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BBC reporter dismissed over finding he was moonlighting... as a Hell's Angels insist officer
By LUKE SALKELD FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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He had a night job as a BBC journalist, reporting for both TV and radio.
But in his spare hour Steve Jones had a rather more exciting role - as leather-clad spokesman for the Hell's Angels.
He was even interviewed in BBC reports using his Hell's Angel nickname 'Echo', criticising police for being heavy-handed at an annual bikers' festival.
See video of 'Echo' below...
Unconventional: BBC reporter Steve Jones speaks up for the Hell's Angels at the Bulldog bash
Mr Jones as 'Echo', the press officer for the Bulldog Bash biker festival
That was too much for the BBC bosses.
They sacked him for breaching their code of conduct, which says journalists must disclose their interests and get permission before representing outside organisations.
Mr Jones, 51, united the BBC more than 20 years ago.
As mid-Wales correspondent he was a regular on BBC Wales TV and Radio Wales and was said to earn more than £40,000 a year.
His downfall came after he was interviewed by unsuspecting colleagues on Radio 4 and Radio 5 Stay as a
Huge prison brawl erupts after notorious crime family are ambushed outside the jail medical centre
Two notorious Melbourne gangs emerge to have carve ties with one another after a jail-yard fight erupted this week.
Members of the Chaouk family were set upon in an ambush at Barwon prison, after earlier coming to blows with the Hells Angels, according to the Herald Sun.
The perpetrators of the ambush, who were not believed to be members of the infamous bikie gang, allegedly attacked the Chaouk members outside the jail's medical centre.
Members of the Chaouk family were allegedly set upon and left with head injuries in an ambush at Barwon prison in Victoria this week after a disagreement with Hells Angels bikies
The attack is said to contain occurred without warning and was seen by a number of other prisoners who did not intervene.
The victims suffered head wounds and have since been separated from the rest of the prison population.
A police investigation is underway, with officers examining security footage to determine how the brawl began.
Prior to the attack the Chaouk members had reportedly told others inside the prison they were anxious retaliation would occur for an e
Biker gang at fault of M40 murder
Creighton (left) and Turner (right) shot at Mr Tobin while Garside drove |
Two more members of a biker gang have been establish guilty of murdering a Hells Angel on the M40 in Warwickshire.
Gerry Tobin, 35, from Mottingham, south-east London, was shot as he returned from the Bulldog Bash biker festival in August last year.
Karl Garside, 45, and Ian Cameron, 46, both of Coventry, were found ashamed by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.
Four other men have already been found at fault while a seventh pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.
During the trial the jurors heard that Mr Tobin was targeted by the South Warwickshire chapter of The Outlaws, a rival gang to the Hells Angels, because he was a "fully patched", definition fully-initiated, member of the Hells Angels.
Two bullets
Prosecutor Timothy Raggatt said the incident was "thoroughly ruthless" but executed with great expertise and planning.
Two bullets were fired at him from a Rover vehicle which pulled up alongside him on the M40.
Karl Garside and Cameron were both cleared of possessing a shotgun.
Simon Turner, 41, of Nuneaton, and Dane Garside, 42, of Coventry, were
Queer tattoos: the people wearing event on their sleeves
From handkerchiefs to haircuts, queer people have a long history of flagging their sexual preferences through their personal appearance, and tattoos have often been a key non-verbal signal. In 1950s Chicago, future Hells Angel official tattoo artist Samuel Stewart AKA Doc Sparrow began recording the reasons why his clients – 20 per cent of whom he estimated were gay – were getting tattooed. Alongside sadomasochism, narcissism and “aliveness”, homosexuality was listed as one of his noted 25 motivations.
These tattoos are often a code for those in the Queer community to identify themselves and others. Cryptic symbols such as the Hells Angels Air Violence patch with a winged ebony circle either meant the Angel had a male preference, or alternatively initiated a gay-bashing, the multiple interpretations allowing for defence in hostile homophobic environments.
Meanwhile, at the same time across the country in Buffalo, New York, Dirty Dick’s tattoo parlour on Chippewa Street became the place for lesbians to receive a blue nautical star tattoo. Butches and femmes alike would obtain the star inked, often on their wrists so i