Michael Harrison

Michael Harrison and Colin Hunting died at a Hells Angels party in Cookham. 

THey both died from stab wounds..

Several other people were injured in the fight, resulting in a number of other men going to hospital, one with a fractured knee. The fighting was said to have carried on for some time.

48 men were arrested and two charged with murder, however, the murder charges were later dropped after it was heard that there was no clear reliable reliable location of where the men recieved the blows from which they died. The two men charged had been from Exeter. It was said that most of the people involved had come from the Exeter area of Devon and West Yorkshire.

The party had taken place at Garden Cottages, Sutton Road, Cookham, near the River Thames. 

Following the murders, the police sealed off the detached house to seach for clues.

The fight was described as a weekend axe and knife battle, and took place between rival branches of the Hells Angels. It was also said to have included guns and chains. Guns reported to have been used included a sawn-off shotgun and a 6.35 Webley pistol. One man was also charged with throwing a corrosive fluid at a man , bleach, with intent to disable him.

The police said that they thought that the breakaway Windsor branch of the Hells Angels might have called the party to lure other branches into a trap. The party was arranged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Windsor chapter. It was also described as a peace making party between two gangs.

It was also thought that photographs of semi-naked women might have caused the fight. The police said that they thought that the fight started after a partygoer took photographs of a woman who was almost naked and had been tied hand and foot to stakes in a ritual punishment for breaking the Hell's Angels code. The pictures were said to have bene developed from a film in a camera found at the fight scene. THe girl was said to have been roped to the stake whilst drunken hell's Angels danced round. Some reports suggested that Hell's Angels had also had sex with the girl as bizarre rites were carried out.

Colin Hunting was known as Cowboy and had used to live in Owen Road, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton and to have been a member of the Wolverhapton Hell's Angels chapter until a few years earlier when he moved to Mitcham in Surrey with his wifeand became a member of a London based motor cycle gange called the Road Rats. 

Colin Hunting had previously been jailed for two years for affray and assault in 1974 after six hell's Angels rode through Wolverhampton at 80mph attacking people as they went. The incident resulted in one man recieving a broken nose, cracked cheekbone, two black eyes and four teeth being knocked out for 'looking down' at the gang. 

Following the fight his body was dumped on the steps of a hospital. 

Michael Harrison was from Hastings and was known as Ozzie the Rat. His funeral took place at St Agatha's Catholic Church in Kingston Surrey, and members of his bike gang, according to their custom, filled in the grave. 400 bikers were said to have attended the funeral, with some comig as far away as Holland and Germany. 

Following Michael Harrison's funeral, the bikers rode off to Colin Hunting's funeral in Mitcham.