THE FINAL CUTT
Police Corruption, Canning Town & The Peacock Gym
The recent funeral of a senior detective saw a rum collection of Metropolitan police colleague assemble at the east London crematorium to say farewell.
Former Flying Squad detective Fred Cutts was once famously photographed bringing gangster Freddy Foreman back from Spain for his part in the 1983 Security Express robbery of £6m.
After retiring, Cutts joined the Peacock Gym, a legendary boxing venue in Canning Town owned by the Bowers brothers.
Detectives had bugged the boardroom above the gym, where the Bowers were plotting a £1m heist at Gatwick Airport in 2003.
A highly sensitive Met intelligence report at the time described the Bowers as “one of the most ruthless organised crime syndicates in the country” and claimed Cutts was their “eyes and ears”.
The Tiberius report also suggested the retired detective might be in the pocket of John ‘Goldfinger’ Palmer, who had helped disperse the proceeds of the £26m Brinks Mat gold bullion robbery in 1983.
The Bowers had come up in the Eighties with another family-based organised crime group of brothers from Canning Town, the Hunts.
Both families are now very wealthy and the Canning Town they grew up in is hardly recognisable with its high rise developments towering over the two-storey Peacock Gym.
The Met controversially concluded in the Tiberius report that bent detectives had assisted the Bowers, Hunts and Palmer in their rise.
A number of those detectives named in the report attended the funeral of Fred Cutts last month.
So did The Upsetter - to see if the Bowers turned up to pay their respects.
