A Very British Gangster Page #7

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And as soon as I got told,

it was like I was sober straight away.

Phoned Dom.

Just said, "Dom, sorry to hear

about your loss," and that.

There's nothing much you could say, really.

You don't know what to say

when things like that happen.

It'll be massive, the funeral.

No doubt about that.

No doubt about it.

Obviously, if Damien's was big...

People who have never

even met him will turn up.

With people being killed

like Dessie, and that,

it makes you realize

if such a big guy was killed,

it makes you think, "Well, I could be next."

If someone that big

can get took away like that,

we could get took away

a hell of a lot quicker.

We're like where he started.

We're at the beginning.

We're in the prime, you know what I mean?

We're just up and coming.

Eventually, we might be like him,

we might be bigger than him,

we might be nowhere near him,

we might be dead.

They're the original ones,

they're where we've got it from.

They're who we've watched and thought,

"We can do that. We'll try that.

If they can do it, we can do it."

Anyone can do it if you've got

a set of balls, yeah?

You've got it?

What you've got to understand is

when Dessie and all these gangsters...

what you call gangsters...

when they was kids, yeah,

they had holes in their roofs,

they didn't have no food or...

They did what they did to survive.

We do it for a rush.

We do it for the rush,

we do it for the adrenalin,

the actual rush of taking

someone else's things off of him.

Bam, as easy as that.

Say we do about 30 robberies

and we get caught for 1.

You're talking, like,

at least 10 grand each robbery.

Didn't anyone ever teach you

the difference between right and wrong?

No. No one teached us how to read,

not where I'm at...

We can't read, we can't write.

Can count money, though.

You'll see this face on Crimewatch UK.

Dominic phoned me

Friday night, Saturday morning

at quarter to 8,

and he said, "Eileen, it's Dominic.

I've got some bad news for you.

He said, "Our...

Our Dessie... found dead last night."

Me just waking up,

I just said, "You're joking!"

He went, "No, I'm not joking."

I said, "I'm sorry I didn't mean that."

Just cause I just woke up, you know.

And I woke Paddy up and told Paddy.

Dominic, the casket that you've chosen,

this is the one here.

It's called Piet, the Last Supper coffin.

It's got all the bronze handles,

corner pieces.

- Is that the best ones you got?

- You can't get any better.

Your lads are going to carry

the coffin to the...

Yeah. My lads will be carrying it, yeah.

Because he's quite a big man.

He's quite a big man, this Desmond...

Did a guy get murdered yesterday?

I believe he's been shot dead yesterday.

Yeah. A good friend of our Dessie's.

I received a threatening letter today,

saying that "You're next,"

'cause Dessie owed money.

I've doubled all my guards

and I've doubled my f***ing vests.

How many's allowed in the car?

Six in the back.

We could get an extra person in the front.

Yeah, I want my guards to go in each car.

It's nothing to do with the children.

They should let the kids carry on to school.

It's only a fella that died.

But notwithstanding where we are,

I will say this for me.

Forgive me, Father.

For me there is no forgiveness

for the perpetrator.

And there is no forgetting

for the perpetrator,

wherever he or they may ever reside.

That is my position.

In a minute, I want you to just get up there,

take the lads in blues and yellows,

and don't let no one on that plot.

Only immediate family around the grave first.

The rest come in.

Bath time.

Bath time.

And it's the first bath they've had.

They're like drowning rats trying to get out.

Shut up. F***ing mong.

Careful what you film here.

I don't want the RSPCA on my case.

Put that one in the microwave

for 30 seconds!

One's missing.

If someone whacks him, they whack him.

Got f*** all to do with me,

but good luck to them anyway.

The amount of people that come up

and told me how much they want to kill him.

You don't think there's been enough killing?

It's only just begun.

This is my undercover unit.

Dominic, what happened with the arrest?

Tell me.

I gone up there on the f***ing Sunday.

I was under surveillance when I left

my house in the morning at half 8.

They said they've had me

under surveillance for months.

They have police saying they saw us

get out the car, lift the bonnet up.

And what kind of gun was it, Dominic?

Just a normal revolver with five bullets.

It was found in the bonnet area,

hidden inside the f***ing

battery compartment.

So how are conditions in the prison for you?

I'm on a unit, high-risk f***ing...

I've not had one single visitor yet, Donal.

They keep knocking people f***ing back.

They won't let me have any visitors, end of.

They've just stitched me up.

Well, I love him, of course,

'cause he's my dad and...

That's it, really.

Because I love him and that's it.

- No matter what he does?

- No matter what he does.

He's still going to be there for me.

Bugsy.

B-U-G-S-Y. Bugsy.

I told his mom to get

his passport done and everything.

We're going to f*** off.

You know what?

When we go, I'm not bringing him back.

He's not coming back.

He's not being brought up

in this f***ing sh*t-hole.

In all your time, how long

have you spent with him?

Two years 'cause I done f***ing six months

on remand on the last one, didn't I?

2 years out of 11 years?

Any plans for when Dominic gets out of jail?

He's taking me on holiday.

Where is he going to take you?

Anywhere where I want.

You fancy doing a holiday, Bugs?

Might be going to Jamaica.

Jamaica?

Put me in your suitcase.

- What?

- Put me in your suitcase.

- You in a suitcase?

- Don't you start, you!

I want my family to be careful

and don't tell people what they're doing,

because it's their business,

and how do you know...

you might say it to the wrong person

and they might grass you up

to the police and get you arrested.

These paintballs are extra hard today

because you're all gonna be cold,

so you're going to be

in lots of pain, I'm sorry to say.

I don't want to see anyone

shooting dead people.

Look, Dominic, maybe they

pleaded guilty because they are guilty.

Are you guilty?

- Would I say I'm guilty on the phone?

- No.

- Right, don't ask a stupid question, Donal.

- I'm sorry, Dom.

What do you think a gangster is?

Well, they go around killing people,

but not for no reason, for a reason.

It has to be for a reason,

like, say, if they owed them money

or something like that.

He can't help it, can he?

He's a gangster, he's a gangster.

And that's it, really.

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