Bulldog Bash Featuring MOTÖRHEAD In Jeopardy
July 20, 2009, 15 years ago
Telegraph.co.uk is reporting:
The Bulldog Bash at Long Marston, Warwickshire is organised by the British wing of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and has been held over the last 20 years.
The 2009 event lasts four days and is expected to attract 15,000 people and the heavy metal band MOTÖRHEAD are due to perform.
However, police are to ask Stratford-upon-Avon council to revoke the event’s licence because it is “associated with serious crime”.
Their main concern is the potential for an increase in the lethal rivalry between the Hells Angels and the American Outlaws Association, according to The Times.
In 2007 Gerry Tobin, a Hells Angel, was shot dead on the M40 as he rode home from the Bulldog Bash.
Seven British members of the Outlaws are serving life sentences for murder.
Last month four Outlaws and four Angels were convicted over a machete fight at Birmingham airport.
British police have designate the motorcycle clubs as organised crime groups. Both clubs deny any wrongdoing.
A spokesman for the England and Wales Hells Angels, told the Times: “If we are organised criminals why do we ride around quite openly displaying patches saying who we are?
"We get together to ride our bikes, visit our brothers in Britain and overseas and have a party. Just because some of our members have crossed the line doesn’t make every member a criminal nor the club a criminal organisation.”
