Bonnie and Clyde they met, both were smitten immediately; most historians believe Parker joined Barrow because she was in love. She remained his loyal companion as they carried out their crime spree and awaited the violent deaths they viewed as inevitable. After Barrow was released from prison in February 1932, he and Ralph Fults assembled a rotating core group of associates. The two began a series of small robberies, primarily of stores and gas stations; their goal was to collect enough money and firepower to launch a liberation raid against Eastham prison. On April 19, Bonnie Parker and Fults were captured in a
Jill Barrow Rob Parker, the Conservative leadership, headed by Jim Speechley, began a "scorched earth" policy of removing coalition appointees from the Council's executive. Barrow was given a severance payment amounting to £160,000. Auditors later found this payment to be unlawful, also commenting on the "absence of justification for payments of such magnitude". Speechley was forced to resign as leader in 2002 and was jailed in 2004 over a separate incident, while his successor as leader, Ian Croft, was later found to have "breached the code of conduct for people in public office" over his relations with Barrow's successor as Chief Executive,