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Officers followed a major heroin shipment (worth approximately £18 million) destined for Liverpool as part of a larger investigation into 'Volkan', a Turkish heroin smuggler. As the officers arrested many members of the gang in and around Liverpool, Haase and Bennett nearly slipped through the net, but were arrested in Croydon, south London.
Ian Douglas McAteer [1] (born November 1961) [2] is a Scottish former gangster who was a prominent figure in the Glasgow and Liverpool criminal underworlds during the later 20th century. McAteer accumulated various convictions, and in 2001 was sentenced to life for the 1999 murder of a gangland associate; he had been acquitted of a previous ...
In 1969, career criminal Tommy "Tacker" Comerford was part of a gang of robbers from the north of Liverpool who spent a bank holiday weekend tunneling into a branch of the District Bank on Water Street in Liverpool city centre, using a thermal lance to open the safe and stealing over £140,000 in cash and £20,000 in property, over a million pounds in today's currency.
A quadruple killer has admitted killing a mother and three children whose bodies were found at a house in Derbyshire. Damien Bendall, 32, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the manslaughter of 11-year ...
The disappearance remains under investigation as murder and in 2011 several men were arrested and released on bail. [365] November 1996 Mohammed Akram Carrington, Greater Manchester Akram, a 38-year-old taxi driver and father-of-five, was discovered shot dead in the village of Carrington on 11 November 1996.
The Huyton Firm has been the subject of significant media attention, particularly following the EncroChat hack. In May 2024, BBC Panorama aired a special investigation into the gang, revealing the full extent of their criminal activities. The program featured interviews with former law enforcement officials who worked to bring the gang to justice.
On 1 October 34-year old Thomas Cashman was charged with the murder, two counts of attempted murder as well as two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. 40-year-old Paul Russell was also charged with assisting an offender. [23] The two men appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on 3 October. [24]
Jul. 10—LAWRENCE — Set ablaze around 2 a.m., the three buildings burned furiously on a muggy August night. In the shadow of the inferno, state trooper Paul Zipper saw there was a basketball ...