The Murders of Boysie Singh: Robber, Arsonist, Pirate, Mass-Murderer, Vice and Gambling King of TrinidadPaperback, 5 September 2019

In the whole history of crime there has been no career more fantastic than that of the West Indian gang leader, Boysie Singh. For more than a decade he and his ruthless henchmen terrorised Port of Spain and the seas around it, controlled gambling dens, night-clubs and brothels and dealt out savage punishment who got in his way. And there were still more sinister legends -- that he murdered scores of illegal immigrants between Trinidad and Venezuela, that he carried on wholesale piracy in the Gulf of Paria. Arrested at last on a charge of murdering an informer in his gang, he was tried twice -- the first jury disagreed -- and sentenced to death; but the Court of Appeal, in a sensational decision, found him not guilty. Finally after a bizarre interlude as a lay preacher, he became involved in the mysterious disappearance of the dancer Thelma Haynes, and in 1957 was executed for her murder.