IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Wild Bunch.

· Socialist Challenge No. 131, 24 January 1980 · p. 6 of the scan · 276 words

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TEN DAYS ago members of the Jimmy Kelly Action travelled to Westminister to distribute performed on Jimmy John Torry. Sir Harold Wilson, MP for Huyton, agreed to table a motion calling for a public inquiry and said after reading Dr Torry's report that he was confident other MPs would support him.

Socialis: Challenge obtained copy of this extraordinary report last week.

The pathologist gives as a major contributory factor to the cause of death, 'multiple injuries'. included a shattered jaw, which in the opinion of the pathologist is most probably explained by kick to the jaw'. Other included a fractured vertabra Committee mortem These 'a blow or injuries and a the and the wildest pathologist later'. died either of have died THESE are just a few members of bunch around whose motto is 'kill now — ask questions In the last ten years 245 people while "protection'. The most famous were Jimmy Kelly in Merseyside, Liddie Towers in Durham, Edward Platt in Glasgow.

their Manchester, James McGeown in In enforcing their own version of 'law and order' the Wild Bunch have also killed Blair Peach in Southall and Tony Castro in London. Castro was unfortunate enough to get in the way of the Wild Bunch while gang Daily Mirror last year.

Jimmy Kelly Bunch?

whole. for members were taking part in payrol snatch at the London offices of the Tony Meehan tells of the gang's most famous slaying, — the death of Geoff Bell asks is there a 'Mr Big' behind the Wild unrepresentative of the police as a Similarly, those responsible the death of Kelly and other murders could be explained away as

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