THE McNAUGHTY BROTHERS

Bexhill on sea, East Sussex...A quiet respectable seaside town. But during the mid 1960's this was the home to three brothers whose legacy of violence and murder still haunts the residents of the sleepy resort. This is the story of the McNaughty Brothers.

Keith McNaughty was the eldest of the three brothers. In 1963 he realised his lifelong ambition an opened his own butchers shop. Acting against advice from just about everyone, Kieth offered his two younger brothers, Des and Denzil, jobs as shop assistants in his new business.
"Kieth was a great big bloke who worked in a butchers, So everybody called him 'Meat' ..He was a really nice bloke...really, when you got him on his own...but them twins..Oooo!" recalls family friend Wesley 'Basher' Sniper.

McNaughty Quality meats opened for business in May 1963. Kieth had high hopes of founding a successful family enterprise, but within hours of opening Des and Denzil had attacked their first customer. This was only the beginning.....
"Them twins weren't right in the bleedin 'ead..ev'rytime you went in that shop they'd swear at you...Terrible language it was...Just a stream of bleedin abuse...they'd hurl chicken giblets at you...bits of rotten liver, Bacon fat...they beat me up four times, me 'usband said well why don't you shop somewhere else?...but you don't think of these things at the time do ya?" said Ivy 'Customer' Rilley.

"Now Kieth used to pretend it never 'appened...to protect the twins I s'pose....I was in the shop this one time an' Denzil 'ad me down on the floor in a headlock 'an Des was whacking me in the face with this bloody great black puddin'.....'An I could see Kieth lookin' out the shop window pretendin' to wave to someone he knew..." said fat customer Dennis 'Cholesterol' Pike.

"I was working as the family Barrister at the time the Government passed the 'Retail Assault Act' which was designed to protect customers from being attacked by violent shopkeepers...So I visited the shop and said "Look here, calm down a bit or you'll be for it...They hit me over the head with a leg of Mutton and poured Beef dripping into my underpants."...Alan Porrington-Smythe QC.

Almost every week the twins were being charged with various offences ranging from Assault with a Pork Chop or causing Affray with a Liver. The charges rarely stuck....

"The Police? Ha Do me a Favour!...they was as scared of 'em as we all were!....You did anyfing to upset 'em brothers one day, and you knew the next day there'd be a load of fly infested offal through you letterbox....I'm sorry I'm going to have to stop..sniff." said another customer Ron 'Da Do Ron Ron Ron' Willis.

However in June 1963 the twins' luck changed when Elsbeth Shingle visited the shop to buy some Brisket....To Be Continued..