Now in his mid-seventies. He was born at the end of the last World War, brought up by an honest father and empowering Mother on a London overflow council estate. Kicked out of school at the age of thirteen for knocking down a teacher, spent a couple of years caddying. Fighting got him a job in a Bayswater night club, when almost sixteen years old. By the age of seventeen, he started learning his future trade as a collector from an old time, razor carrying gangster who he lived with for a year. Learning his trade, the scams, bribes, collections and occasional executions that were to be a part of his everyday life. He was given his first pistol the day he started his apprenticeship, along with money from his employer to buy new clothes and tailored suits to fit his new life style. Showered with gifts including an apartment of his own and a new Jaguar on his eighteenth birthday, he commenced life as an enforcer and executioner from that day on.