Friday 16 July 2010

Underworld

MacIntyre's Underworld is a series of documentaries on the UKs criminal underworld and leading crime figures. The best picture I could find of Brian Cockerill, the man above was from his book cover. This brute of a mans job is to tax drug dealers in his area, basically he finds out where the drug dealers houses are, goes in weaponless (unless you count his enormous fists) demands the money and drugs from them, even torturing them to find out where they are then he leaves with the loot. Its a dangerous job but also very clever, because after being robbed of everything, which drug dealer would call the police to say whats happened? Non, because in finding him guilty they would be prosecuting themselves. Brian Cockerill comes across a nice normal family man in the documentary which is very unexpected for a man with his reputation, but you can see he is also very scary holding both fear and respect in the Underworld.

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