The Devil Shook My Hand: I've Been Shot, Stabbed and Accused of Murder. People Call Me Britain's Deadliest Bare-knuckle Fighter. This is My Story.

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A 31-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Monday morning and released after questioning. He has been bailed to return at an unspecified date in January. John Dennis Arthur Bindon [1] [2] (4 October 1943 – 10 October 1993) was an English actor and bodyguard who had close links with the London underworld. The son of a London cab driver, Bindon was frequently in trouble as a youth for getting into fights, and spent two periods in borstal. He was spotted in a London pub by Ken Loach, who asked him to appear in his film Poor Cow (1967).

His was a violent world from the off. During a 1953 Boxing Day gathering at a bar in Exhall, Stratford-on-Avon, the young Bartley witnessed his uncle’s death. He was killed by a single blow from a showman enraged after his drink was spilled. Criminal robbery has one advantage: no one turns to the police. This was an easy deal - one where the risk of reprisal was countered by the magnitude of the payoff. Hole had chosen to make a statement of force that would make him a big enough face to leave Canning Town.

He moved to Uttoxeter when he was 20 and lived for a while in the former pit town of Rugeley but is best remembered for his time in Uttoxeter where there is a plaque commemorating his achievements. Hole, a convicted armed robber and petty criminal Evans, who had been watching the Liverpool against Sheffield Wednesday match on the pub's television, died almost instantly. In 1997, mellowed if not softened by age, Bartley announced his retirement, declaring: “I’m too intelligent to fight.” Gerard, a friend of "celebrity gangster" Ronnie Knight and the Kray twins, was gunned down on his daughter's 11th birthday as he got into his car near his home in Stratford, east London.

During the 1980s, Bindon became a reclusive figure, spending more of his time at his Belgravia flat. He died on 10 October 1993, aged 50. According to Philip Hoare's obituary in The Independent, he died from cancer. [2] References in popular culture [ edit ] The fifth in a line of Bartley Gormans, he began fighting at the age of ten and claimed the King of the Gypsies crown in 1972, following the death of previous holder Uriah Burton. Shaw routinely stabbed police informers and even slashed the throat of a former best friend while incarcerated owing to his strong belief in a "code of honour" among criminals that must not be broken. John McVicar, the bank robber turned journalist, recognises the hallmarks of a contract killing. 'If it wasn't connected with the score that had to be settled after Gerard, then it must be connected with drugs. It's unusual for two people to be killed like that for a purely personal vendetta.'a b c Clements, Toby (1 August 2005). "Aged 14, and already a harder man than most". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 4 June 2021. The fighting started with playground tussles, then after-school scraps, followed by proper training at Bedworth Labour Club. There was also a string of schoolboy amateur fights, including some for his secondary school, Nicholas Chamberlaine. In 2000, Shaw was one of the best known mourners to attend the funeral of Reggie Kray, a lifelong friend. Shaw said of Kray: "Kray came from an era before drugs became common currency, when there was honour among thieves and few criminals double-crossed their friends. In those days there was loyalty. Nowadays they are all having each other over all the time." [1] Christina now lives alone in their flat, the entrance to which Tommy never managed to finish carpeting. She speaks delicately of the man who was broken by his son's death and who hated his past. 'Tommy was trying to avoid old places and people he knew,' she recalls. 'It all hurt him. We bumped into an old friend one afternoon. He simply said: "Hello, how are you, Tommy?" As we walked away, I could see he was drenched in sweat.'

Gerard wasn’t sufficiently careful. He knew all that week that he was being followed, mistakenly thinking that it was by undercover police. Another man is believed to have received a flesh wound to the leg but he fled the scene before detectives arrived.Shaw claims to have had ten fights in his twenties using the alias "Roy West". However information on these has proven difficult to trace. His early boxing career was cut short when he was incarcerated.