Once Great Britain’s “Most Wanted Man”, he escaped from prison twice in the 1960s while serving time for robbery and assault, managing to remain at large for 2 years on the second breakout.
Once recaptured he began to reform himself, passing 3 “A-Levels” in prison in 1972. In 1974 he wrote his autobiography and wrote a screenplay of his life story starring Who frontman Roger Daltrey He obtained a sociology degree in 1977 and has been a journalist and a sociologist since then.
