Del Boy Some time afterwards, Uncle Albert told Del that Del's aunt Rene took all the photos of Del's mum because every one had a picture of Freddie in it, and she knew that when Rodney grew older the similarities would start to show, so she burnt all the photos of Joan after her funeral. Del Boy has many friends during the series, including Trigger, Denzil, Boycie, Marlene and Mike. His nemesis is DCI Roy Slater. Del is brave and, although not intellectual, he is quick-witted but frequently gets Rodney into trouble. In "Wanted", when a mentally unstable woman accuses Rodney of
Boycie 'bit on the side', wfor hom he buys an E-type Jaguar, but it is later crashed into while Del Boy is driving it. In "Dates", Del blackmails Boycie into doing a favour for him by threatening to inform Marlene of an encounter Boycie had with a woman in Sheffield. It is revealed in the episode 'From Prussia With Love' that Boycie spent some time in prison while younger – for unspecified reasons he was convicted of perjury, embezzlement, conspiring to pervert the course of justice, the fraudulent conversion of traveller's cheques and attempting to bribe the Mayor of Lambeth. In