The London-based criminal organizations that rose to power in the late 80's/90's made a LOT of money. More so than any of the old time 60's/70's gangsters before them. I'd say about eight to nine criminal organizations operating in the city were definitely some of the most powerful criminal enterprises in Europe at the time. Especially thanks to their contacts within freemasonry. Many detectives looked at these big time criminal organizations with a "better the devil you know" attitude. Afterwards many of them moved out of the city and most of the ones calling the shots turned "legit".
Plenty of groups from those circles are still active. If you take a look at huge busts in the London/Essex/Kent/Hertfordshire area every few years you'll find names showing up that used to hang around those criminal organizations back in the days. It's not the same as it was back then - a ton of activity is very much under the radar - but there's still lots and lots of organized crime going on in that region that is NOT foreign in origin (no matter how much the media tries to play up that "foreign crime threat" story). They still own car dealerships, recycling companies, etc...in London.
Clacton drug lord Jonathan Parkhill is jailed for 16 years 7th April COURT CRIME CLACTON-ON-SEA
By Dami Adewale Reporter
A DRUG lord branded the “Escobar of Essex” has been jailed for 16 years after he botched a £20 million cocaine operation by sending it to the wrong country.
Jonathan Parkhill, of Clacton, mistakenly sent 30kg of cocaine to South Africa when it was supposed to land in Germany.
Crime officers caught the 55-year-old red-handed through encrypted chat EncroChat as he hastily tried to rectify his blunder, which was seized in 2020.
Parkhill was arrested in Heathrow Airport in 2021 as he arrived home from Colombia, home of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Isleworth Crown Court heard another of his criminal efforts that year saw Parkhill and his ally Kevin Hanley, 44, smuggle more than £16million's worth of cocaine, about 500kg, to Belgium.
Hanley was later arrested at his home in Uxbridge where officers found a sawn-off shotgun.
Appearing before the court, Parkhill and Hanley admitted conspiracy to import cocaine as well as admitting a “string of other offences”.
Parkhill was sentenced to 16 years in prison while Hanley was locked up for 11-and-a-half years.
Prosecutors said: “In relation to the defendants, Mr Hanley could be described as Mr Parkhill’s subordinate in the operation.
“Conversations between the men show they were both involved in the supply of class A drugs, predominantly cocaine, around the world.
“Mr Parkhill had significant connections to Colombia, evidenced by his arrest taking place after returning from South America.”
Parkhill and Hanley had also attempted to get more than 500kg of cocaine, worth in excess of £19 million, into Belgium.
The court heard the money was due to be split between Colombian dealers and Parkhill but the deal went south.
Hanley, who was described by Parkhill as his “eyes” in Antwerp and was responsible for handling the deal, was savagely beaten for bungling it.
Recorder Andrew Campbell-Tiech said: “On the point of view of the defendants, both importations failed.”
The operation which led to the pair’s capture was led by the National Crime Agency alongside overseas partners.
David Hunt and his group are supposedly quite untouchable still after all these years, even after the leaked exposé about their connections to rogue cops, elected officials and other élites.
The Long Fella has gone legit. As have most of the families named in the Operation Tiberius report - which includes a ton of names from the London professional boxing scene. However, a lot of guys that associated with these families - especially ones from the East End and Essex area - still show up in huge busts. Jonathan Parkhill is an example, but you've also had Michael Read and Mark Gooch, Greg Spiers, Richard Wakeling, Chris Michaelides, Danny Sharland, etc...showing up in the last two years. It's hard to say who's pulling the strings in the background, but you have at least a few of these busts every year so there's a ton out there we don't know about.
The thing is that UK reports on crime are and have always been incredibly sensationalist. In the 90's and the early 2000's their main focus was on the Jamaicans and the Turks/Kurds making it out like all of the crime in London was being committed by them, which was a crock of shit. The Kurds stuck to their own neighborhoods in North London and were mostly focused on heroin importation and extortion in their own community. The Yardies on the other hand ran successful drug-dealing networks, but were seldom involved in high level importation and other rackets. Nowadays the Jamaicans and the Kurds are old news and they've shifted their focus to Albanians (first and foremost), Somalis, Vietnamese and Lithuanians. Albanians for the most part run successful drug-dealing networks, grow houses as well as prostitution, Somalis also run drug-dealing networks, Vietnamese operate grow houses and Lithuanians are involved in gunrunning for the most part. Again all of them stick to their own rackets and again it's a crock they would be responsible for 99% of the crime.
A lot of the busts that show millions of pounds worth of narcotics getting smuggled through the ports involve local villains. Local struggling businessmen are not taking out loans from foreign criminals. As hard as it may seem to believe there are still lorry hijacks happening and they don't involve foreign criminals. There's even a lot of people smuggling networks that involve British and Irish gangsters.
North Kensington in London? A lot has changed: costs millions to live there. Even for an ex council flat.
Kensington in Liverpool is a very different story however haha
I agree like many parts in London big money has changed it, but while one of the most expensive properties in the UK. Kensington and Chelsea rank the 7th highest crime borough in London.
It now became known that Dutch drug lord Johnny Gerrard Kock was found dead in his cell at HMP Berwyn in Wales on August 16, 2021. The 75-year-old K., who served a quarter of a century in prison and narrowly escaped prosecution twice in the past, 'flooded' the streets of Liverpool with cocaine and was regarded as one of the UK's biggest drug traffickers ever. The Antiques dealer who imported up to £1bn of cocaine to the UK died seven years into his 25-year sentence.
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Originally Posted by Hollander
Funny they can't break in then asking him to open the door HAHA.
The English mob is a joke right now mainly because many muslim gangsters from Kosovo already arrived in their country and are causing havoc. I mean, even on the Winston Churchill monument in London, they placed an Albanian flag and named him as "Winston Cherchilli" lol lol lol like he was their guy because of the name "Albion" which is an alternative name for Great Britain lol. Those guys are obviously confused lol But what goes around, comes around since in 2000/2001 England backed those same fellas in Kosovo against the Serbs, and now the "boomerang" came back lol
He who can never endure the bad will never see the good
Funny they can't break in then asking him to open the door HAHA.
The English mob is a joke right now mainly because many muslim gangsters from Kosovo already arrived in their country and are causing havoc. I mean, even on the Winston Churchill monument in London, they placed an Albanian flag and named him as "Winston Cherchilli" lol lol lol like he was their guy because of the name "Albion" which is an alternative name for Great Britain lol. Those guys are obviously confused lol But what goes around, comes around since in 2000/2001 England backed those same fellas in Kosovo against the Serbs, and now the "boomerang" came back lol
It's because loads of Albanians have been arriving by boat pretending to be asylum seakers, most are low level drug dealers at best.
