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Hello and welcome to this new crime channel called British Jewelz. We will be looking into the connection of some of the most notorious criminals in Britan and how they have gained ties with the royal family. To start of the series we will be covering the life of john Bindon and how he came to having a relationship with princess margaret which will be split into a two part episode. ,,,, The story of john Bindon starts in Fulham in London were he was born, which at the time was a rather more rugged borough than it is now. he came from a poor background and he was the second eldest in a working-class family of three children including himself. considering the circumstances they faced at the time he was very well brought up by his loving mother Cicely bindon and father Dennis Bindon, . his loving father Dennis was a merchant seaman and engineer turned cab driver. As a child john went to Henry Compton School in Fulham, but left at the age of 15 and it was then where he was given the nickname "Biffo" for getting into altercations as a teenager. As a teenager, he served time in a borstal for possessing live ammunition. when he was released he seeked jobs ranging from laying asphalt to dealing in antiques. which is how he met and became friends with the now international antiques dealer John Hobbs. Bindon later pursued a career in acting. the Director Ken Loach, spotted him in a pub in London in 1966, and he spotted and considered john to be perfect for the role of a rough husband in the film, called Poor Cow which was released in 1967. His next big break came the following year with a role in Performance which didn’t get released until 1970 alongside Mick Jagger, where he played a violent mobster. His portrayal earned him critical praise and typecast him for future roles in Inspector Clouseau , Get Carter, From Russia with Love and Airport Passerby. In 1968, he met Vicki Hodge, a baronet's daughter turned model and actress, who introduced him to British aristocracy. However, he had been previously invited to the Caribbean island resort of Mustique, where Bindon claimed to have had affair with Princess Margaret. The biographer of the Princess, Noel Botham, was also of the opinion that Bindon had an affair with her. During this time Bindon gained the nickname "Big John", referring to his private area. He supposedly went back to Mustique for a second time in 1969 and took his then girlfriend Hodge with him. The princess later publicly denied meeting Bindon (despite pictures of them next to one another) and was reportedly unimpressed to hear stories of their sexual encounters in the press. Bindon also had various flings with a number of beautiful models, including the beautiful Christine Keeler, the former Playboy "Bunny Girl" Serena Williams, and also Angela Barnett, the future wife of pop star David Bowie. Bindon was also awarded the Queen's Award for Bravery, a police bravery medal, for diving off Putney Bridge into the River Thames to rescue a drowning man, in 1968, although some said he had pushed the man in and only rescued him when a policeman appeared. they say Bindon had a violent temper and a bold intimidating personality. He was accused of running a protection racket in west London, targeting pubs, restaurants and cafés. There were also suggestions of connections to the Richardson Gang and the Kray twins, who supported his control of west London, as well as rivalries with gangs from south London. The south London rivalries were suggested to have contributed to his bankruptcy, when he built up drug debts. The extent of his involvement in the English underworld has never been pin pointed. it was an easy role for him to play considering all he had to do was be himself – but this time it was legal and he was getting paid for it. He got to know plenty of actors and other people in the entertainment business. His movie friends saw him as a colourful , larger-than-life character and no doubt he was. Although he played the parts of thugs in his roles, those who knew him said that he was great fun to be with. If crossed though, he had no hesitation in using the weapon he had used all his life – his fists. Brawling was still a large part of his personality. He associated himself with people from all walks of the entertainment world. He once made a film with the famous rock singer mick jagger and the two of them went out for a night on the town. On that same night another actor who acted in a film spoke about that night and said that the following day, the rock singer turned up on the set and was visibly shaken. As was often the case, when the pair had been out the previous evening, it had ended in John getting into one of his customary fights. When Bindon arrived on the movie set he saw that the singer was still looking troubled and went to him an waved a matchbox at him. as he was Smiling at him he opened the matchbox and the singer saw. a human thumb that John had bitten off his opponent the previous evening during the fight. Bindon's best known film roles were his appearance in Get Carter (1971) and the Who's film Quadrophenia (1979) as a drug dealer. He also appeared in television series such as Public Eye, The Gold Robbers, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Paul Temple, Special Branch. and Softly Taskforce and Hazell playing out his usual tough-guy roles. Despite a productive film and television career, Bindon felt he needed a break from acting, and went into organising security. It was to be a move which would have disastrous personal and financial consequences. In early 1977, Bindon was hired by Peter Grant on advice from tour manager Richard Cole as security coordinator for the rock group Led Zeppelin during their concert tour of the United States. He had previously provided security for actors Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. An incident involving Bindon occurred at the band's concert at the Oakland Coliseum on 23 July 1977, near the end of their US tour. Upon arrival at the stadium, it is alleged that Bindon pushed a member of promoter Bill Graham's stage crew out of the way as the band entered via a backstage ramp. As a result, tension had been simmering between Graham's staff and Led Zeppelin's security team during the day, and as Grant and Bindon were walking down the ramp near the end of the concert, words were exchanged with stage crew chief Jim Downey, which resulted in Bindon knocking Downey out cold. Bindon maintained that he was goaded into the fight after Graham's crew referred to him as in there words "a weak limey fuck". Just minutes later a separate off-stage incident occurred. Bill Graham's security man Jim Matzorkis was accused of assaulting Peter Grant's 11-year-old son Warren for taking a dressing room sign, and was savagely beaten up. Led Zeppelin's second Oakland show took place only after Bill Graham signed a letter of indemnification, absolving Led Zeppelin from responsibility for the previous night's incident. However, Graham refused to honour the letter and assault charges were laid against Grant, Cole, Bindon and John Bonham when the band arrived back at their hotel. The four received bail and later pleaded no contest, receiving suspended sentences. Bindon was dismissed by the band and returned to England. Grant later said that allowing Bindon to be hired was the biggest mistake he ever made as manager. In 1978, Bindon became involved in a fight with John Darke, a London gangster, outside the Ranelagh Yacht Club, in Fulham, London. Darke was stabbed nine times, resulting in his death, and Bindon managed to flee to Dublin with his own knife wounds covered up. He gave himself up to police and was subsequently tried at the Old Bailey in October 1979. The prosecution claimed that this was a £10,000 contract killing over drugs, with the fight as a cover for the death. However, the defence argued that Darke's death was in self-defence, saying Bindon was in fear of his life as he was being blackmailed about losing drug money and cocaine worth thousands of pounds. Bindon was acquitted of Darke's murder in November 1979. It was reported that the "substantial appearance" of actor Bob Hoskins as a character witness at the trial helped sway the jury's verdict and that the judge, Sir William Mars-Jones, "had been sympathetic towards Bindon in his summing-up and unhappy with the witnesses produced by the prosecution". Media reports of the trial, along with the Oakland incident, seriously damaged Bindon's reputation (there were other various allegations of a similar violent nature against him) and he found it increasingly difficult to find work in the entertainment industry after that. This was additionally attributable to his reputation for being difficult to work with on set, as much as his connections to organised crime. During the 1980s, Bindon became a more reclusive figure, spending more of his time at his Belgravia flat. He died on 10 October 1993, aged 50. The Independent reported that he died from cancer others state he died of an AIDS-related illness.