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The Man Who Attacked Lenny McLean's Daughter · In the late 1980s, on an ordinary East London street, a girl was grabbed from behind and had her coat pulled over her head so she could not see. Her friend stayed to help her and was punched in the face for it. The man w
Lenny McLean: The Hunt for the Drug Dealers · There were men Lenny McLean would fight for money, and there were heroin dealers he would hunt for nothing. To the Governor, a man who sold smack to children was not a criminal. He was a killer, a man who got rich by mak
Nosher Powell and Lenny McLean v the Gypsy Enforcers · Six foot four and seventeen stone, Nosher Powell was the picture of a hard man. Boxer, bouncer, minder and stuntman, he was never a villain, but his size and his hands made him a force in the clubs and pubs of the West E
A Night of Terror at the Hacienda · In June 1991, a month after the Hacienda in Manchester reopened its doors, six bouncers from a London security firm ended up in hospital with knife wounds. This film asks who attacked them, and why a door team brought in
Lenny McLean's Brawl with a Glasgow Hardman · Lenny McLean was six foot two, nineteen stone and quick to anger. He did lose in the ring. Roy Shaw beat him in their first fight, and he took losses to former professional boxers, two each to Cliff Fields and Johnny Wal
Geoff Thompson and the Coventry Pub Bully · Geoff Thompson spent years on the doors of Coventry and became one of the city's best-known doormen, a man who studied violence as closely as he practised it. He was taught by John Anderson, the man the film calls the nu
Lenny McLean v the Giant Rugby Player · Lenny McLean will go down as one of London's legendary hard men, the man many called the king of the doors. He lost in the ring several times. On the street, the film says, he was a different man, and there are plenty of
Was John Fury Beaten by a North West Crime Lord? · John Fury, the film says, is like Marmite: people love him or hate him. What nobody denies is that he was a fighting man. He was a professional boxer, fighting as Gypsy John Fury while working full time on the shovel, an
Damian Noonan v 'One Punch' Paul Doyle · Paul Doyle, known as One Punch, is one of the hardest men to come out of Salford, a street fighter who worked the doors through the Manchester door wars. Damian Noonan, of the Noonan family of Manchester, was a respected
The Man Who Broke a Girl's Jaw in Fred Foreman's Club · Fred Foreman was called the managing director of British crime. In polite company he was well dressed and quietly spoken, the kind of man you would be glad to have a drink with. In the underworld he was something else, a
Basildon Dean: Bouncing, Debt Collecting and Door Fights (Interview) · Basildon Dean makes no claim to be a gangster. He is a Basildon man who spent years on the doors of a superclub he describes as explosive all the time, then went into debt collecting for builders who had been left unpaid
Mick Kelly: Armed Robbery, the Essex Boys and Deadly Feuds (Interview) · Mick Kelly came to London from Ireland in 1983 with no door experience at all. By the end of the decade he was standing on the door of Hollywoods in Romford beside Tony Tucker, and within a few years he was running secur