Dreamworld

When one has read a number of the fanciful "true" stories of various villains, usually from London, it seems that just when will somebody be completely truthful, no matter what.  Let us start with that old gang boss, Jack Spot.  He claimed that he led the "Battle of Cable Street" with the Blackshirts of Oswald Mosley in the East End of London in 1936.  The truth is, this battle never took place.  The only film footage you will see, is small skirmishes between Police and left-wing agitators.  Many other tales have been contradicted by others.  Author Wensley Clarkson, in his biography of Spot, gives a detailed account of this "battle."  This showed, unfortunately, how little research he did, giving the view that James Morton's ` biog of Spot gave specific attempts to find evidence of this "battle."


    How about the fantasy world of "Kray gang boss" Tony Lambrianou?  The tales he told of how he and his brother "with the Kray name behind us" were going to "take over" a number of major cities in England.  he mentions Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester, Stoke, Bristol and Plymouth.  "We were connected to London teams.  Who was going to stand up to us," he boasted.  It seems that outside London, nothing existed.  I could just imagine if at that particular time, huge and tough doormen like Dennis and Ted Turner would have been gnashing their nails in sheer terror, "Oh my god, it`s the Lambrianou Brothers with the Kray name behind them.  Who is going to stand up to them?  We are so frightened and helpless."  Yeah right.  Plus, all the other villains and tough nuts, would they have crumbled so easily?  you guessed it.  Considering he thought he was such a big villain, it comes as no surprise to know that when he and his brother were arrested over the Mcvitie murder, in Birmingham in 1968, he went along very quietly.  How do I know?  I have seen covertly taken photos of the two of them being brought out of the hotel by seven CID officers.  And they were not all young bruisers!  The photos now belong to an author that I have acquaintance with.  As they say about "The X-Files" the truth is out there.

Historical Crime

There are quite a number of historical crime books that provide much information about what life was like in the "Good old days".  There is a long running series about foul deeds in all major cities and towns, but now books have emerged about the scuttling gangs in Liverpool, Manchester, and other cities.

    Gangs of Liverpool, Tearaways (About Liverpool), Gangs of Manchester, Gangs of Birmingham, Nottingham, etc.  Choc full of info on the various gangs and the areas they operated, all well worth the read.

Bobby Critchley

A new book has just come out , the autobiography of Jimmy Donnelly, or Jimmy the Weed, a leading face in the so-called Quality Street Gang.  He mentions Bobby Critchley, who it transpires that he was the big man in Manchester during te 40`s and 50`s.  He also gives mention to many of the faces of Manchester.  Now I know about a man whom information has been very thin on the ground.  I believed his name was Tainey, but in fact it is Tierney.  Mick Tierney was known as "The Terror", lived in Moss Side, and provided protection for some of the shebeens or illegal drinking dens.  This, apparently, was his main source of income.  Makes a nonsense of the talk of a "Criminal Organisation"

    There is no mention of Critchley having a brother.  It alo seems that Tierney was to have ahd a straightener with Jimmy Swords, the pivotal figure in the QSG.  Tierney, it appears, "did not fancy it".

    Let us hope that it promps more books about the other major cities that have their own underworlds, and get away from London.

drugs again

Well, as some people still like to go on about drugs not being harmful, causing untold misery, destroying families and communities, causing an escalation in crime, and pushers and suppliers growing rich on the addicts, and those need a "buzz", what are these people about?  Back in the "hippie" days, they may have been about "turning people on", but things drastically changed as professional criminals saw what money was being made, and decided to get in fast.  Because the lifeblood of criminals is MONEY!!  My belief is that many of these wankers back then came from middle-class or well-off families.  The Police have always been a bane to the middle classes.  This stretches back many years, as middle classes resented being stopped by Police, particularly in their cars, as they obviously believed that they were above them, given their social status.  Working class people may resent a lot of Police, due to various reasons, but they accept that they have a job to do. 

    I see these middle-classes thinking that the job of the Police is to keep the lower classes in order;  that they should not be bothered, because they are far "better" people.  To me, men like Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary, were just desperate to get young people to like them.  To appear to be "hip"  All this bollocks about "turn on, tune in, drop out!"  Oh wow, why can`t people just drop some acid and "open their minds?"  Why not ask Syd Barrett?  He went overboard "expanding" his mind and went do-lally.  How about Peter Green?  Somebody spiked his drink with LSD and as a result has been in and out of mental hospitals for forty years.  A lad I went to school with, was ingesting LSD whilst at school, and since he left school, he has never been right in the head.  Everybody has always regarded him since as a nutcase.  His behaviour can be very bizarre.  At the time he was taking it, the drugs would have been manufactured by Richard Kemp.  The chemist who grew rich on his product but fucknuts actually believe he did no wrong and should not have been arrested and prosecuted.  One fucknut stated that the Police should be made to apologise(!) to him.  OH yes, everybody else involved in drugs can be arrested and jailed, but Kemp and his associates should apparently be above the law!

     Martyn Pritchard, the undercover cop who initially kicked off, wrote abook about his work.  Some reviews were, in my view, typical old hippie shit.  "Anachcronistic and hilarious" stated one.  Undercover work was in it`s early days, and there was a lot of hard work in getting both the Home Office and the Police hierarchy to change their outlook on the drugs scene.  All I read in these reviews was that wankers resented pushers et al, being brought to book.  It does not seem to matter that the drugs these people buy, sell, distribute are ILLEGAL!!!  They are therefore subject to the LAW!!!!

Drugs

Now that one of the people sent down for the Operation Julie case, has now written his "Memoirs" thirty three years after the event, it must make you wonder if he is short of a bob or two.  Of course there was the obligatory recommendation from drug smuggler Howard Marks, stating what a great read it was.  Of course he would. It`s about drugs.  The field that Marks, for the last number of years, has marketed himself as "Mr Nice".  Is Marks actually so nice?  I wonder if he would have smuggled drugs through a country like Malaysia, with it`s draconian approach to captured drug smugglers.  A couple of brits went to the noose in the eighties.  Nevermind, if good old Howard would have, would he have handled the contraband personally, or would he have put a dupe in his place?  No doubt he would have been convinced with titbits such as "You won`t get caught" or "They won`t hang you"  If this scenario was ever, or potentially true, this most definitely would not make him "Mr Nice"


    There are a couple of books out about the Operation Julie.  Two are by former Police Officers involved in the case, Martyn Pritchard, the undercover man, and Dick Lee, the man who lead the investigation.  Both are dismissed by reviewers as being purely from a Law & Order point of view.  Mind you, these reviewers spoke a load of the hippie bollocks that still permeates.  It does not matter that what they did was highly illegal, very profitable for them, and at the end of the day, it seems that they can commit the crime but cry and moan about the sentence.  Personally, I believe all drug pushers should be put against a wall and shot.


     I feel that the image that is attempted to be portrayed is that all young people, hippies, were all "peace and Love".  Of course they would not turn violent towards people opposed to the their drug pushing.  How silly.  It`s all beads and fancy clothes!  Here`s something, way back in the late 60`s early 70`s, Eric Claptons` pusher would no longer sell him cocaine.  He has to buy heroin as well.  Yeah, all real peace and love, man!

The Riots

Here we are again, thirty years on and a fresh outbreak of social unrest, or to put it straight, rioting. Once a wave of violence and lawlessness breaks out, there are always the retards ready to heap the blame on anything except the fact that is simply an excuse to reek havoc.  It is particularly galling to listen to the professional apologists offering the usual diet of bollocks, "The disenfranchised, the marginalised."  These braindead dickheads do not have the guts to say what it is, pure and simple.  Obviously to afraid to upset these "sensitive, outcast" troublemakers.  The call has been for troops to be put on the streets.  The last time that this occured was just after the First World War. in 1919.  This was the Police Strike in Liverpool.  As most police went on strike, violence and looting was rampant.  The Government sent in 2,500 soldiers to aid the Police that refused to strike.  Also, as a protective measure for the docks, a capital ship, the Battleship HMS Valiant, with it`s two destroyer escort, was moored in the River Mersey.  Tanks were also deployed as a deterrent.  Not much chance of that these days.    Must not upset the apologists.

Villain to pay

Jailed villain Johnny Daniels has been ordered to pay £479,000 as part of a seizure of illicit assets that have been accrued by Daniels.  Daniels went down over his arranging the raid on a house that led to a man`s brutal murder.  The fact that Daniels went through £680,000 in four years in a local casino, shows that he had his fingers in numerous pies, and was a successful villain.  He faces a further three and a half years inside if he does not pay up within six months.  He is currently serving thirteen years.  


    Stories are rife about what he was involved in, and the stories are probably true, and it shows that when it comes to out and out villains, he puts in the shade those who trade on reputations for petty crime and street brawling.