Police hunt ‘canal pusher’ gang after pregnant woman and teenage boys were attacked and shoved into water within days Two 14-year-old boys were set upon by a gang of up to 15 bat-wielding thugs They were walking along Netherton Canal in Liverpool at 6.50pm on Tuesday Ryan (not his real name) was hit on the back … Read more
Notorious rival gang members find a way to coexist inside overpopulated jail cells after Salvadoran president’s crackdown on violence Jailed members of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs are being held together at six different prisons in El Salvador Ariel Alexander Ávila Gómez, a member of the Barrio 18, told Noticias Telemundo that rivals had … Read more
At school Joe Cole learned lessons he’s put to good use in a scorching new television action thriller. The 31-year-old is the star of Sky’s ten-part Gangs Of London, in which he plays Sean Wallace, a public school-educated, cold-eyed scion of a crime family who takes over the business when his father (Colm Meaney) is … Read more
Brazil’s health minister says the government should turn to gang and militia leaders in dangerous and overcrowded favelas to develop a coronavirus strategy Brazil Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said the government should engage favela gang and militia leaders to combat the coronavirus The overcrowded slums are home to about 11 million people or 2% … Read more
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire duped out of £5million by dodgy quiz gang: How a consortium secretly provided contestants with the answers and played the system to plant their members on to the ITV show Applicants who paid a fee would be slipped the answers to the questions Producers believe the gang netted ‘at … Read more
Gang of goats RETURN! Uninvited four-legged friends seen strolling around deserted streets of a seaside town during lockdown yet again Mountain goats spotted in Llandudno, North Wales by Andrew Stuart on Friday Herd returned to coastal town over weekend and was photographed again today Kashmiri goats believed to be descended from a pair gifted to Queen … Read more
Ex-England ace Ashley Cole ‘is attacked and tied to a chair by masked gang who raided his home and stole jewellery’ Cole’s home in Fetcham, Surrey allegedly targeted by robbers on January 21 The former Chelsea star may have been tied to a chair in the raid, sources claim Surrey Police are still trying to … Read more
A crime boss and his county-lines drugs gang have been told to pay back just £60,000 after making £2.4million selling drugs through a major underworld syndicate. Kingpin Carl Hannan, a 36-year-old from Teesside, headed up the cross-country drug trafficking network that sprawled from the North East to the North West of England, designed to flood … Read more
Coronavirus could fuel rise in gang warfare as rival dealers battle over ‘dwindling revenue streams’ from lack of parties and drug use amid crisis, ex-Met Police counter-terror chief warns The lack of social interaction because of coronavirus could fuel drug gang wars A former counter-terror chief has warned the violence may strain the NHS more … Read more
Four men are executed over the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi that shocked the world Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all executed The four were hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in India’s capital on Friday Their deaths mark the first executions in the … Read more