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Eventful Lives Podcast

#84. Undercover Cop Brings Down London Gangsters - Peter Bleksley

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

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5857 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

As a founding member of Scotland Yard’s undercover unit in the 1980s, Peter Bleksley has lived amongst some of the most dangerous and well-connected criminals in Britain. 


He’s passed himself off as an international drug baron, a contract killer, and an arms dealer during his time, but it all went wrong when he was forced into witness protection after the FBI uncovered a plot to have him murdered. 


Peter has since made a name for himself in the media, leading the Hunter Squad in Channel 4’s hit series Hunted, and is now on the trail of a suspected murderer who has been on the run for over 15 years, as part of his BBC podcast ‘Manhunt’.


He has nerve-racking stories of near-misses, some fascinating insight into living undercover for over a decade, and he shares his reasoning behind dedicating his life to tracking down the UK’s most wanted.


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I was working undercover. We did a job where some gangsters delivered to me then, a parcel

0:09.0

of heroin, which was the biggest parcel ever captured in the main man UK.

0:13.0

When all the bad guys were languishing in prison, wondering how they'd been captured,

0:17.0

they worked out that I was an undercover cop.

0:20.0

And they then worked on the theory that if they kill me, they'll they worked out that I was an undercover cop.

0:25.7

And they then worked on the theory that if they kill me, they'll kill the evidence.

0:27.6

And to a certain extent, they were right.

0:31.8

So this detective sergeant writes this report.

0:36.7

And foolishly, and against every protocol there is, instead of putting my undercover number in the report,

0:41.2

he put my full name in. Then he prints the report off, puts it in a suitcase in an unmarked

0:49.8

police car. He decides to do a bit of shopping. And of course, what happens?

0:55.0

The car gets broken into.

0:57.3

The report is now potentially in the hands of those who wanted to kill me.

1:02.2

So they would be able to identify my full name.

1:05.4

They would find me and then put a bullet in my head.

1:08.0

And by the close of play that day,

1:10.1

that had been decided that I had to

1:11.5

abandon my home, my identity, and move into witch protection.

1:23.4

Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the CEO and founder of the

1:28.7

Bournemouth Sevens Festival and the revolutionary event crowd, our new online events course.

1:34.5

On this podcast, I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives. So if you want to hear

1:41.3

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