The nightmare world of cocaine debts, enforcers and the Bird of Prey
Criminals are coming under increasing and dangerous pressure from other criminals over drug debts
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Police scene in Everton as Landseer Road approach to Lance Close is sealed off by police after shooting in April 2014.
The seizure of a drugs haul worth £20m undermined a crime group controlled by two well known brothers.
Earlier this week Liverpool Crown court heard how brothers John and Alan Tobin were under pressure after police seized the massive haul of drugs on the M6 in Cheshire.
On February 6 last year John Tobin arrived at hospital with a gunshot wound after an incident in the Prescot area.
Suspect in court over shooting of innocent man and drug supply charges
Jamie Rothwell is accused of 11 charges including being behind a hit in which a man was shot after he opened the door to a bogus pizza delivery man in Warrington
Jamie Rothwell (Image: Liverpool ECHO)
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Luxembourg’s Gerson Rodrigues celebrates a famous goal against Ireland. Photograph: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile/Getty Images London - Paul Doyle
Stephen Kenny said he did not want another gallant defeat. This historic ignominy was not what he had in mind. Gerson Rodrigues’s fierce long-range goal five minutes from time earned Luxembourg a famous win that leaves Ireland’s World Cup qualification ambitions hanging by the skimpiest of threads and Kenny under heavy pressure. His record as manager reads: played 10, won 0.
Kenny has been unlucky, never able to field a full-strength side, but Luxembourg, ranked 98th in the world, are the lowest-caliber opponents he has faced and were supposed to be the side against whom he oversaw his first win. Instead, Ireland flopped to a new low, with defeat the consequence of a grim performance. Meager skill, not much zest. Whereas there were positiv
Duchy Road and a machete A KNIFEMAN who was badly injured when his bike was struck by a car in a hit and run, tried to hide the machete he was carrying. As Garikai Gwayagwaya lay in a garden with a severely broken leg and back injuries he shoved the weapon under a fence, burying it under soil, before the emergency services arrived. But he was spotted by a witness and, after initially claiming the machete had been a present he had bought for his father, 25-year-old Gwayagwaya, of Mount Pleasant Road, Farnworth, pleaded guilty to possessing a knife in a public place.
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