Wild Cats

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Editorial media includes use as a visual reference to support your article, story, critique or educational text. In each episode, current and former gang members and active criminals are interviewed by presenter and former member of the Essex Boys gang, Bernard O'Mahoney. Wildcats" is the story of those untameable and unstoppable men, the hardened East End villains who are society's true 'wildcats', and whose exploits are the stuff of fiction rather than fact. In fact I'm pretty sure they would have welcomed a set too with any firm and no doubt would have given them a hiding to boot. And according to Danny's book: “Lenny McLean and a few very large black men started to give this drunken youth a good kicking.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Roy Shaw, McLean, Williams, Carrington, Mickey Rourke and all the actors ran like scared rabbits to the club house, Woody’s, and locked themselves safely away.

Armed robbery, murder, abduction, intrigue - this may sound like the stuff that a crime thriller is made of, but for armed robber Danny Woollard this is real life. The West Ham firm was co-founded by Cass Pennant in the 1970s and garnered a sinister reputation for leaving a business card on the fans they attacked that read: “Congratulations, you’ve just met the ICF.

Yet if these anti-heroes might be conisdered, in a social sense, 'bad guys' they also have personnel qualities that in the end we cannot help but loyalty, courage, compassion and a real sense of fair play. Behind upscale streets and tranquil parks, some of Britain's most ruthless gangsters keep police, judges and politicians busy protecting the public.I wanted too get this as some of my family are in this book and I needed too read for myself about life back then for them and since this books release some years ago different things are shared or kept away and Danny who wrote the book has since passed away so I’m glad I’ve now got my copy and can read myself.

Our online collections hold information on over 800,000 film titles – including television programmes, documentaries, newsreels, as well as educational and training films.Danny Wollard was born and brought up in London's East End, and is one of the most well-known and recognisable faces from the underworld. Blighty | Cockney funerals Buried like kings Danny Woollard was a notorious gangster from the East End of London.

His lavish funeral was emblematic of the Cockney culture that is being displaced by mass immigration. According to Danny, legendary McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1998, faced more drama earlier in the night when his rival Barry Dalton supposedly pulled a gun on him. McLean, who had ties to the criminal underworld, participated in more than 3,000 fights during his life. Bill dragged this young man out, but unbeknown to anyone, ‘The Bomb’ set about this chap and gave him a proper hiding.One of the East End's most notorious gangsters, Danny's life has been one filled action, danger and villainy. But, according to ex-East End mobster Danny Woollard, he met his match when West Ham's infamous Inter City Firm (ICF) stormed a fight night he was headlining.