Life on the Edge: The biography of Split Waterman

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Speedway Win for Waterman". The Daily Herald. 8 April 1952 . Retrieved 19 October 2019– via British Newspaper Archive. She certainly wasn’t a beaten wife,’ he told Piers Morgan on ITV’s Life Stories. ‘She was hit and that’s different. It’s not difficult for a woman to make a man hit her.

Waterman rode in thirty Test matches for England and captained the team in the 1953 series against Australia. [22] Later life [ edit ]Speedstar No. 2: Split Waterman". The Daily Mirror. 26 January 1949 . Retrieved 19 October 2019– via British Newspaper Archive. In 1968 he was found guilty of all charges at the Old Bailey and sentenced to four years in prison; Avril Priston got six months. After retiring from speedway, Waterman went into business in sheet metal working and plastic injection moulding and had at least some legitimate customers, including Woolworth and Airfix. Their first release that year, The Upstroke, based on a fictitious Sloane Ranger dance and recorded by a sister act called Agents Aren’t Aeroplanes, failed to ignite the charts. In both its sleeve and its sound, The Upstroke offered a female twist on Frankie’s mega-hit Relax.

Speedway star on gold bar charges". Sydney Morning Herald. 16 August 1967. p.1 . Retrieved 27 November 2011. In the same year Waterman was implicated in the case against the Kray twins and two other men, who were charged with conspiring to murder George Caruana, a nightclub owner. And still they seemed unable to exist without each other. After the final split, 11 years into their marriage, Waterman admitted in a defiant TV interview that he had sometimes hit Rula.Newsreader Kay Burley posted: 'A brilliant actor who was a staple on our screens throughout the 70s and 80s. Loved The Sweeney. Loved Minder more.' Rula also had a two-year-old daughter. She was attracted to Waterman’s ‘aura of danger’, she said in 1995: ‘For me, the danger element was always present with Dennis.