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- ↑ "Ex-bouncer-turned-actor Desmond Bayliss facing jail over £2.75 cannabis farm plot". Liverpool Echo, 12 November 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2024
- ↑ Channel 4 film hires criminals at BBC.co.uk, 3 November 2000
