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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)If it had been any other Stephen Cunningham, there would have been little cause for concern. By the end of the second week of September 1997 the family of the forty-six year old civil engineer from Swindon had not heard from him in almost five days. After contacting a few of his friends and confirming that they, too, had had heard nothing, his daughter decided to file an official missing-persons report at her local police station... This particular Stephen Cunningham was a man better known to the police as 'Grumps', a leading member of the Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club... Their inquiries showed that Cunningham had left his Swindon home early on 9 September, driven to Ramsgate in Kent and boarded the 4 p.m. Sally Lines ferry to Ostend as a foot passenger. Video footage showed him arriving in Belgium at around six p.m. UK time, and records show that he used his mobile phone an hour and a half later to get it switched to a network that would allow him to make calls across Europe. Although Cunningham had booked a return passage on the ferry for 11 September, he never used it... It was for this reason that Cunningham was freshly scrubbed and wearing a amart business suit the day he boarded the ferry to Ostend and vanished from the face of the earth. His final destination was Amsterdam where he was due to meet with Dutch Angels to pay for a consignment of cannabis that would be shipped to Britain later. There were also discussions to be had about future drug deals and deliveries of ecstasy to allow the Angels to move into the club drugs market. The Angels already control much of the cocaine, amphetamine and ecstasy trade in the Netherlands. They work closely with the Kampers — the Dutch Gypsy community — who in turn are closely connected to members of the Colombian Cali cocaine cartel, and Cunningham was believed to have been promised an introduction. 'That part of the trip went smoothly', one source close to the Nomads told me, 'but the problems began when he started heading back. Grumps had always been a popular member of the club, but a few months before he vanished, he had a big falling-out with some of the Nomads. They unanimously voted to get rid of him and when the Angels do that, they mean something more than just being kicked out of the club. He had been involved at the highest levels and knew all their secrets and that meant he was a liability. When they decided to take him out, they knew it had to be done on a permanent basis. Members of the Dutch Angels agreed to do the job. They say Grumps is at the bottom of some canal now I don't think his body is ever going to be found.'
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