Jimmy Boyle

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Jimmy Boyle and his wife Sarah (daughter of the former British film censor), gave more than £5,000 to the Labour Party in 1997 and £5,500 in 2001. Although once a gangster and convicted murderer, spending 40 years in prisons and institutions, he is reformed character - a writer and sculptor. He married into a wealthy family and has regular holidays at a villa on the French Riviera. [1]

Notes

  1. ^ see the BBC report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/08/99/edinburgh_festival_99/431661.stm