The Cornerman: A True Crime Investigation

This session reveals the rise and fall of one of Britain’s most elusive organised crime bosses whose whispered name terrified communities from London’s glitzy West End to the leafy West Country. Firmly on the police’s radar ever since his name was linked to two notorious and still unsolved gangland murders twenty years ago in London, the Cornerman used his connection with one of the capital’s most successful crime families to build a network extending along the M4 corridor to Bristol. He walked free from prosecutions for kidnapping, murder and extortion of a championship football club owner. At least ten men, women and children, have been taken into witness protection on the police’s insistence. Meanwhile, the Cornerman continued to cash in by running protection rackets, cosying up to big players in the world of sport, and providing security for the men behind high-society nightclubs loved by the young royals and A-list celebrities. This talk gives a behind-the-scenes account of that long-term shoe-leather investigation.