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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

25 Years For Shooting A Cop Who Became My Friend: Leroy Smith | True Crime Podcast 266

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Leroy's website: https://outoftheboxbook.uk/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, here today I am with Lee Roy and Jen and I'm going to just give you

0:07.2

a little teaser read the back of Lee Roy's book out of the box. So out of the box is the

0:16.9

story of Lee Roy Smith who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the shooting of

0:22.8

two police officers in Brixton in 1994. Out of the box will take you on a tour of the

0:29.5

gangster lands of London, New York and Kingston, Jamaica. I'm going to add Connecticut

0:36.7

into that in a minute. Before showing you inside the box that is the British prison system

0:43.0

today were all previous pecking orders criminal or political have been superseded by the

0:50.1

rule of the dean highly organized and disciplined Muslim convicts who answered in either gangster

0:57.4

nor governor but only through Allah. So but what makes this story even more fascinating

1:06.1

and adds to the redemptive quality is that I mentioned early on that he was sentenced

1:13.5

to 25 years for shooting two police officers but Lee Roy's book this book was read by one

1:20.0

of those police officers James Seymour and they now do talks together inspirational talks

1:29.2

and Lee Roy is campaigning for reformation of the justice system and he's also getting

1:36.4

out there and doing talks in the school so if anyone's interested in any of those links

1:42.3

for that work that he's doing they will all be in the description box below this video

1:46.7

so please don't hesitate to reach out to Lee Roy. Jen is hosting today and if you're interested

1:53.4

if you want to check her links out they're all down there as well and we are hoping that

1:58.6

we're going to be able to get James to do a second podcast with Lee Roy so we've got

2:04.6

the cop. Can't wait. Lee Roy together you know telling the story combined as well so huge

2:11.1

thank you for the book and huge thank you for coming on Lee Roy yeah total pleasure.

2:15.7

So I know you did some time in America as well we're going to get to all that absolutely

2:20.5

mind blowing what you've been through but let's just start with you know where you grew

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