In this case drug dealing was not used as an end in itself but funding the gangs principal activity of feuding.. But others are based on a family name, like the Whitney gang who flooded the streets of Liverpool with drugs. His fear is that the 'lost generation' of today are about to become tomorrow's gangsters and the cycle of crime is about to turn again. The Whitney gang were a family drugs ring that flooded the streets of Liverpool with drugs, peddled crack and heroin next to school playgrounds and lived a life of luxury off the back of it. In retaliation Darren Gee organised the cold blooded murder of David Regan, who owned a car wash in Old Swan. The gang was named after the area of Speke where they operated and made life hell for law abiding residents who had to put up with their behaviour. 2009 - Sentenced to 13 years in jail. There are criminal convictions against them which amply support what I have just said.. 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Showers, now in his 70s, always denied the allegations. His name is Charlie Seiga and today he's nearly 70 and says he's a reformed character. Manchester Crown Court heard that the 60%-pure heroin would have cost around 300,000 euros to buy wholesale from Turkey. They say that there's little else for kids to do but hang out together. All the Liverpool Echo newsletters you could be reading, The Liverpool Echo has a free app and here's how to download it, Darren Gee organised the cold blooded murder of David Regan, brutally robbing an OAP while high on cocaine. In 2017 the ECHO revealed that gang, called the Kirkstone Riot Squad, was exerting a malign influence on the streets of Litherland. James Shiels and his brother Kyle ran the Fernhill - Kyle was the gangs number one, and saw himself as untouchable. The original Fernhill gang dates back to the 1970s. The family raked in profits, targeting the citys desperate addicts in what Merseyside Police described as a drugs cash-and-carry business. Liverpool academic and author of "The Gangs of Liverpool", Mick Macilwee, has been studying the gangs who terrorised the streets of the Victorian city. Back in back April 2020, we revisited some of the most feared crime families to have terrorised Merseyside. Mayor, then 37, went to extraordinary lengths to avoid arrest, even hurling 2kg of heroin out of his Mercedes car window while being chased by police. Members of the ruthless Deli Mob terrorised north Liverpool, making the lives of decent people a misery around Everton, Kirkdale and Walton. 1960s - 1966. Liverpool 8 was known then as a ghetto - and the life of the area's mainly black population of 20,000 centered around Granby Street. 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. Today it's a quiet Leicestershire village, but in the 14th century Ashby Folville was The Blind Beggar, a pub on Whitechapel Road most famous for the shooting of the Richardson gang member George Cornell by rival Ronnie Kray in 1966. As different immigrant communities arrived in Liverpool, drugs came in with them. Emma Mackenzie's mum Mary McCabe, from Walton, was sentenced to eight years for her part in the conspiracy and for possessing a prohibited firearm. Some of our region's most notorious criminal cases have involved families who flooded the streets with drugs and ruled their neighbourhoods through violence and intimidation. Three more members of a Merseyside drugs gang with an unusual name were jailed today over a 300,000 heroin and cocaine enterprise. When he wasn't in jail, Bob Croxton worked as a drug dealer in Liverpool. "And if we as elders of the villages and communities don't have something to keep their interests and channel their energies, it doesn't bear thinking about. 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Mercer was found guilty of murder following a nine-week trial in December 2008 and jailed for a life, with a minimum sentence of 22 years behind bars. 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. In 2013, seven Croxteth Crew members were jailed for a total of 113 years for carrying out a terror campaign of punishment shootings and fire bombings. Rather than get his hands dirty, he directed others to produce, store, collect and distribute drugs to gangs across England and Scotland. She's 34-years-old and has been a junkie for nearly half her life. Moore and his gang had gone looking for revenge after a fight between their associates and rivals earlier that day. Some of the guns were buried in woodland in the Speke area. 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. Despite their genial manner the men were prepared to send gun and grenade toting thugs to the front door of anyone who compromised their interests. 1. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Top 10 Liverpool Gangsters in 2022 February 17, 2022 49 49 You must have come across several gangster stories since you were little. These are some of the gangland names to have emerged from Liverpool's criminal underworld over the years, and where they originate from. He fled to Spain where he lay low while his relatives were gradually rounded up by Merseyside police. When the OAP said he didnt have any cash, the thug punched him in the face, before repeatedly kicking and stamping on him. Family member Lisa Whitney and gang associate Gary Edwards were each given four years while co-conspirator Michael Waters was sentences to five years and four months. Last year the police arrested a number of suspects in the Kirkstone Road area in relation to a serious crime. Six foot four, 22-stone Paul Dwyer was jailed for 14 years with an additional four on licence after being convicted of false imprisonment and wounding with intent at Liverpool Crown Court. Apr 13, 2020 - Explore Sarah Horne's board "Liverpool gangsters" on Pinterest. See more ideas about liverpool, gees, merseyside. Inside Out charts the history of gangland violence on Merseyside in a special investigation. Operating under the alias Lil Wayne, Michael Foy delivered drugs to order while working for a criminal network that spanned from Bootle to Southport. These Liverpool criminals kept their illegal exploits in the family and built underworld empires that made their names feared across the city. In the 90s Liverpool doormen were hand picked from gyms and boxing clubs, unlike today. These cold bloodied assassinations resulted from criminals sorting out their differences. Liverpool OVERTAKE Man City in Premier League's Big Six wage table after a 75% increase since 2017 to 366m. He has been on the run for so long some have claimed he is actually dead - though last year someone claimed to have seen the scarred fugitive in Australia. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and was jailed for seven years. Inside abandoned Paradox Nightclub before it was demolished - pictures of iconic club's clock tower In the mid 1990s a new company called Premier Security became a growing force in Liverpool's security industry. Geoffrey Lowe, prosecuting, described him as being part of a generic group of people called the Linacre Young Guns - a gang that operates across Bootle and Seaforth which is said to have come into conflict with the infamous Fernhill Gang on the streets of south Sefton. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. 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. Their names only have currency within the upper tiers of the drugs economy. We track down some of the players involved in Liverpool's gangland over the last three decades. And there were gangsters in the background. Downes, of no fixed address, orchestrated the campaign of violence from a prison cell, from which he was able to make more than 18,000 mobile phone calls. Today drugs are still very much part of Liverpool's crime scene. The Huyton gangster, thought to be in high security prison Belmarsh, is currently serving a life sentence after orchestrating a wave of shootings and grenade attacks across Merseyside. During a trial over the 2009 murder of Tony Bromley, Liverpool Crown Court heard the men were 'kingpins' in the area, who led a violent gang that controlled the streets of Grizedale. Anthony Whitney fled Liverpool after police raided a safe house in City Road, home of co-conspirator Thomas Dowd. In 2016, they were ordered to pay back only 600,000 of their estimated 3.8m fortune. Jason, then 42 and of North Sudley Road, Aigburth, and Ian, then 41 and of Heigham Gardens, St Helens, were jailed for 14-and-a-half and 16 years respectively in June 2013 over their plan to import 57kg of heroin from Turkey. From smuggling drugs across international borders to ruling the city's streets with violence and intimidation, their crimes shocked Merseyside. At the peak of the gangs notoriety in the 2000s, they were reported to have members as young as 12 and called themselves 'Nogzy soldiers'. Charlie was charged with his murder but acquitted. 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. Foy was busted through an extensive Merseyside Police operation targeting the supply of illicit substances across Sefton. Leading gang member Sean Mercer was 16 years old when he shot Rhys in the car park of the Fir Tree Pub. In May 2017 Spanish police launched a raid on the brothers' compound in the Costa Del Sol - the footage was like a scene from Netflix series Narcos, as heavily armed men stormed a villa while a helicopter roared overhead. He was known as 'The Taxman' - a gangster who used to rob drug dealers - a highly dangerous enterprise in an extremely violent world. Now he helps kids and prisoners - counselling them about the horrific nature of crack and smack: "I dealt drugs, I dealt death - there's no two ways about it. The 13 gang members who were ultimately jailed for the Whitney drugs ring consisted of family members, their partners and extended family as well as a string of "associates" and big players who werent related to them. Joseph and Gregory Mulhare lived the high life, flying to Ibiza, Tenerife, France and America, thanks to massive drug plots. This notorious family gang came from the Anfield area - but their ill-gotten gains bought them plush pads in some of the city's most sought-after post codes. He enlisted two cronies to help him carry out the vicious armed attack on Lee Siner at a city centre kebab house. With the drugs has come guns for protection - and enforcement. 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. In 2016, Merseyside Police officers broke down doors at 13 properties in Kirkdale, Walton, Fazakerley and Aintree as part of an investigation into the gang. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Today Stephen says he's left all that behind - and is now a legitimate businessman and anti gun campaigner who's recalled his life in a book. Find your nearest vaccination centre by entering your postcode below. That sentence, handed to him 2010, was to be served alongside a seven-and-a-half year drugs sentence. 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. July 2007 - Arrested in Jersey for conspiring to import 1 million of cannabis. When Turkish police smashed an Istanbul based drug gang, the trail began to lead back to South Liverpool. Roberts looked after the guns, while the rest of the lieutenants carried out thousands of drug deals. Why we're doing this story - We have a mix of stories, many of them hugely positive about the city. Craig Barker, a friend of the Gees, was shot dead on the estate. Kirk, a Liverpool gangster, is serving life in prison for crimes including leaving a hand grenade outside the home of Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish. He made the pensioner drive home to show him ID, where he demanded the elderly victim hand over a 1,000 fine, or 100 deposit. "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. He added: The Whitneys are an unpleasant family, significant in the Anfield area, their reputation was well-known. But in saying that it only led me to a life of desperation, despair and no hope "Money was made, money was spent. Her two-year-old daughter was sleeping upstairs at the time. It seems to me they have no stake in society excepting their membership of the gang. "My close blood brother Andrew John was shot dead in the street like a dog", Andrew's brother, Carl John remembers, "It wasn't drug related, but it was related to to the gang mentality that was taking over a lot of major cities and urban inner city dwellings, like Liverpool ghetto areas.". 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. 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". 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. A recent investigation published in the ECHO charts the brothers' rise from Cantril Farm to the Costa Del Sol. In October 2019, Jake Burrows was jailed for 25 years and six months, while Callum Burrows was jailed for 20 years. Showers was jailed for 20 years in 1991 after plotting to flood the UK with 2m of high-grade heroin. It's something I've looked back at in disgust at some of the things that I did.". both believed to have been released from jail, where he was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in jail, Revealed: Curtis Warren and the major league crooks hit with empire-crippling crime orders, Stephen French writes letter to The ECHO after being acquitted of rape, has evaded capture for more than a decade, Who is Kevin Parle? I always sought cash, always looked for cash. Lunt also had access to an Uzi sub-machine gun that could fire 600 rounds a minute, as well as a sawn-off shotgun. The drugs would have made around 7m when sold on the streets of Liverpool. In Liverpool, UK, you can hear real gangster stories from the same area. Liverpool gangster James "Pancake" Taylor masterminded an underworld revenge attack on an amateur boxer who knocked him out in a prison brawl. Media is an important component of Liverpool's economy and in 2019 brought over 17 . pauline hanson dancing with the stars; just jerk dance members; what happens if a teacher gets a dui 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. Gee, of Maryport Close, Everton, admitted robbery and at the time of his 2017 Liverpool Crown Court appearance had 22 previous convictions for 44 offences, including robbery and violent disorder. Prosecutors launched Proceeds Of Crime Applications against the men - together with their respective wives Maria and Rachel - at Preston Crown Court. Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon were both jailed in 2013 after it emerged they were plotting to flood the UK with Turkish heroin. "He was quite a unique character was Tommy because he was a larger than life character. In the same year criminal associates of the brothers let off a wave of massive car bombs outside nightclubs, family homes and police stations. But he was very successful in his own way.". Also thought to be in Belmarsh, he actually turned on his former partner in crime and slashed him in a prison attack . Jurors who had listened to the trial, which lasted more than two months, found ringleader Reese OShaughnessy, 19 and Keyfer Dykstra, 14, guilty by a unanimous decision after more than 17 hours of deliberation. During the trial Nicholas Johnson, QC, prosecuting, said the boys referred to themselves as the Laneheads, after the gangs territory around the Townsend Lane area of Anfield, whereas as Sean McHugh and his friend Josh Williams, who was also chased but got away were called Village Rats, because they came from Walton Village. Gang member Jake Glenholmes was jailed four years and eight month, after police discovered a 32,000 cannabis farm when they raided his home in Chirkdale Street, Kirkdale. The Whitneys made selling heroin and crack cocaine a 24-hour business, running a cash and carry style operation. 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. 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.. "I actually taxed drug dealers not for the drugs - for the money. It will feature reports from Liverpool Crown Court and crime cases connected to Merseyside. One of the city's other prominent gangsters, 'Juicebomb' John Burton, tells the documentary . Many of these names are associated with gangland shootings, drug dealing or high profile trials where gang members were hauled before the courts. The gang's vast shipments were ferried north to Scotland and south to Bristol, Milton Keynes, Swindon, Oxford and Weston-Super-Mare. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. He is listed in the Sunday Times as a property developer with a fortune estimated at 85 million. English and Scottish crime groups, as well as Irish gangs (like the Clerkenwell crime syndicate) and Turkish Cypriot descent (such as the Arif family) find their origin in tough, impoverished white working class neighbourhoods. 6 August 2021 - 1:49, by , in Uncategorized, Comments off. One such group was The Cornermen, whose members would supposedly wait on a street corner for a victim to pass by before they pounced. He says it all began with the mass immigration of destitute Irish into Liverpool during the potato famine. You are in: Inside Out > North West > Gangster town. But the ECHO understands the pair are now out of prison following stints in foreign jails. He then fled the UK days after the bloodshed at Kimos restaurant, in October, 2010, and remained at large until Dutch armed police swooped on him last month in Amsterdam. In 2014, five teenage gang members were found guilty of the murder of Sean "Shorty" McHugh in an Anfield laundrette. These are some of the city's most prolific crime families, many of whom lived lavish lifestyles off the back of their ill gotten gains. 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. 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