They drove back to Fatony’s office and gave him the cash.
“ you’ve done well gentlemen, well done.” He leant over and kissed them both on the cheek. They went down to the car and took the man out the boot. He was just beginning to come around. They showed the semiconscious man to Fatony. “ Erm here’s what I want you two to do, I want you to take this filthy excuse for a man down to the coast. I then want you to end his life in what any way you feel fit, then dispose of his body in the sea.” The two gangsters took the man back down to the car and drove to the coast. They made the man get onto his knees with his hands behind his back. “got any prayers you want to say?” The man began to mumble out some prayers and as he was doing this they both fed 4 rounds into the back off his head. They picked up the decapitated man and threw him onto a rug. And so not to leave any evidence they had to pick up the stray pieces of brain and skull. They then rolled the rug up and slid it into the sea.
It was 4:30 in the afternoon and Tony and Paulie went to have a drink in a restaurant to celebrate what they had done. No sooner had they sat down they were confronted by a lunatic wielding a machete. Paulie jumped off his stool smashed his bottle over the bar and impaled the broken bottle into the mans face. Tony grabbed the maniacs hand with the knife and shoved it into his stomach, and forced it upward, causing the mans intestines to spill out all over paulie and Tony. They both left the man on the bar and left to get cleaned up for the boxing match they where going to watch later that night.
Back in Fatony’s office he was talking to the man who was going to be taking part in that very fight. His name was Tommy the gun. He was recently released from prison for aggravated murder and was a psychopath. Fatony was in the middle of fixing the fight. Which normally Tommy would not be part of because he was a proud sports man. “So we are agreed your ass goes down in the 4th!” Tommy agreed, Fatony then went on to say” I will give you half the money now and half when your face has been down on the canvas for ten seconds in the 4th , but you gotta make it look like your hurt but put on a fight cause no one will be best pleased if they know it’s rigged.” Tommy left and got ready for the fight.
Tommy sat in his changing room psyching himself up for the fight but perhaps too much because he was in the ring for 1 minute 20 seconds and had all ready broke the other fighters jaw, nose and 6 ribs. He finished with an almighty uppercut which lifted the other fighter off the canvas and into the air. As he hit the floor blood began oozing out of both his ears. He was pronounced dead on arrival of the hospital.
Tommy quickly left the arena, and got in a taxi back to his apartment. This caused two major problems, firstly he was in major dept with Fatony because he had lost him a lot of money, and caused Fatony to be on every gamblers hit list who he had tipped off.
When he got back to his apartment he told his wife to gather up all their belongings and pack them because they where leaving the country. That night they stayed at a hotel so Fatony would not find them. The next day he woke up, got dressed and went to put on his lucky ring. But it wasn’t in the box he normally keeps it in. he woke up his wife and asked her if she knew where it was. She did not know and this ring was not just any ring this ring was handed down through his family and when it reached his dad he went to war wearing the ring. He was captured and so the Germans did not take the ring he took a knife, stabbed himself in the leg and concealed the ring in the wound. When he was rescued he gave the ring to Tommy and that’s why he wanted to know where it was.
He knew he must of left it at his apartment but getting it back would be risky because Fatony was sure to have some of his men round there. But this ring came before anything so he left the hotel to get it.
When he arrived he parked his car down the road from the apartment so not to alert Fatony’s men, if they were in his house. He walked over to his apartment and saw the door was open a bit, so he knew there was someone inside. He crept in hazardous not to make a sound, he went to his room and retrieved the ring and as Tommy was leaving paulie walked along the balcony of his apartment. As he reached the front door he noticed Tommy and grabbed his collar, Tommy head butted paulie on the bridge of his nose and punched him square in the face, sending him over the edge of the balcony and falling to his bloody death. At that moment Tony lunged for Tommy, Tommy grabbed the closest thing to his which happened to be a biro, and jammed the biro as hard as he could into Tony’s neck. The biro went into his neck, through his voice box and wind pipe and back out the other side. He fell on the floor, began convulsing and gasping for air. Tommy left him there and ran for his car.
As he was driving down the road he reached some traffic lights. He stopped and suddenly Fatony leant in through his window and grabbed him round the throat. Tommy pressed the button to close the window and Fatony was then trapped by the torso in his car. Tommy began to drive down the road with Fatony hanging out of his car however Fatony did not let go of his neck this made Tommy lose control of his car and sent it careering towards the side of a tool shop. The car slammed through the window and all the broken glass sliced Fatony clean in half. The owner confronted Tommy, who had managed to pull himself free from the wreck with minor injuries, and Tommy picked up a claw hammer and began to beat the owner over the back of the head until the claw got jammed in the back of his skull. As he ran from the scene he was hit by a passing car which sent him flying over the other side of the road.
When the ambulance arrived he was unconscious with severe head injuries. After 12 weeks in hospital he was taken to court and tried. He was found guilty of 5 counts of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
By Steve Dowdeswell
