Ex-Financial Dynamics director Sean Bellew is one man who knows more
than he cares to reveal about our increasingly violent society. Bellew -
now working with Hill Murray Rogerson - has been beaten up not just once
but twice.
It all started over a quiet drink in Bellew’s local in Pimlico - not
usually known as a no-go area of London. Perhaps he should have read the
signs. ‘There were no regulars in there, just lots of yobbos,’ he tells
me.
‘They were threatening to throw some Irish bloke called Crazy Horse out
of the window. Then they came and stood behind me. I turned round and
said why don’t you stop making offensive comments about the Irish’.
Alas Bellew’s brave stand merely provoked the thugs further. Suffice to
say a fight ensued and the police were called. But that was not an end
to it. As Bellew explains: ‘They came back two nights later to finish
the job.’
The damage has since been compounded by Bellew himself. Having tripped
up once and damaged his hand he then fell a second time.
‘I had a briefcase in one hand, so I had to stop my fall by using my
right eye,’ says Bellew, ‘I was stone cold sober at the time. If I’d
been drunk I probably wouldn’t have hurt myself.’
