George Davis really was innocent.....!

[MK Gould]

For those old enough to remember the campaign:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13516591

36 years on and the old fella finally got off!

[charliegeorgewhocanhitem]

For those old enough to remember the campaign:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13516591

36 years on and the old fella finally got off!

I remember his supporters breaking into Headingly one night during an ashes test vs Oz and digging up the wicket causing the game to be abandoned. Think that was summer 75 a couple of months after I left school, how time flies

[MutleyGooner]

Innocent of that particular offence but didn't he confess to another armed robbery?

[mrgnu1958]

i lived opposite the flat where he lived in BOW.
FACT!

[MutleyGooner]

i lived opposite the flat where he lived in BOW.
FACT!

No wonder he turned to a life of crime

[mrgnu1958]

cheeky bleeder mutts
Ill always remember the "FREE GEORGE DAVIS" being painted on the maisonettes we lived in.

[Herd]

George was indeed innocent of the Ilford Blag ,however he was a working Villain of the Old School variety.
The campaign saw him freed but he then pissed all over his wife when he came out being seen in various east end pubs with dolly birds and hangers on as he loved the limelight and his new found infamy.
Bieng a fool he then got suckered into doing another job though with one of his supporters and some inside Scotland yard geezers at the bank of Cyprus in Finsbury Park and got captured. Needless to say he went away again.
Surprised he doesn't do Villains tours with Frankie Fraser !

[littlefire]

OK

[alanalansunderland]

i seem to remember we had a good chance of actually winning that test match as well, which was a rarity in those days of Thomson and Lillee etc.

Used to be a big 'George davis is innocent' painted on the Old Kent Rd as well