The man who nailed the Krays tells his chilling story after 40 years in hiding

Bobby Teale always knew the price he might have to pay for giving evidence against the Kray twins.
He would be shot dead and dumped in a river somewhere, probably after being tortured and mutilated.
His brothers would live the rest of their lives in fear. His daughter would grow up never knowing her father. [...]

After Car Bomb, Mexico Braces for an Even Deadlier Drug War

A 2009 episode of the award-winning TV drama Breaking Bad depicts a scene in Mexico’s bullet-ridden border town of Ciudad Juárez: police are lured to a location to find an informant’s severed head stuck on a turtle, which itself turns out to be a booby trap that explodes, killing and maiming the law enforcers after [...]

Meet Ilda Boccassini, the lady who scares the Italian Mob

A fearless anti-Mafia judge has launched a new onslaught against the country’s most dangerous gangsters
Ilda Boccassini has had some spectacular moments in her 30-year career as a prosecutor, taking on the Sicilian Mafia, corrupt fellow magistrates and the terrorists of the Red Brigades.
But none have been quite so dramatic as the morning last week when [...]

Four Gangsters Will Stand Trial for Murder

SALINAS, Calif. – Four men will go on trial for killing Jose Manuel Perez last August, and Salinas police call it a case of mistaken identity.
When court let out Friday, a group of girls that were in the courtroom in support of the suspects yelled out “They’re innocent, all of them!” But Judge Duncan [...]

Family’s ordeal as drugs rap Scot faces death at hands of gangsters in Venezuelan jail

A SCOT has warned his family he will be killed unless they keep bribing thug cons in the brutal South American jail where he is being held.
Stephen Coutts has been held on remand in prison in Venezuela since February on suspicion of drug charges.
Gangsters control the jail and they have threatened Stephen with death unless [...]

Gangster convicted of second-degree murder

It was a simmering feud between Surrey gangsters that ended with 24-year-old Tejvir (Sunny) Bains fatally shot in January 2008.
And while Raminder (Mindy) Bhandher claimed to fear for his life when he fired a friend’s Glock at Bains, a jury convicted him Monday of second-degree murder.
Bhandher, 32, a colourful gangster who has testified in other [...]

Gangsters’ families lose billboard fight

The families of Manchester’s most dangerous gangsters have dropped a claim for compensation after police put up billboards thanking the community for helping to convict them.
After killers Colin Joyce and Lee Amos were jailed for gang-related murder, police marked the conviction with huge posters showing how the pair would age behind bars.
The billboards thanked the [...]

Berlusconi braced for verdict over ally’s ‘Mafia links’

Italian PM’s reputation set to suffer if his right-hand man is jailed for alleged connection to gangsters
Italy was yesterday tensely awaiting the outcome of a trial which could send Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-hand man to jail for 11 years.
Marcello Dell’Utri, a 68-year-old politician from Palermo in Sicily, has been a close friend of Mr [...]

ESSEX: Gang jailed for smuggling cannabis into the country in cucumbers

ESSEX gangsters tried to smuggle enough cannabis into Britain to make joints stretching from John O’ Groats to Land’s End.
Two shipments of resin worth £11 million – hidden inside boxes of cucumbers – weighed around four tonnes.
If made into joints and laid end to end, they would stretch more than 900 miles.
The 12-strong gang were [...]

George Taylor tells story of arrest of East End gangsters the Kray twins

FOR retired police officer George Taylor arresting the infamous Kray twins and their brother Charlie was all in a day’s work during his 31 years at the Met.
His experiences have been recorded on a new CD depicting the working life of sixty-eight Met Police officers from the 1930s to the present day.
The six hour CD, [...]

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