The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang

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NOTW editor 'spiked paedophilia scoop on Arthur C Clarke for fear of". The Independent. 2012-07-06 . Retrieved 2023-01-21. They had a villa in Spain bought with state handouts, while the drugs cash poured in and business was good.

Her 40-year-old son Jason (above, left) was in charge of transport; her other son, Ian (above, right), aged 39, was in charge of logistics. Place of safetyTo his credit The Debt Collector is one of the most successful true crime documentaries ever made, watched over 50 million times. The Fitzgibbon clan dealt in violence, money and drugs for more than a decade, amassed a fortune, yet claimed thousands of pounds in benefits, writes Channel 4 News Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel. A lot of this is the social history of the city, with drug gangs becoming more and more powerful over recent decades. Mr Smith says he is now involved in advanced stage negotiations with production companies and agents who are interested in dramatising his life story.

To research his debut novel, Powder Wars (2004), Johnson spent several years on and off embedded with some of Britain's most notorious gangs. [ citation needed] Crime writer Graham Johnson, who studied the family, told Channel 4 News: “The Fitzgibbon crime family have been major players in organised crime for 30 or 40 years, and one of the reasons they’ve stayed at the top of their game is because they use extreme violence when necessary to protect their interests.

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Mr Johnson was behind two investigative books on how Liverpool criminal John Haase managed to dupe the authorities into releasing him from prison several months into a 20-year-prison sentence for drug offences. He said: "Shaun has a great personal story, although unlike many of the people I wrote about he never sold drugs. My understanding is that Shaun needed a gun for his own protection because he was being threatened by dangerous people. " Shaun Smith, who grew up in Kirkdale, served out a prison sentence after he was linked by police to a handgun.