I grew up around the Quality Street etc, and there were some brilliant characters around in my youth in the 60’s……Happy days ! They were also branded organised gangsters and were blamed by the police for many serious unsolved crimes.

I was just a slack jawed teenager taking it all in but can remember Lash’m Larry as he was sometimes referred to, dressed in a herringbone overcoat, trilby, diamond tie pin and packing a Luger under his armpit or so I was told later but it was well known that he ‘packed’.Police then used the data they were able to access to identify the users of the assigned EncroChat handles - and piece together their movements. Yes, he's right in that the coaches used to pull up outside but it was to TAKE the Highland Room crowd to Wigan Casino which was the all-nighter place. I hope this sends a clear message to the public of our determination to rid communities of this sort of criminalisation and to make our streets safer.

Arthur Thompson who was Glasgow’s governor for a while tried to take on the North West, and again, Mixie saw to it that it didn’t happen.Anthony Gilberthorpe says that the same thing happened in Brighton shortly before the Brighton Bombing the following year which was carried out by Patrick Magee. His collection of his girlfriend up High street or Lord Street whilst on the run was described by the Gazette in pulp fiction terms. This was unheard of in this kind of case because it means that Catharine Briggs Bolton would have to pay for expensive legal defence. Blackpool, once a byword for cheeky family fun, was by the 1980s a violent town plagued by lager louts, drug dealers and villains intent on muscling in on the lucrative club trade.

I’d always known about mixie(Michael) and to be honest he was well known and respected or feared by many people during that time. Family ties lured Marisa to Italy once more when she was 17 and she got married to henchman Bruno Merico. He and his closest associates fought hundreds of battles against football hooligans, drug dealers and rival hardmen.The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Police said his girlfriend Lang was aware of his activities and was with him whenever he was carrying out his work on her brothers' behalf.