Bill dragged this young man out, but unbeknown to anyone, ‘The Bomb’ set about this chap and gave him a proper hiding. In his book Wild Cats, he claimed the hooligans rocked up at Woodford Football Club after an ICF member was supposedly battered unconscious in the audience. Billy ‘The Bomb’ Williams was a notorious heavyweight brawler, who was once trained by Muhammad Ali’s mentor Angelo Dundee. It shouldn't be used for commercial use which includes advertising, marketing, promotion, packaging, advertorials, and consumer or merchandising products.

The likes of Gene Hackman, Mickey Rourke and Jaws actor Richard Kiel were all said to be in attendance. Liverpool - Featuring interviews with Stephen "The Devil" French, Kevin Mooney, Nicola Regan, Graham "Boris" Boszomenyi, Brian Charrington Jnr. Editorial media includes use as a visual reference to support your article, story, critique or educational text. With unique access to ‘faces’ who have never spoken in front of cameras before, author and former member of the Essex Boys firm Bernard O’Mahoney takes us on a journey through crime culture that gained notoriety in the 60s and brings it right up to date with gripping and emotional tales of a modern day British gangland.

Behind upscale streets and tranquil parks, some of Britain's most ruthless gangsters keep police, judges and politicians busy protecting the public. Rich in colourful characters and chaotic, often violent events, the book charts robberies, dog-fights, rape, furious vendettas and the frequent brutalities of prison life. Things turned nasty when a drunk reveller from the crowd grabbed the shorts of a fallen fighter in the ring to prevent him getting back up. 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. Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.

One of the East End's most notorious gangsters, Danny's life has been one filled action, danger and villainy.

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. His lavish funeral was emblematic of the Cockney culture that is being displaced by mass immigration. When McLean walked into the dressing room, Barry went straight to his kit bag and pulled out a ‘38’ revolver. 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.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book pulls no punches and is a brutally honest account of underworld life from someone who has experienced it first-hand. And according to Danny's book: “Lenny McLean and a few very large black men started to give this drunken youth a good kicking.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. Explaining the carnage that unfolded, he wrote: “They all came, motor-loads of them, tooled up and looking for revenge. Bernard O'Mahony (Standing) with (seated left - right) Bernie Khan, Danny Woolard, Billy Frost, Frank Fraser, Eddie Richardson, David Fraser, Lenny Hamilton and Nick Reynolds attend the launch party of British Gangster: Faces of the Underworld which will be on Yesterday channel and released on DVD through Revelation Films this November, at Maison Bertaux in central London. 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. Blighty | Cockney funerals Buried like kings Danny Woollard was a notorious gangster from the East End of London.

Another added:” I think you can safely remove Mickey Rourke from any band of hard men, he’s all Hollywood. And the story about McLean and the famous actors apparently running for their lives was recently speculated about on Youtube channel The Enquirer 1.It is told by one of those men himself, Danny Woollard, who recounts his early childhood days in Manor Park, and tells how, through a sense of youthful exuberance and adventurousness, he became embroiled in a life of 'crime and time', leading to an 11-year jail term. 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. Anyhow, after that, I gave up boxing promoting for a while and concentrated on my scrap business, just to let things quieten down for a while. The series was broadcast on Discovery's Quest channel in the UK in April 2014 (S1) and July 2015 (S2).