13/12/95 - STATEMENT of Gi Bradley Garwood

Name: Gi Bradley Garwood
age / date of birth: 21 29081974

Who states:- This statement consisting of 003 pages, each signed by me, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and i make it knowing that if it is tendered in evidence i shall be liable to prosecution if i have wilfully stated in it anything which i know to be false or do not believe to be true.
Dated: 131295
G b garwood (signed)

my sister is donna marie garwood. She was recently having a relationship with the deceased tony tucker. I was first aware that donna was seeing tony around 001194. I first saw them together at raquels discotheque in basildon around that time. I was aware that he used to spend a lot of money on her and that donna idolised him. Because of the age gap between them i was a bit concerned and took it upon myself to speak to my dad about him.

My dad (brian garwood) runs a panel beating business at 1a wanstead pk rd, ilford. Shortly after i spoke to my dad he told me he had spoken to a man named dave defreitas who had connections with people in the east london area club scene. My dad told me that the feeling was that although tony was a big man who could be nasty he wouldn't be a problem with my sister.

It went on that they used to spend a lot of time together. Tony didn't come to my mum's house because she wasn't that keen at first, but tried to come to terms with their relationship. I knew that tony's current friends were craig rolfe and pat tate. I was never certain of what the three of them got up to but i knew tony used to run a lot of the doormen in basildon and at southend as well.

I remember donna told me once that pat tate had come out of prison she said 'he's only been out five weeks'. She said that since pat had come out tony had become worried about something, he had taken a bit of a low profile, he wasn't himself. Donna said he started staying in with her alot and tony was a bit jumpy.

Donna said she thought pat had done something which reflected on tony, but she didn't say what. About the beginning of 001200 or end of 001100 i came home to my mother's house, 33 fairview road basildon and found donna sitting in pats black 190 mercedes. Donna had only recently passed her test but had difficulty driving it as i understood from her, she had driven it from pat tates bungalow in gordon road.

At that time donna was living at swanstead number 122 or 123. I ended up driving the car back to pat tates address i cannot remember the index number. I knew tony had a black porsche which got smashed up by pat tate. The blue range rover as i knew it was pat tates. Before they started using the range rover they were using a brown ford granada on an 'a' or 'b' plate.

I have not heard any rumours about tony tucker pat tate or craig rolfe. For my part i thought they were just involved in running the doormen on the clubs. I do not know of anyone who may be involved in their murders.
G b garwood signed
statement taken place:
Time:
Date: 131295
Witness to signature:
Officers signature: Ds1721 sandford