If you've no purpose you're living a meaningless existence - if you're leading a meaningless existence there's only one thing that will fill that void and it usually involves violence. But others are based on a family name, like the Whitney gang who flooded the streets of Liverpool with drugs. One of the first British mobsters to establish an international drug trafficking network in Great Britain. Enforcer who worked for Charlie and Eddie Richardson during the 1960s. 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. 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. The underworld has become the overworld. 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. They raked in profits targeting the citys desperate addicts - and at one point stooped so low a young mum in the family stashed cocaine in her baby girls nappy bag to hide the drugs from the cops. 27 febrero, 2023 . After demanding 50,000 - which Higgins said he did not have - the 24-year-old launched a brutal assault that left his victim scarred. Over the next ten years 43 people would die in gun killings in Merseyside. In the 90s Liverpool doormen were hand picked from gyms and boxing clubs, unlike today. The 51st State, Brookside) to those where only a small number of scenes were set or shot in Liverpool (e.g. Liverpool gangster James "Pancake" Taylor masterminded an underworld revenge attack on an amateur boxer who knocked him out in a prison brawl. The docks, which handled 40 per cent of the world's trade, provided rich pickings. The cocaine is in containers and the main port of entry is Liverpool," said one Mexican official. Top 10 Liverpool Gangsters in 2022 February 17, 2022 49 49 You must have come across several gangster stories since you were little. 1960s - 1966. Graham "The Munster" Kinniburgh Tony Mokbel Jason Moran Lewis Moran Mark Moran Nikolai Radev Squizzy Taylor Andrew "Benji" Veniman Carl Williams Sydney [ edit] George Freeman Michael Kanaan Lenny McPherson Abraham Saffro Ivan bonnano/Craig McLaughlin Canada [ edit] Blairmore [ edit] Florence Lassandro (1900-1923) The Fernhill Gang originated around Fernhill Road in Bootle - though they kept the name when the jailing of one leader led to the drug gang's base shifting to Netherton's Park Lane estate. Another Deli Mob thug Paul Dwyer was jailed in 2018 after he kidnapped a drug dealer found covered in blood and begging for help in the boot of his own car. He enlisted two cronies to help him carry out the vicious armed attack on Lee Siner at a city centre kebab house. Something went wrong, please try again later. 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. "This was like a seven mile treasure trove of goods to pilfer for poor people," says Macilwee. Gangster town. The 'Strand Gang', also known as the 'Nogga Dogs', hailed from the Norris Green area of Liverpool. 1928-1966. Once one of Liverpools most wanted, Bradley was captured in Amsterdam after an audacious escape from a prison van bound for Liverpool Crown Court. 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. But that has not stopped some of their names from hitting the headlines over the past year. The list includes a wide array of films and TV shows, ranging from those that were almost entirely shot and set in the city (e.g. He fled to Spain where he lay low while his relatives were gradually rounded up by Merseyside police. Its members operated with staggering professionalism and organisation, using encrypted PGP phones to protect "clandestine communications". You are in: Inside Out > North West > Gangster town. Michael Foy, 18, of Chelsea Road in Litherland, was jailed for drugs offences. "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. 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. 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Other jailed gang members included Neil Brady, who was jailed for six years and nine months, Lisa Whitney's boyfriend Wayne Hincks for six years and eight months and co-conspirator Thomas Dowd who received four years and four months. 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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. which recorded the brothers talking about crime and drugs. Three more members of a Merseyside drugs gang with an unusual name were jailed today over a 300,000 heroin and cocaine enterprise. 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. He was an old school armed robber - a safe blower and a wages snatcher. When Turkish police smashed an Istanbul based drug gang, the trail began to lead back to South Liverpool. 1990s - 2003. 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Lunt also had access to an Uzi sub-machine gun that could fire 600 rounds a minute, as well as a sawn-off shotgun. But when feared boss Liam Johnson was jailed for drug offences, Kyle became the gangs leader. 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. 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. Top row l-r: Lee Hughes, Bonar Kekula, Liam Oxley, Gerard Downs. 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. 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. 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