An audience with the 'Teflon Don.’

[Lia]

What’s your ‘take’ on this guy? Personally, I think that he sounds like a very dangerous man to know… I wouldn't want him as a neighbor, nor would I wanna pass him on the street, however densely populated it was...

There is a four-inch scar on Arran Coghlan’s neck. He is happy to explain how it got there. First, though, he takes my hand and guides my fingers over the knife wound.

‘Can you feel my pulse?’ he asks.
‘Yes,’ I reply.
‘That’s because the scar is on my jugular vein,’ he explains. ‘It was a good shot — but not good enough. I don’t do dying — that’s for others.’

By ‘others’, he means the person responsible for inflicting that nasty wound; the person, in fact, who was killed just a few feet away from where we’re standing.
‘He died over there,’ says Mr Coghlan, 39, pointing towards an ensuite bathroom at his Cheshire home (a converted chapel, ironically), where Stephen ‘Aki’ Akinyemi, a 36-year-old figure from the local underworld, was found in a pool of blood.

Mr Coghlan was subsequently charged with murder, but acquitted when the case came to court in July last year after prosecutors couldn’t prove he hadn’t acted in self-defence.

A dramatic case? Certainly. But for Mr Coghlan, not an unusual one. For the man sitting in front of me in his lounge politely answering questions over a cup of tea has been charged with murder, not once, not twice, but three times over the past ten years.

And each time he has ‘walked’, for reasons we shall come to later.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020368/Arran-Coghlan-charged-gangland-murders-The-Mail-meeting-man-himself.html#ixzz1TaPj6Zp7

 

[Big Dog]

Ah hell, he's just like all of us trying to get by ..............

 

[Lia]

Ah hell, he's just like all of us trying to get by ..............

Yeah, you can't pull the wool over my eyes! I happen to know that under that tough exterior your just a thoroughly nice, helpful guy. mhm.

 

[Big Dog]

Yeah, you can't pull the wool over my eyes! I happen to know that under that tough exterior your just a thoroughly nice, helpful guy. mhm.

Thank you and much obliged .................