A man had a high value watch stolen from him in a late night robbery in Altrincham on Wednesday (August 17). Police were called to the scene, on Groby Road, shortly before 9pm.
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It has now been 13 years since Manchester’s own ‘Al Capone’ was jailed for life for his involvement in the Gooch Gang’s ‘Wild West’ crime spree.
That means Colin Joyce, portrayed as the south Manchester gang’s ‘general’ during the trial in April 2009, is one-third of the way through his life-term prison sentence of 39 years. A jury at Liverpool Crown Court found Joyce, then 29, and 10 other henchmen guilty of 26 out of 27 offences.
They included the murder of Ucal Chin, 24, and then Tyrone Gilbert, 23, who was shot at Ucal’s wake in Longsight. Those murders were either motivated by ‘mindless gang warfare with a territorial cause’ or were to ‘eliminate their opposition in the drugs trade’, Mr Justice Langstaff concluded in his sentencing hearing .
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Throughout the hearing, the jury heard how the Gooch Gang took guns into nightclubs to fire at members of the public who had offended them in the street. That was alongside luring children into their criminal empire, tasking them with selling drugs on the street.
It was a string of offending which Mr Justice Langstaff likened to the Al Capone-era of gangland violence in the US during prohibition in the 1920s.
“Manchester is not the Wild West, but many of you treated its streets as if it were,” he said. “[It is] reminiscent of Al Capone and Chicago in the era of prohibition.”
The most devastating crimes in the rampage were the murders of Ucal Chin and Tyrone Gilbert. Mr Chin was 24-years-old when he was shot dead in June 2007.
The court heard that he was driving in Longsight when he was ambushed by his killers and shot seven times. Then, a few weeks later,
A man had a high value watch stolen from him in a late night robbery in Altrincham on Wednesday (August 17). Police were called to the scene, on Groby Road, shortly before 9pm.
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