TONY SMITH AND WINSTON SILCOTT

[m1kee50]

from Wikipedia:

He served eighteen years for another murder, that of boxer and reputed gangster Tony Smith, for which he was on bail when Blakelock was killed.

Anyone know which Tony Smith it is in the database?

[johnty1888]

I think that Tony Smith was an amateur

[Coco]

And most gangsters claim 2 be boxers!

[Coco]

Anthony Smith was a professional boxer with a record of violence outside the ring. He was part of a gang known in Tottenham for carrying guns, whose members had made death threats to Winston because of a dispute they had with a friend of his brother. At a party in December 1984, Smith and two accomplices were all carrying knives. There were several witnesses to the fact that Smith attacked Silcott first, before Winston was given a knife and struck back in self-defence. Unfortunately, through a combination of circumstances, including police failures and pressure from his original lawyers to change his story for 'tactical' reasons, his true defence of self-defence was not run at trial. The trial also took place weeks after Blakelock died, with Winston already demonised as a 'savage police killer'.


An extract from http://www.socialismtoday.org/36/silcott36.html

[bennie]

Smith wasn't a pro. Never heard of him.