A boyhood motorbike accident left Julian Bell paralysed from the waist down - he used the huge pay-out to avenge his brother's murder and start a bloody turf war, the M.E.N's Damon Wilkinson looks back
Aged 12, Julian Bell fractured his spine in a motorbike accident. It left him paralysed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.
He built up an arsenal of weapons including a Mac 10 and Uzi sub-machine guns. Rivals and anyone else who stepped out of line were ruthlessly punished, earning Bell the nickname the 'Godfather of Death'. Soon the Longsight Crew were at war with Pitt Bull Crew, Doddington Gang and Gooch Close Gang as they fought a bloody battle for control of the city's multi-million-pound drug trade. Between 1999 and 2004 at least 26 killings were linked to the four gangs.
On his release he employed a 'chief minder' who was later jailed for shooting dead a man outside a Greater Manchester nightclub in 2002. The investigation that followed was key to bringing down Bell's estimated £1m drugs empire. Bell served his time and on his release moved to Dover Road in Southport. Homes on the upmarket street, close to the famous Royal Birkdale Golf Club, can fetch up to £500,000.
Robinson, then 20, was behind bars at HMP Bristol for possession of a sawn-off shotgun, but was still able to direct operations using ten contraband mobile phones which had been smuggled into the prison and topped up with pay-as-you-go vouchers bought by friends and family.
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