Tom recalls the strange adventure of two skinheads... There was an intriguing case from 1975, though it was reported to me around 2002 by a caller named Malcolm to The Billy Butler Show. Malcolm stated that in August 1975, he was a 19-year-old, cut-throat-razor-carrying skinhead—‘head shaved to the wood, white shirt, braces, jeans with turn-ups and a pair of laced-up bovver boots’, as he described himself. Malcolm and another ‘skin’ named Steve—who happened to be from Huyton—went out on the prow

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