no sermons needed from him anymore.



...Knick knack time.........WOOF!x Gather round......



YEEEHAAAA......Edinburgh here I come!!!x
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Morning!x Let's talk about 'my' London...!x

Grendon part 2! Charlie Richardson's escape...and quitting football matches...for 10 years!

Another duty I had as a porter in the hospital wing of Grendon was to take the rubbish to the dustbins in the yard outside of the prison walls! Next to Grendon was an open Prison called Springhill! Their bins backed onto ours with a wire fence between us. On the first day I emptied the bins...a smiling well groomed man was sitting with his bins having a tailor made cigarette! He offered me one in a London accent that differed from the Black guys whom i'd encountered some months earlier in Borstal...and the only London folk I knew at the time! He said his name was 'Charlie'...and that was that! For 2 weeks we sat twice a day each side of the wire mesh him giving me tailor made cigarettes and us chatting about me going home in the main which was imminent! On the last day that I emptied the bins...6th Feb 1980...Charlie asked me to do him a favour....deliver a cigarette packet to folk in London! I looked at it and letters and numbers were written in columns all over it! A code of some kind....harmelss to me so I agreed and was promised i'd be looked after!! My release'...or EVICTION...!...came 9 1/2 months later than I could have been home....yet to this day consider that extra 'time' invested into my life...the best i'd ever done for myself. I wasn't wanting to come home really.....!x Within a week of being released I went to London with my then girlfriend who became my wife for 28 years! We weren't right for each other....she was a simple lovely innocent girl...me....errr.....! But she was all I had...and she loved me. That is what I returned too...and got on with it! I only remember 5/6 days of our 28 years together since divorcing 15+ years ago...me being away Monday to Friday for 20 years helped us get through it!x


Upon arrival in London Charlie had told me to give the cigarette packet to the pigeon seed seller wearing a pork pie hat in Trafalger Square!! The pic above relays my joy due to just receiving £200 in rolled £20 notes as I gave the seed seller the packet...possibly £1000 today....i'd never had so much money!!! 4 months later I received a call at my Mams house...I was asked to go to London......for Charlie! He had escaped prison just weeks before...and so I now knew who Charlie was...! I honestly had no clue when we met in prison...he never said anything about his gangland life....just spoke as an educated man would...and I found him interesting...friendly...and sincere! I'd been a football hooli...but never had any 'gangster' dealings so was aprehensive....but as they were paying for my train trip and I could do with some money then I figured there may be some...so went!! Upon arriving at Kings Cross June 1980...I was whisked away in a car to a pub in Whitechapel! In the back was a private room/bar....around 30 'men' were in there and half a dozen Ladys.....as i walked in....they all clapped and cheered!!!!!! A man in a huge beard and long hair came towards me and gave me a hug! It was Charlie Richardson...in disguise!!! I had delivered the cigarette packet which had all the timetables written in code for the dustcart that emptied the bins!!! Charlie had escaped in their own dust cart!!! I didn't know who the pigeon seed man was either until then...it was Eddie...Charlies brother! Eddie and his crew are the ones that took down the Met Commander as being corrupt just 9 years earlier...in essence they were running Londons 'underground' through the 70's/80's...and I had been accepted as 'one of their own'!....all done innocently!! After a SUPER time I was offered work....to run a sex shop! Despite the serious money.....i'd had enough of that lifestyle as a kid. I left Grendon with a new focus...to stay out of trouble...and focus on using my people skills and intelligence to get on...and listen to my heart. I'd discovered I had one. So I returned to Cambridge knowing I was always welcome in London...proper...put a shirt and tie on....and became a Direct salesman...knocking doors selling vibrating massage pads...loft insulation...water purifiers...etc etc and etc...but managed to avoid Insurance and Double Glazing over the next 5 years!!! 30+ squillion O levels...prison....unemployable end of!! So I was on my own to make a living!


This video was made a few days after i'd met him in Whitechapel whilst he was on the run. He went to France the next day and was on the run for a year before being recaptured and released in 1984!

Many of the 'youth' of all these gangsters came to Gigs I dj'd at in London through the 90's...cementing friendships among their families further...and when I visit Camden Town....blimey....EVERY market trader...and High Street swag shop....knows me and says hi!!! In South London...Greenwich...Camberwell...Croydon...WHEREVER...i'm welcome by all!! It's WONDERFUL...all through being a sincere 'friend'...to a fellow inmate...42 years ago!x I did help Charlie further...at Strangeways when the riots happened!! Charlie once he'd been recaptured and served his time became an advocate for ex prisoners. He was a middle man for the prisoners on the roof talking to the Police helping out! I joined him on 2 occasions in 1990 as I was just tidying up my affairs in Manchester at the time....being relieved of my hotel and selling the 32 houses!!! It was then that I discovered the Pip Mans wife got £50k for 'consultancy'....Charlie told me!!!!!!!! I went to Charlie's wake in 2012 and last saw the 'old school' at Frankie Frasers wake in 2014. I've never done 'business' with any of them but have always been welcome to ask for help...and got it...for 42 years x


Charlie...despite bugging Prime Minister Harold Wilson's phone and using 'compromising' pictures of Princess Margaret to better himself...I found him to be a decent honest man...to me...RIP X 

Charlie left a positive influence on my life. His efforts at Strangeways set the example for a new service I set up with Ronnie Knight....in 2003...Prisoners Re-United!x It was a website for ex prisoners to find each other...! Ronnie knew nothing about the net so came to me and we sorted it! Ronnie was looking to come to Cambridge too back then. He lives here now...but has nothing of his ex gangster life to show...or live. I began writing a weekly 'blog' in the facility which was available to all prisoners UK wide! In essence...I was the bridge between prison and the real world for most of the UK's prisoners!!!! Charlie...taught me well!x Sadly after passing the facility back to Ronnie and his wife....it died over the next 18 months due to lack of management of it! I was too busy uncovering a 30 year cover up of over 400 folk who had been abused in kids homes around Cambridge...had 5 Police Forces harrassing me as they were implicated in the cover up as well as 2 Local Authority's.....who also happened to be in charge of Licensing my Limousines!!! Would you do business with Paedo protectorates? PRECISELY. That 'unlicensed Limo' answer coming soon!!x Incidentally....the now National thing of attending ex Veterans funerals who died alone....was started through folk I know in South London. They came to me...and I got it publicised. Since then over 70 funerals have been attended by 'locals' along with Motorbike vets and Scooter Clubs around the UK since we started it 4 years ago. 2 posts on the internet and 4 calls to friends and this happened...and thank the ''gangster world' for the inspiration!x


This front picture doesn't tell the whole story! I approached RAF Wyton...to have a 'presence'. I was told they would send a wreath. I visited the Station Commander. 50 turned out in a coach. I think after dealing with these 'Officers';...I did right to stay clear of the RAF...I would have been stifled and less worldy...I reckon x They respected me...were rattled actually...so I was definitely Officer material hehe!x He did redeem himself after i'd given a speech in the chapel telling all how we appreciated the Armed Forces folk...he came up to me and realised...I...was the real thing...and complimented me on it and apologised for not being on it originally!x

Did I smuggle cigarettes to raise money for Cambridge United asked Sgt T??......well after the above and whats been said in previous posts...I'd like to think I've proved my childhood/youth was influenced by the football club...positively...thanx to the Police and Ron Atkinson! However...upon returning from Grendon....part of my self tests was to go to a match with my old mates...and see if I can be 'different' in my actions. After returning home I went to the pub where my old mates used to congregate....all 21 of the friends I went down with had been home for 8 months...some had done another sentence too whilst i'd been away! They thought i'd left town....simple as! I didn't explain. The next match was at Chelsea...Feb 1980...Div 2!!! I went...and there was trouble everywhere..ideal 'testing grounds' for the new me! I managed to stay in the background...and got to the match safely. In our end Chelsea fans were infiltrating or being sussed by the Police and being escorted out. A Policeman escorting 2 Chelsea fans walking behind him and another Officer at the back came right in front of us. A 'mate' decided to trip one of the fans up...and through inertia...momentum...the last Policeman assumed it was me.....and grabbed my arm....!!!! Although I instantly thought of 'i'm on parole....!!!'....I didn't resist......until I was just about to be put in a Black Mariah.....yanked my arm and LEGGED IT...hitch hiked back to Cambridge and never went to a football match for the next 10 years!!!! No I never ever wanted to cause any trouble or hurt anyone...I also realised I wasn't that angry kid anymore. Incidentally...not long after...fights went off on Coldhams Common that hadn't been seen since Oxford and Stoke came to the Abbey back in 1978ish!! Chelsea and Cambridge fans fighting on the Common. It was a National story and the Judge used it to set an example to the Nation by sentencing some of the original 21 I went to prison with to 5 years. It removed the 'hooligan' element from Cambridge United once and for all. I am often thought to have been involved in that occasion...but glad to confirm as will all the 'lads' involved that no...I wasn't...and glad to be able to say so!x



Never since has it been 'organised' or folk turning up with intent to cause grief...or a 'crew' arise that wasn't or isn't manageable. I know those who could be capable of doing so. What I mean is to compare...in the 70's...in 2 seasons 77-79...I recall us 'planning and taking' at least 20 grounds ends when on away trips. It got 'us' a name Nationally. None of that is happening today. In fact the leader of Cambridge Fans singing element is a good friend...openly gay and would scream at the prospect of climbing up to sit in the rafters to lead the singing as I did in the 70's!!! I've offered him £1000 for Charity in our time to do it...he won't dare....hahaha!!x So...my old mates...the original 21....are all friends still to this day. Mainly because we haven't seen each other other than at rare matches I attend and the occasional social gathering usually for Charity! In essence...we haven't sha**ed each others wives or drunk each others beer to fall out over 40 years....our friendship is still at where it was...40 years ago...and I..and they...are happy with that!x We were termed the 'Grandad element' by a recent Chairman who was under scrutiny by myself and others.......he's gone. Grandads? Community and Club focused folk...is what he didn't understand...and we are all still here!x



This was his reaction to me discovering he was a liar and incapable of taking the Club where it needed and confronting him about it. He actually approached me with another secretly to see if I wanted to help take over the Club and oust Paul Barry! Upon discovering he was full of sh*t...and hadn't invested what he'd said he had and indeed didn't have the resources to take the club further...when asked to account for himself...he banned me!! The Board heirachy eventually discovered this and gave him the responsibility of redecorating the toilets around the ground slinging him a bit of money from the Man U FA Cup game. Strangely...his coach broke down en route to Man U that night...the only 1! I had to step in within the Man U heirachy whom I knew to represent our Club as they only arrived a few minutes before kick off. Remember...i've had 'relationships' with Man U since Ron Atkinson was there...yawn!!! I am kind....or he would have missed the match...end of. But he certainly didn't deserve to represent 'us'....charlatan simple as.


As the Chairman wasn't about...I made our fans feel welcome and did what I could to ensure the occasion was a happy one for all! Martin and I pose at the game! Martin has followed the U's since the 70's....always on THEEE coach back then...and we remain friends for nearly 50 years as a consequence!x The Chairman was clueless about these 'history's'. The local Man U Police gave me the job of being a 'spotter' for our fans! Taken to a 'plinth' at the away fans end it allowed me to see all 6,000 U's fans and to help the Police sort any problems among them all that may arrive! A super position to see the spectacle...and it inspired me to sing for the first time in years!!!x Pleased to report that there was no 'incidents' except 6,000 outsung Man U fans for 90 minutes!! Equally we were all part of the new record for a 5th round tie attendance...74,000 as folk had to attend this match to get a ticket for an international fixture the following week!!




After scarpering from the Chelsea match in February 1980...10 years went by and it was John Beck brought who me back to football...taking us to Wembley...1990...just at the time I was pondering what to do with life after selling the hotel...houses...in Manchester...losing it all and returning to Cambridge! I then started going with my mate Roger or 'Dodge' RIP as he was affectionatlely knicknamed who was wheelchair bound...sitting in our corner under the disabled shelter below the old Police box at the Abbey...for the next 10 years!



In 1990 it was also the same time as Mr T********* sat besides me at a cafe in London whilst I was selling advertising to the wholesalers....just as he had done 10 years earlier in Borstal....and said basically the same....'we are at a juncture again aren't we Michael?!'.........'I've been impressed with your frauding over the past 5 years.....and taking £100k from the New Towns Commission in 20 minutes was a real coup!!!'...but are you ready to repay the investment your Country has made in you?'. What investment sez I.........'Walt and Mary....taught you many things when you were at theirs as a foster child'....and they did...wonderful people travelled the world and well educated RIP XX He then said and what about Kneesworth....a unique facility.....and then Grendon....another unique facility! I had thought how come i'd been fortunate to be in these places....but that was that. Mr T was now telling me it had been 'managed' and was asking if i'd appreciated it. YES...was my answer...I did enjoy Kneesworth and LOVED Grendon. At aged 18 after reading over 30 Psycho analysis books and intensive discussions in groups with murderers...rapists and paedo's...I was able to drive past the bus stop when leaving Grendon and figured out everyones life....6 of them...different dress...different postures and mannersims. All naked in front of me.....unbelievable 'insight' i'd been given the opportunity to learn...and use to better myself. He then asked do I want to use my ability to serve Queen and Country???!! I pondered...America was finished thanx to the Mrs...I didn't want to go back to frauding which is all I knew really....for proper money!!! I was in an unhappy place....not using my potential...wanting to do good and so I asked him 'Did the Pip mans wife get £50k???!!!!...Mr T laughed.....and said yes....but he can be 'sorted'!!!!x The Queen once said there is a tier of folk whose interest is Britain that even she doesn't know who they are.........the foundations of that astute comment....stem from Kneesworth in the 50's...i've figured!!!!!x The Kingsmen film comes to mind..........and incredibly I have over 20 newspapers from front pages National and Local on my walls of stories i've influenced or given to the press over the past 20 years...just like the film....where did they get that idea from?!x Small world...init!x Since 1990....as I said...I figured there is always someone bigger........and there is hard work....and smart work!!x I will tell you in the next chapter.....of some of the smart work i've done since!!x

When the Cambridge evening news reporter came to my house re the tobacco smuggling case in 2010 ish...he saw on my wall all these front page storys spanning 10 years at that point! I told him my involvement in them all. He was gobsmacked....and couldn't have repeated a word...and be believed! I then dictated to him the story he printed about Cambridge United/cigarette smuggling....verbatum!!! 4 years later...The Kingsmen came out.......he phoned me.......and just laughed down the phone with unbelievable excitement..!!!x There is a reason he had to write the story 'as told'. The truth...he definitely couldn't print!! More later!x


I read this at aged 17...along with 30+ other PMA books...Positive Mental Attitude. Whilst it has set me apart from most folks thoughts...I recommend such insight for all x I'm often misunderstood as a consequence...but that's fine as I carry on...regardless x



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For you researchers......London? All your Gaffas place is Westminster. Small place...but have it covered by friends!x Charlies 'Bouncers' used to do it in the 70's and 80's.....history....luv it!x

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I've just remembered...I did do business soon after visiting Charlie's lot with 'gangsters'...in Cambridge!!x In Feb 1981 I moved into a 'mobile home' in Teversham with my future wife. We were 19. In between knocking doors direct selling I did whatever came my way to earn a crust! A friend drove a lorry and said I could help him and i'd earn a tenner a day...£100 today! He was just picking up industrial scrap and we were taking it to his bosses scrap yard! After a few days of getting to know his boss...I was offered a 'deal'! He said to go to my local TSB in Victoria Avenue and the Bank Manager will give me a loan for £3000! Once I got the money I was to give him £250 and the bank Manager £250 and the rest was mine.....and I wouldn't have to pay it back!!!! Okdokey sez I....yet was sceptical as i'd been trying to get a bank loan everywhere since leaving prison...but couldn't get one!!! I walks in...Mr Rudge comes over to me...Manager for TSB keen smile and walks me into his office! He had the papers ready....and said "you know what to give to Trevor...give him mine too. Sign here...and you will get the money in a new account tomorrow at 2.30pm! Draw it out and you will get 3 or 4 letters in 4/5 months time. Just ignore them....and thats it.....sign here." Sign I did! Never said anything other than 'thanx for your time'...shook his hand...and left!!! Sure enough...the £3k was there....and I withdrew it...paid Trevor £500.....and as Rudge said....letters came...I ignored them......never heard a word to this day!!!!! I never dealt with a Bank Manager like that again until 8 years later when this Bank Manager in Manchester came to us with 32 first time mortgage documents to sign...! You can see why Banks became delocalised and changed Managers often...blame the 80's for it!!!x


My first 'custom' car at Glenville Tudor Villages in Teversham! Mel Slack ex Cambridge United player had the pub in the village at the time! £50 a month rent in 1981..£400 today!! All gone now like my car! I got some paint from a roofing friend...shiny silver! I hand painted the roof and stripes on my lovely car! Went for a drive the next day....parked up...couple of hours in the sunshine and we returned to the car to find the paint had melted and run all down the sides...windows...streaks of it everywhere! It was bitumen based roofing paint that was made to melt in the sun and reset once cooled down...on a flat roof!.......ARGHHH!!

The TSB Bank Manager and Trevor got sussed in the end....front page CEN for the trial. From memory the Manager had been the best performer so his loan allowance...and debt allowance....was increased and he was left to scrutinise his own customers/debtors so able to 'write off' a certain amount of debt! Obviously some of this debt wasn't 'real'...but manufactured! I understand they had a few MILLION over 2 years or so!!! Rudge got 5 years and I can't remember what happened to Trevor. But I was 19....and learning that folk were corrupt in uniform...and in suits. It wasn't a 'choice' as such for me to eventually become a fraudster in business.....it was an occupation many had at the time!!!! It was 'normal'...I figured! Many were sexual perverts too....but i've never gone that far!x



Amazingly...Mr Rudge and mines path crossed again.....exactly 20 years later! I walked into buying an established courier business in 2001 serving the food industry Nationwide delivering packaging to manufacturers. 2 partners owned it...this big 30 stone guy Geoff...and Rudge....! He didn't recognise me...but I did him! He waffled on whilst still having that familiar smile about its good us 'youngsters' would be taking on the 2 main customers and their vans and staff. He said being your own boss was the way forward.....then explained he'd been in the banking industry....become disillusioned with it and left to start his own business!! He then told how Geoff had joined him and they'd been successful and was now looking to retire into the sun....! In essence...he was still blagging!!! After negotiating a deal we gave them the money and bought the business...4 vans included. 2 weeks later...I discovered he'd sold us vans that they say they owned...yet 2 had £8000 left on the leases to pay!!! I turned up to his house with a National reporter friend and threatened to put him on the front pages unless £10,000 was paid within 1 hour(expenses!)....deadline for the story linking his fraudulent past to today...already written...was 4pm....it was 3pm! Seeing as his past he'd covered up...even his new wife knew nothing of his career...he got the money by 3.45pm!.... Bank Managers.....yawn. Reporter got £500.....most 'free lance' National reporters I know are scratching a living...under stress....X



Anson packaging...£50 million turnover serving the food industry UK wide and what was John Dickinson Stationary were the 2 main customers. I learnt that you can't get an English breakfast these days without it being processed...packaged...by Eastern block folk who have been employed to run these factories under 'slave' conditions by gaffas living in Scandinavia and Romania/Poland! I've seen villages that featured in the Doomsday book...finished as an English village after these Gangers move in and buy the pub...post office...and houses to place employees in...10 to a house...UK wide. I've filmed them lining up for pay day....Bosses come with cash...deduct the money for rent...a bed....cigarettes/bacca....drugs...and they are left with around £100 to send home to their families in the Eastern block. Unbeleivable. I made an undercover documentary about it 10 years ago....nobody would touch it! JD's turned into Hamelin Products now based at Red Lodge near Mildenhall...bought overnight by a French firm...100+ year history of manufacturing at Sawston came to an end! We got a contract soon after buying the business with The Burlington Press who printed the Queens Garden Party invites! Sadly they went bust in 2010 x

I invested the original £2500 bank loan into buying a bread round...and made a new front page story!! I took on this warehouse that had a bread delivery each day and several vans would take it out to the villagers with cakes and stuff! Part of my job as the new owner was to learn all the rounds so that in the case of illness i'd fill in for the self employed van man!! I inherited with the business an old fella who pottered around the warehouse and knew all the rounds...so he took me out to learn them! On the first round which was 'spare' and had no full time person on it...we went out to Boxworth...then to Fenstanton.....but come all the way back to Longstanton...Willingham...to finish at Over...doubling back on ourselves?!! I asked Alfie why he'd not done Over after Fenstanton and work our way back towards Cambridge?! He was a man of little words...just said....'trust me its the best way!' That was a Wednesday! On the Saturday I did it on my own....i'll show him attitude!! So I fill up the van with lovely fresh sponge cakes...donuts....all looking super and set off to the farm at Boxworth...2 farmhouse loaves in the tin....then to another farm at Fenstanton....sliced loaf and money was in the bread bin! Now...it makes sense to go to Over...then Willingham and Longstanton! I arrive at Colins little farm....I run around the back and his money is in the tin....great! Next stop....lovely cottage by the pond.....Mable! She weren't there on the Wednesday...just left her bread in the bin outside! I knocked her door....she comes out....sez 'You're new...Wot u got?'...and began shuffling towards the cakes at the back of my van! Great I thought...1st customer to buy some cakes! She looked so fragile....lipsticked rosy cheeks...hair rollers in...5ft high.....and I pulled my tray out proudly to show her....and she then said 'WHAT's THAT??...and PRODDED it with her finger leaving a massive dent....and then went to the next one...and did the same.....ARGHHHH....she digged about 8 cakes before I persuaded her to buy one!!!! That's why you do Over....last.........I still had a lot to learn!!! Alfie.....pi**ed himself when I told him....sigh.


Sadly we were the last of the 'mobile shops' visiting villages as the Tescos of this world killed the price of bread making it unviable to deliver anymore...so it was a dying business but lovely one being 'there' for all the elderly in the outer regions...and learning from them!x

If you are squeamish...or don't want to read about animal cruelty...or sexual deviancy...then DO NOT read this passage!!!
For the next few weeks I got to know Mable and flat capped Colin from the little small holding up the road! On a Saturday they were often having a cuppa at Mables and they would come to the van to see the few cakes that were left!!! On the 3rd Saturday Mable had said on the Wednesday she wouldn't be there....so I chose to do the round...backwards....or forwards...seeing as my cakes were safe!!! It meant I got to Colins around 8.30am rather than the usual 1-2pm!! I grabbed his Farmhouse....ran round to his back door...knocked it...no answer...so run to the outhouse round the back where his bread bin was....got there...realised the barn door was open....then realised Colin aged 70 odd was stood there...trousers round his ankles....chicken in hands...waist high!!!!!! He froze....I did......put the bread down...turned...ran back to the van.........and called upon my education at Kneesworth...understanding from Grendon....to calmly pull away and eventually......stopped laughing!!!!! Jeeeez. Never since had such an experience. The worst is I had to see him 2 more times sitting with Mable having a cuppa......stood and had a cuppa with them the last time...Mable insisted all rosy cheeked....so was Colin!!!! I gave the round to another guy....and gave him the same advice as Alfie gave me when plotting the route......."trust me...it's the best way!" I never did ask Alfie if he'd caught Colin!!...or if it was Mables poking that made him go backwards!!x



Cluck...you read it!haha!x The front page story came like this! The Summer fair was coming. A Fair man...Ivan...flat capped came to the warehouse. Apparently they'd supplied him with rolls for donkeys years and he got a deal and sent all the 'young uns' in to get their rolls for the hot dog stalls on the fair! Fair doo's! How many do you think sez I...he reckoned 15,000 rolls!!!! I had some friends from Boston who used to do the Cambridge Thursday market at the City Ground! I'd traded there myself and knew they sold fresh rolls along with cakes and stuff! I began getting wholesale cakes from them and they said they could provide the rolls! Sure enough...Fair burger stall holder after stall holder came....18,000 was the required amount!! I hired a 7.5 ton lorry...drove to Boston....loaded all the warm rolls...freshly baked! Ian and Barbara said..."when you get back unstack all the boxes and let them air for a couple of hours! They were 4 day long lasting rolls...so would be ok to last the fair!" Unfortunately...upon arriving back at the warehouse in the lorry....van drivers started arriving and I got on with dealing with them...then the fair folk came and I dished around 10,000 rolls out and they were coming back for the rest on Saturday morning! I was done....couldn't lift a thing...tired...so went home for a kip,......leaving the boxes....stacked! 2 days later on Saturday morning...I dished the remaining rolls out...sold out. Everybody served. Then at 12....Ivan turned up....FUMING....saying all his rolls had blue bits on them...they were mouldy! He said other Fair folk were on their way!!! Ivan had given me £50 for his rolls...I convinced him if he was quick he'd be able to get some from Tescos before the other traders...and gave him £200 hoping he'd just go!!! He did! I locked up...jumped in the van....and left for my life....went in hiding!!!! The Fair folk never had a roll to serve folk with that night! Front page news it made....EVERYBODY was looking for me...and I never went to the Fair until 9 years later...taking my toddler Son...and even then I tip toed past Ivan's stall!!! I lost everything.....daren't go back to the warehouse for months...and the business just died!! Back to knocking doors...sigh! I didn't feel really confident to go to the fair until 2006...when running the Zebra with a good friend of mine! The gaffas of the fair used it as their drinking hole and have their dinner and Sunday lunch in! I made them all happy...and told them the story of the rolls some 20 years earlier......they all laughed at me hiding for 9 years.....but agreed it was best that I had!!! All is cool now...relieved to say!!x


The last time The Zebra was in its prime circa 2006/7 before closure as a pub 2 years after this pic...I took my baby girl to see it!!x

A final story of 'local' interest! After Colin's farm...I went to another farm my last drop near the big telecoms tower as you come out of Over for Longstanton! In his fields was a huge 'dip'...where an old forest had died and the water was black about 2-3ft deep full of branches but also teeming with rudd and tench...up to 6/7lb!!! The farmer let me fish it a few occasions as he said it was being filled in and the fish taken away! Incredible place....a stick and a hook would do! I'd scrunch half a slice of bread into a ball...throw it out hook in the middle....the rudd would swarm it like piranahs...bubbling the water...then seconds later the tench would SMASH into the bread and your on....!!! I'd catch 20 tench in 1/2 an hour!!! I discovered what day the fish were going to be taken and he let me come to watch it being done! Big tanker arrives....they get dressed in 'space suits' and start walking in the 2-3ft water eletrecuting it with these rods.....the fish came up stunned HUNDREDS of them at a time!!! We counted over 300 Tench and over 2000 rudd!!! It was a pond 3 ft deep max....100 metres by 100 metres....been there for years and these fish had just...been there...untouched! I went up to the tanker and watched as the last fish got put in the tray! I then got dizzy....and fainted!! I was told last year by a 'spice head' that part of the chemicals they use for spice is fish tranquiliser!!!! I believe I may have had a 'spice hit' back in 1983!!! Wouldn't recommend anyone to even try it...many around Hull are 'on it'....wicked addictive degrading sh*t...bad drug x I digress X Anyway...upon coming round...I followed the lorry....all the way....to the lake behind Histon Football Club/hotel!!!!! Every one of those tench and rudd...went in there...1982/3!!!X Hidden history....unveiled!x Nite nite!x Back with the 90's soon...have a SUPER weekend all!x



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Mariners...FANTASTIC...X Dan Ashworth taking the Newcastle job? He has no morals. Proved that in protecting Kit Carson for years whilst they frequented Norwich...Peterborough and Cambridge United together....the local peedo who killed himself on the day of the trial. Ashworth's never dared respond to any of my efforts by phone...email...to confront him and ask questions. We woz mates until I had standards. Got friends in situ at Newcastle for 25 years+...they'll keep an eye. Brighton???....without the likes of me 'promoting' their plight he'd never have had the job to go to....I was 'on it' whilst he was cosying at a 2nd Division club!!!!! Different league.



Liverpool/Paris.....the problem started after the Hebdo killings....i'll explain.
Disclaimer....I have been an armchair Liverpool fan since 1970/71 when they played Arsenal in the FA Cup. My Siss chose Arsenal me Liverpool. She turncoated in the 90's due to her husband and became a GOD D**N Chelsea fan! I did say the Americans will sort it!!x However...this ain't about football. I didn't watch the Mariners game...and I didn't see or hear the Liverpool one either. More important things going on simple as. So it ain't a bias opinion or comment tainted with bitterness of any kind. Football wise...it's a talking point to me not my life. Next. I'm offering simple facts which allowed what happened...to happen. I've obviously passed on the Liverpool armchair fan idea to my baby gurl! She's Cambridge United too but has been to Liverpool celebrating their success in recent years more than U's games so far!!!



After the Hebdo killings in Paris...I and some American friends who own a private International security firm went to visit the French Police to understand how these networks were connected their end. I went along as an interpretor...and knew my way around Paris. It was research...and we were welcomed. We were touring in a Police van going from one meeting to another. I had an hour to go get a break. I walked around the Eiffel Tower base. Within minutes I was hit by an Arabic woman with a request to sponsor a disabled child for charity. You get a 'lottery' ticket. Full on in your face...and intimidating...for most. She was after 5 Euros at least. After i'd got rid as it was an obvious scam....another approached me....even more intimidating....and I had to tell her to pi** off in lingo she understood. With that 2 men came over to me...Arabic....one pulled a knife and they said I...should 'eff off in perfect English!! I stood my ground and just said 'do your thing but stay away from me'...he accepted that....walked off to the women and I assume told them to leave me be. I sat for 20 minutes and watched their operation....whilst the men watched me. 5 women all told...all Arabs. They were literally taking 20 Euro notes out of unwitting tourists purses and wallets. They had at least 300 Euros in half hour I was there. Yet not 1 Police...or steward....to be seen.


I've lorry 'spotted' as a hobby for over 40 years. One of the biggest tanker fleets in France. It was turning into one.

I went back to the Police we'd been with giving our escort. I asked them....WTF??? I said it just wouldn't happen at Trafalger Square or anywhere in the UK before going unchallenged by local authority. They then told me this. They had been told by the boss of French Police to not touch any 'ethnic' groups...hands off....until they sorted their own security out. The Police were withdrawn from the tower purely because these crews were run by the gangster element that ran suburbs of Paris.....including around the Stad De France. In essence....they 'owned' those parts of the City and were a no go Police zone. Since then...the Police have lost further control of large parts of Paris....the locals know that...and tbh......it was an ambush in waiting. The Police would have had no intel....the Arabs...Africans....Eastern Block folk predominant in these areas.....would have had it all sussed. There to do...simple as.

When I returned to the Police van Marie here showed me what she would like to do with them and her baton....and I wouldn't mess!!!x 5 Police officers...all stood this close...and did nothing...under orders. I assure you they were 'frustrated'...as was I.


Whilst the 'workers' and their protectors were Arabic...the ultimate gaffas were Romanian!
The Romanians use 'Arabs' playing on the 'terrorist' fears. Friends within the French Police told us what they knew of their operation. The money taken each week was collected on a Friday....driven all the way to Belgium! I'll just say this and it isn't up for discussion or further comment...but by coincidence we were heading back up to the UK on the same road! By another amazing co-incidence they stopped at the same service station as we did. Even more incredible was they had 85,000 Euros in a bag...which they left behind as they left the car park...in some kind of hurry? We couldn't leave it so donated it to the fallen Police mens charity pot...Ahmed Merabet...shot dead in cold blood outside of the Hebdo offices...and Franck Brinsolaro...part of the protection Police...RIP XX We've been welcomed back in France ANYTIME X I like to leave a good wake. There's hard work.........and smart....I once learned many years ago x


My pic of the first depiction of the 3 Lions. In a window at the Fontevraud Abbey in France. Richard the Lionheart...and his Dad Henry ll along with his Mam Eleanor of Aquitaine are all buried there. AWESOME space to be in. I appreciate what the French did...or Bill the Conks lot...800 years ago and subsequent influential French who followed such as these. The French are always impressed with my knowledge of our joint history and it has earnt much respect...and support...over time x

I therefore summise...and based on reports today...that the European Cup Final was played in a no go zone area that French Authority's have no control in. I would suspect over 5-10,000 phones would have been stolen. Hundreds if not 1000's mugged...and I am gobsmacked that nobody was killed. A great 'profitable' night for locals....and SUPER night for the Real Madrid keeper I gather.....sigh x
That's all I know....and what's on the media...is the collateral to this base problem suffered by fans...of both sides!!! Friends at Real Madrid reckon hundreds of their fans were mugged too! Not heard a word about that on the British media.....!!! Now that's bias!!x Needless to say....the French Sports Minister does not have in her remit the ability to say "WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OF OUR CAPITAL...."....understandably....so any cr*p will do. Boris does the same.....so i'm not having a go at the French Minister...and others should shut it too really. When you point a finger....3...are looking back at you. I learnt that in the 80's. Good for sensationilist journalism tho'. Ukraines 4th on the news now. x

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Morning!x I had a new screen on my phone last week. I just got to London today. ..and the screen went dead...including me Google map! Visited 15-20 shops...nobody sold an AA or London map....sigh. Anyway...I missed the call from BBC 5 Live as a consequence which was due to be in the mid afternoon...to talk about the Queen!x We got it done this evening instead after Mohammed in Barking High St fleeced me to fix my phone!!!x I speak on various 5 Live shows a couple of times a month...one condition...they won't allow me to use my name...Sooty! They all know who I am....but 'Mike' is always my call sign!!x Enjoy...or boo...!!x
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P.S...these Cambridge United number plates I had made in 2003...for the Club to sell...50 of them. 1st match day...all sold.



I've been in advertising in some way shape or form for 40 years. It's the best...simplest...form to promote your club that most can use. I have 3 of them on seperate vehicles...2 are 'mobile'!! They have been seen at over 2000 sports clubs of various kinds...in Scotland...Wales...and Europe!!! It was also seen at Leicester showing support for the lost Chairman in the helicopter crash and at Cardiff for the player who died in the plane...and at Brighton/Worthing FC when the 2 lads died when the airplane crashed in Brighton...and seen at charity gigs raising money for all kind of worthwhile causes...UK wide...paying respects. I...am just the messenger.


It's been useful for all kinds of things over the years!!


The plate has also been at the Cumbrian floods...Grenfell...for 6/7 weeks...the Devon floods...and many National disasters...helping out!x It was said that I brought the Club into disrepute when smuggling the cigarettes to raise money for the CFU. BEHAVE....i'm still signing autographs in Tesco's for the locals who LOVED IT!!! IF...IF...I did in any way....i'd like to think the 1000's...literally...of POSITIVE times i've promoted the Club...UK wide...makes up for it!! In fact....i'm probably the Clubs best advert..face to face...Nationally....!!!! FACT...I don't do Carlsberg...or any alcohol tbf!!x

How many folk have been prompted to talk about the club as the vehicle passes on the motorway?! As I say...the best form of advertising available to most fans! Yet....I've never seen another club do it! Once those 50 sold....I believe that was it! I recommend them...seriously...£2-3 to make max...£10 retail...an earner and definite 'advert'! Sgt T asks did I smuggle cigarettes for Cambridge United...questioning my sincerity of being a 'fan'...one of my answers is......EVERYTHING i've done involving the club is to serve...support...and help the 'Community' of Cambridge United....all done for free...Nationally and GLOBALLY!!!x The Queen liked it anyway!!x By the way...bosses at the Beeb know of my involvement with the Royals....the hosts get nervous wondering what I may say...hahah....i'm cool!x Dotun(MBE!)...Nahal...Naga...Victoria Derbyshire all know of the 'avoidance' of my name!! Faisal who you all see on the Beeb or Sky covering Political news each day knows too...yet nobody dare say a word...and they tip toe around me...respectfully!x


Faisal...sticks to his script!x

When the 'Sooty' name debate kicked off 2010ish as Murdoch accused Prince Charles of being racist using it....the term was black listed...!...as a racist term! Police stations UK wide had an email sent to their Custody Sargeants saying they weren't allowed to use the term anymore! I got myself arrested on purpose....after i'd changed my name by deed poll to Sooty....as I was being processed in Parkside...officers in uniform and plain clothes started to gather as the Sarge typed in my name on the National computer as Sooty...pressed the 'enter' button...and a HUGE CHEER went up from around 20 present!! 'WE'...had it overturned...in the UK it is not a racist term...its a puppet...simple as. What did an Australian mogul know about our culture and heritage? He didn't care....just uses whatever to have a go. However...the Beeb and other media outfits were left in a quandary after the term was banned...then unbanned....so I agreed to not rock their boat and be called 'Mike'. Subversion of the press..and truth eh!x I'll be back after the weekend to carry on with the 90's...and my affair with the Irish...begins to blossom!! I'm DJing in Hull this afternoon/evening and then going fishing for the weekend and hope you all have a happy time too!x Have a super 'holiday' all...GOD THANK THE QUEEN!x





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Hey Grant Shapps....your full of it and I suggest you start feeding Boris his truth. I spent last Thursday in London seeing several connected friends...whilst celebrating the Queens Platinum! Over the weekend i've gathered this knowledge for you Westminster researchers monitoring my posts. Currently I guestimate the 'no confidence' camp consists of 57 'solid' MPs intent on their decision. I believe there will be another 5 or 6 that will 'go with the flow' once the vote is triggered. In any event...the Conservatives will lose Wakefield and Tiverton/Honiton....END OF. THAT happening will ensure Boris is removed. There...'the people' have it. As I drove to London this was the sight that greeted me on the A1....a mass exodus exiting London. I suggest Grant you start packing your trunk to beat the traffic leaving very soon! Boris's Mrs will be in it....without him...I reckon!!!! Let's see how much more of BJ's truth she can swallow. She nearly kicked him out the last time she learned of his infidelity...recordings of the row were....funny! C'est la vie...pour le Conservatives!x I bet she doesn't know he learnt 'French'...gutter type....! Go on Grant...ask him....and see if he turns red and gets flustered. Your backing the wrong horse Bruv....X See if he knows were the Folies Bergere of East Ham is...an old Murdoch funded den...je pense qu'il va craquer.....!! It's the way I tell em......



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I stopped off at Barking and East Ham. The 'Champions' statue in East Ham has always been a feature for me. In the 2000's I witnessed many fights when the Hammers were at home outside this monument. I used to take West Ham fans down there in a limo....so saw the 'trouble' after parking up in West Hams VIP car park! In fact I used to nick Kriss Akubusi's parking spot....and we always had a giggle about it as I spent the match often in the car park signing autographs....folk believing I was him...!! Happy days! We wore hats...so easy for folk to mistake us....I suppose!x My voice used to suffer though trying to copy his laughing screech!!!!x London.....really is another ...for 42 years...home from home tbf!!x Many of us get bored with the incumbent Politicians....but....as i've figured after being a supporter of the City for 40+ years....they is all...temporary. Next. ARGHHH...and Jeremy....BEHAVE............I suggest you carry on being obscure.....your no Obi-Wan Kenobi....shirley???!!!!




EDIT....BLIMEY!! I just posted the above at 2.30am. Logged out...this page comes up....5 'on line' as soon as i've written it!! GOOD. I ain't got time for bo**ox...go tell your Gaffas.

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'convincing and decisive' you say...PIFFLE De Pfeffel......your no Churchill Boris and definitely not a Cromwell...let battle commence. Mr Hunt...Boris reckons there is no alternative to him.......go for it,....gonna need someone after Wakefield and Honiton!!x


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Morning!x Sorry...i've been busy....Politics...yawn. SUPERB game...EXCELLENT win...well done Paul Hurst...Jason and Andrew (Owners)...the squad....and of course the Mariners fans...several family members among them...X



I was there in 1972 when Town got promotion from the 4th division in front of a 22,000+ crowd under Laurie McMenemy. As my mates Mam and Dad ran the tea bar under the Pontoon we was among the last to leave the ground that day. It set me up to enjoy Stadia and all that happens ever since! After moving to Cambridge I enjoyed the same thing with Ron Atkinson....promotion from the 4th!! Consecutive promotions...and seriously....that first experience with Town helped me motivate our fans through leading the singing during that campaign under Ron!!! I'd watched the Town fans do it...singing from the rafters.....simple as! Sadly I can't find the picture on the net but the Grimsby Telegraph had a super front page picture of the squad with the Div 4 trophy back in 1972 on the balcony of the Town Hall! My Nanna (RIP X) got me the pic from the paper and there I was...clear as day clinging to the Town Hall pillars among the crowd...aged 11!!! I was also there at Wembley several years back with family and friends...including their drummer whose drum I paid for once as I have done for the U's...(...and Blackpool/Carlisle and Reading!)...to help see them promoted back into the League! I understand the importance of such things in a Community...and encourage it wherever I go!x



I've popped in regularly over the past 3 years to witness the old floodlights come down and new ones go up as well as seen the development of the Club under the previous Chairman and now Jason. I believe with the new Leadership around the Club and structure they are putting in place will maintain their new level and look to build and hopefully should join Cambridge United in Div 1 in the not too distant future!!x I enjoy them games! I was banned from the Abbey at one of the games in recent years when we met......so I was the Town mascot to get in.....! I did enjoy shaking hands with every steward....Policeman...and Club employee including Ian Darler in charge of Security...all of whoms sole purpose in life at that time was to keep me out of the Abbey...!!!!....go on....it is funny...now!!x I'd been the Moose LOOOADS of times....so I deserved that...I reckon! Don't take it to hard....i've breached Mi6's building for a dare by an Mi5 friend once in a Limo...and Buckingham Palace too testing Security....as well as numerous 'no go ' areas in my time passing folk with guns around the World...far easier...so......it wasn't a real challenge and you all do a great job for what you all expect to come your way...normally...but I ain't normal!!x Having great friends in hundreds of clubs where it counts....in the background.....allows such things to happen!!!x As I say....Chairmen...players....Managers.....are all termporary!! Many of the kit men/groundsmen...have been at their clubs for 20 years+.......they....know the craic...and I love them all...including Ian Darler!!x





Having said all the above....EVERY Town fan will tell you i'm Cambridge United end of!!!x
With that....i'll be back soon to carry on with Mr T*********'s offer to 'serve' Queen and Country back in 1990!!x

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Morning....let's have some happy tunes and a history review seeing as it is sunny and Boris lurves history!x Another 'hobby'/business I have is making songs with a genius producer friend at our studios near Royston! Under the pseudonym of The Zoots Collective we have had association with several chart successes...including this one. I've looked after Ms Bassey for 23 years on occasion. The last time we had a cuddle was at the Royal Albert Hall for the John Barry memorial concert. It is apt for you researchers to convey to Boris. Theresa May...John Major and sadly Margaret Thatcher RIP x would all relate to it...enjoy!x



Besides my 'claim to fame' in a previous post re Fat Boy Slims 'Funk Soul Brother' tune in which I influenced the making of it and the song being played to the World as the last tune at the 2012 Olympics...I have been involved in these two tunes by combining my rare 60's record collection...my media company(making the music video or producing it)....and called upon 'dancing friends' who attend functions I dj at...and the rest...is now more history...! However...there will be no 'mercy' for those ignoring 'the peoples' feelings and thoughts.....obscurity will be your destiny...I reckon. I told David Cameron the same........who? Precisely.



On this one...Max Clifford (deceased) gets the credit for the ending!!! I will explain in another post another day!!



Now i'm not supposed to say owt 'contractually' but as this page is 'out of the way' of the main platforms i'll tell you this....we sold our latest 'album' to Sony.....3 songs from it will be sung by Pixie Lott...Paloma Faith.....and by Tinie Tempah apparently! However...our last album was bought by Sony in 2013...and 'shelved' after being told this and that would happen. We then found derivatives of our songs hitting the charts by other producers under Sony's control. THEY STOLE OUR SONGS!! Since 2013 the music industry has by strange coincidence made many records that sound 'familiar' to our vibe...sigh. We got half a £mill for this new album but they could plagiarize it again...yawn. HORRIBLE industry...and is why I keep it as a hobby...like football tbf. I am often recognised by the industry but choose to stay clear of the pretentious sh*te and avoid ceremony. I live in the real world...and prefer it...and 'they' love me for it!x



This is how we work...I play to my genius producer partner the original tune...he then works his magic! Many of my one off tunes from the 60's were found by a super friend who was Lemmy's of Motorhead(RIP X) stage technician for 20 years. Whilst they were on tour through the 90's and 2000's he would scour junk shops in the US looking for 'studio acetates'...one off tunes made in the 60's. There are 1000's of them out there. He would play them down the phone to me...bring them back...and then I would give them their premiere spin at the 100 Club in London...the Mecca for rare music!! People like Fat Boy...Boy George...the Gallaghers...and many more influential music folk attended the 100 club back then...and would hear my unique tunes. I would then 'bootleg' them for other collectors to have in their collection! Here is the 'original' tune...




Now this was our 'new' song made from the original 60's tune sung by a 19 year old lad from Royston! The intro is another Shirley Bassey 'rare' record I have called 'The Liquidator'! It was shelved at the time as it was considered too similar to a new tune she had made for the Bond movie...Diamonds are Forever!! Shirley LOVED our take on it!x We have been told Tinie Tempah will sing it....but.....expect to hear derivatives of it.....sigh. You heard it here first!!x



There....some 'inside' info of the music industry!x For me...music...or playing/making it..is chillout...I insist!x I will be back this evening to carry on with the next 'chapter' of the 90's!x Have a happy day all!x

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Sorry folks....been invited to attend some Grenfell memorial functions and to say some words in London so will do the next chapter upon my return X For those interested in the reality of it all then read on.

There still is ignorance over this horrific happening. After seeing it on the news around 1am I knew folk who worked at the Westfield shopping centre who lived in the Tower and knew I could be of help so I arrived at 4am whilst the building was still catching fire and travelling up to the top. I witnessed 3 folk jump and a Mother throw her child from the 22nd floor before jumping herself. Such sights inspired me to do what I did...for the next 7 weeks. There was an original fire in a flat caused by a fridge which the fire brigade extinguished. Sadly unbeknown to them the fire had already gone into the cladding and was burning in the 'filling' of a sandwich travelling upwards. Soon after folk began reporting smoke and flames appearing above the fridge fire apartment. Unfortunately the engines attending the original fire didn't have the ability to tackle it outside...too short a ladder. They called for assistance. I witnessed firefighters congregating outside the building...waiting for 'orders'...they never came. Instead whilst firefighters stood in their teams...residents were running into the building to save folk. The advice given was to stay put and wait to be rescued. That directive accounted for most of the deaths as folk suffocated. Many were killed travelling down the staircase too. Incredibly the gas mains pipe was running up the stair case feeding the apartments. It exploded several times causing many casualties. I also broke up fights between residents and firefighters. The residents were incensed watching them do nothing...understandably. In the subsequent inquiry into the firefighters performance Dany Cotton who was in charge promised improvement of the fire service as it had been proven to respond inadequately to the situation at the time. She didn't handle the response to the inquiry too well and retired in 2020 and will forever be tainted with the Grenfell firefighters inaction...unfortunately. I must say I saw 4 Firefighters break rank and go into the building...but that was well after seeing over 30 folk...including elderly and disabled...being rescued by residents.



I returned to Cambridge that evening in shock really. I put an 'aid' request out through my FB and was overwhelmed by the response...Nationally. I designated 3 vans from my courier firm to go collect the essential aid and began delivering it to the people of Grenfell on the 3rd day. Besides the residents being made homeless there were also several smaller blocks of flats surrounding the Tower that were evacuated too. I guestimate around 1200 people were wandering the streets with nothing except the clothes they were wearing. Upon my return to Grenfell I was....well....angered. I had been at the Cumbrian floods nearly 2 years earlier after storm Desmond. On the 2nd day there was a 'camp' set up by central Govt including 50+ Army folk from the Logistics Corp and a 'kitchen' feeding the hundreds of folk who had been flooded out. A tent was provided where folk could get their driving licenses/passports and essential papers replaced and anything they needed was adressed without a problem. Friends at Carlisle United FC were pivotel in supporting the people too and is where I based myself and delivered aid to them there for the next 2 weeks. Point is...these people were taken care of...by our Govt...INSTANTLY. 5 days after the fire....NOTHING...was in place at Grenfell. It was becoming volatile.



My contempt for our media was further justified too. This interview was done on ITV's This Morning . Mickey and his Mrs were given the nice clothes you see to wear on the show...and told by Schofield and Willowbee to not be too 'graphic'. Notice how Schofield cuts Mickey off when he began mentioning folk 'jumping'. After the interview...their clothes were taken from them and they were given the clothes back they arrived in. AR*EHOLES...and i've told both Schofield and Willowbee that to their faces since. They ain't 'people' people...they are a 4" camera lens lovers. Different league.



The day after that interview...I approached Mickey...and this is what the Nation really needed to hear...



I deal with the real world...as did Mickey. He refused to speak to any media after the ITV bo**ox. See what you are all 'fed' each morning? Not watched such sh*te for 30 years.

Upon realising people had no food...or even money to buy it....I called a good friend and Plymouth Councillor who is now bidding to be the South West Devon MP...Chaz...x The next day Chaz and 20+ Sikhs from the World Sikh Aid came from around the UK to feed the people...for free...for the next 40 days. Never did any Govt support arrive. No...it wasn't welcome anyway. If you recall Theresa May had to have a Police escort and she needed it. The Queen was the only one welcomed. Chaz and I ensured that...he being a true Patriot as myself. The Govt were protecting their interests at the time...shareholders sitting on the back benches who had shares in the holding company of Grenfell. Plus it was the richest Council in the UK...Chelsea and Kensington....and folk were being scrutinised...by the peasants....they don't like that. Obviously a stand off.






Neil who is to the left of me has since died of a heart attack. He worked with me as a courier driver on occasion and cried his eyes out upon arriving at Grenfell after offering to come with me on one trip. Neil had suffered adversity in his own life being abused at kids homes and bullied in prison as a youth. In his words....'the telly aren't even coming close to the real sh*t Soot'.....and he weren't wrong...sadly missed RIP X



There were 11 'factions' around the Tower. Seperate independent Community groups. As usual...within a few days folk were 'fighting' for the limelight. Incredibly it happens. I've visited over 20 National disasters over the past 30 years. Once the shock has worn off and media running around folk they start to realise they are 'famous' on the telly. Certain individuals began being the 'voice' for Grenfell and perhaps weren't the best to do so. The Govt were happy with this disunity...sigh. I caught  different 'researchers' hiding among the people...gathering intel to feed back to those in Westminster. I caught one and handed him to the Police for his own safety. The Police were complicit in this underhand happening. They knew who he was and 'protected' him from my scrutiny. I weren't happy. Due to this obvious 'divide and conquer' approach the Govt were using I got all the 'leaders' of the 11 Community's together and told them some truths. They listened. A group was formed....representing each Community...and 'we' went forth to confront Westminster.



I understand Theresa May said 'oh ffs'...when she heard I was 'on it' and organising 'the people'. Our paths had crossed over time...her losing at each occasion. She put Amber Rudd in position as a 'bodyguard'. I went to Hastings and was interviewed by local telly as a 'local' when she was campaigning for re-election as an MP. Managed to get some choice comment across to the people. She weren't happy with me...but neither were many Police friends happy with her UK wide...she was Home Secretary at the time so did me bit for them all!! So she weren't much use either. Both lied through their teeth to us in meetings at Grenfell. Disgraceful representatives of 'women'...no campassion whatsoever. Damage limitation for them...end of. Both got what they deserved ultimately and yes I did everything I could to ensure that they did 'disappear' eventually...with Donald Trumps help tbf!!! Nige and Arron from UKIP visited a few days before Theresa did if you recall a few months before the fire. He discussed EVERYTHING....him being a 'lad' then it was 'standard'. Our paths had crossed over the years when he was in Scotland. So I knew how to 'play' him...and passed that onto Nige. He held Theresa's hand when she visited.....and told her nowt. Job done. Obviously she weren't comfortable coming to Grenfell knowing I was there organising the people! But I told her and her entourage....'YOU groomed and trained me....don't kick off when my abilities are aimed at bringing YOU to account'. I...have always been a 'messenger'...fighting for the people...happy being in the background and leave the others to face the 4" lens...yawn!!!x 




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I helped channel the media info too. Several Grenfell victims became the spokespersons...fluent and smart...people focused type...and a concerted and constructive campaign began which ensured the victims got what they wanted...and deserved. I did have an 'ace' in my sleeve...which I pulled! The Black Community in the main were very very angry. I discovered some of the activists and 'gangsta's' were planning mass mob protests around the whole of London. In essence it would have made the Tottenham riots seem like a 70's football match. I managed to get them to hold back. That fact....was pivotel in the Grenfell folk getting their voices heard and acted upon. Some call it diplomacy....I call it blackmail. Without it...NOTHING would have been done...I reckon. Sadly Black MPs such as David Lammy and Diane Abbott both tried to 'cream' the Grenfell situation for Political gain. So blatant to me. I had just told Abbott that before I took this pic. They screamed innocence.....yet here you researchers for them are. Tell them they are still 'opportunists' in my book......yuk.



There was lots more achieved but needless to say I am always welcome among the Grenfell folk. I last popped down 'officially' when Meghan and Harry popped in before they left for the USA...400+ came to greet me!! No lens required x My thoughts are with those 72 who died...and indeed to the survivors who fought for justice.,..and still do X I'll be back Thursday evening...and share what some of that 'training' has been used for since the 90's!x



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...'ere Paul Barry.........I did go easy removing those 'local' undesirables you installed consistently ...tbf!!!!x My Cambridge United number plate was proudly flown on my vans with each aid delivered at Grenfell...and Cumbria! Tobacco smuggling for Cambridge Uniteds fans???.....done with a cup of tea in hand!!!x FULL exclosure coming soon....and I don't hold any grudge against anybody who tried to stand in my way whilst trying to 'serve' the fans....honest........I was always going to 'win'......it was a just cause...as was Grenfell...!x

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