{"id":5664,"date":"2014-04-08T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2019-10-27T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T10:25:28","slug":"life-story-roy-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/life-story-roy-slater\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life Story of Roy Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Name:<\/strong> Roy \u2018Bulldog\u2019 Slater.
\nProfession: <\/strong>Undertaker \/ Ex Chief Inspector of Metropolitan Police Service.
\nSpouse: <\/strong>Rachel \u2018Raquel\u2019 Slater nee Turner (Divorced).<\/p>\n

Roy Slater was born in Peckham, South East London to a working class mother and father. At a young age, Roy showed ambition and enthusiasm which were catalysts for his eventual career in the Police.<\/p>\n

When he attended Dockside Secondary Modern School, he became an outsider. One of his classmates, Derek \u2018Del-Boy\u2019 Trotter was someone Roy took a liking to, despite Del putting frogspawn in his milk. Derek had a gang of friends: Aubrey Boyce aka Boycie, Denzil, Trigger, Jumbo Mills, Fatty Walker and Monkey Harris.<\/p>\n

\"\"Roy tried to befriend them all but unfortunately, he was seen as a runt and was continuously berated by his classmates. One particular instance documented was when the boys headed over to the ponds to play pirates. Del-Boy was Dan Tempest, Trigger was Long John Silver. Roy wanted desperately to be Bluebeard, but Derek and the other boys didn\u2019t want him too. Instead they made him the villain, who had to walk the plank. He was in and out of that pond \u2018more times than a duck\u2019s head.\u2019 However, at one time, Roy was permitted to be Bluebeard, but unfortunately that was the day Bluebeard had to walk the plank.<\/p>\n

Roy found a way to get back at the boys though, especially Del, who he caught behind the bike shed kissing his sister, before he told the teacher. They didn\u2019t want a \u2018grass\u2019 in their group so decided to bully him.<\/p>\n

From that point forward, he pursued his career path, and joined the Metropolitan Police Service. He quickly worked his way up the ladder until he reached Inspector rank and moved all over the London boroughs and districts, policing the city.<\/p>\n

He decided to return to his old home in December 83\u2019 to see how he could reduce crime in Peckham. His first big assignment was locating a microwave oven, which had been stolen from the back of a lorry down Lewisham Grove. After interrogating Trigger in the Nag\u2019s Head Public House, Roy cleverly worked his way in with Del\u2019s younger brother, Rodney and managed to get himself an invite back to their residence at Nelson Mandela House on the Near Area Estate.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival, Del dropped his lunch tray and assisted Rodney in grabbing some beers, whilst Del\u2019s Grandad assisted Roy in grabbing the stolen microwave oven out of the bedrooms. The Trotters were promptly arrested and taken to the station for questioning.<\/p>\n

Roy tried to convince Del that revealing the thief to him would stop him from being prosecuted; he even had his PC, Terry Hoskins try to make him see sense. Eventually, Del, Rodney and Grandad gave their accounts of the man they saw in market; he was described as being a \u20186ft, 7 inched dwarf, aged between 15 and 50, white male with oriental features, whose as black as new gate\u2019s knocker.\u2019 Slater was not convinced.<\/p>\n

Using his detective skills, he shut all the doors open to Del so that he had no choice but to become a \u2018grass\u2019. Del considered his options and decided to co-operate, but made sure he had an immunity from prosecution, and that Rodney and Grandad had no charges against them. Slater was delighted to have Del as one of his \u2018Merry Men.\u2019 He had finally broken down the man he had always wanted to; the man everyone could trust. The great Del-Boy Trotter.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Roy, he was left red faced. After asking Del \u2018Who nicked the microwave off the back of the lorry?\u2019 Del subsequently responded, with a huge smirk on his face \u2018I did!\u2019, before walking out of the police station as a free man. 1-0 to Del-Boy.<\/p>\n

After this unsuccessful episode with Del, Roy continued his work in the police and worked his way up to Chief Inspector. It wasn\u2019t long until he crossed paths with Del in 1985. Roy knew that Del would have a good knowledge of the gossip on the street and needed some assistance tracking down a courier, who had been smuggling diamonds into the UK from Amsterdam for a man named \u2018Hendriks.\u2019 Roy informed Del that if he helped him he could make his life so much easier in the future. Little did he know that Del and his family were the couriers he was looking for.<\/p>

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