The background

No longer untouchable?

Detectives suspected jury nobbling when the Cornerman walked free from prosecutions for kidnapping, murder and extortion of a championship football club owner. At least ten men, women and children, including the mother of his first born, have been taken into witness protection on the police’s insistence.

Meanwhile, the Cornerman continued to cash in by cosying up to big players in the world of sport and from providing security for the men behind high society nightclubs loved by the young royals and A-list celebrities.

But last December, justice finally caught up with him after detectives bugged his car and that of his loose-lipped enforcer. As is the way with these things, what finally did for the Cornerman was a relatively minor crime by his standards - a cocaine deal and blackmail conspiracy against Bristol businessmen.

In this exclusive series the Cable reveals the rise and fall of a gangster whose whispered name induced fear from London’s glitzy West End to the West Country.

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