Hit-man

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Eek!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 27 Aug 18:33:33

I thought that this was a self portrait!

Posted by Linda Wilson on Sat 27 Aug 19:26:00

Good figure, Michael.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Sat 27 Aug 19:53:24

Don't worry Gudrun, if only Linda, thanks Cesare.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sat 27 Aug 20:00:47

Yes, I recognise the photofit Mick, I've met one or two these in my career too...do anything for a mars bar or half ounce. You did very well to get the better of this one Mick, I expect those were the days when a lag had respect for a good copper?lol All very different now.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 27 Aug 20:22:35

Thanks Fiona. You knew what 'power' was then too. A power-lifter like me. What a recipe for control - Mars Bars and baccy. Like Soma, as Huxley said, "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." Keeps them quiet.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sat 27 Aug 20:43:43

T.V.'s did that Mick, better than issuing cannabis...lol

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 27 Aug 21:03:52

Right, TV control.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sat 27 Aug 21:45:53

Hang on Studio Wall

27/08/2016

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Graphite and Watercolour. A hit-man I arrested in a boxing gym in South Tyneside. He violently resisted arrest so I put him in a head lock and incapacitated him until I got the 'cuffs on him and the van arrived. Later charged with GBH he replied, 'You're too good for me Mr. McManus, it was me what done it but I didn't mean to break both his legs'.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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