All around are the haunting cries of lunatics twenty four hours of every day. That is the ends of the earth, you can’t get sent to anywhere worse than that. A lot of people who are sent there do not have a mental illness, but are top class rascals! They couldn’t handle me in there either and I ended up in the hellhole of hellholes… the Broadmoor dungeons. Broadmoor is thought of as a place for nutters, but they also send you there when the normal prison system can’t handle you. The thought of scum that abuse children still gets my blood up. Jack ‘the hat’ would join me on these occasions he was a tough, solid man. There are literally too many to recount although, I did have the pleasure of switching off a few nonces. Of course, I can’t recall or tell you about all the rows I had inside. You don’t end up in the dungeons of Broadmoor by telling porkies about what you did. I’m not proud of everything I done but I’m not ashamed either, at least I know I am not fooling myself by claiming things that never happened. I’m not one of those who exaggerates what they did beyond all proportion just to build a reputation. I had so much energy, anger, hate and adrenaline in me it gave me the power of ten men.I tell the story of my prison time as it was without beefing it up. I smashed my way out of 2 locked cell doors from the inside! That’s never been done before or since and is still talked about in prison. I broke the jaws of a lot of bullies and I am not ashamed of that in the slightest! I wasn’t really fighting individuals but the whole system, I despised authority. Most of my rows after that were with screws and the prison bullies. Then, people know you can have a row and think twice, because they know there is no way they are not going to get hurt in the process. The early days are the toughest inside, but after you have done a few of them you get a reputation. If you don’t get yourself established one way or another they will destroy you. You have no choice in prison, it’s the only way to survive. TC – Did the violence carried on in prison? Things happened though and I got a 15 stretch for that one. Roy Shaw – Yes, the Dartford one was a big one! Before the great train robbery it was the biggest ever robbery in Britain. TC – On the naughty side of things, you were involved in a big robbery in Dartford weren’t you?
If I was going to lie it would have been better than ‘I was managed by Mickey Duff’ (LAUGHS) If it was a lie I wouldn’t give details I didn’t need to. The thing that makes me laugh is why the hell would I make up being managed by Mickey Duff? He’s not exactly the most reputation enhancing bloke in the world is he? It’s not like I’m claiming I knocked out Ali or floored Marciano in sparring is it!! Mickey Duff managed me, so what? I didn’t need to mention a promoter at all. Of course, there will be idiots who think I am making the whole thing up but you really have to understand the tense relationship between unlicensed and the BBBC before you can have an informed opinion of that one. Duff of course, is a British boxing board promoter so being the first manager of the man who would give his employers so many major headaches must have been a nightmare!! That’s understandable in some respects as Joe Pyle and I started the first boxing organization not controlled by the BBBC. But then I started to get into trouble… Mickey Duff has apparently denied managing me in some interviews.
#INTERVIEW I AM GANGSTER PROFESSIONAL#
I had ten professional fights and won them all, six by knock out and Mickey Duff was the manager. Terry Currie – And then you found a love of boxing? I felt a type of electric charge overtake my body, I felt superhuman, I threw a punch and down went one, then two, then three… CRASH!! That was when I first realized I had the gift of punch power. Eight boys circled me, by this time fear had turned to anger, anger at losing my dad and there was nothing they could do to me that was worse than I had already been through. I actually threw myself on top of the coffin at the funeral!Three days later I was back at school and being bullied again. When I was very young my father who I adored was killed on a motorbike, that really did me in and I struggle even now to talk about him. I was bullied for five years, I was small for my age and didn’t mix too well so that may have been the reason why, I don’t really know. Terry Currie – When did you first realise you had a gift for fighting? Terry Currie conducted an interview with Roy Shaw back in 2003 and gives you an insight into Roy’s life.The interview has been split over 2 pages which can be navigated at the top and bottom of each page.
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