The Grizedale was home to Gee brothers Darren and Daniel, who dominated the backstreets and alleyways on the north Liverpool estate. 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. The brothers were finally cornered by gun-wielding officers, who swooped as they slept in hotel beds in November 2018. Photograph Geoff Davies, Police mugshot of Daniel Gee - he was jailed in 2010, Peter Clarke, left and brother Stephen Clarke. Some of Merseysides most notorious figures are well into lengthy sentences at Her Majestys Pleasure. Gang leader James Lunt backed up his exploits with an arsenal of weapons that included a Beretta handgun responsible for 17 shootings on Merseyside alone. The Serious Organised Crime Agency(SOCA), then mounted a sophisticated surveillance operation to take down the Fitzgibbons. shipments of cocaine and cannabis from Merseyside to Northern Ireland. And the Dutch police have the Liverpool gangs as one of their top targets. One of the most famous 1960's criminals was a boy who grew up in Huyton - and became a man with a nickname - 'Killer'. 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. From smuggling drugs across international borders to ruling the city's streets with violence and intimidation, their crimes shocked Merseyside. 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. Some of our region's most notorious criminal cases. They built criminal empires which left a trail of misery and violence. As power transferred to the Shiels brothers, the gangs geographical hub shifted away from north Bootle and toward the Park Lane estate, known to locals as Dodge. 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.. A recent investigation published in the ECHO charts the brothers' rise from Cantril Farm to the Costa Del Sol. On one occasion, a young mum in the family even stooped so low as to stash cocaine in her baby's nappy bag to hide the drugs from cops. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. The jet-setting brothers were arrested by armed police in Thailand for leading a huge cocaine and ecstasy ring based in Wirral. One drug dealing associate of the yobbish gang was jailed in 2017 after pushing heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Litherland. 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. 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. Find your nearest vaccination centre by entering your postcode below. For nearly 30 years Liverpool gangsters have dominated the UK's illegal drug trafficking - creating and supplying the largest market in Europe. Anthony Whitney fled Liverpool after police raided a safe house in City Road, home of co-conspirator Thomas Dowd. Charlie was charged with his murder but acquitted. Cortesi Brothers (1910s - 1922) Originally from Italy, brothers Augustus 'Gus', Enrico 'Frenchie', Paolo 'Paul' and George Cortesi were involved in protection racketeering of gamblers and bookmakers in the West End of London. 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. The original Fernhill gang dates back to the 1970s. Big profits lead to larger consignments and the ability to fund other crimes. The drug dealer was put behind bars for the publics protection after a secret probe caught him conspiring to buy guns and threatening to kill a teenager. 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. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Showers, now in his 70s, always denied the allegations. 1990s - 2003. 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. In 2016, they were ordered to pay back only 600,000 of their estimated 3.8m fortune. I always sought cash, always looked for cash. Julian Linskill is a leading crime lawyer in Liverpool. Top 10 Liverpool Gangsters in 2022 February 17, 2022 49 49 You must have come across several gangster stories since you were little. 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 could not get off drugs in this city because I'd be back on them the next day. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. Britain's gang busters - SOCA, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, still believe the immense scale of drug trafficking is posing the biggest single threat to the UK. In October 2019, Jake Burrows was jailed for 25 years and six months, while Callum Burrows was jailed for 20 years. Yes, that's true. Unlike household names such as Stephen French, John Haase and Curtis Warren, the brothers had little notoriety. 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. Foy, of Chelsea Road in Litherland, joined them behind bars when Judge Robert Trevor-Jones sentenced him to 37 months. 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. Anything else you need to know - The Liverpool Echo has a dedicated crime reporter in Joe Thomas. He knew that we were aware what his criminal activity was and he used to use us as a game really. The Fitzgibbons, whose violent exploits and feuds with rivals as a family stretch back decades on Merseyside, were described as tier one criminals at the top of their game before a lengthy undercover operation left their empire in tatters. His 14 year sentence was thought to have begun in Randers, Denmark, but in 2014 the Foreign Office confirmed he was moved back to the UK to finish his jail term. "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.". Their crimes not only landed them behind bars, but also impacted law-abiding members of their own families who were not associated with their illegal activities in any way. Amsterdam was one of the central strands in a spider's web of supply chains which stretch from Liverpool to Bogata to Kabul. 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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. He says it all began with the mass immigration of destitute Irish into Liverpool during the potato famine. Two brothers built Liverpool's most powerful drug gang - close to being seen as a bona fide cartel to rival Europe's significant criminal factions from Ireland, Russia and North Africa. But in saying that it only led me to a life of desperation, despair and no hope "Money was made, money was spent. He's credited by police with being Liverpool's first drugs baron. Their days were spent posturing outside Mossway shops dealing drugs. He's the former head of Merseyside Serious Crime Squad but back in the mid 60's he was a young detective and remembers one of Commerford's audacious jobs. He enlisted two cronies to help him carry out the vicious armed attack on Lee Siner at a city centre kebab house. Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon were both jailed in 2013 after it emerged they were plotting to flood the UK with Turkish heroin. The gang was kept under surveillance by detectives from the forces Matrix gun and gang crime unit, who recorded hours of damning evidence. Liverpool was badly hit - a problem exacerbated further by the increasing popularity of smokable heroin. Having spent more than a year at large, they voluntarily chose to return to the UK rather than remain in a squalid Thai prison. We track down some of the players . 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. None of his intended targets were hit, but Rhys was killed while returning home from football practice. When the OAP said he didnt have any cash, the thug punched him in the face, before repeatedly kicking and stamping on him. The Shiels brothers progressed through the Fernhill ranks over time. One of the city's other prominent gangsters, 'Juicebomb' John Burton, tells the documentary . 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. The 18-year-old was snared after being caught on camera selling drugs to an undercover officer posing as an addict. The drug gang is claimed to have easy access to guns and has been linked to serious crime across south Sefton. Stephen French says that action is need now: "There's seven and eight year olds at home now - that are going to hit the streets in 10 years time. The 'Strand Gang', also known as the 'Nogga Dogs', hailed from the Norris Green area of Liverpool. Girls and young women play a part but gangs tend to be male-dominated and fuelled in part by a "masculinity crisis" among these young men. shipments of cocaine and cannabis from Merseyside to Northern Ireland. I can't say anything about the investigations but Liverpool criminals are still an interest in our investigations.". 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 gang's vast shipments were ferried north to Scotland and south to Bristol, Milton Keynes, Swindon, Oxford and Weston-Super-Mare. A sixth boy, who always said he was not at the scene of the murder, was found not guilty and released from the dock. 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. 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. In the 90s Liverpool doormen were hand picked from gyms and boxing clubs, unlike today. 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. Delroy, now in his mid-60s, was jailed in 2009 over a plot to smuggle just over 1m worth of amphetamines into Denmark from the Netherlands. It's been going on since the city was the world's greatest seaport and the gateway to the New World. Commerford had been running his international empire from his council flat in Liverpool - while claiming the dole. 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. Foy was busted through an extensive Merseyside Police operation targeting the supply of illicit substances across Sefton. 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. Three more members of a Merseyside drugs gang with an unusual name were jailed today over a 300,000 heroin and cocaine enterprise. 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. "When you think of the crime in them days no old woman got hurt and no old man got mugged or nothing we just wanted money and we got money," says Charlie. their criminal exploits finally catch up with them. It was a fast, frivolous time and the money was spent fast and frivolously.". Liverpool's gangs have traditionally worked directly with their Colombian counterparts, with Smith's syndicate buying cocaine from South American networks whose origins can be traced back to. Showers was jailed for 20 years in 1991 after plotting to flood the UK with 2m of high-grade heroin. 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. Why we're doing this story - We have a mix of stories, many of them hugely positive about the city. Stephen Gee pretended to be a Liverpool City Council officer to con a 77-year-old widower after he caught him kerb-crawling. He added: The Whitneys are an unpleasant family, significant in the Anfield area, their reputation was well-known. 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. Police set up a community task force based at Walton Lane police station to try and target the Darren and Daniel's crime group. London has . The family raked in profits, targeting the citys desperate addicts in what Merseyside Police described as a drugs cash-and-carry business. Kevin Roberts, Robert Lee, Connor McKevitt, Terrence Nixon and Stephen Fletcher were the Shiels trusted lieutenants. Jamie Glenholmes led a masked gang armed with blades and a baseball bat as they stormed the property of drug dealer David Higgins. The two men have escaped justice for decades which is why the ECHO cannot name them. Today, after a. The heat was too much for some criminals who fled to Holland to build up their drugs empire in Amsterdam. Two brothers built Liverpool's most powerful drug gang - close to being seen as a bona fide cartel to rival Europe's significant criminal factions from Ireland, Russia and North Africa. The drugs network Foy was part of was locked up after being hit in a series of police raids at addresses across Southport, Formby, Birkdale, Litherland, Bootle and Seaforth. Jason, then 40, and Ian, then 39, were jailed for a total of more than 30 years . Even more feared was the High Rip Gang. June 2007 - Released from prison. Quinton, of Garden View, Caspian Place, Bootle, has 22 convictions for 35 offences, dating back to 2005, when he was just 11 years old. The Linacre Young Guns was a street gang based in the Linacre Road area on the border of Litherland and Bootle. But the ECHO understands the pair are now out of prison following stints in foreign jails. He was jailed for three years in 2013 for possessing a knife and threatening a business associate with an imitation firearm. Guns were taken just as a frightener, not to kill anybody, not to shoot anybody.". Ringleader Paul Whitney, then 32, of Fazakerley, was jailed for nine years and four months while his associate Matthew Mayor, from Haydock, received eight years and four months. The gang war between the two feuding sides hit national headlines in 2007 following the senseless murder of innocent schoolboy Rhys Jones, who was unintentionally caught in the crossfire. The Laneheads were a gang of teenage yobs who wreaked havoc in and around Anfield's Townsend Lane - a location which also provided their name. Liverpool Gangster: Stephen "The Devil" French | True Crime Podcast 113 Shaun Attwood 242K views 2 years ago 6 Million Bank Robber Part 1: Ian 'Blink' MacDonald | True Crime Podcast 7 Shaun. 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. 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. Something went wrong, please try again later. He fled to Spain where he lay low while his relatives were gradually rounded up by Merseyside police. They are largely family-run organised criminal gangs involved in many illegal activities in their respective areas. At the time Andrew Edis QC said: "The Gees are associated with very serious violence and drug dealing. Ryan Lloyd, 19, Thomas Forshaw, 18 and Sean Farrell, who was just 16-year-old, were convicted of Smith's murder and jailed. Bradley, 31, from Huyton, Merseyside, was . Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. In Toxteth, Inside Out met two former gang members who told us how easy it is for to get guns: "You can get an 8mm Luger for 350 bills or something. They included a pair of criminal brothers who ran international drugs operations, as well as mafia matriarchs who watched over their kids' criminal empires. Anthony McCormack, Brian McLlelland, Gary Wells and Neil Smith were the drivers, ferrying gang members and drugs around the area. "And if we don't teach them the human feeling, the human emotion and the human contact and that the human spirit must come together when they hit the street, I'll be staying indoors.". The Strand Gangs rival crime firm was the Croxteth Crew, a gang which operated in nearby Croxteth. 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. But when feared boss Liam Johnson was jailed for drug offences, Kyle became the gangs leader. One of Merseysides most wanted, Kevin Parle has evaded capture for more than a decade . Lunt also had access to an Uzi sub-machine gun that could fire 600 rounds a minute, as well as a sawn-off shotgun. In November 2011, the family and their associates were sentenced to a total of 82 years in jail for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, with individual sentences ranging from two to nine years. Quinton admitted possessing a Glock with intent to endanger life, possessing a silencer, possessing a revolver, two counts of possessing ammunition and handling stolen goods. His 14 year sentence was thought to have begun in Randers, Denmark, but in 2014 the Foreign Office confirmed he was moved back to the UK to finish his jail term. 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. In the same year criminal associates of the brothers let off a wave of massive car bombs outside nightclubs, family homes and police stations. 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. 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 drugs are still very much part of Liverpool's crime scene. It's something I've looked back at in disgust at some of the things that I did.". Darren recently told the ECHO he realised he 'wasted his life' and bitterly regrets the decisions he made when he was involved in serious crime. Three more members of a Merseyside drugs gang with an unusual name were jailed today over a 300,000 heroin and cocaine enterprise. These cold bloodied assassinations resulted from criminals sorting out their differences. The brothers had grown up on the Netherton Park estate, which they turned over time into a stronghold. "I wasn't a drug dealer, I didn't sell drugs," he says. See more ideas about liverpool, gees, merseyside. Nearly 750 people were arrested and guns and drugs seized after detectives cracked the EncroChat system. Receive newsletters with the latest news, sport and what's on updates from the Liverpool ECHO by signing up here. 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. We Hope You Enjoy It! When Merseyside detectives arrested him he was about to do a deal with South American drug cartels. At the start of the 1980s, a handful of families controlled Liverpool's drugs trade from homes in the south of the city. In July 2017 Curtis Warren lost in a bid to contest his conviction. [8] George Cornell. Joseph Mulhare and his brother Gregory Mulhare were at large for more than a year, Wirral brothers Joseph Michael Mulhare and his brother Gregory Michael Mulhare, wanted by Merseyside Police, after their arrest in Thailand, Inside the ecstasy producing drugs lab, uncovered in the cellar of a Birkenhead home, Darren Gee pictured in Maryport Close, Everton. He too was sprung from the prison van in Salford by an armed gang, but later caught after fleeing the country. 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. And if you actually have bullets, it's an extra year for every bullet.". Over 30 years he's defended in 70 murder cases - many involving gangsters. Gangs Of Britain: Liverpool (Gang Culture Documentary) | Real Stories Real Stories 5.92M subscribers Subscribe 2M views 6 years ago A historical look at Britain's most notorious gangs; this. 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. One of the first British mobsters to establish an international drug trafficking network in Great Britain. The gang - which tried to mislead police by calling themselves . 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. Warren and several associates were arrested, with police finding three guns, ammunition; hand grenades, crates with 960 CS gas canisters, 400 kilograms (880 lb) of cocaine, 1,500 kilograms (3,300 lb) of cannabis resin, 60 kilograms (130 lb) of heroin, 50 kilograms (110 lb) of ecstasy, and 400,000 Dutch guilder plus 600,000 US Dollars in cash. He had his own drivers and issued instructions, with phone records revealing significant contact between him and drug dealers. Tommy made his money from bank robbery - and one detective who knew him well is Albert Kirby. You can email Joe via joe.thomas@reachplc.com, Thanks for reading. 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. Mr Kelly was just 16 when he was gunned down in a Toxteth street a year earlier in June 2004. 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. During one raid, the then 53-year-old took her grandchild from daughter Emma McKenzie while the pair hid cocaine in the tot's changing bag. The name 'Wavo' is short for Wavertree, while '420' is drug culture slang which refers to cannabis related celebrations that take place on April 20. 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. Liverpool gangsters, including the Bird of Prey and an accomplice, James Taylor, known as "Pancake", are "certainly talking" to the Sinaloa, along with Los Zetas, classified by the US Drug Enforcement Administration as Mexico's most dangerous trafficking organisation. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. The worst thing I ever got involved in was heroin. If the papers are to believed, they were an organised and ruthless gang . liverpool gangsters list. Despite the violence, he says that old school villains had a code of honour to stick to. We do not seek to glamorise crime or criminals, rather to shine a spotlight on what is happening in our city. He was jailed indefinitely, but with a minimum four year tariff. Her two-year-old daughter was sleeping upstairs at the time. These Liverpool criminals kept their illegal exploits in the family and built underworld empires that made their names feared across the city. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and was jailed for seven years. "Because these young men, these young children they have fathers that are murderers, uncles that have been killed, cousins who are doing life and they are becoming desensitised to human feeling. By the mid 80's, Liverpool's drugs squad was trying to clean up what had become known as 'Smack City'. The 59-year-old is set to be released from prison in November, and according to reports in The Times, could be subject to a serious crime prevention order, which would ban him from his home city altogether. 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. They ran a 24-hour business flooding the streets of Liverpool with heroin and crack cocaine, which saw 13 members of the Whitney drug gang jailed. They used unlicensed scrambler bikes to get quickly to and from their targets and avoid police patrols, while earning money dealing around their turf on Stonedale Crescent and Mossway shops. It is as if they belong to some sort of outlaw tribe which has rejected all of societys moral standards and conventions. 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. The citizens of 1880s Liverpool lived in fear of gangs of organised robbers - real or imagined. These are some of the gangland names to have emerged from Liverpool's criminal underworld over the years, and where they originate from. But he was very successful in his own way.". Michael Foy, 18, of Chelsea Road in Litherland, was jailed for drugs offences. 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. Inside Out charts the history of gangland violence on Merseyside in a special investigation. Then in 1980 things changed forever. 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". Like Bradley, has jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years. Bottom row l-r: Billy Griffin, Lauren Griffin, Robin Griffin, John Brady As he was jailed for seven years in December 2018, Kekula's. In this case drug dealing was not used as an end in itself but funding the gangs principal activity of feuding.. 1928-1966. He is listed in the Sunday Times as a property developer with a fortune estimated at 85 million. 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