An unemployed university drop-out, jailed for running a dark web business selling illegal drugs, has been ordered to hand over more than £490,000 in bitcoin. Thomas White, now 26, took over the running of the notorious dark web site Silk Road after it was first closed in 2013. Although he had no legitimate income, White Read more…
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The Barn Restaurant Robbery
At the beginning of the 1970s, the Barn Restaurant at Braintree in Essex was a successful entertainment venue under the ownership and management of World War II veteran and former RAF bomber pilot Robert Patience. Life in the restaurant business was pretty uneventful for Robert until the early hours of the 5th November 1972 (at Read more…
Police hoped to prosecute grieving dad as he tried to find truth of son’s mystery cement mixer death
POLICE spied on a grieving father and tried to prosecute him for “perverting the course of justice” as he campaigned for answers about the mysterious death of his son. Lee Balkwell’s (top right) body was found wedged between the chassis and drum of a cement mixer at an industrial site linked to organised criminals in Read more…
Anti Gun Campaigner Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set, killing cinematographer
Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer and wounded a director when he discharged a prop gun on a movie set in New Mexico on Thursday, authorities said. Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins, the photography director of “Rust”, and Joel Souza, the film’s director, at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, a production location south of Santa Read more…
On this day 20 October 1993, Gary Nelson aka Tyson of Woolwich, south-east London, killed Police Constable Patrick Dunne and William Danso in Clapham.
Patrick Dunne, born in 1949, was a British constable with the Metropolitan Police Service. Prior to his police career, Dunne had taught maths for fifteen years at the Deane School in Bolton. Danso was a doorman at the Brixton Academy music venue. Murders Danso, a doorman at the Brixton Academy, had refused Nelson entry to Read more…
RESPECT MY MOTOR.. OR GET RAMMED
The driver of a bright-orange Fiat Punto has been jailed for ramming an Audi S1 three times, forcing the occupant to run for his life. 28-year-old Brian Kendall, of Kirkholt, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was sat in his Fiat Punto at a petrol station waiting for his girlfriend, when two cars – an Audi S1 and Read more…
ON THIS DAY IN GANGLAND. – OCTOBER 20TH 1940 Essex gangster/businessman Eddie Blundell was born and today celebrates his 81st birthday.
Eddie Blundell was a genuine hard man. Hes been in Borstal and prisons; in his youth he was involved in stealing and slaughtering’lorries. He’s been shot by rivals in Ilford High Road and at a pop-concert attended by 100,000 people he and his ‘crew’ had mauled the rampaging Hells Angels who were taking over the Read more…
On this day 19 October 1989, The Guildford Four were released after having their convictions quashed
The Guildford Four – as they were dubbed – were jailed for life in 1975 for bombing pubs in Guildford. The attacks left five people dead and over 100 injured. In a bit more detail…. The Guildford Four were wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. After their arrest, all Read more…
ON THIS DAY IN GANGLAND – OCTOBER 18TH 1954
Notorious North London gangster Terry Adam’s was born in Islington. He celebrates his 67th birthday today. Terry, the oldest, and his brothers, Patsy, born in 1955 and Tommy, born in 1958, were just local Catholic lads involved in petty, small-time crime. They were as far removed from the big league as it is possible to Read more…
Dodgy Dave Courtney exposed as a grass.
The ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary on ‘Dodgy’ Dave Courtney is yet another indication of the decline of English TV programmes. ‘Celebrity Villain – Real Life’ was in breach of the trade descriptions act if it was meant to be a real life account of a respected villain. The absence of any real content in the programme left Read more…