Sunday, April 12, 2009

British "Al Capone" was put at 39 years.

The head of the criminal group in Manchester Gooch Gang Colin Joyce (Colin Joyce), nicknamed "contemporary Al Capone, was sentenced to 39 years in prison, reports SkyNews.
Before announcing the sentence 29-year-old Joyce called the trial "circus" and said that no sentence can not take away his "inner freedom and innocence."
Colin Joyce, and four members of his gang were brought to trial on charges of two murders. Partners killings were from 32 to 35 years imprisonment.
Led by Colin Joyce Gooch Gang fought for influence in the city with the Longsight Crew gang in the late 1990's. The main activity Gooch Gang was a collection of money from street traders. After Joyce release from prison in March 2007, where he was for illegal possession of firearms in 2001, the war between the factions broke out with renewed vigor.
During the ceremony, the funeral of a member of Longsight Crew, who was killed earlier Joyce, the offender and the Gooch Gang members opened fire on a crowd at the cemetery with friends and relatives had been killed in gang-style "- from a moving car.
Joyce and his gang were arrested in August 2007.
According to the police after the arrest of Colin Joyce and members of his gang clashes in the city with firearms fell by 62 per cent.

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