Giancarlo wrote:simon fox wrote:I was a nasty young man and spent a short spell in Hull Prison, on the YP wing. Sykes was in there at the time, on the other wing. He was feared and there was talk of prison rapes and nasty beatings etc. I don't think that a film should be made of him; I watched that documentary and all he seemed to do was terrorise people and his boss with the yellow Rolls Royce was just as odious. Sykes didn't seem to change or develop and so he's not that interesting; there are similar men in every big town or city in the country. Just because he didn't paste people when he was sober when he was out doesn't mean he was a decent or good man. (He'd not have been drunk when he was taxing and raping his way through jail).
The possibility of getting bummed and / or battered by Sykes might have been responsible for stopping some people re-offending. Subconsciously, Sykes may have helped straighten you out Simon.
Facing a possible Syksey arse assault would have been enough to scare most people onto the straight and narrow, I would have thought.
Three basic rules for survival when approached by a pissed up Sykes
1) Never have your hands in your pockets
2) Tell him you played rugby and have done ever since you can remember
3) Agree with him that skipping is the best exercise known to man or beast.
If you followed those rules, you were on the road to safety and indeed, had an over average chance of being announced to his crowd of hangers-on, as "A fornicate*ng great c*nt"
Thinking about it; yes, I think you're right 
