Could it have been something to do with Charles Connolly born in 1923, in Liverpool's old Chinatown.
After school, he took a series of dead-end jobs before joining the Merchant Navy as a galley boy in 1939. In 1941, after a year ashore, he enlisted in the Royal Navy. Connolly's ships chased enemy submarines in the Indian Ocean and drew German artillery fire on D-Day. As an amateur boxer in the Navy, he took on 60 opponents and never lost a fight.Indeed, Connolly characteristically led with his fists, and couldn't resist wading in if he saw a fight in the street. After the war, he ran up a couple of convictions for brawling, which was how he was known to the Liverpool police. In the late 1940s he took labouring jobs where he could, and filled the rest of his time
drifting between the snooker rooms, dance-halls and milk-bars of Lime Street.
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Obituary: Charles Connolly
A dazed Connolly found himself being marched into the city's
Napoleonic bridewell in the middle of the night to be accused as Kelly's accomplice. Connolly claimed he had been framed by a couple of low-life witnesses in cahoots with the police and insisted that he had never met Kelly in his life.
