A Kingston nightclub bouncer and accused associate

A Kingston nightclub bouncer and accused associate of the notorious Adams gang today (Mon) denied passing secrets to the crime family.

Kevin Sumer, 41, told the Old Bailey that Crown Prosecution Service clerk and self-confessed spy Mark Herbert lied when he said the Options doorman was his contact with the underworld clan.

‘I didn’t pass on any information.

I didn’t do it,’ father-of-three Sumer insisted to the jury.

When Mr Andrew Trollope, QC, excitedly accused him of ‘blackening’ Herbert’s character, Sumer said to laughter in court: ‘Calm down – I think your wig is coming off.

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The jury has heard Herbert, 31, was smuggling out secrets from CPS headquarters in London and passing them on to the family through Sumer and Adams lieutenant Billy Isaacs.

Herbert, a semi professional rugby player, was moonlighting as a bouncer at Options nightclub where Sumer was head doorman.

The CPS clerk claims he turned traitor only because the Adams threatened him and Sumer warned him he had to play along with them.

But Sumer told the court Herbert is a braggart who had been offering a variety of confidential CPS material, including child pornography.

The bouncer said he simply humoured Herbert and insists he was going to take a list of 33 informers given to him by the clerk to the police.

‘I’ve never had anything to do with the Adams family.

I don’t know the name,’ Sumer told the jury.

‘I have never met them, I don’t know what they look like.

I have never seen them before in my life.

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He said he did not even know his best friend Isaacs was associated with the Adams until Herbert told him when Isaacs turned up at Options one night.

Sumer claimed when Hebert gave him a file concerning the prosecution of an Adams asscociate, he simply put in a locker at the club and left it there.

The doorman was asked about a meeting with Isaacs on August 13, 1998 at Heston services where he is said to have given him photocopies of that file in a carrier bag as undercover police watched.

‘He always likes to meet somewhere which is close to a motorway he knows, said Sumer, explaining why they met at Heston.

‘The reason why I met him was because I had been given some grief from Mark who wanted to to be introduced to Billy.

‘He kept pestering me.

I went there to tell Billy.

I said: ”He thinks you know the Adams family.

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‘Billy asked me who was it and I said it was just a punter who comes to the club.

‘He laughed and said: ”Tell him to p*** off.

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Asked what was in the carrier bag, Sumer said: ‘A couple of tee-shirts and about 15 wedding photographs.

‘He was my best man at the wedding and he never got a chance to see the photos,’ said Sumer.

Sumer added officers listening in must have misheard Isaacs when he was talking about Terry and Tommy, two of the Adams brothers.

‘He could have been talking about our two doormen.

We have got a Terry and Johnny,’ inisted Sumer.

Sumer said Herbert had produced the list of names without him asking for it, announcing: ‘I have got a list of names people would want.

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‘I didn’t really take much notice of it.

I thought it was another of these things to come down and show off about,’ Sumer told the court.

‘He asked me if I could get it copied for him.

I didn’t realise what was on it.

It was a list of names.

‘To tell you the truth, I didn’t really look at it.

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Sumer had a driving job at stationery firm Guilbert Esse in Chertsey and took it to an accounts clerk there to type it up.

When he was given the two copies, he found the clerk Elaine Donoghue had written ‘hitmen available in the UK’ at the top as a joke, now knowing how deadly serious the list was.

‘I thought I had some proof now on what he was doing,’ Sumer explained, claiming he was going to give one copy of the list to Herbert and one to a local police officer.

His barrister Mr Roy Amlot, QC, asked: ‘Did you ever bribe him for information from the CPS?’

‘No I did not,’ Sumer replied.

‘Did you know at any time that the list he produced was a list of informants?

‘I didn’t know they were informants till one of the police officers told me at the police station.

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Sumer added: ‘I have never passed anything on to the Adams family because I don’t know them.

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Herbert, of Amyand Park Road, Twickenham, Middlesex and Sumer, of Brentlea, Brentford, Middlsex both deny conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The CPS official also denies corruption in receiving pnds stlg 500 for information and two charges of illegally disclosing information.

Sumer pleads not guilty to two charges of aiding and abetting him to illegally disclose information.

The trial continues.

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