AUTHOR’S NOTE

This book is based on a large number of interviews with the main subject, Stephen French. Other research materials included press cuttings, criminal records and interviews with witnesses, criminal or otherwise. However, the story is mostly reliant on Stephen’s personal testimony.

I decided to write the book in the first person, using ‘I’ instead of ‘he’, so that the reader would get the story from Stephen’s perspective and not mine. I decided to do this in an attempt to bring the reader closer to the action and to give a direct insight into what Stephen French did, thought and felt, with as little spin, analysis or journalistic input as possible.

There is a glossary at the back of the book if you’re not familiar with some of the slang used.

Graham Johnson

August 2007