Captain Haddock wrote:It would appear that Jezza is not the only one with 'conviction'! Written by Ronan Bennett I note! Who he?
In 1974, when he was 18, Bennett was convicted of murdering Inspector William Elliott, a 49-year-old police officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, during an Official IRA robbery at the Ulster Bank in The Diamond shopping area in Rathcoole, close to his home in Merville Garden Village, on 6 September 1974. His conviction was declared unsafe in 1975 and he was released from Long Kesh prison.
Bennett moved to London, where in 1978 he was arrested for conspiracy to cause explosions and spent 16 months in prison on remand. Bennett conducted his own defence, and he and his co-defendants were acquitted in 1979. He studied history at King's College London, receiving a first class honours degree, and later completed his PhD at the college in 1987. That same year he was hired as a researcher by Jeremy Corbyn MP, later Leader of the Labour Party, in a move that provoked controversy and security concerns.
Nice man ........
Desperation setting in when Jezza is accused of employing someone with no criminal convictions.