Stanley Fowler was local bad boy-made good who offered Jacko Ford a job as a live-in chauffeur and handyman in January 1973. He had read a story by journalist Clive Shawcross in the Weatherfield Gazette which detailed how Jacko had spent two months in Risley Remand Centre, supposedly for a burglary from Benny Lewis's flat, which was later on proved to be the work of villain Franny Slater.