The long-retired writer for the East London Pioneer, who still has the notebook from his interview in the early 1960s with Jimmy Sowerbutt, said: "He said that the post-war years were tough. The GIs and their supplies had gone but the stoppers, as he called the police, were back on the streets.
"The Flying Squad was leading the crackdown and in those days it was difficult to make friends, he said. They ambushed the gang who tried to get their hands on £250,000 of gold bullion at Heathrow in 1948. A narrow escape, he called it, the lads the police caught went down.
"He said a raid on a bullion dealer at Clerkenwell a couple of months earlier had got the Flying Squad hopping mad. Five bars of gold, a load of gold wire and other bits and pieces were lifted.
"Of course, Jimmy denied any involvement in the raids and he said he had rock-solid alibis anyway." http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Lemon-Surrender-1940-ebook/dp/B008USR7FA
"The Flying Squad was leading the crackdown and in those days it was difficult to make friends, he said. They ambushed the gang who tried to get their hands on £250,000 of gold bullion at Heathrow in 1948. A narrow escape, he called it, the lads the police caught went down.
"He said a raid on a bullion dealer at Clerkenwell a couple of months earlier had got the Flying Squad hopping mad. Five bars of gold, a load of gold wire and other bits and pieces were lifted.
"Of course, Jimmy denied any involvement in the raids and he said he had rock-solid alibis anyway." http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Lemon-Surrender-1940-ebook/dp/B008USR7FA
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