Alan Fisher (biker)

The reunion was for members of the Rockers subculture who had fought against the Mods in the 1950s-1960s.

Security at the reunion was provided by members of the Outcasts and the Hells Angels chose to show up at the event in a demonstration of power.

About 40 Hells Angels from chapters from all over England arrived at the Battersea Arts Centre armed with knives, iron bars machetes, and baseball bats.

The Hells Angels coordinated their attacks on the Outcasts via microphone headsets.

One Outcast, David Armstrong, was beaten to death in public while another Outcast, Malcolm St. Clair was stabbed a number of time and later bled to death.

Detective Sergeant Brian Charmer of Scotland Yard who investigated the murders stated that the violence was planned, saying: "It was an ambush, an absolute ambush".

Assigned along with Charmer to the case was Detective Geoff Hymans.

Chamber and Hymans used the traditional British police method of "getting in the face" of suspects as both detectives started to make unsolicited visits to the homes and businesses of Hells Angels.

Charmer visited Fisher's motorcycle shop a number of times to talk about the Battersea Arts Centre incident and he recalled: "He'd [Fisher] engage you in a hour's conversation on the virtue of being an Angel. But they found our approach very odd because they're used to the police not bothering them. And they hated it, they just hated it".

In pursuit of evidence relating to the attack, Charmer and Hymans raided the clubhouse of Fisher's London chapter.

Charmer told Sher and Marsden: "I found a computer with a disk in it. It contained the names and mobile phone numbers of every Angel in the world. There was the membership of every clubhouse".

Clark stated the Battersea attack was ordered by Barger and the other American Hells Angels leaders who was unhappy with the growth of the Outcasts at the expense of the Hells Angels.

Clark told Sher and Marsden: "Our intelligence indicated that the reason for the murders was the unauthorised expansion of the Outcasts, and the Angels were told by California to sort it out or lose their charters".

Alan Fisher (born 1959), better known as "Snob" Fisher, is a British businessman and the president of the Hells Angels MC London chapter.

Fisher was born into a wealthy family in the Kensington neighborhood of London.

In 1972, at the age of 13, he read a newspaper article about the exploits of Sonny Barger in the United States, which inspired his interest in the outlaw biker subculture.

Fisher suffers from dyslexia, and was bullied as being "stupid" as a child.

Fisher started riding motorcycles at the age of 11.

Fisher stated that he felt drawn to the outlaw biker subculture because he felt like an outsider.

His nickname of Snob was given to him by his working class friends on the accent of his upper class accent.

In 1980, he was convicted of affray (fighting in public) and in 1983 he was convicted of two counts of possession of amphetamine.

In 1984, he joined the Hells Angels.

Besides for being the president of the Hells Angels London chapter, Fisher runs a motorcycle store in West London, Snobs Ultimate Customs, where the average price of the motorcycles on sale is £36, 000 pounds.

Well spoken, Fisher has become the public face of the Hells Angels in the United Kingdom.

The London chapter of which Fisher was the president of was the most wealthy and oldest Hells Angels chapter in Great Britain.

He insists that the group is a motorcycle club that just happens to have some criminal members, not a criminal organisation which poses as a motorcycle club as the Crown claims.

In 1994, members of the Hells Angels Montreal chapter were involved in a scheme to ship 500 kilograms of cocaine to the London chapter.

One of the members of the conspiracy on the Montreal end was an undercover officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

On 17 August 1994, a ship left Baranquilla loaded with the cocaine while two Canadian Hells Angels, Pierre Rodrique and David Rouleau, were sent to London to collect their share of the profit.

Forwarded by the RCMP, the Rouleau and Rodrique were arrested by Scotland Yard after the duo handed over money to the undercover officer to release the cocaine from the port.

Nick Clark of the NCIS stated: "When the rooms were searched, they found contact lists for all the U.K. chapters. We suspected they were going to use that for a distribution network".

Fisher denies that his chapter was engaged in organised crime and says that the 1994 conspiracy was a work of few rogue members.

When Sher and Marsden attempted to interview Fisher to discuss allegations that the Hells Angels are a criminal organisation he stated during a telephone call: "There is no such thing as justice. I would love to have an intellectual debate with you".

Despite being the chapter president, Fisher claimed that he needed permission from his chapter's press officer to have a discussion with Sher and Marsden, which he stated had been denied.

On 31 January 1998, a brawl broke out at the Annual Rockers Reunion at the Battersea Arts Centre in South London between the members of the Outcasts biker gang and the Hells Angels.

Fisher told a journalist from the BBC in 2002: "Going out on a motorcycle allows me to be free, to express myself, and to ride pretty much within the legal system".

The Canadian journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden have argued against this thesis, noting that Fisher himself has a criminal record along with most of the members of Angels' London chapter.

Sher and Marsden noted that other members of the London chapter with criminal records include Guy "Tricky Tramp" Lawrence who has a lengthy criminal record for various offenses such as theft, assault, and drug possession; Andrew Brooks who has a conviction for theft and four convictions for drug possession; Paul Floodgate who served four years in prison for possession of cannabis; David Clark who was convicted of possession of cocaine and amphetamine; and Marin "Rocky" Rock who served 7 years in prison for assault and another 18 months for possession of cocaine and LSD.

However, Sher and Marsden concede that Fisher is a successful businessman.

Graham Weeks of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) said of the British Hells Angels: "They are up up there with the Triads and the Mafia and the East Europeans. They are up there with the best organised crime people in the world".