When quizzed about then home secretary David Blunkett’s plan to downgrade the classification of cannabis from a Class B drug to Class C, Hellawell said on air that he opposed the policy. tv View image in fullscreen Keith Hellawell appearing before the Scottish Affairs Committee 2015 Photograph: parliamentlive.

He has previously talked of how he never knew his father and how as a boy he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a young man who had access to their tenement rooms.If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. It was just part of the rapport thing [to get Sutcliffe to open up], that was all,” he told the Sunday Times in 2000, but a disgusted Broadmoor staffer informed the Daily Mail and Hellawell was lambasted in the press. His mother, a club dancer, was always bringing home different men, and would tie him to the table-leg to keep him quiet. Two former detectives, Roy Smith and Laurence Andrews, took objection to the book which claimed they had conspired to pervert the course of justice when investigating a murder in 1968 in Aspley.

In September 2015, Hellawell faced pressure to remove him as chairman of the company by minority shareholders. However, since then, new rules mean that non-executive directors in companies with a single dominant investor must be put to a vote of minority shareholders first.View image in fullscreen Keith Hellawell held his role as advisor to Labour on drugs policy, or the nation’s ‘drug tsar’ from 1998 to 2003. He later became Chief Constable of Cleveland police and in 1993 became Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. He was jeered and booed at a Police Federation meeting in response to changes he introduced to the West Yorkshire CID. Hellawell resigned from his position as Sports Direct chairman in September 2018, on the day of the company's AGM.