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The SAS killer with the hidden past

Socialist Challenge No. 253, 9 July 1982 · p. 10 of the scan · 319 words

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Nonetheless, the blackout a few teresting tacts had emerg. ed. The Daily Star contacted a triend who went to recruitment meetings Prudom. He Wan quoted saying: chickened out but Barry carnica on. Inen ne alsappeared for a while. I asked OIC of LUCI blokes where he was and THE HUNT for the triple-killer Barry Prudom dominated the press last week. On Tuesday it was revealed that he had received SAS training. By Thursday, surprise, surprise, the papers relegated this point to a casual mention, 'emphasising that he had failed the course.

The told me to shut up and in- forget about Barry Barry later and asked him where he had been. He only smiland said holiday' Of Prudom might have been on holiday, but on the other hand armies of 'client' stales, such as Oman, are littered 'retired' 'failed' members of the British armed forces.

Which brings interesting of the case - the fact that ine ponce nave been told to shoot first and ask quesCons aler waros would be by no means the year first time that the police have behaved in fashion for astance "on when they gunned unarmed vouth at Indian embassy but it is the yvals asu first time they have been publicly ordered to kill on sight. and Could it be that the preferred Prudom dead to revealing some of its more facet murky goings on in the dock? Trust Britain to give a new twist to tne noary old 'shot while escaping' snor wone surrendering.

this It. may of that Prudom did fail at the down end of his SAS training (although few have to be pretty thick to fail an army initiative test) but the fact remains that Prudom is a highly trained killer, and it was the SAS that trained him to kill.

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