MOORS MURDERS: see BRADY, IAN
MORAN, BUGS: Mobsters: The Mob’s Greatest Hits TV - The Story of Al Capone TV - Days that Shook the World - Valentine's Day Massacre TV - Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend TV - Great Crimes & Trials TV -
In Chicago, notorious gangster Al Capone had wanted to teach a similar lesson to his rival – Bugs Moran. Mobsters: The Mob’s Greatest Hits
Al ‘Scarface’ Capone rose to power in the 1920s. ibid.
Capone had had enough: he decided to end the war once and for all. ibid.
Valentine’s Day 10.30 a.m. ... The Moran crew was waiting for their leader to arrive ... Men dressed in police uniforms arrived at the garage and walked into the building. ibid.
No-one was ever arrested in connection with the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. ibid.
By the time the ’20s ended he was undisputed king of the heap. What put him there was the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Chicago was divided into spheres of criminal influence. The north side was controlled by Bugs Moran, Capone’s sworn enemy. The Story of Al Capone
Inside the warehouse there was a scene of carnage. The six members of the north side gang lay sprawled among the blood. ibid.
The story of how frontier lawlessness and prohibition unleashed gang massacre upon America. Days that Shook the World s3e2: St Valentine’s Day Massacre, BBC 2005
St Valentine’s Day 1929: Capone is the mastermind behind a plan to see off his enemies. ibid.
More than a hundred bullets fired. ibid.
14th February 1929: A day of cold-blooded murder: the worst hit in Chicago mob history – four gunmen, possibly working for Al Capone, killed seven followers of Bugs Moran. Valentine’s Day Massacre, National Geographic
Where was boss Bugs Moran? Why didn’t the Morans see it coming? Were the killers real police? Was it a crime of passion? ibid.
Moran v Capone meant the Irish v the Italians. ibid.
According to Bolton, the massacre plan was hatched at a meeting in Wisconsin headed by Capone himself. ibid.
Between 1920 and 1929 the economy was very good in Chicago. Al Capone – The Untouchable Legend, 1998
Torrio is working for the undisputed king of Chicago’s underworld, Big Jim Colosimo. ibid.
Capone is infamous for his brutality. ibid.
Bugs Moran – Capone decides to get rid of him. ibid.
What put him [Al Capone] there was the Valentine’s Day Massacre. Great Crimes & Trials: The Story of Al Capone
This determined Capone to eradicate Moran’s North-side Gang once and for all. ibid.
MORECAMBE BAY murders: Real Crime [with Mark Austin] TV - Distress call - The Guardian online -
Twenty-three people drowned. Illegal immigrants living and working in appalling conditions. Living in fear of the gangsters who smuggled them into the UK. The deaths of twenty-three Chinese cockle-pickers here on Morecambe Sands shocked Britain. Not only did it shine a light on the hidden world of human trafficking, it also exposed the appalling conditions suffered by those scratching a living to put food on to our plates. Real Crime [With Mark Austin] s7e14: Death on the Bay, ITV 2008
Who were the people who had sent them to their deaths? ibid.
The day after the horrific night before: nineteen bodies had been recovered, eleven survivors were being treated, and two questions were paramount: What were the identities of the cockle-pickers? And Who had sent them out in such treacherous conditions? ibid.
Sinking water! Sinking water! Hello, hello, Millie. Hello. Millie ... many ... sinking water, sinking water. Distressed cockle-picker’s phone call to emergency services
More than 40 Chinese workers were picking cockles there in the evening of 5 February 2004, sent by their recruiter and manager, Ah Ren, who was facing fierce competition from other Chinese teams along the Bay. To maximise profits, Ah Ren cut out the local middleman and gangmaster who bought cockles from him and controlled the production. That meant working against tidal charts and safety rules, which no one in the supply chain cared about as far as ‘foreign workers’ were concerned.
At 8.30 p.m., two hours after they should have been told to leave the Bay, the workers realised the tide had come up too fast for them to escape. They were stranded between deep, water-filled gullies. With no sign of rescue, the workers began calling their families. They cried, and said goodbye. Some drowned before their families could call back. The Guardian online article 22nd October 2012
MORGAN, DANIEL murder: Murder in the Car Park TV - Guardian online -
The death of private detective Daniel Morgan is the most investigated unsolved murder in the history of the Metropolitan police. Murder in the Car Park I, caption, Channel 4 2020, caption
10th March 1987: The same people have been arrested for the murder many times over the past 30 years. None have been convicted. ibid.
Their uncle John was a murder suspect involved in some horrible murder, and police corruption and hacking, a fake sheikh mastered the dark arts, and it goes on and on. ibid. Jonathan Rees, private investigator
The drama in this series is based on official records, court testimony and sometimes contradictory first-hand accounts. ibid. caption
A high profile murder because of its brutality … [with] the mark of an execution. ibid. rozzer
Five days before the murder, Belmont Car Auctions sued Southern Investigations in the High Court to recover the missing £18,000. ibid. caption
Kevin Lennon [bookkeeper] worked for Southern Investigations for more than 3 years. ibid.
I formed the opinion that John Rees was determined to kill Daniel Morgan or have him killed. When he spoke to me about it, John Rees was quite calm and unemotional about planning Daniel’s death. ibid. Judge reads Lennon’s statement
He was attacked from behind with an axe and murdered. Murder in the Car Park II, brother
2002: For a year and a half I employed surveillance teams almost permanently … My investigation cost over £1 million … I decided to focus them [resources] around Glenn Vian, a man called Jimmy Cook and an ex-police office called Sid Fillery. On the basis of information that the police had received, the getaway car was driven by Jimmy Cook. ibid. rozzer
We’re talking police corruption, OK, of serving Met police officers. ibid. journalist
Despite four previous inquiries, Daniel Morgan’s killer remains at large. Murder in the Car Park III
Cops in ‘kill’ plot: A secret police ‘ghost squad’ has been set up to solve a private eye’s murder – allegedly carried out with the help of cops. ibid. Sun headline May 2006
From 9 August 2006, Gary Eaton was interviewed by police debriefers on 67 days – on over half of those days David Cook was in contact with him either by phone or by text. ibid. caption
The case against Sid Fillery was not progressed. Jonathan Rees, Glenn and Garry Vian, and Jimmy Cook were all acquitted of the murder of Daniel Morgan. ibid.
The Metropolitan police has been described as ‘institutionally corrupt’ and its commissioner, Cressida Dick, personally censured for obstruction by an independent inquiry set up to review the murder of the private detective Daniel Morgan.
The findings of a panel inquiring into Morgan’s killing in 1987 triggered calls from his brother, Alistair, for Dick to consider her position.
The panel’s findings were a victory for the 34-year-long struggle for justice by the Morgan family during which they said they endured being ‘lied to, gobed off, bullied [and] degraded’ by those institutions they believed they had the right to rely on. The Guardian online article Dodd & Sabbagh 16th June 2021, ‘Institutionally corrupt: Daniel Morgan inquiry condemns Met’