Patrick Bernard O'Mahoney (born 15 March 1960 in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England) is an English-born crime author of Irish descent. Along with his book writing activities, he is known for forming relationships with prisoners that commit offences against women and children and coaxing them into making confessions.

Bernard O'Mahoney lives in Ferryhill, County Durham. He was born in Dunstable and has also lived in Wolverhampton, London, Peterborough, Basildon, Northern Ireland and South Africa.

He has six children, Adrian, Vinney, Karis, Daine, Lydia and Paddy. He is married to Roshea, who is some 20 years younger than Bernard. He was the subject matter of Episode 7 of Series 2 of the Sky "Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men" (which can be viewed on his website and YouTube).

Published in April 1997, it tells the story of dealing of ecstasy and other hard drugs in the Essex area during the early to mid 1990s, which gained a high profile in November 1995 with the death of Latchingdon teenager Leah Betts.

Daniel John "Danny" Dyer (born 24 July 1977), is an English actor, media personality, and chairman of Greenwich Borough, a non-League football team.

Dyer was born in Custom House, an area of East London, to Antony and Christine Dyer (née Meakin). He now lives in Debden, Loughton, Essex with his longtime girlfriend, Joanne Mas, and their daughters Dani and Sunnie.

A lifelong player and fan of football, Danny is a big West Ham United fan, in late December 2007, Dyer became the chairman of Kent League's Greenwich Borough in South East London, appointed by fellow actor Tamer Hassan, president of the Kent League football club, stating: "I just love football and the chance of being involved with a club is like a dream come true." The appointment was actually a publicity stunt to raise the profile for the club.

Dyer was discovered at a local school by an agent who auditioned him for the part of Martin Fletcher in the Granada Television series Prime Suspect 3 (1993), beginning his acting career at 16.

Jody Lee Latham (born 1 January 1982) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Phillip "Lip" Gallagher in the British Channel 4 series Shameless, Calum McKenzie in the ITV series The Fixer, and Rob Grayson in the BBC Soap opera EastEnders.

Latham was born in Burnley, Lancashire on 1 January 1982. Latham attended Walton High School in Nelson but got kicked out. Latham has a son, Jack, who was born in Latham's late teens. Jacks's mother is Naomi

Jody used to attend Burnley Youth Theatre where his acting career started.

The 29 year-old, who used to play Rob Grayson in the BBC soap EastEnders was arrested in the early hours of the morning of 14 May 2011, after police raided his home in Bacup, Lancashire.

He was also arrested for assault and possession of an illegal weapon.

On 15 August 2011 Latham was released with out charge on all the alleged offences.

He made his television debut in "The Cops" Episode #1.7 (1998) As Grant and then went on to appear in 2000 as "Nelson Catchpole" in the series Big Meg, Little Meg. He then played Lee, one of the key characters on When I Was 12 in 2001. Latham has starred in five BAFTA winning dramas, Clocking Off, The Cops, The Street, Shameless and EastEnders.

Carlton Leach (born 1959) is an author, occasional actor and a former criminal.

He was born in Canning Town in East London. Leach was catapulted into a criminal career by his love of West Ham. Before long, he was a member of the notorious Inter City Firm, a gang of hooligans who followed the East London club.

He started work as a bouncer in East London, where he became involved with Pat Tate and Tony Tucker, both of whom worked as large scale dealers in ecstasy during the rave era in the late 1980's.

Three of the gang, Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, would eventually meet an abrupt and bloody end in December 1995, when they were shot to death in a Range Rover on a farm track in Rettendon, in what are known as the Triple Rettendon Murders.

In 2003 he wrote a memoir about his criminal exploits entitled Muscle. In 2007 a film based on the book was released entitled Rise of the Footsoldier starring Ricci Harnett as Leach.

A father of six children, he resides with his family in Hutton, Essex.