Degsy walked to the door in his boxer shorts, scratching his head, and shouting, “Who the f..k is it?” Chin yelled back through the letterbox, “Let us in, geezer, we have something important to tell you.”

He opened the door, and they each rushed into his foul smelling room. Samantha and Redhead forced the window open, letting in some clean, fresh air.

Chin, shaking at the time, was holding a morning newspaper, ‘The South London Star.’ The front page had an exclusive story about a violent house robbery onat Ravens Street Mews.