Scab!

Death threats, obscene phone calls and threatening letters were facts of life for so-called scabs during the miners' dispute of 1984. But Nigel McCrery wasn't a working miner - he was a constable in the Nottinghamshire Constabulary. And the abuse didn't come from the striking miners, but from his fellow officers. When PC 245 McCrery, with a family background in mining and a wife unwell after the birth of their second child, asked to be stood down from policing the coal fields the hate campaign which followed was every bit as savage as anything suffered by the working miners. Abusive letters, threatening phone calls to his wife, excrement sent through the post to his young son, conspiracy by two senior officers to "set him up": these were just some of the methods used to bring McCrery back into line. This book tells his story.