The Noonans

[Phil1]

They tend to be mocked rather than respected.

 

[WNRH]

Yes the nonce noonan was latfly flauteroy or some other stupid name he invented aka Dominic. He is actually banged up according to Wiki.
It was Damien Noonans funeral that Desi wanted the bus. He died a year before Dessie.

Just read what Lattlay-Fottfoy stands for, quite clever if true.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The people who run Manchester (anywhere for that matter) you’ve never heard of them, you’ve likely never seen them.

Good point. I've never seen my local councillors.

 

[ancoats]

Ran an Intimidation racked and clubs and pubs had to pay up and have their doormen on the doors, so the Mr big in the drug world could sell their stuff without any trouble, it was easy pickings back then and Manchester was rocking and the birth of the E's. Ecstasy

worked in Sankey soap in the mid 90s, and they had control of places with the salford lads

 

[Blue Mist]

Id say that the vast majority of 'gangsters' that are well known are failures. Hence being well known. Noonans...2 are dead and the other unlikely to outside of a jail cell. Not exactly a roaring success at their trade of choice. Coghlan of Stockport has made a good few quid i suppose but still at huge cost in other areas of his life. Its not a v glamourous lifestyle.

Coghlan was the one I was thinking of but couldn't remember his name. By all accounts pure evil, got off at least 2 murders.

 

[Blue Mist]

The family from Hr Broughton dont go for publicity and dont like their name mentioned. I told one member that his photo was in a book by Paul Ferris. (Glaswegen Gangster).
He was straight on the phone to get it removed from any further copies.

Fuck ergh I never said anything, (rushes to obliterate my post) carry on nothing to see here.
Blue who ? Never heard of him.

 

[m7mcfc]

Fuck ergh I never said anything, (rushes to obliterate my post) carry on nothing to see here.
Blue who ? Never heard of him.

Haha.

 

[talkativesprout]

Friend of mine had a sister that married into what was a member of the QSG. I went to the wedding in about 1988 and this bunch of apes were sat at a table it was all tats and cauliflower ears with the father of the bride in the middle. There was an aura of menace about them but they were perfectly cordial but they looked like they would not have tolerated any drunken guest approaching (I got warned not to get pissed up and try to get them singing, just stay a fucking way)

The groom ran a few tyre places in Hulme or somewhere and never acted the big time Charlie.

 

[mike1923]

Saw a documentary on them a few years back where one of them bragged ‘I’m a gangster, I’ve been in prison most of my life’

Which I would suggest makes someone perhaps one of the worst gangsters of all time

 

[Kippax77]

Coghlan was the one I was thinking of but couldn't remember his name. By all accounts pure evil, got off at least 2 murders.

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