Eaton Green
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Eaton Leonard 'Leon' Green (born 21 September 1967){{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1995/nov/22/eaton-leonard-green|title=Eaton Leonard Green (Hansard, 22 November 1995)|website=api.parliament.uk|access-date=13 November 2022|archive-date=13 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113115050/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1995/nov/22/eaton-leonard-green|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nickdavies.net/1995/11/06/eaton-green-the-yardie-grass-who-was-allowed-to-commit-crime/|title=Eaton Green – the Yardie grass who was allowed to commit crime – Nick Davies|access-date=13 November 2022|archive-date=13 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113130603/https://www.nickdavies.net/1995/11/06/eaton-green-the-yardie-grass-who-was-allowed-to-commit-crime/|url-status=live}} was a Yardie gang member involved in armed robbery, drug dealing and extortion in South London. The first Yardie to become a police informant for the Metropolitan Police, his later testimony during his 1997 deportation hearing would reveal police protection for his criminal activities by immigration and intelligence officers of the Drug Related Violence and Intelligence Unit. DRVI provided false passports to allow Green’s accomplices Cecil and Rohan Thomas (known to have killed at least ten people) and members of the Black Roses crew into the country, "Police to Change Use of Yardie Informers". The Independent. 7 July 1998World In Action The Informer TV Documentary 1995 as well as helping Green to secure residency rights through his marriage to a British woman under questionable circumstances.{{cite web|author=Black Flag|authorlink=Black Flag (newspaper)|title=Drugs and Guns|url=http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/218/218nw10.htm|work=Black Flag #218|publisher=Blackened.net|date=March 1999|access-date=7 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222637/http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/218/218nw10.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}
Biography
Having fled Jamaica on murder charges, Green emigrated to the United Kingdom and eventually settled in Brixton in February 1991, where he began dealing crack and cocaine. Within three months, he had been arrested on drugs and weapons charges and soon after recruited by immigration officer Steve Barker as an informant. His arrest on 8 July 1993, for one of the largest armed robberies in UK history at a Nottingham blues party the previous month, caused scandal for the Home Office as Green had been a paid informant at the time of his arrest.{{cite web|author=British Broadcasting Corporation|authorlink=British Broadcasting Corporation|title=Who are the Yardies?|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/371604.stm|work=BBC News|date=19 July 1999|access-date=30 April 2009|archive-date=17 December 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031217004927/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/371604.stm|url-status=live}} Barker, allegedly attempted to protect Green from prosecution by Nottingham authorities.{{cite web|author=Black Flag |authorlink=Black Flag (newspaper) |title=Scotland Yardies (about police involvement in drugs and crime) |url=http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/212/212yard.htm |work=Black Flag #212 |publisher=Blackened.net |date=July 1997 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716083715/http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/212/212yard.htm |archivedate=16 July 2006}} In September 1995, he pleaded guilty and was convicted of armed robbery, possession of firearms {{cite web|title=Police face no charges over Yardie informer who killed|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/16/ukguns|work=The Guardian|date=16 July 1999|access-date=17 December 2016|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305161706/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/16/ukguns|url-status=live}} and unlawful wounding"Top Policeman Defends Handling of Yardie Case". Press Association. 14 Sep 1995 by the Leeds Crown Court. He had shot one of the male guests in the foot during the robbery, allegedly to allay suspicions that he was an informer,"'I Was Set Up', Yardie Tells Judge". Press Association. 4 October 1995 but his sentence was reduced due to cooperating with the prosecution in a previous trial."Yardie grass jailed". The Independent. 4 October 1995
After serving six years in prison, efforts to avoid deportation by his charge that he had been told by Metropolitan intelligence officers that he would be under the protection of the DRVIU failed and was eventually deported following his deportation trial on 10 July 1997.{{cite web|first=Nick|last=Davies|title=Police damned over Yardie chaos: A 20-month inquiry confirms Guardian reports about how Jamaican informers carried on a guns and drugs crime spree|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/16/4|work=The Guardian|date=16 February 1999|access-date=17 December 2016|archive-date=6 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306135919/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/16/4|url-status=live}}
Following his release from prison, he applied for asylum on the basis that he would be killed as an informant if returned to Jamaica,"Yardie Supergrass Will Be Deported Back To Jamaica". Birmingham Post. 10 July 1999 which apparently was denied and he was reportedly repatriated to Jamaica in 1999.
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