The Sherriff of the Wild Wild East- Patrick Shaw

Growing up in Eastleigh and schooling in Offafa Jeri primo, The name of the late police reservist Patrick Shaw was legendary. The burly senior Supritendent was said to be very fast on his feet and on the draw and inspired terror in all of us.

The class wag would memserise us with tall tales of how he and and his pals had been chased at night by the arguably most memorable police officer in Kenya's history. We would be told of how one of his pals had been shot by shaw but the bullet had passed through his shoulder and the bloke had gotten up and kept running (this heroic bullet dodging chap was, mark you, an 11 year old primary school kid, oh the innocence of childhood that we actually believed such stories!)

It was said that Shaw did exile a couple of hapless thugs from Nairobi ('go back to Muranga and never step a foot in Nairobi again or else...')

I despite my curosity and terror of Shaw, never did get to encounter him. If one of you ever did, please tell me of the encounter