Unsworth was the driving force behind it, Frain played a key role in it and Brunton had a lesser role involving not much more than the introduction of your co-defendants. Alternative Ulster - Featuring interviews with Christy Dunne, "Mad Dog" Johnny Adair, Sam "Skelly" McCrory, Joe Doherty, Billy "Buffalo" Clare, Wayne Hart

A notorious Reading hooligan has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for threatening an assault victim with violence if he did not drop charges. If you like the idea of spending 7 hours binge-watching aging brutish British men talking about a bit of the old ultraviolence of the good, old days, you’ve got your fix right here. Live by the Sword - Featuring interviews with Phil Berriman, Steve "Nipper" Ellis, Dominic Negan, William "Billy" Lobben, Most went east, to the leafier suburbs of Essex, either because they did not like their new neighbours or in search of a better life. “We went for the kids,” said Mr Redwood, who sold up in Canning Town a decade ago and moved with his civil partner and their two sons to a house with a garden in the resort town of Leigh-on-Sea. Besides, he said, the old East End was no more. “Not being funny, but when I used to walk through Canning Town, I knew everyone. It took ages. Everyone stopping, saying ‘Ello! ’Ow yer doing? ’Ow’s yer dad?’ These days you don’t know anyone.”

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Albert Chapman, Patsy Manning, Don Tear, Freddie Foreman, Sharif Cousins, Simeon ‘Zimbo’ Moore, Rob Holloway, Tony Wilson &‘Convict’ Little, Joe Egan Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. Is he bad? It's all in the look.." Retrieved Nov 26 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Is+he+bad%3f+It%27s+all+in+the+look.-a0261475399 British Gangsters: Faces of the Underworld is a documentary series about UK gangsters or 'Faces'. Series 1 (6 episodes), Series2 (8 episodes) it based on the book Faces by Brian Anderson [1] After several offers were refused Brunton, 56, introduced Unsworth to Frain, who was well known to police and had a fearsome reputation for violence.

The mourners then clambered aboard and the cortege set off at the 30-miles-per-hour speed limit. But it was not fast enough for a couple of bikers, who roared past on the inside. “Foreigners, probably,” muttered Paul Topp, an old-timer at Cribb’s, driving the lead limousine. “You’d not have seen that years ago. Everyone used to stop, bow their heads, take off their hats. There’s no respect now.” Billy & Eddie Blundell, Lew Yates, Andy Swallow, Adele O’Connor, Steve ‘Nipper’ Ellis, Sandy Percival The court heard Mr Mullen and his family had to be moved out of their home and into protective police custody during the case because of the danger they were in.Crime pays. And it really began paying out in the run-up to the millennium, as numerous old lags started getting their pensions topped up from the proceeds of true-crime merchandising. After decades of seeing their dark power half-inched by punks and football hooligans, former East End gentlemen were reclaiming their 'Sixties appeal as shotgun-toting clothes horses and pop culture icons - lending their mugs to photo shoots, magazine columns and bestselling autobiographies. And, of course, movies: for better or worse, the Britcrime genre was also reactivated in the 1990s, a mixed legacy the UK film industry still hasn't shaken off. Tracey had no qualms about keeping her father’s corpse in the house: “In the hospital he asked me to take him home, so what could I do?” All the same, Billy was going to have a less traditional send-off than his wife had. “He didn’t want horses,” said Mr Redwood, prompting a discussion of the dead Bullards’ marriage. “He loved her, but God she hated him,” said Tracey, laughing fondly. As his neighbours moved to Essex, Mr Redwood’s calling maintained his prominence in an increasingly diffuse society. “This is what everyone knows me for,” he said. It helped that most self-respecting East Enders know Cribb’s. Founded in the late 19th century, it is one of the oldest and, after a decade of rapid growth, now the biggest of the family-owned undertakers that once stood on every East End high street. This platform has allowed Mr Redwood to develop some handy sidelines.

In each episode, current and former gang members and active criminals are interviewed by presenter and former member of the Essex Boys gang, Bernard O'Mahoney. Many episodes concentrate on cities around the UK: London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham. Other episodes focus on how individuals became involved in crime and miscarriages of justice. Series 2, Ep 3, travels to Ireland. Stephen ‘The Devil’ French, Gary Sandland, Boris Boszomenyi, Brian Charrington Jnr, Kevin Mooney, Nicola ReganBirmingham - Featuring interviews with Albert Chapman, Patsy Manning, Don Tear, Joe Egan, Sharif Cousins, "Zimbo" Moore, christopher brayford In front of Billy Bullard’s house a more modest floral collection had been laid out, ready for the hearse. Parking spaces for the limousines had been reserved with wheelie bins painted with the St George’s Cross, an emblem of white working-class defiance. Billy’s corpse was upstairs, where it had been lying in state for a week. In the kitchen—so surgically spotless the family bull terrier wore the catatonic expression of a dog with nothing to sniff—Tracey and other Bullard women were in their dressing-gowns, drinking tea and chatting. Mr Redwood, an old family friend, skilfully organised and cajoled them. All his sentences seemed to contain at least three different emotions and end in a joke. As in: “Stacey’s taking it hard, poor cow, else she just drank too much last night—go on, mate, get up them stairs and sort your hair out!” Glasgow - Featuring interviews with Walter Norval, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Joe Steele, Paul Ferris, Ian ‘Blink’ McDonald London - Featuring interviews with 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Eddie Richardson, David Fraser, Freddie Foreman, Billy Frost, Albert Donoghue, Jimmy Tippett, Lenny Hamilton Manchester - Featuring interviews with Jimmy ‘The Weed’ Donnelly, Arthur Donnelly, Paul Massey, Sean Keating, Bernard O’Mahoney, Wayne Barker, David Fraser, Christopher Brayford

Sentencing Frain to three-and-a-half years, Judge Simon Barham told the court: “Frain was brought in because he was from outside the area and because of his reputation as a man prepared to be violent and his ability to intimidate Mullen. Kim Mullen had multiple cuts to his head and nose, fractures to the left arm and wrist and injuries to his left eye, and it was some time before he recovered. She is bubbly, of mixed race (“Bangladeshi, Jewish, Spanish and Irish—a full-blooded East End mongrel,” she says) and a funeral nut. Having started washing bodies in her local mosque as a teenager, she now describes herself as an “R&B singer and embalmer”. She is also well known. Among the guests at the reopening ceremony are a former Labour Party MP, Baroness King, the mayor of Tower Hamlets, and, wearing a Homberg hat and ecclesiastical purple, the head of a Ghanaian Pentecostal church, Archbishop Kwaku Frimpong. (“If we was in his church, we’d all be popes,” Mr Harris says drily.) Some Muslim guests, warily inspecting the new body-washing facilities, think his gambit might work. “These days we see people who want horses or funerals like Princess Di, with doves flying everywhere,” says Haji Taslim Ali, who runs a Muslim cemetery. “It’s not permitted, but you can’t stop them.” At Mr Redwood’s stately pace, the cortege turned onto Barking Road. It was the route Billy had taken almost every day for half a century—ending at Coral, a bookmaker, where the hearse stopped. The manager of the betting-shop stepped onto the pavement and, in a gesture that seemed to encapsulate the florid theatricality of the East End funeral, where Victorian music hall meets Catholic high Mass, she handed Tracey a single white rose. Jimmy ‘The Weed’ Donnelly, Arthur Donnelly, Paul Massey, Sean Keating, Bernard O’Mahoney, Wayne Barker, David Fraser, Paul FerrisAndrew Frain, 41, known as “Nightmare”, became infamous in 2000 after being exposed as a Chelsea Headhunter – a notorious gang of football hooligans – in a BBC documentary by undercover journalist Donal MacIntyre.