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Today’s result concludes a complex investigation with a lot of hard work by both the investigation team and the CPS. Without this dedication and expertise we would not have been able to secure these sentences today, which should send out a clear message that we will not tolerate county lines exploitation in Lancashire. This gang will certainly not be making any more YouTube videos while they are serving their sentences in prison." Read More Related Articles

A total of 26 people have been jailed after an investigation into drug dealing (Image: Lancashire Police) Calls are now being made for police to take more serious action to prevent these youths from terrorising and pushing away residents. A total of 26 people have been put behind bars following a major investigation into drug dealing in the town as well as Fylde and Wyre. Officers from the West Targeted Crime Unit took down a major supply operation between October 2020 and June 2021 First look inside The Ivy in Spinningfields - is this Manchester's most extravagant new restaurant? The charges against Stanley Parr were that he intervened to help friends. He was at war with traffic wardens because he routinely cancelled charges against his friends. He misused police vehicles using them to take his wife shopping, to buy fish from Fleetwood fish market and drive his family to airports for their holidays.READ MORE: Driver fled after horror smash and left his two friends critically hurt - it was the last time he'd ever see one of them alive A 'wannabe gangster' who slashed a housing officer with a machete in a 'silly row' about his girlfriend has vowed to change his ways. There is a tragi-comic postscript. After he was fired Stanley Parr was attending a meeting. His car was involved in two minor accidents. He claimed that his car had been stolen before the accidents happened. He was not believed and he was fined. At his funeral it was said that he had risen to great heights and had a great fall. He did not believe that he had done anything wrong. A drugs gang set up a fake healthcare company using encrypted phones to ensure they could continue to run their empire during the Covid pandemic. Following his arrest, Herring, described as a “loyal lieutenant” within a prolific Sheffield gang, was forensically linked to two firearms – a rifle and a sawn-off shotgun – which had been recovered by officers during searches in the area. The Irish Small Gang

If we see the QSG as a social group rather than a crime gang we can see that they were like the circle around Mixie Walsh. A criminal past, an interest in boxing, an Irish connection, links with show business, and business interest in clubs were some of the characteristics. Fun, eccentricity and colourfulness were cherished. When Jane Austen wrote: ““For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” she could have had Mixie Walsh’s friends in mind. A story about Mixie Walsh: I was told this by a retired headmaster. Holy Family school in North Shore had been vandalised and computers stolen. A posse of parents got in touch with Mixie Walsh. He sent on of his intimidating colleagues who found the thief with some of the computers. There was no violence. The thief was told: “No more.”And there was no more. Gangs in brawl at station". Lancashire Evening Post. 8 September 2006. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007 . Retrieved 13 March 2007. The gang members, 13 of which have been sentenced over the past three days, were convicted after making a music video in which they rap about drugs, money and violence. I have already written about this in my blog: “Owen Oyston: Rapist or victim?” My argument is that there is something disquieting about the trial (trials really) of Owen Oyston. He was targeted by an emetic right-wing cabal of business rivals, political enemies and a “nutcase”, using illegal methods.But these were not normal times. “Mystery fires to be investigated,” was the headline in the Gazette and a Special Committee was set up to investigate. Trevor Jones stayed off work and gave an interview to a national paper where he talked about “a snakepit.” He claimed he had been getting phone calls accusing him of accepting bribes.

He had a long history of criminal offences including robbery, possession of firearms, perverting the course of justice, theft and assault. Pool fans are banned – from resort boozer". Lancashire Evening Post. 8 August 2006. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007 . Retrieved 13 March 2007. Le Drew, 31, was jailed for 11 years and four months after he was convicted of conspiracy to supply class A and class B drugs and possession of a prohibited weapon CS gas.Gangs groom youngsters and recruit vulnerable people before they reach adulthood meaning they are committed to a life of crime from an early age and find it almost impossible to break free.