The Night Gateshead ‘MANIAC’ BUTCHERED Champion Boxer (Documentary)
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The Brutal Stabbing of John L. Gardner - A Tale of Survival Against Peter Foster’s Knife Attack | True Crime UK
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In this gripping true crime documentary, we dive into the harrowing story of John L. Gardner, the former British heavyweight boxer, and his near-fatal encounter with notorious Gateshead criminal, Peter Foster. Set in the gritty Northeast during the early '90s, Gardner’s story takes place at The Three Tuns pub in Gateshead, where he and his wife Michelle were managing the rough establishment.
Peter Foster, already banned from the pub, returned armed with a butcher's knife and attacked Gardner, stabbing him 14 times. In a terrifying struggle, both John and his wife fought for their lives against the crazed knifeman. This video unpacks the shocking details of the attack, Foster’s violent history, and the unbelievable courtroom twists that followed.
🔪 Watch as we uncover:
John L. Gardner's boxing career and his transition to pub landlord
The terrifying night in November 1992 when Peter Foster launched his brutal attack
Foster’s ties to another murder case involving ex-boxer Graham Watson
The dramatic courtroom incident where Foster attacked his co-accused
If you're a fan of true crime, UK crime stories, and real-life survival against violence, this is a must-watch! Make sure to subscribe for more true crime content.
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Hats off to Gardner's wife. Talk about standing by your man. Thats one brave lady.
Hats off to both of them. The fact both of them fought back after being stabbed multiple times probably saved there lives.
@@ADZ01982 And their lives.
@@craigrothwell6144come on man, Jeeezus
Coward , rapist and a grass, what a combo.
Standard among that type of individual
John l gardner came to our boxing club in south shields to chat with the lads , talking 25 - 30 years ago , really nice fella
Absolute Gent
Anyone using a knife is a coward , probably grass also
Someone was shielding him, someone high up. What a piece of work he was, and a coward
I’m from Hackney and knew John saw him box at the Albert Hall sad to hear the news but glad to hear he’s ok take care John
As a huge boxing fan and collector of boxing careers on dvd , i remember watching john l gardner fight on t.v on numerous occasions.
John always fought with his heart on his sleeve and gave it everything he had. I particularly remember his fights against sykes that was an entertaining fight . John was then taken to America to fight Michael dynamite dokes. I remember thinking at the time that the dokes match up was not particularly a good idea as dokes was apparently the successor to larry holmes at the time. John suffered a brutal knockout but gave his all again. The last time i seen john in a boxing ring was against liverpool's noel quarless
Who at times could be an enormous puncher with hand speed. This fight was shown live on ITV. John was stopped in the second round after taking some huge right hands by quarless. Im lucky to have a collection of johns fights on dvd that i do enjoy watching now and again.
I was surprised to see this as i was totally unaware that this incident had taken place. However johns health is now.....i wish him the very best of luck and take my hat off to him for the bravery he always displayed in the ring.
Thanks for sharing mate. I cant even remember this happening, and im from gateshead. Excellent information, and glad you're finding little gems like this instead of putting out the same old stories like a lot of UA-cam channel's do.
Me too 😊
Wow!! Amazed to see this. I was a very good friend of John and Michelle for many years. This attack happened before I knew them. I've seen John and Michelle's scars and heard the full tale in great detail. Horrific attack. They moved home a lot and I've since lost touch. John was an absolute diamond of a fella and we had some real great laughs, and I wish I could get back in touch. I've tried through his book publisher, but I've been told he's not in good health now sadly. If you read this John...get in touch please fella. 👍(Mike, CD-Quays, in case you don't recognise me with the beard!!)
I hope he gets in touch a true British legend!
I never met them, never heard of them, but I could find them within a couple of hours. That’s if I was a very good friend 😂
Must've been delivering high grade intel.
I was born in Bensham, but didn't know it had that reputation. I never knew about this story, thanks for brining it to our attention.
Yes i was born in curzon st bensham 1958 never knew of this
Thanks for another riveting story, fascinating and well put together.
Thankyou my friend
I enjoyed that. You have a good narrators voice. It helps a lot.
Thank you Mr Enquirer for sharing this, a very interesting listen as always. A nice day to ya. 👍
Thankyou sir 🙏
@@enquirer2.0 your welcome 👍
Remember seeing john L at gateshead leisure center late 80s he was a guest for the glen mcrory title fight,
Nothing has changed much in Bensham and Dunston. The pubs that aren't closed are still there.
Brown jug 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Police informant may be
Looks like it.
MIC DROP!!!!!
Yep,something strange..J.L Gardner used to live around the back of my Primary school (on a Estate) Some of the kids knew him well..And if ever a Guy deserved to be 'Popped' ( by the Cops or by someone) that Dude with the knife did..
Maybe........
Without a doubt
John L Gardner will always be a legend for giving the monstrous bully Paul Sykes a good pasting. Sorry to hear he's in poor health these days.
brilliant upload pal john L gardner was one hard B%$%$%D
Thank you for this post, much appreciated.
Thankyou for your support
Very grim harrowing story.
This was a Good video. I am from NYC and never knew Great Britain had these kinds of crazy, depraved Killers in their midst. I thought sick, twisted Killers like this primarily existed in United States. I am confused on the Laws in England, and don't understand how this Foster could get such lenient sentences for all the horrific crimes He committed. Maybe the Enquirer 2.0 reporter or someone commenting could fill me in on how he got such lenient terms in Prison? I guess the old saying "Only in America" ain't as true as I thought it was. Again, a really great, but horrifying video. Stay Safe My British Friends
Thankyou our friends from across the pond.
The first crime r#pe : At the time maximum sentence 10 years for that type of offence. He changed his plea to guilty last second and the judge unwisely gave him credit for this and hence the 6 year sentence very lenient but I think different now.
2. The second attack the judge believed he made up his first confession and cleared him.
3. The Knife attack for some bizarre reason they dropped from attempted murdee to lessee wounding charge.
I feel there was more going on behind the scenes 🙏
People in high places were protecting this fella I'm in no doubt.
Our criminal justice system is just different mate; a ‘life sentence’ here usually has a minimum term attached of between fifteen and thirty years, occasionally as high as forty. In very rare cases people get a ‘whole life tariff’ which is the British equivalent of life without parole - as far as I am aware there have only been one hundred or so of those sentences administered. I think the idea is that only the people who have committed the most reprehensible acts are considered ‘beyond rehabilitation.’ Once you are let out of prison after your probation has been agreed (usually at expiry of your minimum term if there are no aggravating factors), you remain on license so have to follow a relatively strict set of rules or you can be recalled at any point (‘life license’). Life sentences are usually given for murder, but can be given for other crimes - repeat sex offenders for instance, and other behaviour that is considered pathological in function and therefore unlikely to change in the short term.
Unfortunately our penalties regarding grievous bodily harm (your aggravated assault), r*pe, crimes against children, etc, are not harsh enough and there is often public outcry about it, and as an American who would be used to seeing people who commit rape with violence get decades in prison I’m sure the British system seems ludicrous, implausible almost.
The only positives we can say for our legal system are our gun laws, and the fact we don’t have the death penalty so we are able to correct the injustices we get wrong. Otherwise, we could take some sentencing tips from the States.
If there's internal affairs involved and he was an informer then it's possible why he got leniency. Or he wasn't an asset, and the police etc considered it crime on crime.Or Foster had powerful mitigation only shared with the higher ranking judiciary. Its always nuanced....
How was this foster not send to prison for life with no chance of ever getting out
6:00 the 'gruesome' paul Sykes 😂😂 great adj
Yeh boy. Vids getting slick 👍
Im getting the word grass
This channel is fantastic.
Thankyou my friend
Sounds fishy someone is looking after him for some reason?
Thanks for this video really enjoyed it keep safe mate
Wow in all my years I’ve never known such luck. Especially with his first charge. The social worker bit is very strange as well
I’d love to hear a part two and any other information on this man as it looks very suspicious being so lucky with judges 🤷🏻 great video mate
Thankyou mate will do a follow up if I can dig up more information
@@enquirer2.0 that would be great Ben and thanks for the link I’ve been watching them old videos. That pub use were all in reminds me of my old loca
Another great video! Thank you.
Thankyou for positive comment 🙏
Always enjoy these, quality & presented
Thankyou very much
Cowards use weapons.
I've never heard of this bloke and I never thought of Gateshead as a rough area. I used to live in Cowgate and we used to put that we lived in Blakelaw on job application forms because of Cowgate's reputation. It was the same when I was trying to chat up girls in nightclubs as soon as they found out that I lived in Cowgate they didn't want to know. The funny thing is that when my parents first moved to Cowgate from Elswick in the early 70s it was a sought after area and it was difficult to get a house there.
Russell Baldwin was a good lad and didnt deserve to die like that in a cowardly attack. He could have a fight and so could his older brother Andy.
He wasn’t a Freemason by any chance was he?
Possibly, either a grass or a mason
Thanks for this fascinating article, there must’ve been so many hard men getting around Britain. My father always warned me about these types of people in the pubs. Men who had a history of being ex boxers when they were younger. Don’t let the looks of them now in thinking that they’re old drunks, because even in their current circumstances they’re still very dangerous if push comes to shove. I always thought about that when seeing young would be’s making that mistake.
2.12 young Ned Flanders was thinking come on come on please break now I am on camera, fuck my arms are knackered.
Fair play to Gardner and his Mrs... 💪
Really enjoyed this. I just subbed 👍🏻
Thankyou welcome aboard 🙏
John l Gardner was a great boxer I always thought he fought like a tall Marciano ,
Great video. You stay safe 👍
When will you tell the story about the time Big Brian Cockerill battered Foster, John L Gardener, Sykes, Horsley & Freeman during a night out in Newcastle?
🤣🤣🤣 👍
How many stone were they😅😅😊
How many places were their jaws broken into?
really ? 🫣
@@mrbenefits4409 yes, he did them all with his trademark corkscrew uppercut after Freeman spilt his pint. Total carnage, shattered jaws everywhere.
Grass.....
That Mike Dokes at the time was a excellent fighter so no disgrace there for John L …
Off the top of my head the foster guy only done about 8 years. He didn't do long before he got out.
Mental mate
@@enquirer2.0 I think you have covered when Big Billy got shot in a house it's only about a mile, mile and a half from the Tuns.
Chet Sandhu was in the area back in the day he will have some stories to tell.
Enjoyed that one 👌
I live and was around this area at the time and I can't remember this actually happening. I new of viv's death, the meadowell riots, joy riding, ram raids and then Raul moat, but not this. But it was the 90's i suppose. Was this when Martin mcgartlin was in Gateshead and the Conroy sayers thing was happening? I'm even more confused now.
This was 1991 Vic graham was murdered the next year in 92. Crazy years
Bravo to that brave Woman. 👍🏼
He was obviously an informer!
Grass , May as well been an undercover
For info Gardner was the licencee of the Queens in wallsend prior to taking the Three Tuns. Word is after he took the Queens he was told in "no uncertain terms" by Viv Graham to get out of wallsend ASAP and This is why he moved over the water to Gateshead to the Tuns. I remember seeing him in wallsend in the pub but at that time Viv was king and there wasn't room for the two of them as wallsend was a favourite spot for viv. His partners brother Bilko ran a pub there and his other brother Peter Connelly were always in the pubs.
Great info I think the queens according to the newspaper articles he did a short period learning the ropes b4 going to his main pub a common practice back then
@@enquirer2.0 Yeah, but I definitely think he was wary of Viv at the time and left rather hurriedly. Funnily enough Viv was killed new years eve 1992 a stones throw away from the queens. Wallsend and Byker were his go to places back then . So sad. 👍🏻
@@jimbo6693why would someone like gardiner be wary of graham. What level did graham box at.
@jimbo6693 I used to drink in the Queens and think it was more of a case of him not being willing to pay Viv the so called protection money.
I heard Viv delivering his pitch to him not long after he was in there and he didn't seem overly impressed with it. That would've been in 92 or 93.
Viv was a prick. The queens didn't need protection until he started showing his face about the high street. His brother in law Peter turned in to a grade A bellend as well. Brave when Viv around.
Bilko has the Anchor now. Remember when he had the Ford in Byker. Did well to get 400k for that hovel when Morrisons bought the land
@@jimbo6693He got his on NYE 93 mate...
Birtleys not in Gateshead.
Fascinating , thanks for this video mate 👌👏
My pleasure glad you enjoyed
He was most definitely an informer
2:18 The suspect had time to pack!
And eat all the food in the house
It says Foster lived in Bewick Road, which is a pretty nice place to live, as I remember it. Lots of big houses
This is the definition of a hard man
Only cowards carry knives because they cant use there fists
Evening ben, interesting video my full respect to the victims of that vermin foster I wouldn't class him as a man at all in my opinion he's a coward,one thing I hate is a coward who picks up a knife or puts a hand on a woman or anyone who's weaker than said coward,good video u put out there pal it's good to share the infamous aswell as the famous, as always ben best wishes regards Jay 👍 by the way ben Matt has my personal number if u need it in the coming weeks cheers pal 👍
@benjamincharnley1795 ur most welcome pal
Great comment mate 👍 Thankyou
@@enquirer2.0 respect te ya pal
Probably a Confidential Informant. In them days the Police were far more brutal and would keep him on the streets.
Gardiner was something special
Me mate, DJ Dirty Bastard also known as more posher events...DJ Stunning Steve Stallion The Total Package was the DJ at Wall Street that was just below Liberty's. It was like the warm up place before Liberty's opened later that night. Anyway, we had just left the place before the fatal stabbing. We were still questioned by CID on whether we'd seen anything.
There's a part of Bensham called Murder Mile...I believe there was 4 separate murders within a square mile of each other years ago, all were in a certain time frame. I could be wrong and they are not in any particular order but I think one stabbing, one shot, a landlord decapitated and bundled back into his car boot and a son killed his lesbian mother hiding her in a coal bunker in the backyard.
Decent video 👍
probably a police informant.
Might wanna put the ski mask on before you enter the pub
🤣🤣
And now they all carry knifes
I remember the taxi and three tuns incidents. Went out with a girl who lived just round the corner from there not long after it happened... place was rough as arseholes and thats coming from a kid who comes from Byker and Walker. Wey, not a kid now, with me grey beard but
. Archive fight footage great 👍
Worked with John for a short time at royal life insurance. Really nice fella
why are judges so soft in sentencing.no wonder the uk is a hell hole
Because the victims weren't black
Viv Graham avoided Gardener stayed clear
sounds like foster was being protected.
What did the family of the dead boxer do?When there is no law ......... your family above all. They had a hunting lodge owner over here get away with running down some young guy with a boat when he was drunk up on the beach. A year later the man an woman were found face down in their own lodge not breathing. The law is real quite about that one but when it first happened they mentioned something then went silent.
The boxer was a bully and wanna be gangster, a big fish in a tiny pond.
He had a tough time against Tony Blackburn but eventually won on points
dirty Rapist grass .......
Pretty obvious that Foster was a grass or some other type of police asset.
There's something in the water up there. Them council estates breed tough kids.
A Grass. Pure and Simple .
I used to live 10 mins from the three tuns, ive drank in it loads of time but had no idea this happened there. I started drinking there back in 2000 so it wasn't that long after this happened so I'm surprised i never heard about it.
What a terrible way to die. RIP.
What a peice of work, rapist and a police informer
Is it the same Peter Foster that went to Elgin Senior High?
Iv been involved in getting tied up with another 6 people. 2 crazy men what I can name as they got life and now dead. I got stabbed and then they shot my mate and stabbed him to death. They rolled him up in a carpet and burned him. He faught right through it. He was a tough lad. Darlington this happened. I was lucky to live.
Hi mate can you email me your contact details to contact@enquirermedia.co.uk and il arrange call u for a chat if your happy tell your story
Have you a link to this for information
Can you put the names out?
@@TrueFilter I can but it will have to be on a podcast mate.
Got some good true stories. If you want pictures or proof your welcome
Good story that I've been up to gateshead had a great time love the geordies
or just judicial incompetence.
This video feels surreal, I'm from Birtley and know every place mentioned very well 🤣
Defo an informant
I see the country I was born in has lost its mind. The end of Britain can't be far off.
Relatively rare. Relative to what, I wonder.
I wonder if peter foster had links to the sayers family? Because the sayers are grasses and accused rapists aswell and were very active at that time
I was in Liberty's night club on the night of the murder.
Sound like he was definitely a police informant, maybe he was involved in other activities with powerful and influential people in law enforcement and the judiciary.
If he was a youth worker , there could have been something going on? Just a thought.
He was an Alphie bass
So where is foster now?
I think he's passed
@@enquirer2.0 sighs of relief I suppose
I've never heard about this and I've drank in the The Three Tuns a few times!
Foster (gassy) is or was a numpty when released he moved into st marys court Gateshead and was caught filming women changing in a shop he could not fight i knew a doorman from wheelers not a crim and worked in bobbys aswell used to batter Ashy every time he went causing trouble give Ashy his dues he went back time after time trying to win but never did and Ashy no mug anyone from Gateshead will know who im on about ( GB )
I am from beacon lough East I know of these people really well...& the 3 tuns is a class pub.
I used to frequent Bobby's and knaa who you're on aboot and I found him alreet anarl.
Peter Foster is still alive. I spoke to him in the Percy Arms. Newcastleupontyne. About 3 months ago. He's in bad health.
Dave garside is from hartlepool or boro
Hartlepool
Angel sat on his shoulder 🤔
Ask Mr. P Conroy, a fellow youtuber, he'll know.
Chet Sandhu as well, I asked him if he knew Howard Mills he knew him well he got shot at hanrahans Newcastle and lost a leg. Good boxer as well I hope Ben eventually covers his story.
@gordy3714 Howard was a good bloke, trained at his gym above the offshore a bit about that time. Went up the stairs into the place and could only see someone's legs hanging over the edge of the desk at the entrance. It was Howard, must've just got his prosthetic legs. Very sad that someone would do that to a very nice man.
Nonce foster
He was Grass there worse people in Gateshead believe me