“Larry was a mate of my Dads. I shot him on the morning he came out of Pentonville prison, because my Dad was in the betting office in the afternoon. Dad was a gambler and most of his friends came from betting offices. This guy, Larry, had enough money to go around the world and note down the bias on all the roulette wheels in the casinos in the world. He’d get people to sit and note down the numbers, and then he’d go around and gamble at the tables for a week and win (the bias would only show after a week). But then he got frustrated with people changing room layouts and getting new wheels and he started getting an inside man to fix the wheel just at closing with a bit of lead or something. And of course he got caught and went to prison.
The day my Dad heard he was getting arrested Larry said to him ‘Look after this case’, like an attache briefcase. My Dad tried for a week to get the combination while the guy was in prison you know, and when he did there were 5 passports, a lot of dollars, and a gun! I said ‘What are you going to do with the money?’ he said ‘I’m going to bloody leave it alone- this guys got friends all over the world!’.
So this photo was taken the morning the guy had gotten out of Pentonville prison before he’d had any food or anything and my Dad said ‘Come round, meet my son and we’ll go out and get a meal, get some decent protien into you’.”