I find it hard to believe that the police force, an entire gardai, could be
afraid of a solitary individual Noel.
You say that Tracey had 49 convictions for assaults on police and prison
officers, and yet , if this was so, why, once he was under lock and key, did
they not, mob handed, exact enough retribution, to ensure that he would
never do it again?
This is the way that the system works. If it did not, and they were all so
afraid of him, how on earth did they get him into prison in the first place?
The 'gang' always beats the individual on their own ground.
There are many men, e.g. Charles Bronson, equally, if not moreso, as
fearsome as Tracey, and yet incarcerated regardless.
Colin Peters
"Noel O'Gara" wrote in message
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> Brian Cowan was elected to his late father's safe seat as a member of
> the Irish parliament in 1984.
> He had been a solicitor before that.
> Cowan knew Billy Tracey very well indeed, so well in fact that a
> mention of Tracey's name to him was a complete turnoff.
>
> Cowan shirked his responsibility as a public representative to help
> expose serious crime.
> Cowan's father owned a pub in the small village of Clara in county
> Offaly.
> This man, Billy Tracey was well known and greatly feared in that
> village. Se feared in fact that Cowan's father had to have a large
> gate put up to prevent him from urinating on his front door whenever
> he passed it late at night.
>
> When I first spoke on the phone to Clara Garda sargeant Kevin Forde
> and told him that Tracey was the Yorkshire Ripper he replied that it
> didnt surprise him because 'he had all the credentials'. Forde asked
> me to call to see him and be sure to 'come up in the dark.'
> Before Forde took up that job it had been idle for a number of years
> because nobody wanted to take it. Tracey had 49 convictions for
> serious assaults against policemen and prison officers and anybody
> offered the sergeant's job in Clara could be forgiven for enquiring
> who was there before taking it on.
> Putting it bluntly the Gardai were very afraid of Billy Tracey. They
> had wives and families and he was known to threaten policemen's
> children and was capable of carrying them out. While the Gardai were
> fully aware of Tracey's violent criminal record, the public, including
> myself, were left in the dark.
>
> When I brought to the attention of TD and Minister Brian Cowan that
> Tracey was the real Yorkshire Ripper, he never responded and refused
> any involvement despite his position as a public representative. My
> book was written in 1982.
> Peter Sutcliffe had been convicted as the Ripper in 1981. The
> Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 were in maximum security prisons in
> the UK.
> Miscarriages of justice were unheard of.
> Policemen were taken at their word in courts and their word was
> gospel.
>
> Like some other residents of Clara, Brian Cowan didnt want to give the
> place a bad name.
>
> http://yorkshireripper.com/suspect.htm
>
>
> Now Brian Cowan is the Taoiseach in waiting and Billy Tracey, the real
> Yorkshire Ripper, his old neighbour from Clara, is living it up in
> London as a free man thanks to Cowan's failure to do his duty.
> Next month the Ripper's old pal Brian Cowan will be our prime minister
> and no doubt if he ever returned, Cowan would shake his hand and
> welcome him home.
> Clara is holding its breath that Tracey will never return.
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