George Davies is innocent

[Renard]

OK

 

[661-Pete]

You remember??! I wonder how many others on here knew what this was all on about, without googling!

 

[accountantpete]

I had a search on You Tube for Sham 69's " George Davis Is Innocent" but it seems to have been quietly airbrushed from history!

 

[Brains]

He has a Wiki entry, so he's not cometely airbrushed from history (as much as the Met like to thinks so)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Davis_(armed_robber)

 

[Globalti]

Remember all the slogans painted on bridges? That was years before anybody had even heard of the internet.

 

[Fnaar]

they dug up the test match wicket too...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_2534000/2534763.stm

 

[rich p]

We'd have won that Test Match though IIRC!

 

[Saddle bum]

Seeing that reminded me just how old I am.

It was 1976, wasn't it?

 

[Renard]

Not sure. I was listening to Sham 69 last night, so late seventies anyway.

 

[gbb]

I remember the slogans..but can't remember what it was all about

I can feel a google coming on...

 

[Ashtrayhead]

When he was banged up again the slogan changed to 'George Davies is in a cell'

 

[661-Pete]

We'd have won that Test Match though IIRC!

Not quite. With one day left, Australia needed about 220 runs with seven 2nd-innings wickets standing. What the Press call 'finely-balanced'. The Headingley groundsmen offered an alternative pitch which was under preparation for the forthcoming Roses match, but neither captain was having it: the play would have been too different. Match abandoned.

 

[Ian H]

Some of the graffiti read "Free George Davis" to which was occasionally added, "with every packet of cornflakes".

 

[gary r]

Remember all the slogans painted on bridges? That was years before anybody had even heard of the internet.

I remember it being painted on the bridge on the A4 near Earls Court when i was a kid

 

[Paulus]

George Davis was a small time bank robber who was jailed for armed robbery in 1975, or maybe 76. After a longish campaign to get his sentance overturned he was freed. A few months after his release, he was caught by the Sweeney in the Holoway road in the middle of an armed bank robbery. Is he still in prison?