The cops came to my house a few days later and found the gloves and my pile of swag. The only problem was that one of the gloves was missing a thumb, so I left perfect prints all over the place. I even had the bright idea to wear a pair of gloves, like a true professional. On my third attempt I managed to nick some shirts. Eventually I got the telly off me but I had to leave it behind. I was just lying there in this ditch full of nettles, feeling like a twat. But the fucking thing was too heavy for me to carry, and when I was climbing over the back wall it fell on my chest and I couldn’t move for about an hour. I might as well have tried to sell a turd. But I’d forgotten to take a flashlight with me, and it turned out that the clothes I’d nicked were a bunch of babies’ bibs and toddlers’ underpants. During the first break-in I grabbed a load of hangers and thought, Magic, I’ll be able to sell this stuff down the pub. I’d scoped out this clothes shop called Sarah Clarke’s, on the street behind my house in Aston. I kept going back and doing the same job, over and over. It wasn’t exactly the Great Train Robbery, put it that way. Or, as the charge sheet said, ‘Breaking and entering and stealing goods to the value of £25.’ That’s about three hundred quid in today’s dough. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.īurglary – that’s what they sent me down for in the end. ‘You’re either going to do something very special, or you’re going to go to prison.’ ‘I’ve got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,’ he’d tell me, after he’d had a few beers. My father always said I would do something big one day. Killing the Vicar (in Atrocity Cottage)Īll I have to do now is remember something…

I will never forget you and I hope we meet again somewhere, somehow.ĥ. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.Īnd not forgetting the one special guy who meant so much to me, Mr Randy Rhoads, R.I.P.

Because of you I’ve had such an amazing life.

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