Tower Block Dreams

Taking Out The RAT

Jimmy Chandler's and JP's POV

Jimmy:

The minute my Dan called me I put the feelers out and got everything in place.  Yes I had a criminal past one I was not proud of now but I had learnt and learnt well and had made a living out of it until I retired going straight with the gym and the cafe....but it never really leaves you.  One of my stints in prison was for perverting the course of justice because I wouldn't grass I got a three year sentence for that but earnt massive respect, I was trusted in the underworld when the underworld was old school.  When gangsters stuck by their word and looked after your family when you was doing a bit of bird because you had protected them.

Tanya got looked after when I was away but it was subtle to keep the old bill off the scent.  One of the wives or their associates  would pop in for coffee at our house with Tanya and drop of some notes to make sure Tanya had enough to get by.  The house often got raided when I was away at her majesty's pleasure  but Tanya was savvy, she had a part time job so could show finances and would use the cash given by the underworld to pay for the food and clothes that the boys needed destroying all receipts.

 Tanya's old man was also well known to the law in his time.   He was from the travelling community a bare knuckle boxing champion in his younger days who then moved into different criminal circles.   Mackie was a lovely bloke never shat on his own doorstep and I loved and respected him.  Mackie had four daughters, Tanya's Mum Bridie and Mackie took me in as his own Son.  I wasn't a traveller so to allow me to be with his Tanya and to take me in meant everything to me.

With my own attributes and having a well known like Mackie as my father in law I headed up the chain quite quickly and was earning well looking after my family and Tanya's family. Whenever I got a sentence  Mackie covered and paid our mortgage with the money I had given him plus put in any short fall.  Because of what I was involved in me and Tanya decided we would put everything in Tanya's name so our assets could never be seized.  Due to Mackie,  who sadly died three years ago,  I still had his people and associates I could call upon.  

Mackie's funeral had been huge one of the biggest travellers funeral I have ever seen travelling families came from all over the UK to pay their respects to him, he was a don a legend his family came first, he taught me everything.  There was road closures for the funeral procession the floral tributes was grand well deserved for a man that was so loved, white horse drawn carriage for his coffin and horses behind the carriage easily over 800 people attended the funeral they had to set up audio system for those standing outside the church. The amount of limousines that arrived was a another amazing tribute.    I may not of been a Boswell by blood but I married Mackie Boswell's eldest daughter and my boys Dan and Zane had Boswell blood running through their veins.  Myself, Dan, Zane and Tanya's three brother in laws was pallbearers for our beloved Mackie, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother,  Uncle and Friend.

Lena may not have been Mackie and Bridie's blood but they loved her as their own as she was always with Tanya and now its was time to protect my own  I had taken JP on like how Mackie had done with me.   Whoever this fucking Rat was I was gonna take him out...threatening my family going to Lena's house taking pictures of Lena at work, JP and Jodie this fucking rat was disturbed and was DEAD.

I had all the information I needed, people had worked fast me.  Lena and Jodie was now out of the country and I knew they was safe.  Besides the bodyguards I had sent to protect Lena and Jodie I had a lot of ex -pats out there also keeping an eye also...hard bastards no retreat no surrender.  When the information came through who was behind this I was fucking astounded to say the least....this little rat had been celled up with me until I broke his nose he was a rat when we was inside and a rat on the outside.  The PO's was sound with me when I said he had tripped and fallen on the sink and got his injuries they believed me...I was known as a Boswell due to Mackie in nick and was pretty much left alone by the PO's but looked after by the other hierarchy cons.  The piece of shit I was celled up with was Chris Newman and he was sewage they had to put him in segregation for his own safety.   Well well well.....the rat had come out of the sewer and he was tapping in on my family?