Well by oral account I mean the oral tradition that comes from ordinary Liverpool folk. My Dad knew Kelly and would talk about him after a pint. He always gave me the impression that he had an underlying sympathy for the man. Well my Dad was not a gangster and he only hung about with labourers. He was a ship scaler and a coal man but him and people he knew, all knew George. In the time of the Cameo murder guns where quite rare. Some war surplus firearms were about but gun crime was not common. The creation of the gangster myth was where the Echo came in. The Liverpool public had a picture painted of Kelly as Liverpool?s top under world figure this label created by the Echo went along way to securing a conviction because the public saw him as a very sophisticated criminal. Regards the deal made with Connolly it has always been my understanding that changing his plea would avoid him going to the gallows?I think when people get appeals and walk a shadow often hangs over them. I think that is the case in quite a few celebrated cases. We might also like to believe that it is encouraged.