Growing up in the east end in a violent time and struggling through the second world war Stanley became hardened to death and bullying fighting his way through school and early jobs, in these days you had to make the best of what nature gave you and nature gave him a ruthless streak, morals at this time had weakened the taboos of a previous generation had died, his mother a prostitute involved with gangs and police who would use whatever came to hand to achieve their ends.