George Jessome, better known as "Pony", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, known as one of the victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006.
18 Facts About George Jessome
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George Jessome lived alone in a trailer at his employer's yard, Superior Towing.
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In common with many of the members of the Canadian Bandidos, a self-proclaimed "motorcycle club", George Jessome did not own a motorcycle nor know how to ride one.
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Unlike many of the other Bandidos, George Jessome was not interested in organized crime.
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George Jessome had a terminal case of cancer and only joined the Bandidos to provide him with friends in his last days.
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The Bandidos had a joint cellphone with Telus and club records showed that George Jessome was $136.66 in arrears on the phone plan.
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George Jessome was once cut off midway during a phone conversation due to his inability to pay for cellphone usage.
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Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, wrote George Jessome was "laid-back and easy-going" man who spoke with "a high-pitched, screechy Maritime accent".
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George Jessome liked to abuse alcohol and cocaine, but was considered to be non-threatening by those who knew him.
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George Jessome was very close to James "Ripper" Fullaer, the mentor to the Toronto Bandido chapter who dying of cancer, and spent much time comforting him in the hospital.
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George Jessome was a pseudo-gangster who was not actually making any money from the Bandidos as he instead had to work 12 hour days to make his living.
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On night of 7 April 2006, George Jessome made the trip to Kellestine's farm.
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Kellstine told George Jessome "Let's go" and George Jessome walked quietly behind him.
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The fact that George Jessome was already dying of cancer seems to have made him resigned to his fate.
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The autopsy revealed that George Jessome had been abusing the painkiller drug oxycodone, which he had massive amounts of in his blood.
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Edwards wrote that most of the victims of the massacre such as George Jessome were the type of weak men who were attracted to the Bandidos less because they were criminals and more out of a desire to appear important and powerful.
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Edwards wrote that George Jessome was a pseudo-gangster, describing him as a man who affected a gangster "attitude" as he took to strutting around in his Bandidos bikers' vest as he believed that this made him into someone powerful, but that he rarely committed any crimes.
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Edwards noted that George Jessome worked between 10 and 12 hours everyday to support himself, which he used as evidence that George Jessome did not live on the proceeds of crime as commonly believed.