Saturday, October 15, 2005

The development of a beautiful human into a life of serious crime.




He used to queue up at the door with all the other teenager - it was a crush to get into the Youth Club first and the hardest one led the way.

Here is a book to read if you are interested in crime and the development of a human into a life of serious crime.

Terry Smith beautiful human - still in prison.

"I was hitting the cash-in-transit security companies about once every few months. 

I had been a consistent and ruthless armed robber in the past, but with age comes forth wisdom and experience. 
I no longer needed to express myself through the barrel of a gun on such a regular basis. 

I had, to put it bluntly, "slowed down" ! 
Nonetheless I still possessed an overwhelming fascination for the contents of security vans and trucks. 

I enjoyed the danger of my chosen profession and I wanted the big one! 
I wanted to prise, relieve and secure the million pound plus heist. 
And when I put my mind to something, 
I know as sure as night follows day that I can accomplish it. 

I am the guv'nor. "


The former crook .. .. .. .. ..

Reformed armed robber Terry Smith has learned a thing or two about loyalty.

"I was a moral criminal. 
I believed in loyalty," he says. 
"It was loyalty among my gang - the group of criminals I was working with - that helped me escape from prison. 
They helped me bust out of the prison van. But loyalty can only be effective if people love and like you."
Smith - who was once known as Britain's most wanted man - has also seen what happens when loyalty runs out.
He says his last stretch inside came after he was set-up by a friend. 
The 44-year-old is now going straight, and has just published his first book, 
The Art of Armed Robbery.
Having spent more than 11 years behind bars for his crimes, he says he cannot afford to risk another long sentence.
"Years ago, everyone involved in armed robbery worked freelance. 
Then in the supergrass era everyone shrunk into themselves, it became more close-knit, among families. 
Now it's all about drugs, which - unlike robbery - is an unreported crime."
In other words, its all done in dark corners, rather than out in the open like armed robbery. 
That means the police have to resort to covert tactics to catch the crooks.
There is cash and parole on offer for people with the right information, and this has led to "loose lips" among the criminal fraternity.
"There has always been potential for betrayal in crime. 
But loyalty is much more flimsy in the modern era."



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