He later drove through the gates of Buckingham Palace. In May two campaigners – Davis’ brothers-in-law Jim and Colin Dean – carried out a seven-hour roof-top protest at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.īut Chappell was the driving force in the campaign to free George Davis, literally – he drove a van down Fleet Street, smashing through the front windows of the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror newspapers. None of the blood samples found at the scene matched his blood type. Davis claimed he had been driving a mini- cab on the morning of the crime, delivering a consignment of fish to a restaurant in Chancery Lane. One witness claimed to have seen him abandoning the getaway car. It was Chappell who had dug up the cricket pitch in Leeds. He said he’d seen Davis driving his mini cab at the time of the robbery. So too did Davis’ best friend, Peter Chappell. Davis never let up protesting his innocence. Rose Davis, his wife, believed him. He said he had been fitted up by the police. During the attack a police officer was shot and injured. The robbery took place at the London Electricity Board’s offices in Ilford, Essex, on 4 April 1974. In 1975, he was sentenced to a 20-year prison term, beginning at Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight. So who was Davis? Who wanted him free? And why wasn’t he free?ĭavis was an east London minicab driver jailed for his part in an armed robbery.
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