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Anything Goes with James English

79: The Taxman Brian Cockerill tells his story

Anything Goes with James English

Anything Goes with James English

Society & Culture

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

James English, The Anything Goes Show Ep79.

The story of the taxman.

Brian Cockerill was once one of the most feared men in the UK.

He spent years working as a gangland tax-man and had over 1000 violent street fights in a career that lasted almost 30 years.

Brian was a 24 stone man mountain that wouldn’t let anything or anyone get in his way.

Brian has claimed to have lost over 20 friends to murder and has been charged with countless crimes from murder and also charged with attempt murder on 2 police officers.

But a life of operating in the criminal underworld took its toll on Brian, and he ended up turning to hard drugs like crack cocaine in order to self medicate, leaving him battling with sever depression.

The link to Brian’s book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tax-Man-Bria...

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0:28.0

Hi this is Hugh here from the imperfect podcast where podcast where we chat to well known people whose lives seem perfect from the outside

0:36.0

but through our discussions they share the vulnerabilities and imperfections that make them who they are.

0:41.0

We chat to people like Gary Barlow, Elizabeth Day and my cricketing hero, Pat Cummins.

0:45.6

I reckon the hardest time of my life easily. I remember that for those two weeks like I don't want to be going

0:51.1

and play in front of millions of people and everything gets picked

0:53.2

apart like I just want to be the kid who's sitting there with mom and dad.

0:56.8

Search the imperfects podcast on the app you are currently listening on. And the Boom we're on. Today's guess we've got Big Brian Cockro. How about we brother?

1:21.0

I'm very pleased to meet you met. Yeah it's really good to see you Brian.

1:24.1

First of all thanks for coming on the show. But thank you for having me on the show. Yeah,

1:27.5

I used to call you the tax man. That's correct. One in Britain's toughest men alive.

1:31.5

Yeah. You've got a very colourful past. Britain's toughest men alive. So they say.

1:33.0

Yeah, you've got a very colourful past.

1:35.0

Yes.

1:36.0

You've had over a thousand burn-knuckle fights.

1:38.0

Yeah, straight fights.

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