Fast forward to 1965. Roy Bates is a pirate radio operator on another one of Maunsell’s forts called Knock John. But Knock John was located closer to the shore, within the three mile radius that was, legally, British territorial water. In 1966 this fact finally caught up with Roy, who was convicted for illegal broadcasting from Knock John. His solution was to simply move further out, and he packed up and headed to Roughs Tower.