27 October (Part 1) - Fuelling rumours
Yesterday
evening an email arrived with a subject line of ‘Dodgy bastard’ which I opened with some
trepidation fearing a repeat of the obscenities (which I successfully traced) of last
week; but I need not have feared. Someone was confirming my understanding that
mayor Alan
Downing had been a policeman. It seems he had.
Downing has been in the City of London police force and the Metropolitan at
Bexleyheath and elsewhere. In more recent years it was said Downing had been
some sort of property developer in Spain which I now remember hearing at his
inauguration speech last May.
However I do not remember him mentioning his time as a petrol pump attendant at King’s
Service Station in Albany Park as one of his former colleagues alleges in his
less than subtly titled email.
The other rumour I heard was that councillor Melvin Seymour was an
ex-cop too. If that is true it would also explain
quite a lot. Something else very dodgy perhaps.