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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.
In the wake of the hack, multiple members of the gang were arrested and tried. Vincent Coggins, the gang's leader, was sentenced to 28 years in prison in early 2024 after being convicted of drug trafficking and blackmail. His trusted associates, including Paul Woodford and Michael Earle, were also jailed for their roles in the firm’s activities.
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]
The murder of 26-year-old Tshey Bennett has been described as “chilling” by a Florida sheriff as the suspect’s Google search history has been revealed.. Willie Richard Ellington, 20 – who ...
Johnson, nephew of moors murders victim Keith Bennett and known as "White Tony" to avoid confusion with a black associate who was also called Tony, was a 22-year-old gangster shot dead in the Penny Black pub's car park on 22 February 1991. A companion was shot as well, but not killed.
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 ...