EX DRUGS TSAR FALLS ON HIS SWORD

EXIT Knight Rider. When Keith Hellawell ( pictured) was made chief constable of West Yorkshire Police in 1993, he would arrive at work in a black Porsche and black leather jacket.

In his latter day guise as chairman as of Sports Direct, following a stint as Tony Blair’s £103,000-a-year ‘drugs tsar’, he’s looked less self-assured as he’s found himself besieged over the retailer’s dicey corporate governance and gamey working practices, .

While there was no doubting his pedigree as a policeman, what qualified him to chair a listed firm still remains a mystery.