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Hello I learned this week of the death of John McVicker

news described in the Sun headline as public enemy number one

an ex-bank robber dies from heart attack. Well it was a sad moment for me

because after John was eventually released from prison clutching a newly attained degree in sociology,

he and I were to spend several years together attempting to collaborate on a book about professional crime

that would form a sort of sequel to his own much praised autobiography.

Well it was hardly a successful collaboration.

My soft liberalism sat uneasily alongside John's tough unreadiness to sell out his former way of life. But during the

research for that book I met and spent time with the number of past and

present villains and came to relish, if not exactly endorse, their cavalier approach to rule following.

I particularly remember an evening at Ronnie Scott's Jousplub in Soho, when my companion

at once notorious Con man called George,

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