128: Undercover cop Peter Bleksley tells his story

Anything Goes with James English

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Anything goes with James English Ep/128 Undercover copper Peter Bleksley tells his story. Peter was the best undercover cop Scotland Yard ever had. In over ten years operating in covert squads, he came up against some of the most hardened, lethal and bizarre underworld operations, constantly putting his life on the line so that the deadliest villains would end up where they belonged: behind bars. A master of disguise, he assumed numerous identities in order to get close to his targets - drug dealer, counterfeiter, gangster and hit man to name just a few. So determined was he to nail his man, he would even have to take heroin or cocaine to remain above the suspicion of gang bosses.

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0:00.0	Oh, Boon. Today's guest,
0:15.0	today's guest, we've got former police detective Peter Blakesley.
0:21.0	How are you, Peter?
0:22.0	Very well, thank you.
0:23.0	Yeah, really good.
0:24.0	First of all, thanks for coming on the show.
0:26.0	You've been very high profile, like catching fugitives and used to work for the police.
0:32.0	You're also an author now, you've wrote the book, Man Hunt.
0:34.8	Yeah. You're trying to fit. So this book is for Kevin Paro as a Paul.
0:42.3	Kevin Paul. Yeah. Paul, yeah.
0:44.0	So, yeah.
0:45.0	This is hunting Britain's most wanted murderer, double murderer.
0:48.0	Yeah. Well, he's not been tried and convicted of those crimes, right? So at the moment he's wanted for them.
0:56.2	And part of my whole reasons for trying to find him is that he needs to stand in a court
1:02.4	and answer the allegations that are made against him.
1:04.4	So he's not convicted yet, but been on the run for 16 years needs to be found.
1:09.8	A long time. A very long time. A very long time. in that regard I have to begrudgingly give him some
1:17.8	credit I started hunting him 18 months ago. It's been a remarkable journey to be quite
1:26.7	frank with you. I guess I was a bit naive. I didn't really know where the
1:31.9	journey was going to take me, which you would think an old sweat
1:34.8	like me, former detective, you know, would anticipate some of the pitfalls, but it's been remarkable.
1:43.0	May I start at the beginning of the hunt for giving part?
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