Meanwhile, another sometime resident of Langport Avenue, Simon Simpson, had been running drugs to the south west for years. Gail says its vital that complex safeguarding teams work together to support both children and adults. This isnt someone that lives 100 miles away that could come after their family. The audacious racket was smashed when officers swooped in December 2016 and arrested the gang. And you can follow us on Facebook here. They know authorities are looking at who they are staying with, if they stand out, if theyre ethnically different, or lost. They were part of the C2 gang whos rivals are RB7.The Website - https://www.gtbulletin.comPlease check it out and share with others and share. Something went wrong, please try again later. Kekula's co-conspirators in the Bugsy gang included Lauren and Billy Griffin, siblings from Monsall, north Manchester. Man missing with mum Constance Marten spent 20 years in US prison, Constance Marten, Mark Gordon and their baby went missing on January 5, Redditch Ian Kirwan Asda murder: wife says killer 'took my husband from me and my life', Jaguar Land Rover worker's wife opens heart saying 'nobody should ever have to die like that'. He and accomplice Riaz Ahmed were jailed for life in January for killing Abdul Wahid. Oldham Childrens Safeguarding Partnership also has information here. Kekula gathered a following of teenagers, young men and drug users from Grimsby. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Kids just want to be famous.. Meanwhile, apps and computer games also have a place in aiding recruitment. Once positioned, voices could be heard from inside the car urging the shooter to go on, over to the yard slide it back, give it a good bang lad before he fires. Three members of Birminghams 61 gang have been jailed for firearms offences and drug dealing - including one who was with Sharif Cousins when he was shot by armed police. A surveillance team watched as British Airways baggage handler Joysen Jhurry, 41, assisted by his colleague Mohammad Ali, 41, arranged to move suitcases containing the drugs off the plane and have them placed on baggage carousels for domestic arrivals. A palm print belonging to Gareth James was found on one of the bags. drug-smuggling gang jailed on Monday for a plot to flood the West Midlands with nearly 3million of cocaine, Strictly couple Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton celebrate new daughter with adorable name, Joyous Stacey took to instagram and said 'Our Daughter is here. Police say that so far 23 people who are members of the P1 crew or have links to it have been brought before courts. A GANGSTER with links to one of the UK's most notorious crime families started a 19-year jail term yesterday. They let the victim go and threatened to kill him and his family if he didnt bring more jewellery and cash. Constance comes from a family with links to the royal family, Stacey Dooley 'touched' after kind message congratulating baby girl spotted on London Underground, Stacey Dooley has welcomed her first child with her partner, Kevin Clifton. He said: Their parents have been made redundant and they dont want to go back in last years uniform and last years trainers. Only in recent years has the government stumped up cash so police and councils can recognise children at the centre of exploitation as victims of modern slavery and trafficking. email newsletters - subscribe here. Man United will be bidding to continue their impressive start to the year when they face Palace in the Premier League. Carjackings, shoplifting, children forced to commit crimes that might not be drug related but can lead to drug related crimes.. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. He now runs community interest company 1 Message , offering mentoring and support to families struggling with exploitation. Thats where we first started focusing on CCE. The typical County Lines operation will manage a phone line which users call to get heroin and crack cocaine. The phone and the stuff are in the next-door neighbour's garden, he wrote. They know going missing far away for long periods of time will trigger a response. Stephen Davies, District Crown Prosecutor with West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service, said:When originally arrested, Laurence McCarthy had claimed that the replica guns had been purchased for a gangster and moll party. ", He added: "We also secured Criminal Behaviour Orders against Toms, Iqbal and Ilsley that, from the day of their release and for five years, prohibits them from associating with each other and bans them from entering any driveways or gardens without the owners permission.. All but one were taxi drivers working at night and were in the main deliberately lured to a scene so that they could be robbed.. Mulvey built a Spanish villa with an infinity pool, drove top-end cars and moved between four and five-star hotels. In October last year, a drugs warrant was executed on Cranham Drive, Worcester, following information from the community to the Warndon Safer Neighbourhood Team. The first robbery took place on November 11 when a taxi driver was directed to collect a fare from an address in Handsworth and four people got into his cab and asked to be taken to Perry Barr. But the safety measure backfired when officers trawled through the recordings and saw him loading drugs inside. And it means that all of those other things you dont see.. Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. Do not attempt to intervene. They might be hundreds of miles apart, but they are locked in a deadly dance. Bottom row l-r: Billy Griffin, Lauren Griffin, Robin Griffin, John Brady, Organised criminals like Greater Manchester gangster Paul Doyle have found rich pickings outside their metropolitan stomping grounds. Drugs were in short supply during the first lockdown, but demand never eased up. In addition, 10 other members of this organised crime group were previously sentenced to a total of 42 years in prison during 2012 and 2013. In a major blow to gangster-turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari, the Allahabad High Court dismissed the March 15 order of the Ghazipur MP/MLA Court, which allowed Ansari to be kept in a superior . So its about understanding your community, its about understanding the potential risks and being able to spot them. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Officers found their Ford Fiesta getaway car abandoned in Acocks Green later that night and recovered stolen property, plus forensic evidence linking them to the burglaries. You were running a significant operation under the radar of your boxing organisation, and you were able to disguise what was really going on with these cash movements.. arrested 13 people - including a 16-year-old boy -. When his friends were spoken to they started to say things like he knew that he couldnt get out of it, hes been trying to get out for years. As well as seeing a significant number of people handed prison sentences, 18.25kg of amphetamine, 12.28kg of cocaine, 5kg of ketamine, 412 diazepam tablets, and 342g of cannabis resin with a combined street value of approximately 5.25m was seized, along with a firearm and 100,000 in cash. Run by nine Worcestershire scammers, the operation saw around 470 vulnerable people - often elderly and those in poor health - targeted in a three-part scam. A gang based in Coventry who distributed millions of pounds of drugs around the country have been jailed for nearly 100 years. The other three men pleaded guilty to the same offences. The court heard that messages on his phone also indicated he was a wholesale drug dealer. He stated that police have used lockdown to round up the gangsters - the peddlers of death - and to attack the whole foundation of the county lines model. At Friday's court appearance, the following sentences were issued: Following the sentencing, Detective Inspector Gough from the West Midlands Regional and Organised Crime Unit, said: "We are pleased with this result which is the culmination of many months of investigation, working with colleagues across our region to tackle the problem of serious organised crime. The court heard that another victim suffered a cut to his thumb. Mulvey continued to evade justice even after returning to the UK for the first time in five years in 2012, apparently because his father was ill. With the help of Lithuanian special forces he was finally caught, half-dressed, at a house in Kaunus on March 28, 2017. Its people in their local communities.. Daniel Delahaye, 29 of Witton Road, Birmingham, Sharon Wild, 54, previously of Cranham Drive, Worcester, Ebony Wild, 26, previously of Cranham Drive, Worcester and Donna Derrick, 37 and of no fixed abode, all appeared at Worcester Crown Court on Monday. In September that year police launched Operation Asquith to smash the gang, with raids taking place in Plymouth, Southampton, Sheffield, and Greater Manchester. Hour-by-hour forecast as Met Office issues new weather warning, The Met Office has predicted a cold and frosty start for many areas in the North West, Woman found injured on the road after attack near cricket club, Police are keen to speak with a person believed to have stopped their vehicle and spoken to the victim that night, Forensic officers tape off house as man is arrested on suspicion of arson, The man was taken to hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation. The charm of rural and coastal areas can conceal problems like poverty, isolation and addiction. The Queen Consort spoke out as she and the monarch visited Aberdeen. On one side a small village in a rural county like Devon, on the other a huge conurbation like Greater Manchester . Previously, Meghann was an Account Executive at Patrick Media Grou p. Read More. Cullen and Edwards were passengers in the vehicle, and all three were arrested. Carren Monga can now be identified after a judge lifted reporting restrictions, Abdul Wahid Xasan was shot twice in the back in March last year, Riaz Ahmed was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to serve a minimum 18 years. The CPS and our colleagues in the criminal justice system are working together to not only identify, but robustly prosecute those who use and carry firearms as well as those who produce and supply such deadly weapons.. "These men will now face substantial prison sentences for their involvement in these offences, and thanks to the diligence of officers and other investigating staff, we have been able to reduce the availability of weapons on our streets. Many who were involved with drug dealing or possessing weapons have received significant prison sentences. "However, this was a lie and in fact they were purchased in order to be re-activated and later sold to criminals. Unlike child sexual exploitation (CSE) there is currently no definition in law for child criminal exploitation. Something went wrong, please try again later. Despite his associates being convicted, Mulvey slipped the net. He is serving a minimum of 18 years for the offence, and Monga 27 years. A kidnap gang have been jailed for a total of 48 years after abducting, assaulting and robbing a man as he sat in his car with a friend in Birmingham. His horrific attack left the . A fourth man Laurence McCarthy, 44 had in March 2017 ordered eight Bruni Cap 9mm blank firing Glock replica pistols which would later be converted in order to fire live ammunition. Organised groups of criminals have been causing havoc on the streets of Birmingham. Leslie Allen, 64, fitted the security system so he could monitor who was visiting the property in Coventry. "He thought he had got away with these offences but the National Crime Agency did not give up.. They called themselves the 'Bugsy Malone' gang, in reference to the 1970s musical entirely acted out by children playing underworld characters. He died in the street. Four days later, another taxi driver who was asked to take a group of five to six females to a street in Nechells had an object thrown at his face. A lot more young people are being groomed locally too, she adds, with groomers acutely aware of what triggers safeguarding responses. Or report online. Sentencing the pair for murder at the start of the year, Judge Simon Drew QC said the shooting had occurred during "gang warfare" in the city, which broke out after 16-year-old Jaydon James was killed in 2018. But I would rather miss my life than miss my son.". It was a major coup for Greater Manchester Police,. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. By 2011, Simpson was running multiple drug dealing cells across the entire south coast from Cornwall to Sussex. They were impressed by his reputation - one bolstered by his hospitalisation after a machete attack in Manchester, Grimsby Live reports. But since several members were locked up as part of a series of different investigations, including the drug smuggling case, violent crime in Coventry has slumped. In the same year, he makes the Sunday Times Rich List as a 'property developer.' The following year Merseyside Police targeted Haase, raiding his headquarters. Mr Gorman said the two defendants were arrested after they were identified from CCTV footage at a number of locations. A kidnap gang who cut off a man's finger to get a 20,000 ransom have been jailed. Akeem Ivey-Foster, aged 20, Kash Wallace, aged 24, and Ricardo Davis-McCann, aged 23, were all found guilty of robbery at Birmingham Crown Court and sentenced to 16 years each. As he was jailed for seven years in December 2018, Kekulas lawyer said his life of crime started when he started mixing with the wrong company and hanging around with the wrong crowd. Kids at risk of being turned into the next 'Bon Bon William'. Criminals recruited in their teens, towns over-run by Greater Manchester dealers, and parents, teachers and campaigners trying to save kids from being groomed. In 2015 the National Crime Agency's team in Birmingham picked up the case from West Midlands Police, pursuing an investigation across nine countries involving covert surveillance, complex mobile phone analysis and more than 20 million documents. He used his compensation money to set up a drug dealing gang, the Longsight Crew, in memory of his brother, who had been shot dead by the Gooch gang in 1996. Bogdan Serban, 42, burst into the salon, in Coventry, on June 3 last year. 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