Tag: Jimmy ‘The Weed’ Donnelly

ON THIS DAY IN GANGLAND – NOVEMBER 25TH 1940 Infamous gangster Jimmy ‘The Weed’ Donnelly, member of the notorious Quality Street Gang was born

Jimmy was a key figure in the so-called Quality Street Gang, who were reputedly behind organised crime in Manchester in the sixties, seventies and eighties. Immortalised by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy’s 1976 song ‘Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed’, he has convictions for burglary, theft, assault and handling stolen goods and has been Read more…