John McVicar
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John McVicar (born 1940) is a British journalist.
In the 1960s, he was an armed robber who was tagged 'Public Enemy No. 1' by Scotland Yard with a 'dead or alive' reward on his head. He was apprehended and given a 26 year jail sentence, escaping from prison on several occasions. He was released in 1978.
He obtained a degree from the University of London and wrote McVicar by Himself while still in prison and scripted the 1980 biographical film McVicar, which starred Roger Daltrey in the title role. After release from prison he studied for a postgraduate degree at the University of Leicester.
In 1998 he lost a libel action brought by sprinter Linford Christie over his claim that Christie was a "steroid athlete". McVicar, who called Christie 'the Judy Garland of the 100 metres', later commented, "Our libel laws are user-friendly to rich crooks, megalomaniac tycoons and any vain charlatan with enough money to subsidise the Tuscan villas of our libel lawyers.[1]
John McVicar is married and lives in London.
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