ok bit by bit
the frenchman
was part of Liverpool FSK under Alfie Lewis. that door firm was double talented. frenchie, andy boyce, AJ prior to getting slotted, wayne benoni, peter o'para- they used to do amongst other places plummers and macmillans in town, and hardmans. they were all backed up by gary spiers- easily the hardest man i've ever known.
is frenchie a grass?
in my opinion writing a book about your exploits makes you a grass. in his book he mentions a black dealer from crocky- everyone knows there is only one black lad in crocky who has ever moved weight in anything. so he may as well have named him. also his links to curtis are nowhere near as close as he made out. curtis and johnny phillips were heavy but they would work with alfie and co as back up. a formidable L8 firm in fairness. with showers and co they had it all. until they fell out with the fitzies and the Ungi's and then it all fell apart. that whole graft has never got back to that level.
frenchie is getting on now. but what I will say is this- I trained at alfie's for a few years and it was pretty much a conveyor belt of fighters. I think one year the WAKO GB team had 16 members of which 12 were from Liverpool FSK. frenchie was one of the most formidable fighters in there. and when not training he was tying dealers to chairs and taking their dough. and doing it pretty much unopposed. the lad who sort of took over from him years later has just got sent down a few months back for a shooter in manny. he was mates with jason Osu who got slotted who's brother sonny is widely believed to.......... have been involved in a situation above.
with steven french-
one thing I will say is if you are going to take it to him use a shooter from a distance. despite all the grass claims left right and centre when he is out of nick he doesn't hide. the youth in L8 claim he is nothing but he's not hard to find and yet....... nothing. also he was with some bird whose arl fella was in the real thing- if anyone wanted to they could go after the amoo's and get at him that way- they haven't and there is a reason for that.
also lets be honest at a level you are either informing or you are paying for info off the odd squad. no two ways up about it. some of the biggest lies in criminality are that nobody grasses and that everyone keeps their mouths shut. nonsense.
josh- trevor was the lad getting levelled there.
as for mclellan- pure scum- well in nigel benn- worth 1000 of gm's type.
shavers- up until a few years back was working the door of Yates' in Queens Square. fair to say even at his age problems were few and far between.
