Kate Middleton has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.
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Former bare knuckle boxer Dougie Joyce has revealed he is cousins with Colin 'Piggy' Joyce and told how he hopes the jailed Gooch gang boss is 'back on the streets soon'. Dougie Joyce described the convicted killer, one of Manchester's most notorious gangsters, as a 'really nice fella' and an 'icon'.
The self-styled 'general' of Moss Side's Gooch gang, Colin Joyce terrorised the streets of south Manchester during the early 2000s. He was likened to Al Capone by a judge when he was jailed for a minimum of 39 years in 2009 for the murders of Ucal Chin, 24, and 23-year-old Tyrone Gilbert.
Dougie Joyce, originally from Openshaw and a member of one of Manchester's best-known Traveller families, is himself no stranger to the law. He's currently behind bars, having been jailed in November last year after attacking a 78-year-old man in a Northern Quarter pub.
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But in a newly released interview with the Criminal Connection podcast, recorded before his conviction, he revealed his close family links with the Gooch gang head honcho.
He told interviewer Terry Stone how his dad and Joyce's mum are brother and sister. "Piggy... is my father's nephew, my first cousin," he said.
"That's how close we are. He's a nice fella, really nice fella, but now he's in there serving the rest of his life in jail.
"Obviously, he's a well-known man. He's an icon to the boys and the younger generation."
And Joyce also revealed that Piggy could be launching a bid for freedom.
"From what I know he's going for another appeal," said Joyce. "He hasn't
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