The ocean escort was B4 Escort Group from St John's, of four destroyers and a corvette. George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, served four months out of a 15-month jail sentence in 2009 after being found guilty of assault and the false imprisonment of male escort Auden Carlsen. He later said he was prosecuted on his own evidence after he told the police he handcuffed Carlsen.