Granny weed
Well-Known Member
My town was a garrison where soldiers came to train for six weeks before they joined their battalion, I was quite partial to the soldier boys in the town and even became engaged to one who sadly was shot and killed in Northern Ireland he was eighteen years old and it was his first patrol. Anyhow we used to go
drinking in the pubs that the soldiers frequented and the local town lads hated them, their was always trouble with them starting fights with the soldiers.one night we were in a pub with some soldiers and their was a well known thug in their all the locals were wary of him he had quite a reputation at using a knife. As the night progressed it was obvious this thug was going to start trouble my friend and I suggested we leave the pub which we did the thug followed,outside he grabbed one of the soldiers and they proceeded to fight the other soldier ran into the pub to get help my friend and I stood and watched in horror as the thug pulled a knife and stabbed the soldier who was now lay bleeding on the ground the thug ran off. An ambulance and both military and civi police arrived and asked everyone around and in the pub who had done it everyone said they didn't know for fear of reprisals from the thug even my friend refused to say. So I told them who had done it they took me to the police station to make a statement and whilst I was their they brought in the thug, I could hear him shouting to bring the witness to him(me) I was terrified I stood in court and testified against him and he went to jail he had a long line of offences already against him and that was the final straw, I didn't regret doing it and although I was terrified when he got out of jail nothing ever happened about it even though everyone said it would.
The crazy thing is this thug is an old man now and I went with my son one day to buy an air rifle and the dude works in the gun shop! How that happened I don't know but thankfully he didn't recognize me.
