Gangland UK
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Christopher Berry-Dee. Gangland UK
Contents
Prologue
Introduction
Early British Gangs
The Brothers Gunn
Goldfinger – Mr Kenneth James Noye
• John Marshall
• Danny ‘Scarface’ Roff
• Keith Hedley
• Pate Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony Tucker
• Sidney Wink
• Nick Whiting
• Stephen Dalligan
• Daniel Morgan
• George Francis
The Kray Brothers
George Cornell
Frank Mitchell – ‘The Mad Axe Man’
Jack ‘The Hat’ McVitie
The Richardsons
Thomas ‘Tam’ McGraw and the Scottish Gangs
Paul Ferris
Walter Norval
The Essex Boys
The Adams Family
The Wembley Mob
Bert Wickstead – Gangbuster
The Securitas Crew
The Great Train Robbers
Street Gangs UK
Triads UK
Our Journey Through Gangland UK
Copyright
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To the memories of:
Damilola Taylor, aged 11, murdered 27 November 2000; Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and Charlene Ellis, 18, murdered 2 January 2003; And Gary Newlove, 47, murdered 10 August 2007.
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In consequence, there remains an enormous amount that we can’t verify about Mr Hood. We don’t know how many people he robbed, nor how many people he and his band of followers killed. We don’t even know his real name. His life, according to many notable authorities, bore a striking similarity to accounts of the life of one Fulk FitzWarin, a Norman nobleman who was disinherited and became an outlaw and an enemy of the tight-fisted King John of England, who argued with the Pope, disputed with his own barons, and died from dysentery, most likely brought upon from a surfeit of poisoned ale, peaches and plums.
In the oldest of legends, Robin’s enemy, due to his role as a bandit, was the Sheriff of Nottingham. But in later versions (if any one of them are based on a shred of fact) the sheriff is despotic and gravely abuses his position, appropriating land, levying excessive taxation, and persecuting the poor – not unlike some senior local government officials today.
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