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Eventful Lives Podcast

#161. Former London Gangster & 17 Years in Category A Prison - Stephen Gillen

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5857 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Gillen shares his story, jumping deep into his life of crime


Stephen talks about his gangster lifestyle and robberies that led him to a 17-year sentence in a Category A prison. 


We discussed his friendship with the notorious Charlie Bronson on the wings of prison and found out what he's REALLY like as well as the unknown knowledge of the Essex Boys murder case. 


This is the Eventful Life of Mr Stephen Gillen


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0:00.0

The people are stung to that life.

0:04.0

They don't get any fit dodge.

0:05.0

I went to the robbery game very, very quickly, you know, like the violent stuff.

0:10.0

Calfitting, you know, we used to different things, you know, there'd be the drugs thing.

0:13.0

We'd collect debts, do whatever we had to be done to get the money back.

0:17.0

It's an evil life, Dodge, but not all the people in it are evil.

0:20.0

You know, I knew all the guys.

0:21.8

Only was a fucking animal.

0:23.1

Make no bones about that.

0:24.6

There was only one of him, Dodge.

0:26.7

Did you ever come across Charlie Bronson?

0:28.5

Yeah, I know Charlie very well.

0:30.0

Do you think he should be released now?

0:32.8

It's a high security prison system.

0:34.9

Anyone they don't like, they will package you in a way that they can lose you in the system.

0:40.1

Have you come across Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolf at all?

0:43.2

There's a lot about that case.

0:45.0

I've always played by the rules of that life.

0:47.3

And believe you, me, I know a lot.

0:49.1

But I let sleep in dogs lie, mate.

0:50.8

It's funny, it's been going on for 30 odd years now

0:52.7

and there's no answer. People saying they know, they don't know. Do you know?

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