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John McPhee also deserves a mention here. Released from Strangeways Prison in 1992 after serving time for robbery, he became a Scots mercenary and joined up with the Croatians, with whom, he readily admits, he committed the most sickening war crimes. His rap sheet reads like an intro to Attila the Hun: drug convictions, a suspect in thirteen murder cases and, at one time, on the UK’s most wanted list. Read John’s book, The Silent Cry: One Man’s Fight for Croatia in Bosnia. It centres on his activities in the region as a volunteer solider of the HVO (Croat Defence Council). His involvement in the crisis in former Yugoslavia escalated following the death of his Muslim lover and her child – they were side by side when they died – and he returned from the Balkans both mentally, as well as physically, scarred.