The prisoners causing trouble on Facebook
Like many of its 350 million users worldwide, jailed underworld boss Colin Gunn used his Facebook account to let his friends know what was on his mind.
Gunn, a big-time Nottingham gangster who ordered the revenge killings of John and Joan Stirland, threatened: "I will be home one day and I can't wait to look into certain people's eyes and see the fear of me being there."
An inquest opened this week to determine whether police corruption contributed to the Stirlands' death. They were gunned down at their bungalow in Lincolnshire in 2004.
Gunn had set up his Facebook profile in November, claiming prison authorities had relaxed their attitude towards him after he had served part of his sentence in Whitemoor jail, Cambridgeshire, the Sunday Times reported at the weekend.
The Ministry of Justice says prisoners are banned from using social networking sites, and his page was closed by Facebook for violating its policies.
But Gunn is the latest in a line of convicted criminals who have used social networking sites to abuse victims and boast about life in prison.
The BBC asks: How can you stop inmates making online threats?
It might help if the media did not blow up his character with terms like "jailed underworld boss" and "a big-time Nottingham gangster", and instead call him what he really is a murderer of a couple of old age pensioners. Real gangsters do not do that!
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
I beg to differ. Having been in Nottingham around the time of his trial I read up on it and it was no run-of-the-mill robbery/murder.
ReplyDeleteColin Gunn is about the closest to a gangland boss we've had in a while and the level of corruption within the police force at the time is frightening.
The police were sufficiently scared that someone would try and break him out that they had a substantial escort (at least 3 cars and 4 bikes), rolling road-blocks and an eye in the sky watching the transport van on each journey. The court house was surrounded by armed guards. I've never seen anything like it and it was rather more than you might expect for the "murder of a couple of pensioners".