in 1993 and he remained there until leaving Parliament in March 1997. After losing his seat in Parliament, he continued to manage his industrial cleaning business, the Broadreach Group. He retired in May 2002 when he and his business partner Jack Broadley sold it for around £17 million. Birmingham Six Shortly before losing his seat, in early March 1997, he attracted controversy over unguarded remarks in an interview by sixth-formers at Stanborough School for a school magazine in which he referred to his opponent Melanie Johnson as a "single girl" (she was 42 years old at the time) with "bastard children", and claimed that the Birmingham Six were guilty and had "killed hundreds" before being caught, as well as making remarks considered racist, such as asking how the sixth-formers would feel if their daughter was raped by "some black bastard". The Six won substantial damages from Evans in July 1998, who thereafter apologised for what he had said and promised never to repeat it. Death David Evans died aged 73 in the USA on 22 October 2008, of pulmonary fibrosis. He was married to Janice Evans who died on 9 August 2016 aged 79. Quotes "Scarcely any Guardian or Independent article involving David Evans, former Tory MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, failed to mention his car-salesman's accent, a sound to chill the blood of any liberal—it seemed the incarnation of Thatcherite brutalism." References British business executives Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies English cricketers English footballers Association football wing halves Hendon F.C. players Aston Villa F.C. players Hertfordshire cricketers People from Edmonton, London UK MPs 1987–1992 UK MPs 1992–1997 1935 births 2008 deaths Deaths from pulmonary fibrosis 20th-century British businesspeople