One drug dealing associate of the yobbish gang was jailed in 2017 after pushing heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Litherland. And there were gangsters in the background. Kirk, a Liverpool gangster, is serving life in prison for crimes including leaving a hand grenade outside the home of Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish. But rather than being caused by a lack of a father . Brothers Jake and Callum Burrows ruled over the East Side street gang in Speke which flooded the area with hard drugs, fought a turf war with rivals and terrified locals. Another gangster was once executed in Charlie's kitchen - shot to death at point blank range. The jet-setting brothers were arrested by armed police in Thailand for leading a huge cocaine and ecstasy ring based in Wirral. Kevin Roberts, Robert Lee, Connor McKevitt, Terrence Nixon and Stephen Fletcher were the Shiels trusted lieutenants. When Smith left Altcourse prison he was ambushed by about 20 members of the Croxteth Crew - who had hidden in bushes. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. The gang's arsenal of weapons included a St Etienne revolver, Tikka hunting rifle, Smith & Wesson revolver, Baikal shotgun, Browning shotgun and a Smith and Wesson revolver. He enlisted two cronies to help him carry out the vicious armed attack on Lee Siner at a city centre kebab house. We met Virginia - a prostitute, crack addict and mother to four children she rarely sees. Liverpool gangster Darren Gee has turned on mob boss Daniel Kinahan and called him out on social media - describing him as an 'evil piece of poison.' Gee, who was jailed for 18 years for his. Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon were both jailed in 2013 after it emerged they were plotting to flood the UK with Turkish heroin. Speaking at the conclusion of the Whitney gang sentencing, Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Doherty from Merseyside Police said: This family is so dangerous that guns and drugs are part of their daily business.. Some of our region's most notorious criminal cases. Showers always denied the allegations and wrote of the squalid conditions of the Istanbul prison and his lack of faith in the Turkish justice system. Photos Quinton previously kept on his mobile phone, which were published by the ECHO after his sentencing, showed his fascination with guns, dating back to his youth. In deciding which crimes to write about, we consider a range of issues including the severity of the crime, the threat to public safety and the wider context in which it happened. The feared criminals, whose gang had access to a cache of guns, samurai swords and machetes, were jailed for more than 26 years combined in November 2013. She's 34-years-old and has been a junkie for nearly half her life. Ian Unsworth, QC, prosecuting, described dad-of-two Joseph, then 44, as the hands-off "principal" of a ultra secretive organisation. The 'Strand Gang', also known as the 'Nogga Dogs', hailed from the Norris Green area of Liverpool. Lucy Hargreaves, 22, was under a duvet on the sofa in her front room in Lambourne Road when three men burst in August 2005, fired a shotgun at her and then torched the house. Ordinary families had to look the other way as local gangsters tried to turn a residential estate into an enclave exempt from the rule of law. The High Rip Gang stalked the streets of Liverpool in the 1880s. Notorious Daniel Gee feared he will never see the light of day again after being jailed indefinitely. In 2010, 17-year-old Scottie Road Crew member James Moore was jailed for stabbing innocent army cadet Joseph Lappin, 16, to death outside a youth club in a horrific 2008 attack. In 2017, Darren and Daniel's brother Stephen Gee was jailed for brutally robbing an OAP while high on cocaine and his dead brothers anti-psychotic medication. He's credited by police with being Liverpool's first drugs baron. Anthony Whitney fled Liverpool after police raided a safe house in City Road, home of co-conspirator Thomas Dowd. He was jailed for 13 and a half years, with an extended two years on licence. Its members operated with staggering professionalism and organisation, using encrypted PGP phones to protect "clandestine communications". Something went wrong, please try again later. She was subsequently released from court, having already served half her sentence on remand. "I should have had a big house, big mansion - at least a couple of cars but no I've given it all to the drug dealer. Mr Kelly was just 16 when he was gunned down in a Toxteth street a year earlier in June 2004. They were an organised crime group that needed taking apart.. Both brothers were named as part of the gang when hit with ASBOs as teenagers in 2011. You can also sign up to our court newsletter here and get a twice weekly roundup of court cases sent your email inbox for free. He had his own drivers and issued instructions, with phone records revealing significant contact between him and drug dealers. He used his money to move into the drugs world dealing with bigger and larger quantities of drugs, and ended up doing substantial terms of imprisonment for it. That spree of violence even saw a hand grenade accidentally left outside the Southport home of Liverpool FC legend Kenny Dalglish as Bradley and his partners in crime conducted a campaign of intimidation against a Merseyside businessman. Peter Clarke, a former weapons instructor in the Kings Regiment, admitted organising the cocaine conspiracy, while Stephen Clarke admitted managing a network of cannabis farms. Stephen French is now an anti-gun campaigner: "Firearms terrify me because firearms in the hands of wrong people end lives, destroy lives, end communities. While visiting his friend he had a bitter dispute with convict Ryan Lloyd, who was a central figure of rival gang the Croxteth Crew. The Gerrards have long-standing friendships with gangsters in Liverpool Five years ago, the father of one of his ex-girlfriends, with whom Steven is said to have been close, was given a lengthy. 6 August 2021 - 1:49, by , in Uncategorized, Comments off. For several decades Liverpool gangsters have made huge fortunes from crime - some have been jailed, others were killed, and a few have become reformed characters. But while abroad, he got mixed up in another smuggling plot, and was apprehended for smuggling 50,000 tablets of an ecstasy-type substance which had been loaded into a vehicle at his home address in Denia. In the end, they all fell foul of the law. His name is Charlie Seiga and today he's nearly 70 and says he's a reformed character. The 51st State, Brookside) to those where only a small number of scenes were set or shot in Liverpool (e.g. A former community leader - known for driving a white Rolls Royce through the streets of Toxteth - he had spent years locked up in a Turkish jail over his role in an international smuggling plot. It's something I've looked back at in disgust at some of the things that I did.". Watch podcast 3 with Darren Gee here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K757EryVMOcWatch podcast 2 with Darren Gee here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMdKNi. Over the next ten years 43 people would die in gun killings in Merseyside. Tom Driessen is Director of the Dutch National Crime Squad and says it's not an easy task: "The profile of those criminals from Liverpool is that they learned not only to do illegal activities but they learned to survive, and violence is part of their life from their youth "We can't name names. The brothers were finally cornered by gun-wielding officers, who swooped as they slept in hotel beds in November 2018. However, detectives believe they recovered only a fraction of the drugs trafficked and some 200,000 ecstasy tablets alone were manufactured, many of them from a machine hidden in the cellar of a property in Clifton Road, Birkenhead. James Shiels and his brother Kyle ran the Fernhill - Kyle was the gangs number one, and saw himself as untouchable. He was jailed for three years in 2013 for possessing a knife and threatening a business associate with an imitation firearm. The cocaine is in containers and the main port of entry is Liverpool," said one Mexican official. Gangs often take their names from areas their members live or operate in, such as the likes of the Strand Gang or the Scottie Road Crew. The two men have escaped justice for decades which is why the ECHO cannot name them. His life of crime in Liverpool stretched over half a century. Residents were intimidated, rivals were threatened with guns and local police officers were mocked and teased in the street. Foy, of Chelsea Road in Litherland, joined them behind bars when Judge Robert Trevor-Jones sentenced him to 37 months. 1990s - 2003. These cold bloodied assassinations resulted from criminals sorting out their differences. It seems to me they have no stake in society excepting their membership of the gang. In order to enforce their dominance they collected an arsenal of weapons including several pistols and a double barrelled shotgun, and made petrol bombs out of Lucozade bottles filled with white spirit. The family raked in profits, targeting the citys desperate addicts in what Merseyside Police described as a drugs cash-and-carry business. From the Deli Mob to Wavo 420 we took a look at where these gangland names originate from, Get the latest crime reports and stories from Liverpool Echo straight to your inbox. But they had spent years sat at the apex of a massive criminal network in Liverpool, stretching from their home in Anfield across much of the city. But others are based on a family name, like the Whitney gang who flooded the streets of Liverpool with drugs. Darren Gee was handed 18 years behind bars in 2006 for planning the revenge shooting murder of dad-of-five David Regan. One of the first British mobsters to establish an international drug trafficking network in Great Britain. The drug gang is claimed to have easy access to guns and has been linked to serious crime across south Sefton. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and was jailed for seven years. The judge who sentenced the gang members, Mr Justice Openshaw said: Despite their denials the defendants are members of the criminal gang known to themselves as the Croxteth Young Guns. Inside Out charts the history of gangland violence on Merseyside in a special investigation. The National Crime Agency has estimated that 90bn of criminal money is being laundered through the UK every year, 4% of the country's GDP. Bottom row l-r: Billy Griffin, Lauren Griffin, Robin Griffin, John Brady As he was jailed for seven years in December 2018, Kekula's. From feared personalities that have returned to court, to those recently released, here the ECHO looks at where some of the regions highest profile crooks are now thought to be. Three more members of a Merseyside drugs gang with an unusual name were jailed today over a 300,000 heroin and cocaine enterprise. Manchester Crown Court heard that the 60%-pure heroin would have cost around 300,000 euros to buy wholesale from Turkey. Members of the ruthless Deli Mob terrorised north Liverpool, making the lives of decent people a misery around Everton, Kirkdale and Walton. ", Stephen recalls that he was one of the most scary guys that you could ever wish to meet, "They whispered my name, people wouldn't look me directly in the face such was my reputation, such was my ferocity". Police set up a community task force based at Walton Lane police station to try and target the Darren and Daniel's crime group. their criminal exploits finally catch up with them. Stephen Gee pretended to be a Liverpool City Council officer to con a 77-year-old widower after he caught him kerb-crawling. Cousins Andrew Hewitt, 15 and Corey Hewitt, 14 but who was 13 at the time, and Joseph McGill, 14, also 13 at the time, were found guilty of murder by majority verdicts of ten to two. One such group was The Cornermen, whose members would supposedly wait on a street corner for a victim to pass by before they pounced. Some of the guns were buried in woodland in the Speke area. Quinton, of Garden View, Caspian Place, Bootle, has 22 convictions for 35 offences, dating back to 2005, when he was just 11 years old. A sixth boy, who always said he was not at the scene of the murder, was found not guilty and released from the dock. Messages revealed that organised crime gangs in Liverpool "dominate" the UK's guns and . Operation Manhattan was the police investigation into the racket spearheaded by Joseph, between December 2015 and September 2017. Receive newsletters with the latest news, sport and what's on updates from the Liverpool ECHO by signing up here. Anything else you need to know - The Liverpool Echo has a dedicated crime reporter in Joe Thomas. Fifteen people were jailed for a total of 41 years over the operation. Years of neglect and racial harassment led to nine days of violence and riots in Toxteth. He said that some of the gang had knives on them. 2009 - Sentenced to 13 years in jail. Liverpool has seen a number of dangerous gangsters, primarily drug dealers who also dealt in intense violence. "My own personal history with firearms my son Stephen was shot twice in a year, the second time almost fatally - his girlfriend was with him. In the 90s Liverpool doormen were hand picked from gyms and boxing clubs, unlike today. Paul Whitney was the ringleader, who headed up the criminal operation with help from his mother Carol Whitney who hoarded the gangs money and was dubbed "the banker". Leslie Whitney's new partner Emma Mackenzie was sentenced to 834 days in prison a "significantly shorter and more lenient sentence" than she could have expected if not for her two-year-old daughter. Join more than 56,000 other people who are members of our Liverpool court cases and crime stories Facebook group and you'll get access to all the latest stories from court reporter Neil Docking. In 2011, the Whitney family and their associates were hauled in front of the courts and sentenced to a total of 82 years behind bars. @StreetCrimeUK @streetcrimeusa @streetcrimeaustralia Join This Channel And Help Support Our Causehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwONzANTGhD9I4WCRTChMMg/joinStay Connected Via Our Website, YouTube channel, and Facebook. Army corporal turned drugs baron Peter Clarke worked with security firm boss Stephen Clarke to orchestrate shipments of cocaine and cannabis from Merseyside to Northern Ireland. Liam Smigger Smith was a prominent member of the 'Strand Gang' who was shot dead on August 23, 2006 after he went to visit a friend who was serving time in Altcourse Prison. If the papers are to believed, they were an organised and ruthless gang . Having spent more than a year at large, they voluntarily chose to return to the UK rather than remain in a squalid Thai prison. A bug, which was planted by SOCA in their family home on Edale Road, recorded the brothers bickering in front of their mum about who was the better drug dealer. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. In December 2013 a court imposed a 10-year prison sentence on Warren after the expiration of a 28-day period he was given to cough up the 198m the authorities claim he has tied up in assets around the globe. Ruthless Gee was plotting to arm himself after making death threats to Jamie Starkey - the 16-year-old gunman who shot him during a New Years day 2008 confrontation. The dispute is understood to have happened in the visitors area, where Lloyd was being visited by his sisters. When the two brothers fell out with a rival crime group gang it resulted in a spate of shootings. It will feature reports from Liverpool Crown Court and crime cases connected to Merseyside. The Whitneys made selling heroin and crack cocaine a 24-hour business, running a cash and carry style operation. Liam Duffy was convicted of manslaughter and received 20 years. From smuggling drugs across international borders to ruling the city's streets with violence and intimidation, their crimes shocked Merseyside. The feared criminals, whose gang had access to a cache of guns, samurai swords and machetes, were jailed for more than 26 years combined in November 2013. "I think the days of the old skilled blagger, or the 'Peterman', the man who would blow up a safe or someone who would break into a bonded warehouse or counterfeit a pass in order to get away with the ill gotten goods are long gone. But that has not stopped some of their names from hitting the headlines over the past year. He was known as 'The Taxman' - a gangster who used to rob drug dealers - a highly dangerous enterprise in an extremely violent world. A licensing hearing at Sefton Magistrates Court heard members of the gang had been causing trouble in a trendy bar on South Road in Waterloo. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Then in 1980 things changed forever. Notorious Toxteth drugs barons Michael and Delroy Showers are both believed to have been released from jail . An ECHO article published in April - which investigated the gang in more detail - said they are still in custody awaiting trial. Infamous crime lord Delroy Showers was jailed in 2009 over a plot to smuggle just over 1m worth of amphetamines into Denmark from the Netherlands. The then 36-year-old told Liverpool Crown Court he went off the rails after his brother Billy Gee, 38, was tragically found hanged in 2016. Twenty one men were locked up for a total of 189 years in December 2018 in connection with police seizures yielding around 66,000 of cocaine, 208,000 of MDMA, 336,000 of amphetamine, 420,000 of cannabis and 80,000 in cash. Craig Barker, a friend of the Gees, was shot dead on the estate. In May 2020, Fernhill gang member Jack Quinton, 26, was jailed over a weapons arsenal including an Italian revolver and a semi-automatic Glock with a silencer. Some of Merseysides most notorious figures are well into lengthy sentences at Her Majestys Pleasure. For example the Chinese opium trade was centered around the docks, and later on - in the 1940's after the war - cannabis was starting to come in with Jamaican seamen. For nearly 30 years Liverpool gangsters have dominated the UK's illegal drug trafficking - creating and supplying the largest market in Europe. We will not though, ignore crime as it impacts on many lives. We track down some of the players . Last year the police arrested a number of suspects in the Kirkstone Road area in relation to a serious crime. The Strand Gangs rival crime firm was the Croxteth Crew, a gang which operated in nearby Croxteth. 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