Went to Kingswood school in Corby which was a grammar school when I first went there but changed to a comprehensive school. Was a police cadet for a couple of years in Northampton though left that job completely. I later went to London where I lived with and went out with girlfriends from a certain area of the world.
This here concerns the one crime on my record when I was 18 years old. I should have had this available for people to read years ago because years ago and over the years some people might have heard something about that one crime on my record without knowing the exact true facts. This isn't going on the internet or anything like that but will go to just a few people although no one has to read this if they don't want to.
I'm not saying anyone should react as I did then if the same or a similar thing was to happen to them nor that I would react the same way now. The God's honest truth is that in the one crime on my record when I was 18 years and 10 months old, for which I received three months in detention centre, I was hit first by a young man from behind on the back of my head with a glass that cut the back of my head when I was a few feet away from the exit of a night-club after being advised by a friend (acquaintance) to go home because of that young man being some trouble in the night-club. My solicitor at the time said that in law I couldn't claim self-defence as I wanted to do and as I thought I should do because he said my retaliation a minute later at the exit of the night-club hadn't been immediate and so he advised me to plead guilty. Young and inexperienced I took his advice when I never should have pleaded guilty when the God's honest truth was that the young man had hit me first from behind with a weapon. The solicitor said that if I pleaded "self-defence" I would be found guilty because he said that in law it wouldn't be classified as self-defence because my retaliation a minute later at the exit of the night-club hadn't been immediate and instantaneous and so the sentence would be longer than if I pleaded guilty. My dad thought that I shouldn't plead guilty but I told him what the solicitor had said to me.
Witnesses were a nurse who about an hour after I suffered my injury when inspecting my injury said she saw the cut to the back of my head. A small cut on the back of my head though blood had come from the cut. Also, someone in the police station during the night wearing a plain clothes suit looking like a suit that he worked in and I think without a tie who was either a police doctor or a policeman wearing a suit who may have just finished a shift or was working at the time, who cleansed the injury on the back of my head with a cloth and some water or something in a bottle (he might have been told that I had previously been a police cadet for I had mentioned that to them). Also, my dad the next day at the police station who I showed the injury to on the back of my head. A bouncer at the night club who was there at the time who when I met him briefly about three years later told me that he knew the young man had hit me first from behind with a weapon. The friend acquaintance in the night club who had advised me to go home who saw the young man following me as I walked to the exit of the night club. A young policeman and a much older policeman who drove me to the hospital for my injury. Also, my dad stood up at the court trial and shouted out to the judge at the front of the courtroom that I had been hit first from behind with a weapon on the back of my head. As I say, it's possible some people at the time or over the years heard something about that crime without knowing the exact true facts.