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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name         = Cass Pennant
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| caption      = Cass Pennant
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| birth_name    = <!--FIRST NAME WAS CAROL, HOWEVER SURNAME NOT KNOWN AS LEFT HIDDEN FOR NOW Carol-->
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1958|03|06|mf=yes}}
(contracted; show full)] by an elderly white family in [[Slade Green]] in [[Kent]] where he was the only black person, and where he states he was "bullied from day one" year after year where he was beaten persistently. "Not just from rivals or other kids, the whole town. Imagine as a kid, you're picked out; people in vehicles shouting out at you, total strangers."<ref name="times4130879"/>

Pennant had been christened Carol (a common boy's name in parts of the [[West Indies]], but un
heard ofusual as a boy's name in England) by his biological mother, which was also a source of bullying for him, particularly at school. After he saw the [[Boxing|boxer]] [[Muhammad Ali|Cassius Clay]] beat [[Henry Cooper (boxer)|Henry Cooper]] he adopted the name Cass.<ref name="times4130879"/>

(contracted; show full)[[Category:English people of Jamaican descent]]
[[Category:Black British writers]]
[[Category:English criminals]]
[[Category:People from Doncaster]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1958 births]]

[[ru:Касс Пеннант]]