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FARNBOROUGH AIRPORT, 1979Why was it when I had a good tip-off, I was forced to keep quiet about it and when things went awry, I managed to land myself in it.
My confidence in Billy had grown after the tip-off about the Brixton prison officer. So far, his information had been mostly good, if only partial at times. The only time he’d got things completely wrong was that sighting of Mick Maloney on the Isle of Sheppey. But then, that wasn’t his fault. He’d been given the wrong information. It was his tip-off that had led to the arrests of two members of the g**g down in Littlehampton and another two in Southampton. And he had put me onto the armed robbery itself. Even though the location wasn’t precise enough to mount an operation. As for the tea bags we found in that otherwise empty lor
