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‘Yeah, I owed a h I hadn’t spoken to him for over a year, he suddenly calls up out of the blue and demands to see hton where he told me he needed a speedboat and driver for a couple of hours and if I illing to do it, I could forget the debt’

‘When did he expect you to carry out the job?’ I ask

‘The next ,’ Kevin replied ‘I told hiot another job lined up’

‘What job?’ I asked

‘Well, ot a couple of boats that we fish off the coast, and they were both booked for the rest of the week “Then I want my money,” the man demanded, so I wasn’t left with a lot of choice You see, I was skint at the time, and anyway, he had a reputation as a bit of a hard man, and all he wanted me to do was transport four men from one side of the river to the other The whole exercise wouldn’t take more than ten minutes’

‘One thousand three hundred pounds for ten minutes’ work? You must have realized that there was a catch?’

‘I was suspicious, but had no idea what they were really up to’

‘So what happened next?’

‘I took the boat as instructed up to Bow Creek, moored it near the jetty a few hundred yards from the Dome and waited Suddenly all hell broke loose Three police boats converged on me, and withinat me to lie down on the deck with my hands above my head One of them said, “Bliht in at the lastdown’

‘But by then you must have knohat they were up to?’

‘Nope,’ he replied, ‘I’m thirty-five years old, and this is my first offence I’m not a crih, I can tell you I won’t be coain’

I can’t explain why I wanted to believe hiht have been his courteous manner, or the way he talked about his wife and fourteen-year-old son And he was certainly going to pay dearly for a foolish ret for the rest of his life

‘Archer, Collins, Davies, Edwards,’ booiven to subtlety as he continues to bellow out na, ‘C of E, now’

‘I think we’ll have to continue this conversation at soest ‘Our Lord calls and if he doesn’t, Mr King certainly does’ I then join the other prisoners who are waiting on theservice

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