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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 ...
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.
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 November 2014, Wiltshire Police launched a murder investigation based on "significant new information". In 2015, three men were arrested on suspicion of John's kidnap and murder but released. In 2017, police revealed that a postcard purporting to be from John was sent shortly after her death and was discovered to be forged. [297] September 1995
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 ...
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]
Paul Kevin Curtis is a janitor and Elvis Presley impersonator from Tupelo, Miss., the birthplace of the legendary singer. Until 2003, he performed in an Elvis act with his brother, Jack Curtis ...
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.