Michael Frisch was an employee of the Soho crime boss Benny Barratt who ran a pornography shop for him during the 1960s. In 1970, he was videotaped talking to the Metropolitan Police Service policeman Croxley who offered him protection, and he decided to help expose the Met's corruption in a news article by The Times. Police detective chief inspector John Salway had Frisch claim that he was bribed to set up Croxley, hoping that his allegations would be discredited and that Frisch could forget about the event.