Posted on 04/08/2009 1:58:35 AM PDT by Stoat
Caged ... gang boss Colin Joyce and Lee Amos
Arsenal ... gang's gun haul
Cavendish Press
Double killer Colin Joyce, 29, headed a violent drug mob who executed rival hoods and tortured street dealers who dared to cross them.
But he smirked as Mr Justice Brian Langstaff told him: “You were involved in gang-related activity which is all too reminiscent of Al Capone and Chicago in the era of Prohibition.”
Joyce, the “general” of Manchester’s Gooch Gang, got applause from his mob as he claimed his trial was a “circus” and no sentence could destroy his inner “freedom and innocence”.
Relatives of his victims Ucal Chin, 24, and Tyrone Gilbert, 23, looked on in disgust.
Manchester Police reported an incredible 92 PER CENT drop in gang shootings after Joyce’s capture.
Nicknamed Piggy, he made up to £700,000 a year.
His gang, based in Manchester’s Moss Side, had an arsenal including machineguns and Magnum-style revolvers.
They used them “at the drop of a hat” to take on rival mobs and recover drug debts, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Joyce and 11 gangsters were convicted of 27 charges.
Right-hand man Lee Amos, 32, got a minimum 35-year sentence for murder.
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Sentencing Joyce to two life sentences, Mr Justice Langstaff told all 11 defendants in the dock: “You were all involved in gang-related activity which is all too reminiscent of Al Capone and Chicago in the era of prohibition. Manchester is not the Wild West but many of you treated its streets as if it were”.
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They would shoot at people over minor disagreements while drunk in nightclubs and torture street dealers who crossed them, the court heard. They had an arsenal of weapons including machineguns and magnum-style handguns which they used, “at the drop of a hat,” and to exact revenge and enforce drug debts.
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Aeeron Campbell, 25, a mindless thug with an intelligence putting him in the bottom 1 per cent of the population, was given life with a minimum of 32 years.
Gang members Ricardo Williams and his brother, Narada Williams
Gooch gang members clockwise from top left, Aeeron Campbell, Hassan Shah, Kayael Wint, Aaron Alexander, Ricci Moss and Gonoo Hussain
Anson Road murder scene
Sub-machine gun found abandoned in bushes, Moston
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Brought to justice at last - News - Manchester Evening News
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DC Rod Carter said: "Joyce makes things happen. Joyce brings people together. I have heard gang members refer to him as the general and he likes the kudos of it.
"Nobody has had a bigger impact on the Manchester gang scene in the last few years than Colin Joyce. Joyce does not have to pull the trigger - his presence is enough to incite others to do so.
"He has no need to still be doing what he's doing. He does it because he enjoys it, that's what makes him so dangerous."
Joyce, a recent Muslim convert, grew up in territory belonging to the Longsight Crew which is affiliated to old Manchester gang, Doddington. He even attended the funeral of Orville Bell - the 17-year-old whose memory the Longsight Crew was formed in.
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| bang (someone) up | Verb. 1. To put (someone) in prison. {Informal}. 2. To make (someone) pregnant. |
A dictionary of slang - B - Slang and colloquialisms of the UK.
Pretty shabby looking “arsenal” compared to the stashes of many law abiding folks Stateside.
Which is why we don’t (yet) have TROP gangs overrunning, say, Arkansas.
I have grave concerns for our future, however. Hopefully, stories like this one will remind people that banning guns only bans them from law-abiding people. As of a moment ago, I’m seeing over 350 UK media outlets carrying this story, but none at all in the USA. This apparent disinterest in covering ‘this kind’ of news from the UK and elsewhere in Europe contributes tremendously to many Americans’ ignorance about the realities of gun control.
What the heck is a Magnum-style revolver?
LMAO
This is the MSM, don't expect accurate or even reasonably coherent terminology to be used when describing firearms. :-)
I had to laugh. Several years ago I was in Arkansas and was talking to a local woman about the lack of crime in the area.
She Told me that Meth gangs from Ca were attempting to set up shop in the area, but the local kids took them deep in the woods to show them an 80 foot deep mining pit.
She smiled demurely and I laughed
Serious organised criminals like Manchester’s Gooch and Doddington gangs will always have access to guns. Minor criminals are much less likely to. There is also much less risk in the UK of crazy people shooting up a school or a shopping centre.
Of course, in Britain you are more likely to get mugged or raped (although the mugger/rapist almost certainly doesn’t have a gun) because you aren’t allowed to walk around armed, but I would question if Britain’s gun laws encourage more burglary, as getting a shotgun licence really isn’t that hard and contrary to popular opinion, you won’t be prosecuted for using it as long as the burglar hasn’t made it out of your house and is running away as you pull the trigger. If you are a sane person without criminal convictions and you don’t have a shotgun in your home, that is through your own personal choice.
Ultimately each system has it’s pros and cons. On balance however, I would prefer the American system because nutcase perpetrated shooting sprees are comparatively rare compared to ‘ordinary’ muggings and rapes/murders that might otherwise have been prevented if the victim had been armed..
An Uzi nestled between a 1903 and a Browning .25. Eclectic tastes.
A 45mm automatic revolver I’d guess.
We had a gang from Massachusetts try to set up a drug operation in a town of 15,000 here. Some of the local toughs beat the hell out of them and sent them back home. The local paper ran an editorial about how the local boys were mean to Hispanic kids from another state. Their naivete was breathtaking. All I could do was shake my head in disgust.
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looks like a MAC-10 and a Tokarev to me...
Oh, I have one it is .22.
Probably right on the MAC-10, dont know much about them. I think the Tokarev came out in ‘33 and was modeled after the 1903.
Yep, and the revolver above it is a break-top Webley, early 20th century British military issue.
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That's like a 'Quigley Style' Sharps Rifle.
that darn Tom Selleck sure causes a lot of problems ;-)
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