yo guys what if you may recognize this CEO it’s a place called Nottingham he’s too cold so you sound about this place it’s an absolute [ _ ] see you back in the day well it was about was pulling out your friends tsunami you’ll get the odd fight but it was all about playing out having a good time riding bikes popping wheelies with your friends nowadays you can’t go on the streets without trouble I’m dropping in this city early in my money straight away and then I’ll be there in it yeah see nothing all right cool cool all right let’s go all right bless sirens on that anyways man you all know [ _ ] Columbus Street Salem I’ve got McDonald’s got all sorts of other places like JD Sports Direct it’s a beautiful city but like I say there’s too much action on this street day by day all you see is fries drunks knitties goes on or at the end of the day I guess that’s why it’s called Nottingham we used to be called shotgun but you’ll see why boom let’s go I don’t even know how long it’s gonna be telling me it’s gonna be here but I feel like he’s a chat anymore I don’t know yo I’m playing you know Batman my pee it’s gonna get a long time what’s this what do you mean what’s this bro bro [Music] I’m talking to you like a man you start touching me he calls me to follow along can you buy Wednesday the next time we don’t run that back to the shit’s on foreign all right foreign [Music] [Music] everybody [Music] [Music] it’s not people man you’re right bro no somebody’s gonna jump like this come off the training into knots upon me trying to [ _ ] harass me and [ _ ] swear yeah man this might still went I think it went up that way or somewhere like that in it but yo listen I need to get out of the city man well I’ve just got I just came to the city I’m supposed to live here from I can’t believe for the night if I had any contacts of places where you could say I’d let you stay so you know I’ve seen that I know listen I’m just gonna beat off here anyway thanks for helping me out there yeah that night it started to take a long walk just to like kind of like refresh my mind and figure out what was going on since I totally see not too good it’s not the worst city but it’s not the best but it’s a city that we can meet better and that’s what I’m just going to be bringing in the content for you guys let’s get nuts back on the map let’s see what nuts is really like if you want to be part of any videos just hit me up let’s do this guys let’s do this for nuts so yo sweet TV guys TV guy no come back a bit go back again come back walk with everyone in stock go TV guys let’s do it all right now pretend I’m still there okay all right all right on TV guys so yo your tick tock’s a [ _ ] man and everyone just laughs thank you I respond to that respond to that but look here yeah don’t look at the camera yeah don’t look at the camera everyone stop behind us I go look straight all right ready all right go go we’re the best artist yeah best I am make sure these girls top tier do you understand you looking at me can you look at me I’m telling you looking at me yeah you don’t gotta run me down now yeah you’re still talking to me yeah should we [ _ ] you yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right
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The City Of Nottingham Information 2023
foreign [Music] cities in England Nottingham we vowed not to stop telling you about cities in England in this video this time it’s the turn of the attention-grabbing city of Nottingham we’re discussing a county town and unitary Authority area in Nottinghamshire this city in East Midlands is located 180 kilometers Northwest of London 53 kilometers southeast of Sheffield and 72 kilometers Northeast of Birmingham it has links to the global Legend of Robin Hood and to the historical lace making bicycle and tobacco Industries in recent years it’s been constantly featured in the media for the wrong reasons which are connected to poverty and deprivation even then this city is recognized as a tourist destination in England with a relatively High visitor turnout Nottingham before now the first credible historical account about Nottingham dates back to the 6th century when it was a minor settlement known as snottingham or snot Inger ham becoming what we call it today perhaps you know that word ham in Anglo-Saxon meant Village and the word Inga meant belonging to while snotter stood for man from this you can deduce the meaning of the ancient name of this city The Village owned by snotter trust word corruption the name gradually changed to Nottingham there’s evidence that and settlement existed here before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the 7th century during the Middle Ages early in the 11th century William the Conqueror built a wooden Castle which was rebuilt in the 12th century to guard Nottingham the settlement later grew into a Township later after the Norman Conquest its growth was rapid and a new area called the French Borough was created between the castle and the old town but the Old Town continued to be known as the English Borough by 11 55 the king gave Nottingham a charter a document granting townspeople certain rights during the Middle Ages about this time the Nottingham population was around 1 500 and by the 14th century it had reached 3 000. Nottingham had its mayor in 1284. it became a county corporate in 1449 and gained its first sheriff before and during Industrial Revolution the first grammar school was founded in Nottingham in 1513 some 20 years later Henry VII closed the leper hostels and the friaries Robert Smithson built Wollaton Hall in 1588 as was the case in entire England traditional Industries such as the manufacture of wool declined in Nottingham these were replaced by others such as malt making and glass making which were booming by the 17th century glass which was rare in the Middle Ages then became common of course much of Nottingham’s Prosperity during the Industrial Revolution was founded on the textile industry at some point the city became an important International Center of lace manufacturer Nottingham’s culture Nottingham has a culture rooted in theaters and Cinemas museums and Galleries and music and entertainment let’s tell you about them Cinemas and arts the famous Royal Center in Nottingham encompasses two large capacity theaters namely the Nottingham Playhouse and the theater Royal and the neighboring Royal Concert Hall there are other smaller theater venues also in the city such as the Nottingham Arts Theater the historical lace Market theater and New Theater among others also in the city are cineworld and a showcase together with independent Cinemas such as the Art House Broadway Cinema in Hockley and the four screen Art Deco Savoy Cinema museums and galleries in November 2018 National video game Museum was opened it had been known as the national video game arcade since 2015 when it was opened in the Hockley area of Nottingham but in June 2018 an announcement was made that it would be relocated to Sheffield it was said to be the first Cultural Center for video games in the UK others among several notable museums and art galleries in the city are the National Justice Museum where histories of law Crime and Punishment Through the Ages are documented visually there is also the greens Windmill and Science Center the Nottingham Castle Museum the Nottingham contemporary which was opened in 2009 new art exchange which was opened in 2008 Nottingham industrial Museum which was housed in Wollaton Park showcasing historical collections relating to textiles communication transport Mining and steam Nottingham Natural History Museum based at woolerton Hall with collections relating to Botany geology and zoology music the city has several large music and entertainment venues such as the Royal Concert Hall Rock City Nottingham Marina the 2500 capacity Nottingham Royal concert hall and Nottingham’s City ground the classical music scene is active in the city with well-established ensemblers such as Symphony Orchestra Nottingham harmonic Society Bach choir and Philharmonic Orchestra symphonic wind Orchestra regularly entertains the city culinary culture as of the last count there are more than 300 restaurants in Nottingham many of them are AA rosette winners the Iberico World Tapas at the city center was awarded a bib gomand in the 2013 Michelin guide the other two michelin-starred restaurants are alchemilia also in the city center winning one star and restaurant sat bains with rooms near Clifton bridge on the edge of the city with two Michelin stars the people of Nottingham the residents and natives of Nottingham are called nottinghamians among the notable people from Nottingham is Stella Remington the first female head of MI5 the UK’s counter-intelligence security and part of its intelligence Machinery working with the secret intelligence service born in 1935 in the city she schooled at Nottingham High School for Girls another nottinghamian is Thomas sanby architect draftsman watercolor artist and founder member of the Royal Academy in the music scene the city has produced illustrious Sons and Daughters from the 19th century up until the 21st century one of such is Shaco Kane Mason a young cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young musician award the lad performed at the wedding of Prince Harry to Megan on May 2018 the city was also home to the Nobel prize-winning Economist Clive Granger who studied and taught at the University of Nottingham his contributions to non-linear time series analysis were remarkable also via cheslav balafkin the mathematics professor and Pioneer of quantum probability was a member of the academic community at the University of Nottingham until his death in 2012. the 2021 estimated population is 332 500 according to the ons’s projection however based on the city’s 2015 population estimate of 321 500 and the total area of 74.61 square kilometers the city of Nottingham has a density of 4073 per square kilometer out of the residence of the city 65.4 percent are white British 13.1 percent are Asian 8.2 percent of West Indian origin 6.1 percent of European or North Americans 4.3 percent are Africans while 1.6 and 1.1 percent are from the Middle East and South Central America respectively crime rate in Nottingham Nottingham has been named the most dangerous major city in Nottinghamshire after 236 towns Villages and cities in Nottinghamshire it’s among the top 20 most dangerous overall the overall crime rate in the city of Nottingham in 2021 for example was 114 crimes per 1000 people which is poor in comparison to nottinghamshire’s overall crime rate of 76 per 1000 residents it is 33 percent higher it is also among the top five most dangerous major cities for England Wales and Northern Ireland for instance in December 2021 the Nottingham crime rate was the worst for bicycle theft with 52 of them stolen cost of living in Nottingham the cost of living in Nottingham depends on several factors however we found that it is in the top 32 percent of the world’s most expensive cities viewed in totality it averages 1 350 pounds which is somewhat not bad given the average after tax salary of 2160.98 pounds on average a one-bedroom apartment in the city center for example is 664.45 pounds while it’s 495.56 pounds outside the city center now the average cost of a three-bedroom apartment in the center is 1201.87 pounds while it’s 824.56 pounds outside the city center this should give an idea of the affordability of the cost of living in the city good and bad places in Nottingham like every city there are very good and very bad places to live in Nottingham the average earnings given above are boosted by good places like West bridgeford and Beeston Walton Hall and Park Old Market Square Stonebridge City farm and the adrenaline jungle are a few examples of places people love to visit in this city try and avoid certain areas such as Radford Saint Anne’s and Forest fields at night also netherfield Meadows heisen Green broxtell snyden Top Valley Clifton and bulwell among others are areas to avoid in this city Villages and small towns such as Hucknall Mansfield and ilkeston are also not good places to visit to be fair we love Nottingham’s culture and music and the people’s resilience but we dislike its poverty deprivation and crime rates what about you what do you like or dislike about this city in the United Kingdom please let us know thank you for watching this video please don’t forget to subscribe comment and turn on the notification Bell this is learning canteen
Nottingham Crime History Shooting
foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign Staples had much in common though not friends they crossed paths amicably in their home City Beau shared a passion for football both were fathers of two young children and according to those close to them both were rarely without a smile on the 25th of May 2009 these two young men from Nottingham were 5 300 miles apart but both were about to make fatal decisions that would lead to the same tragic destination 27 year old Mr Langton known as nard was cheeky an outgoing young man who made his money as a medium-level drug dealer mainly running a string of houses producing hydroponically grown cannabis originally from the city of Liverpool he made his way to Nottingham living in Lenton and the borewell areas of the city he had a partner and a dean and two young children he had been in trouble with the law in July 2004 serving four months in prison after running down and killing 59 year old pedestrian Kevin Kent Omni Yamaha motorbike and fleeing the scene he eventually handed himself in when his conscience got the bearer of him Mr Langton enjoyed clubland to the full and it was no surprise for any early hours of the hot bank holiday weekend he decided to visit a newly opened venue in the city’s lace Market called Paris formerly known as Geisha to finish off what had been a banging night out it was about 1 45 am in Nottingham and the neon lit Street still held an abundance of promise for young Club lovers who knew there was no work to get up for on Monday morning some of Mr langton’s companions mentioned that Paris might be full of people but they had an ongoing beef with nard Shrugged he was up for a good night out not trouble he had his knife on him just in case he walked in nodding to the doorman they didn’t dare search him on the other side of the world in the quiet Costa Rican coastal town of talamanca it was 6 45 PM 19 year old Reece Staples nicknamed doubler had ditched a promising football career in Nottingham now he was thousands of moles from home and planning to make a purchase of high-grade crack cocaine he had told friends he was taking his girlfriend Kylie on a Caribbean holiday where he was here to make a deal he would buy enough crack that once it was cut for sale would bring in around 27 000 pounds it still had to be transported back to the UK but Rhys knew what had to be done it had all been planned before he had set foot in Costa Rica although he would not be the primary recipient of any profits others who had brought the plane tickets for him we’ll see to that and keep the walls from the door sure the pressure pulsated through his body and his heart beat faster when he thought about what he was doing but that was all part of the game besides he trickled to himself when he was done he could dine out for weeks telling his friends about the smuggling vacation Adventures back at the Paris nightclub nard was clocked by a number of people as he walked in many hollered to him but there were others lurking who had a history of Mr Langton and his friends it went back to an incident several years earlier when a friend of Mr langtons had been shot in the back near the city’s Showcase Cinema one of those who had a beef with him Alex James now pushed his way through the teaming club without warning Mr James struck Mr Langton over the head with a champagne bottle Mr Langton reacted instinctively pulling out his knife and stabbing Mr James in the leg someone close by then whipped out a handgun and fired off two shots people screamed get down somebody’s got a gun friends of Mr James seeing the blood running from his leg wound and hearing the gun discharge before he had been shot even as the people began running from the upstairs bar downstairs onto the street and I’m police Response Unit was being sent to the scene among the crowd was 34 year old Dion Griffin a bragger who was saturated himself in the gangster life for two decades Mr Griffin was a mid-level drug dealer always looking to step up and leave his Mark he had been convicted previously in operation opal which focused on dealers being used by The Vessel cartel and had also been suspected of ordering a number of shootings in the past in one case a 27 year old man from The Apple Tree area a displeased Mr Griffin and was kidnapped outside the Lord Nelson Pub the victim was beaten and tortured for three hours and then whilst pleading for his life was shot several times and left for dead on Moore Road The Man Who police say was very very looking to be alive managed to crawl to a telephone box and dial 999 when Medics arrived they were kept back for several minutes whilst arm officers quizzed the victim about who carried out the shooting such was their belief that he would not survive whilst there was little doubt that Mr Griffin had ordered to kidnap and the shooting he had distanced himself enough to avoid being charged now in the early hours of May the 25th Mr Griffin cemented his notoriety he summoned Anthony Tony tirado his personal enforcer Mr terado was armed of a hang and pulled out a pair of black gloves together they went searching for burning Langton working their way through the Paris Club as people Spilled Out onto the street Mr Griffin Mr terado an associate from Birmingham went outside and spotted Mr Langton with blood streaming from his head wound walking then trotting down the street still thinking Mr Langton might be armed Mr terado hid behind the pillar then walked out onto the street again as Mr Griffin ordered him to take him down from 20 meters the sound of four gun shops erupted and Mr Langton was hit twice in the bat as he fled down Pilcher gate he staggered before tumbling down a state of stairs near the picture and piano Pub and the Living Room restaurant Mr Griffin and his cohorts fled armed police and ambulances already summoned to Paris arrived to find that stabbing victim Alex James had been put in the car by his friends arriving at the Queen’s Medical Center at 2 18 am Mr Griffin Mr terado and others in another car made their way to the hospital to check on the condition of Mr James arriving at 2 22 am but in the city center paramedics arriving at the lace Market were not given immediate access to Mr lamington because the incident was still considered live and no one knew if the gunman was still around by 2 35 am Mr Langton was finally on his way to the qmc already unconscious its ambulance drove to the accident and emergency Bay of the hospital at 2 45 AM followed by a police van only to be met by a distinctly unwelcoming crew led by Mr Griffin they were intent on preventing the young man getting into the hospital for treatment even as Mr Langton was taking his last breaths Mr Griffin stood at the center of the group screaming at the paramedic and the security staff at the hospital I hope you’re dead if he comes out we’ll finish him off he’s gonna die he’s not coming in here eight minutes elapsed before staff could get Mr Langton into the hospital but by then it was too late he was officially declared dead just before 3am in Costa Rica three staples was having problems confirming his flight to the UK he was also trying to judge the right time to swallow the crack cocaine he and Kylie had brought when the couple eventually arrived back at Luton Airport on June 5th they were greeted at the airport by a man who had sent them on their mission Stanley Leach a Jamaican national living on the broxto estate Mr leech was married but was having an affair with Kylie and clearly had some kind of hold over her to demand that the pair become drug mules for him Rhys insisted that he take the risks and swallow all the drugs himself the 22 pellets of crack had been secured and cut off fingers of latex gloves which were then sealed with white and wrapped in cling film The disruptive stages of the flight back to the UK meant that Rhys had to re-swallow some of the packages he had swallowed 25 hours earlier but nevertheless he and Kylie walked unhindered through the Customs at Luton Airport Reese was able to give Mr leech three of the cocaine packets he had excreted but constipating agents he had taken to make sure that drugs did not pass through his body too quickly meant that a further 19 packets remained inside him the day after arriving back Reese was on the streets around Radford and basford on his own turf he didn’t feel very well he told Kylie he suspected some of the drugs were now leaking into his body and said that he thought he might be dying desperation began to boil over him and in the early hours of June the 7th he was picked up by a routine police patrol in the basford area of Suspicion of causing criminal damage to a car at 1 15 am he was arrested and taken to Ox close lane police station where he was placed in a Cell what took place during the next three hours is still not clear but at 5am officers in the custody Suite area were alerted that their prisoner was suffering some sort of seizure in his cell like Bernard Langdon Reef Staples died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital Nottinghamshire police in line with policy of deaths in custody immediately called the independent police complaints commission to investigate whether any of their officers had failed in their duties the outpouring of grief among those who had known Rhys was overwhelming more than 4 000 people signed up to a Facebook page in tribute to him and hundreds attended his funeral many wearing t-shirts in blaze of his smiling face few could understand what had led a 19 year old away from his path as a promising young footballer to become a drug mule unfortunately part of the answer was there in the double lives being led by many young people in a deprived inner cities the aspiration these youngsters had set themselves were often so unrealistically high a lucrative career in football music and modeling that when these dreams were dashed away they saw few options other than becoming a drug dealer or living a gang life three Staples at first come to prominence in 2004 when as a 15 year old from the city’s Trinity School he played for Nottingham Forest under 16s and then signed for their Rivals not County it wasn’t long before Premiership clubs lined up at the Meadow Lane to secure the signature of the surging goal scoring midfielder he was potentially the best thing to come out of the club since Jermaine pennant who went on to play for Arsenal Leeds United and Liverpool Manchester United who had been on the receiving end of Reese’s talents when he was with Nottingham Forest won the race to sign him ahead of Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers after he was impressed on a trial but things did not work out at Old Trafford and less than a year later Reese was on his way back to Nottingham he returned to the forest Youth Academy and was given the number 34 shirt of the full Squad by 2006 he seen back on track with the forest youth team regularly turning up for key performances which helped taking through to the fifth round of the FAA young cook and during the 2007 and 2008 season to a 15 match unbeaten run but it appeared he had two personalities there was Rhys the promising young footballer and then the Radford gang member wearing his black bandana and drinking brandy in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2007 at doubler he was involved in a mass Foy at a private party at the Variety Club in Radford three people including Rhys suffered serious stab wounds he was rushed to the qmc by friends who acted quickly enough to save his life the violence he suffered that night seemed to sap his self-confidence he continued with Nottingham Forest throughout 2007 and 2008 but his head was somewhere else in October 2008 he was released by them and snapped up by a town league team Carlton FC away from the pressure of professional football Reese’s confidence and passion for the game returned but he could not stop doubler dragging him back into the Gully life that cracked in the streets around him it was no different for Bernard Langton both were victims of a lifestyle which if they had the strength of mine they would surely have wished to escape instead they were alert to their end body intoxicating draw of another life gambling on the promise of street credibility and Financial Security both men would be remembered by those closest but as smiles and the brightness they beamed into others in their short lives but there was also the terrible Legacy of sadness they left that of unfulfilled hopes and not least the unfortunate situation that two sets of children would now have to grow up not knowing their dads in May 2010 the individuals identified by the police as playing part in pulling re-staples back into the ghetto were jailed at Nottingham Crown Court Stanley Leach 38 was sentenced to five years of free month for conspiring to import and Supply crack cocaine Kylie Hodgson 24 who had a child boy Reese was sentenced to three years after admitting to importing the drug which police estimated would have been worth up to 27 000 pounds the 134 grams of high grade Coke that made up the shipment was not a large amount a mayor just been in a test room in preparation for regular excursions the authorities seem to be perplexed as anyone about why Mr Staples chose drugs over football judge milman QC said it’s impossible to work out why a lad of 19 who spent time with Nottingham Forest Academy got involved to put it bluntly in drug smuggling Bernard langdon’s death was the first gun fatality in shottingham in three years since the killing of 17 year old Nathan Williams in September 2006. drug dealer Courtney hunt h21 was later jailed for life for shooting Mr Williams through the heart in the Meadows Bridgeway shopping Precinct after a teenager had taunted him for being fat the introduction of airport-stalled scanners at the entrant to some of the city’s clubs offered reassurance to some but there were criticism from the owners that it had been put there to put people coming off coming to their Club the fact was that gang members were increasingly treating clubs as their own officers and extended cribs Quest questions were rightly being asked about how two people have managed to enter the clubs that night carrying firearms one clubs played by gun problems on the outskirt of the city had its license revoked after testimony from the police that the licensee had been cleaning up evidence after one particular clash in which a car was shot up it did not take police long to arrest those responsible for Bernard langdon’s death thanks largely to the CCTV footage from the outside of Queen’s Medical Center and around the lace Market which had caught the flashes of the gun being fired eight people including Dion Griffin and Anthony tradado were arrested their trial got underway at Birmingham Crown Court on May 2010 with experienced QC Peter Joyce leading the prosecution the full scale of the terror visited upon Nottingham that evening emerged in what was described by the judge as something akin to the wild west one of the four shots fired by Mr tradado had gone through the window of a book hitting the Optics behind the bar it was only by look that no passing revelers were gunned down that night the court heard how Mr Griffin had a hold over Mr tradado appealing to the younger man’s perverse Ambitions to become a fully fledged gangster Mr Griffin’s word was Lord to Mr tridado who was more than happy to carry out the demands of his ego-fueled boss the evening after the shooting the two of them had fled to skegness where Mr Griffin like Colin Gunn kept the Caravan for holding up after a couple of days Mr terado was feeling the heat not least because skagness was full of people from Nottingham he sent Mr Griffin a text saying ask what time I’m getting off it’s flaming here Mr Griffin replied with a calculated coldness of a man who had been there before no drama he texted Mr terrado just chill no more text shortly after a third man Andrew pleasance age 39 organized a hundred pounds for a taxi for Mr terado to disappear down to Gloucester where he intended to hide out despite jumping more than 10 mobile phones they had used before and after the murder the three were convicted on the basis of CCTV footage and the ability of the police to forensically back the signal movements through mobile phone mass and calls made between the missing phones after a trial lasting more than six weeks the jewelry found Mr Griffin and Mr tirado who both lived in the top Valley area guilty of murder Mr Pleasants was found guilty of assisting an offender and was sentenced to four years the jury failed to reach a verdict on the third man from Birmingham who was accused of murder sentencing Mr Griffin and Mr tirado to life with a minimum of 28 years each Mrs Justice sharp set the scenes at the hospital were utterly disgraceful she added this was nothing less than a cold-blooded execution motivated by Revenge innocent passer boys could easily have been struck by a stray bullet and the public could have been caught up by something that resembled something from the wild west after the case Mr Landon’s mother could Dina record upon her son’s good nature I really miss his cheeky smile she said he was always laughing and had a very bubbly character he liked to make all of us laugh and was a brilliant dad his daughter was only one when he died he would always be spending time with his son going to the park and taking him to the cinema it’s hard to believe he’s gone and they will have to grow up without him people who did this have taken away my son from me and ruined my life everyone needs to wake up and know what’s going on around him and to understand gun crime devastates families
Nottingham Joker documentary
i do it for the people that like a rogue or like a villain because at the end of the day that’s what i am i am a villain so i might as well be what i am and then you know what in this country the letter of the law says as long as you’re not being dishonest you’re not committing a crime and i figure if i’m dressing like the joke and i’m dressing as a villain i should be allowed to be a villain and get away with it this is damien hammond or what is more commonly known as the joker of nottingham a man who slipped through the cracks of society struggling with severe mental health conditions and was left on the streets to spiral into an incredibly sad and shocking situation from age 12 damien was known to the law for minor offences and by the time of his latest imprisonment 19 years later had been convicted of over 110 offenses the timeline of when damien decided to become the joker is unknown but according to court documents his crime spree started escalating around 2016. by 2018 you’d really struggle to find somebody who lived around nottingham city center that didn’t know of the joker that wondered the streets seeing him around nottingham dressed like the joker all the time seen this guy around knotts for years the guy’s a literal nutcase i’ve seen that joker guy so many times i’ve grown to accept him as part of the bus stops and not a person since he was always there even when the police searched for him which was almost a daily activity they simply asked locals have you seen the joker which of course they had just perhaps not recent enough to point them in his direction now let’s take a bit of a step back before we get more into his story since the joker was actually much closer to his fictional home than reality would indicate but first a word from today’s sponsor ease online the ark of napistim is out now and available to download using the link in the video description have you ever felt a strong sense of urgency to rush to the aid of fictional characters me 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today’s video click the link in the video description to get started and on with the content nottingham is a city in england’s midland region known for its role in the robin hood legend surrounded by historically interesting locations like sherwood forest where the merry men allegedly made their home one place in the nottinghamshire region that people may not know about is funnily enough for a small village called gotham the name gotham comes from old english goat home and the correct pronunciation is actually goatum the village became famous for stories depicting the inhabitants of being stupid or taken with madness though it’s believed that the reason for this was more of a ruse to prevent a royal highway being built through the village saving themselves the work of creating and maintaining it you see back in the rule of king john madness was thought to be contagious so when king john sent his knights to scout the village to see if it was good for the road they saw the villagers acting as if they were insane and left as quickly as they came this meant that the road was never built in gotham so this was the known inspiration for the nickname given to new york city by american writer washington irvine all the way back in 1807. over a hundred years later the batman comics were created and they were originally set in new york city that is of course until writer bill finger saw the name gotum jewelers in a phone book and changed the name of batman’s home to gotham city which of course is a vastly different pronunciation but how you would read it not in the old english so that’s where the joker comes from which is a really perfect villain to live in a village known for its madness when you know the backstory of how it came to be now if that’s not strange enough for you for this whole story wayne manor the home of batman was literally shot in the movies a real estate known as wallington hall which is of course also in nottingham so there we have it we have wayne manor we have goatum or gotham and the joker but unfortunately no batman at least as of yet now it’s very unlikely that damien hammond knew all of this but he was a self-proclaimed obsessive about the comic book villain the joker and he definitely knew about gotham the village as he was seen there dressed in the permanent attire of the villain he saw himself to be now it’s very hard to find footage of the nottingham joker it’s very few and far between but social media comments regarding his arrests or brief cop show fame illustrate that he truly played the par he’s a madman was driving my car through the town center coming home from work he walked out into the middle of the road in a 30 zone and pointed his cane at cars ordering them to stop laughed and then continued to walk off i’ve seen this guy in a night out ran out from the dark wanting to do card tricks scared the out of me and me mate he cursed me out for not wanting to see his magic trick for money obviously though of course given the fact he was supposed to be an insane villain and not just making jokes people’s interactions were not always funny often involving violence or theft he threatened to stab me with a flu i once stopped in on tesco on the way home and this guy just walks in grabs two boxes of celebrations and leaves he’s a freaking fruit loop he was begging outside poundland on parliament street nottingham standing in front of the door stopping people on their way into the store asking for money then chase someone in the store throwing abuse at them because they told him to shift out the way he was screaming like a madman i helped the security guy remove him from the store he then gave me abuse so i just got my phone out and said i’m calling the police and he ran off i didn’t even have any charge on my phone who’s the joker now so it’s pretty clear that damian had picked a perfect role for someone with a very obvious untreated mental illness he was living at an unknown address which usually indicates homelessness he was seen on the streets begging across the city frequently stealing whatever he could and ended up in court dozens of times in 2016 he was given a 12-month prison sentence for wounding which involves doing grievous bodily harm to another individual in 2018 he was handed a suspended sentence for theft possession of an offensive weapon and indecent exposure a suspended sentence of course meaning if he committed no further offences he would not have to serve that time unfortunately it didn’t take very long for him to go on a three-month crime spree for which he was picked up multiple times by the police and later that same year ended up in front of a judge again this time for obstructing police in unlawful possession of cannabis which triggered the previous conviction and earned him 22 weeks in jail with a three-year ban from nottingham city center which of course for most people would be quite hard to enforce i mean how are you going to recognize most people on the street but obviously you’re going to notice the joker walking around as everyone frequently did so what exactly did he do on his crime spree well some of them include hitting an officer in the head while he was being searched for drugs intimidating employees in stores criminal damage involving spray painting the floors in bathrooms and my personal favorite which you might have actually seen the real joker do standing in traffic waving around a gun-shaped lighter unfortunately it’s not all fun since upon hearing his sentence he did scream send me to prison i don’t care see what you have done i will kill today it’s very clear from how exactly he did things damien was obsessed with the comic book villain he was mimicking the things the real joker would do and from people’s experiences interacting with him it’s clear he was becoming increasingly paranoid and this was before going to prison met this lad down at waterfront showed me a card trick he’s obviously not all there but seemed in all right lot said the police are constantly harassing him even showed me a card trick and said police are trying to kill him i was like what after being released from his 22-week sentence the joker continued his antics which involved not taking his prescribed antipsychotics and getting hooked on a drug known as mamba this is what is commonly referred to as a synthetic cannabis product but has no similarities in use or effects and is more in line with something much more sinister it’s common in england to hear people talk about spice which is all over the place at the moment and really harming society it’s a very similar product to mamba and the people using this are often incredibly dangerous to be around as they’re prone to temper lack of judgment and will also do almost anything to get their next fix obviously not a great combination of things for someone with a proven history of untreated mental health issues multiple stints in prison for violent crimes a propensity for paranoia and a fixation with a make-believe villain so this is where the story takes a turn and comes to an end on december 30th 2019 a pair of local city workers were driving their van down strelli road nottingham when they spotted a broken television outside a building this is not an uncommon occurrence as people will often leave unwanted possessions outside their residence which are collected by local scrap dealers or city workers unfortunately this television was the property of nottingham’s comic book villain he spotted them from his window 14 feet up and began shouting aggressively that it was his property to leave it alone and how he was going to come down they explained to him that it was their job to clean up the streets so they should take it off the pavement that’s when the joker picked up a bowling ball wrapped it in a pair of jeans held it outside his window and let go the bowling ball traveled from 14 feet in the air directly onto the head of one of the workers instantly sending him to the ground and changing his life forever the victim says his injuries affect him and his family daily his personality has changed and he must wear a card to explain why his behavior in public might be considered odd this will likely be the case for the rest of his life in terms of what happened to the joker he then had a two-hour standoff with police in which he threatened to kill anyone who approached him and then he set himself on fire and jumped out of the window damien hammond was later sentenced to 12 years in prison with an additional four years extended sentence period which is handed to individuals who a judge considers to be of great danger to the public the judge told hammond during sentencing you are a volatile individual who will almost certainly offend again and it would be short-sighted on me if i were to not protect the public you are dangerous and you need to be released only when the danger has subsided now one comment on social media i want to draw your attention to is the following came across him a good few times the tram stop giving him a good stare back to show him he wasn’t freaking me out seemed to do the trick now this comment obviously comes before the joker was put in prison for 12 years for dropping a bowling ball on somebody’s head i think it serves a good lesson that you should probably avoid trying to assert dominance with people who are clearly struggling with reality in their place within it as you never really know what minor incident could cause a life-changing one to end this there is also a change.org petition which nine people have signed which reads drop all charges against damien hammond aka the nottingham joker in which the body reads free damien hammond from his 16-year prison sentence for attacking a council worker who was taking his property society made him like this and his mental health issues were ignored so that is the story of nottingham joker a man who on the surface is a funny story walking around dressed as a comic book villain doing the things the villain would do in the popular movies and comics underneath is a severely unwell individual whom society failed to help for the decade they knew of his issues as a result he’s spent years in prison and will spend many more meanwhile his latest victim will spend the rest of his life in the prison of a broken mind
Nottingham Crime History Stories Documentary
[Music] [Applause] on the afternoon on the 8th of november three months after the sterling murders a probe was planted inside radford police station as part of operation soul picked up a conversation between dc charles fletcher and jason groscock mr fletcher’s former boss at lymey’s closed door colin gunn was trying to find out what the police had on him mr fletcher explained to mr groskart the difficulties he would have in finding out about the murder inquiry and other operations against mr gunn because of the secrecy surrounding the investigation units it wouldn’t be common knowledge to anybody except those who knew they were going to get him said mr fletcher there’s those different squads murder teams who are looking into various things you’ve got stealth as well which is out on ox close lane and they’re like their own unit with their own dis ds’s and dc’s we just [ __ ] deal with the [ __ ] on the streets so as something like that it would be quite sophisticated it would be kept in-house with a specialized team bobby wouldn’t necessarily hear about it because he’s got no [ __ ] need to hear about it um and what stealth do they do a separate entity in the section of cid so we don’t know anything that they do unless we hear about it when we see them in custody or we go into the office for a cup of tea or something but stealth i mean stuff and those operations like that keep everything dead secret because they don’t like any [ __ ] to know so for me for me to hear that would be would be a very rare thing and it would be enough chance of me just wondering by and speaking to someone in that team but the chance of that are [ __ ] approaching zilch as mr fletcher pointed out for me to find anything i would have to ring lincoln and ed think who the [ __ ] are you you’d have to go through the right channels on the 25th of january at 5 22 pm another call was made by dc fletcher to mr groskop colin gunn was now worried that he was a wanted man their chat was deliberately vague as they tried to skirt around the subject of their call without saying anything too incriminating you know me of a mate he can’t work out why that bloke has said to him at the weekend that he’s definitely now wanted and it’s coming up that he isn’t right he was wondering whether or not like you know if the ncis the national criminal intelligence service and things like that are up would he not put it in the pnc as not to frighten them off yeah that’s always a possibility that’s a tactic yeah just leave it just leave it that’s a tactic it’s a tactic that you could do will you check them two out for me yeah the big fella colin gunn and uh baz dave barnett yeah and just give us a tinkle on um yeah i will do on the 4th of march 2005 at 1405 pm video surveillance picked up footage of dc fletcher putting pieces of paper into his pocket at radford police station he then made a phone call to jason grocer i’ve just done a few things nothing new on a darren peters and jamie neal there’s a couple of bits on uh and a few bits on the fella so i printed that off so right so what are you doing tomorrow what day is it tomorrow saturday hmm are you working we’re in the shop all day right i’ll pop in and come in come and say hello i’m working at eight to four alright and what’s that you’ve got one one on neil and the big lad and the big lads not he’s back on is he yeah there’s a few bits on there now nothing [ __ ] remarkable and peter’s a zero yeah yeah i suppose he is he’s just um the last one that was talked about um what was the last one you talked about to me oh there’s more there’s more there’s a couple on there sorry right okay then well that’s cool then that’s that’s brilliant then well yeah there is i think there’s one it’s on about him [ __ ] in a hospital or something and buggering off back to spain or something he what in hospital then they went to spain yeah i think that’s the one right okay operation salt had been underway for a year and dc fletcher’s computer at radford police station had now been cloned so that all the keystrokes used body officer on his keyboard could be replicated showing what he had written and the searches he had made or had attempted to make on the forces intelligence database by december 2003 operation salt log searches mr fletcher made on the police national computer for the names dean betten and later craig morin mr fletcher also searched for colin gunn’s name on a regular basis to see if it was coming up with anything on the marion bates murder investigation and on other shootings including the attempted murder of joan and john sterling in 2003. between december 2002 and september 2004 d.c fletcher searched for mr gun’s name on the computer 30 times he printed out sheets of intelligence at least 25 times between those dates in the wake of marvin bradshaw’s murder and the arrest of michael o’brien mr fletcher passed on information on the home of john and john sterling at south view road in carlton information provided by mr fletcher to colin gern included a report about a man who had gone to the police saying he had been threatened by mr gun over his domestic situation mr gunn had allegedly told the man you’re a dead man if anything happens to this woman another report given to mr gunn mentioned how he had threatened a police officer with i know where you live when he was being questioned mr fletcher also gathered intelligence on mr goon’s connection to a dark-colored bmw about houses he owned or was linked to and details to pubs police believed he had financial interest in there was a report about mr gunn smashing a man’s hand with a hammer after the man had lied to him mr fletcher was also able to tell mr gunn the extent of the police knowledge about security at mr goon’s own in revelstoke way roy’s power mr fletcher told him that officers were aware of cctv coverage in the house and that it was relayed to a utility room slowly but surely mr fletcher began compromising police investigations into members of the westwood cartel one prosecution against darren peters a racehorse owning associate of colin gunn involving a road rage incident in netherfield collapsed after mr fletcher gave up the name and address of a witness who was subsequently visited and threatened leading to him withdrawing his statement i want to know how the [ __ ] they got my address complain their witness one of colin gunn’s more psychopathic henchmen who seem more incapable of going out of his home for more than a few minutes without attacking someone assaulted a man on the estate in 2005. so severe was the beating that the man received that it was almost classed as an attempted murder he suffered broken arms and legs d.c fletcher carried out mot checks on the status of the investigation and the man was able to breathe a sigh of relief mr fletcher told mr groscott that no one would be charged unless they could get a statement off the victim the victim was saying nothing despite the enormous police pressures on the bestwood cartel that winter they continued to wreak mayhem it was though they were untouchable on the afternoon on the 18th of december a good man walked into the family run aspley pawnbrokers and aspie lane in search of a 34 year old lawrence atkin this man wearing a ballet clava just came into the shop with a shotgun and shot straight at my leg said mr atkin i fell to the floor in complete agony i don’t have any idea who may have done this in fact mr atkin knew who had ordered the shooting but was too scared to say he dare not even utter the name colin gunn the crime was to owe a small debt to mr gun and the shooting was a warning to settle it his father reg who ran the shop said they didn’t know their son would be able to walk again lawrence just said he was off when this bloke came into the shop with a double-barrelled sawn off shotgun he pointed it at his ankle and then there was just a bang it was all over in a few seconds he was a stocky chap and he had a bada clover and dark clothing mr atkin underwent seven and a half hours of surgery and two blood transfusions to save the lower half of his right leg the good man was john mcsally after accomplishing his mission he jumped into a white box or astra with two other men inside and drove off within a few days dc fletcher was passing on the details of the police investigation to mr gunn via the usual intermediary talion big mate not to worry he told jason groclock the bloke knows who did it but he’s not talking it was another vital tip off to mr gun mr fletcher was also compromising informants he gave away details on one file about a woman who mr gun had been with briefly and who said mr gunner told her he was involved in the shootings of john and joan sterling dc fletcher put mr gunn’s mind at rest texting mr groscott that there could never be a prosecution as the evidence was just purely circumstantial he passed on more information in january 2005 about a sickening assault involving the best wood cartel in the lizard lounge nightclub when a man had lost part of his ear mr fletcher was on holiday at the time but when texted that the big man needed to know about it went straight to radford police station and gathered all the intelligence on the attack he also made checks on behalf of mr goon about the assault on a man in a pub in nottingham in march 2005 and on a near fatal assault on another man carried out by one of his henchmen mr fletcher even falsified records in a road traffic accident to prevent the prosecution and two other members of the cartel who had been pulled over without insurance on one occasion mr fletcher’s own mistakes on the computer backfired when colin gunn’s girlfriend victoria garfur had received a parking ticket and mr gunn rang through to try and get mr fletcher to get it cancelled he went into the computer and punched in the name but misspelt it and came up with an entry for another woman who had a previous conviction for prostitution mr fletcher passed on the information to mr goon with a disastrous consequence mr gunn went absolutely ballistic and confronted victoria accusing her of being a [ __ ] said one officer then he gave her a severe beating victoria would remain loyal to colin despite numerous police attempts to turn her and described her man in relatively glowing terms to the nottingham evening post no one says colin has been an angel he sells a few bent cars and that sort of thing he’s being blamed but where’s the evidence the police just don’t like it but everyone around here likes it we’re not just scum like everyone makes out two things emerged from the probe into charles fletcher one was positive and the other was negative several officers were caught in the dragnet which had been set up to catch him one was a constable called phil power who worked in the vice section mr power had a passion for scooters and was friendly with javad rashid who worked at icon scooters which was owned by one of colin gunn’s lieutenants david barrow after mr fletcher came up with the false information about mr gunn’s girlfriend being involved in prostitution mr gunn had been increasingly obsessed with checking out the information he got mr barrett to ask mr rasheed to ask dc power about it because he worked in the voice and he would probably know in november 2004 dc pi received a text on his mobile phone from mr rasheed mr parr made the check and then went to the scooter shop to tell mr rashid about it mr barrett was there and mr gunn was waiting in a parked up bmw nearby unknown to dc park national crime squad officers had the shot under surveillance something that mr barrow later became aware of after being tipped off by someone within the police pc power had no idea mr gunn was the final recipient of the information and a promising career was ended as a result all for doing a favor for remain he admits he failed the highest standards set by the police force by doing the check but he was in no way linked to the criminal gang operated by mr gunn as dc fletcher had been i can’t deny i did something that was wrong but i was tarnished with the same brush as mr fletcher and there’s no way i’m a corrupt officer mr parr later said i did something that i shouldn’t have done but it was a favor for someone i thought it was a mate mr parr would be laid to jail for 12 months at birmingham crown court after pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office as he has pointed out he will have to come to terms with the shame of what he did but some pedophiles and violent offenders have received lesser jail terms his career was over and he lost much of any pension he could claim from an otherwise unblemished 10-year career a number of other officers were even more har dumbo in the fallout that came from the surveillance of mr fletcher detective constable john forley a highly respected officer worked at radford road police station near mr fletcher’s desk the probes that had been in place for mr fletcher caught him talking in colorful terms about some yadis who planned to murder an officer outside ox close lane police station mr forley explains what happened to him and another colleague who had been caught on the bugs chatting inappropriately on june the 21st 2005 the phone rang at my home charles fletcher had been arrested mr fletcher was a young trainee detective i’d worked with for several months he was brash overconfident i had a tendency to engage mouth before brain i saw it an hour or so later my colleagues and i sat and listened to a horror story we were told mr fletcher was a criminal in league with some of the most violent criminals in the city he was selling information to criminals who operated extortion rackets and ran class a drug ring we all knew them well we had all seen their handiwork odd stood at the foot of the bed at the queen’s medical center while a man who had most of his foot removed by a shotgun at point blank range refused to speak we knew as a punishment shooting for a death the chances of anyone talking to us were nil and so proved it through mr fletcher these people had access to everything about us where we lived where we socialize even when my daughter goes to school how safe were we he’d betrayed us that afternoon two of us were summoned to hq naively i imagine we were going to be offered support in help to coming to terms with these devastating revelations to my astonishment i was served with notices stating that i was to be subject to a disciplinary investigation for eight months our offices have been booked unconnected to any criminal investigation and out of hundreds of hours of recordings i have been overheard on four occasions making inappropriate and unprofessional comments more seriously and with tedious predictability the allegation of using racist language also appeared i’m the first to admit that the language in a cid office can be at best irreverent we’ve attended the post-mortems of gunshot victims cut hanged bodies down from coat hooks and sat across tables from pedophiles who have committed the worst crimes and had to pretend to be sympathetic mr gallow’s humor is and has always been necessary to remain stained but always in private to all intents and purposes my career ended at that moment i was placed on restricted duties i was to sit behind a desk and do nothing of value i was never to do any meaningful work again neither i nor none of my colleagues are racist or homophobic one of us is openly gay from that moment i was airbrushed from history it was as if my 30 years had never happened when one comes near the services obsession with racism an unblemished 29 year service counts for nothing i always thought that if i ever was faced with difficulties i would receive help and guidance wrong most senior officers were almost behind barricades if i went too close my despicable crimes by the way behind closed doors and in private were nasty remarks about firstly a jamaican who was trying to recruit a shooter to have one of us murdered outside oxclose lane police station as we left work and secondly about a woman who invented a rape allegation that led to two innocent students being incarcerated for hours i admit on both occasions it was quite likely i did make derogatory comments to refer to a group of people as jamaican pond life as i did could be considered rude the group i referred to as this were killers and drug dealers if i had said broxtow pond life or saint anne’s on life then it’s not a problem what utter nonsense i retired a year later but was connected with corruption and tainted with racism i always suspected but it took me almost 30 years to discover that this organization does not value any individual careers and reputations are ruined in a whim we were treated like a newly discovered coven of the klu klux klan mr fletcher’s legacy wasn’t only to destroy himself on a positive note the feather associated with the anti-corruption probe ended some unblemished careers the force tightened up their procedures for dealing with applications to join the police detective superintendent russ foster ensured future applications to work for nottinghamshire police were thoroughly vetted in the wake of mr fletcher’s probe in august 2007 ds foster announced that a six-month investigation had discovered that at least six people so-called clean skins working on behalf of organized crime gangs had applied for jobs in the force they were identified and groomed to infiltrate this force with the aim of providing intelligence to the city’s organized crime leaders he said there was nothing obvious on their applications to suggest who they were it was only after extensive work by me and my team that we identified their associates and their links with some of the biggest crime groups in nottingham on the 26th of january 2005 operation utah which had been investigating the best wood cartel’s drug dealing activities suffered a serious breach of security which sent shock waves through the team two detectives a constable and a sergeant from the national crime squad were taking tapes for examination to the forensic science service in birmingham it was a routine job but giving the sensitive nature of the material only a handful of people knew about it one part of the tapes had a police interview with colin gunn the other was recorded material from bugs which had been put in place by the utah team the detective’s jobs was to process the tapes and using voice recognition technology see if the voice matches on the way back from the job the two detectives decided to stop off at cruise and harbour’s pub in swarkestone derbyshire for a point they left all the material in the car along with their notebooks and other material relating to operation utah this material identified senior officers involved in the job including detective chief superintendent phil davis the head of nottinghamshire cid it also identified a house in besswood where police were listening in on conversations between members of the cartel and a building in epistome which was being used as the secret headquarters of starburst and utah the officers were in the pub less than an hour but in that short time the locks on their cars were sprung and all the material was stolen within two hours telephone books picked up a call from newark a young man was calling colin gern and was telling him what was on the material he had stolen mr gunn told him to destroy it the ramifications were huge once the theft was known security at epistome was stepped up with 24-hour patrols around the perimeter the house used for eave droppings eventually had to be brought by nottinghamshire police at a cost of more than one hundred thousand pounds and the people living in it had to be moved to a safe house and put up the witness protection then on the 10th of february police received an anonymous letter it said that there would be an attempt to assassinate two senior nottinghamshire police officers including dcs phil davis threats had already been made against detective superintendent ian waterfield then head of operation stealth and the chief constable himself steve green the information resulted in phil davis having to move out of his house while security was upgraded and the threat diminished it also led to a debriefing for senior officers on how to exit their homes if there was an intimate threat to their lives or their families two days after the threat was received john mcsally was arrested with five bullets in his pocket evidence suggested that mr mcsally was on his way to a job with a boiler suit in his car and a pair of wellington boots to this day there has never been any public acknowledgement of any detailed investigation into the theft of the confidential material by the serious organized crime agency soccer which later replaced the national crime squad or any other body the thief who has never been named was quietly dealt with in court in derby where he asked for 100 other offences mainly thefts and burglaries to be taken into consideration refused to release any information about him on the orders of its chief constable mick creedon saying the offender’s life could be at risk a senior nottinghamshire detective involved in operation utah said that when we heard about the material going missing it was like a jesus christ moment we thought what the hell are we dealing with here very few people knew what the car was carrying that day the fact that the theft took place in the car park of a pub in derbyshire the fact that someone from nottingham was the thief and had been in a pub 20 miles away the fact that the person knew colin gunn’s mobile number and the fact that colin gern was contacted within a couple of hours of the fair it was like wow you’ve got more chance of winning the lottery then of this being pure coincidence someone somewhere had told colin gunn that that vehicle contained important information and the vehicle was targeted as a result something was wrong and we passed on our grave concerns to the relevant people i’m extremely surprised that soccer say they didn’t even conduct an inquiry because the national crime squad was certainly aware of it and once soccer took over the national crime squads responsibilities it would have been passed over to them david gunn was arrested by nottinghamshire police involved in operation utah that february the bugs there placed in the head rest of his bmw had nailed him and he had been caught talking too loosely on the phone after a few drug shipments were intercepted mr gunn told his associates they’ve got another load hope it’s not a whole lot it’s just epoxy bust really they’re trying to take out all the little sergeants but they can’t get to us the colonels or the captains mr gunn was also caught talking to associates on the phone about where he could launder some of his money in south africa police moved in and arrested 41 year old right-hand man terry witts who had recently married a schoolteacher they also moved in on mr gunn and arrested him the pair along with their friend kevin warsaw were linked to a small shipment of more than 20 thousand pounds mr gunn had been watched seeing off a taxi carrying some of the drugs the best with cartel was even ripping off some of its own customers by re-cutting large amounts of vacuum-packed drugs and then resealing them as if the stuff had just come in in wholesale it was just another way to keep the profits high even if the customers were not going to get as high as they were led to believe but if there was any relief at their arrest of david gunn and the impending arrest of colin it will be blown away by the following month when a reporter was to personally experience how chief constable steve green handled the media the reporter had suggested an article for the sunday telegraph on the troubles facing nottinghamshire police after a number of officers from both the front line and senior level approached him to voice their concerns about the state of the force many claimed it was on the brink of collapse the reporter had also been told some of the details of operation starbursts and he knew that there was an independent police complaints commission ipcc investigation underway into the shooting of the sterlings indicating there had been serious failings on the part of the force nottinghamshire police were also refusing to give investigators any access to material from the bugging of the bestwood cartel citing legal complications over the ownership of the material after raising the issue with daniel fargo who worked as a reporter at the sunday telegraph he decided that he would first try to contact the person that they assumed was the head of operation starburst when they approached detective chief superintendent phil davis he initially agreed to me and have a chat about in the following week but then mr davis said he had spoken to his boss steve green about their approach and had told him that the reporters seemed very well briefed about the challenges facing the force he said mr greene had decided he would speak to the reporters if they approached him one of the reporters then rang mr green told him what we knew about operation starbursts and said that they were considering running a story about the issues being investigated by the ipcc mr green was clearly unhappy about this claiming that they might compromise covert operations a dubious claim to make when they were approaching the subject in response to a manner and would be under legal constraints about what they could print anyway on friday the 10th of march 2005 mr green agreed to an interview over the phone but operation starburst was off the agenda daniel foggo is an experienced reporter and someone who does not pull any punches so he began to question the chief constable about various problems facing the force based on what the reporters knew they were both staggered as he began to admit the failings and pressure the force was under the interview was completed before the end of friday afternoon and the tape was recorded when the story emerged on sunday morning neither reporter realized the impact it would have the story made the front page of the lead sunday telegraph on the 13th of march police chief we cannot cope with violent crime one of britain’s most senior police officers has admitted that his force is being overwhelmed by violent crime and cannot cope steve green the chief constable of nottinghamshire said that among his principal causes of crisis were government reforms that compelled him to use officers for clerical tasks instead of frontline duties steve green says we are in a crisis situation the situation was so bad that he was preparing to farm out murder investigations to other police forces because his own detectives did not have the time to tackle them nottingham has been one of the worst affected areas for gun crime which hit record levels across england and wales last year mr green said ministers have a fixation on keeping up numbers but had in fact been responsible for policies that had taken police away from frontline duties to do jobs that should be carried out by our civilian staff such as writing home office reports we are reeling with the murders he said we are in a long-standing crisis situation with major crime and it won’t go away overnight having police doing back-office jobs is one of the factors hampering us i want to increase the number of operational cops by reducing the numbers doing back office jobs it’s frustrating to know that i can make better use of the money i’ve got but i’m constrained from doing it because office numbers is a political football all parties have the same fixation mr green said he was prevented from putting more police onto frontline duties because if he reduced the number of officers doing clerical work he would lose a large amount of his fundings from the crime fighting fund a labour measure that gives extra money to forces that keeps officer numbers high our accountant has said that if there was a way out of it he would tell me mr green whose comments will increase pressure on the government over its law odor order policies said his force was heavily in debt he regularly had to borrow detectives from other constabularies to tackle a spat of large drug-related murders we are now routinely going into foreign forces to get additional officers one option they were on the verge of adopting was to farm an entire murder inquiry to another force i’m not aware of any other force having having to do such a thing he said nottingham’s crisis has been prompted to a sharp rise in a number of murders and other violent crimes since 2001 the force has had to investigate 21 category a murders foes classed as being high profile with no immediate suspect before 2000 it was dealing with one category a murder every 12 to 18 months on average its officers are currently running 30 murder investigations nottinghamshire residents are also three times more likely than the national average to have their car broken into four times as likely to be burgled and five times is more likely to be robbed and twice as likely to suffer a sexual attack nottinghamshire was also among the bottom four underperforming forces in official figures mr green’s decision to speak out follows another fatal shooting last week paul thomas who was 34 had left the pub in radford nottingham when he was gunned down just after 4 30 p.m on thursday firearm offenses in england and wales rose to a high of 24 094 with levels in nottingham the fifth highest head per population after london manchester liverpool and the west midlands the association of chief police officers said that other forces were experiencing similar pressures to nottinghamshire because of the need for officers to carry out bureaucratic tasks that should be done by civilians we’ve been raising it with the government for some months said a spokesperson there is a fixation with police numbers and an inflexibility over budgets which is not producing effective policing we can recruit officers but not necessarily civilian staff david davis the shadow home secretary said mr green’s predicament was an example of the government’s ring fencing of money together with the forces being swamped with bureaucracy he said we will do away with the national policing plan that creates these targets so that those police they have can be properly used the story broke as the general election campaign was about to get underway and crime was on top of the agenda shadow home secretary david davis wasted no time in wadding into the debate privately he was critical of mr green but publicly he said the comments showed how chief constables hands were being tied up by red tape across the country by a home office which was not funding them adequately the daily newspapers were champing at the bit to follow up the sunday telegraph story for a chief constable to be so clearly unable to cope and speak about it publicly was almost unheard of mr green was in the soup as far as the home office was concerned but he would find support from the media and fellow chief constables over his stance rather than criticism only bones who knew what was really going on inside the force knew that many of the problems were linked to his handling of the resources at his disposal nevertheless he realized his job could be under threat and his press officer margaret kerr began to brief journalists that mr green had been blackmailed into agreeing into the interview it was an extraordinary claim to me effectively alleging that the reporters had forced him to tell the truth by committing a criminal offense we weren’t the only ones who were angry her majesty’s inspectorate of policing was fuming the comments from the chief constable about his force being in crisis had come only a few weeks after dennis o’connor a senior hmic inspector had given the force a clean bill of health sir ronnie flanagan chief inspector of hmic soon had the home secretary charles clark knocking on his door demanding answers downing street entered the fray too with tony blair’s official spokesman making a veiled criticism of mr green’s leadership everyone recognizes there are problems in nottinghamshire but there are different views about the cause of these problems the spokesman told the reporters home secretary clark demanded an urgent investigation into mr green’s claims which would be carried out by hmic and within a couple of days hmrc investigators contacted the sunday telegraph’s editor dominic lawson to see whether they could get access to the tape recorded interview he was happy to oblige but said hmic would have to make a formal request by letter otherwise mr lawson argued it could be set as a president for handing over privileged material to a third party in the end hmic did not follow up with his informal letter of request meanwhile mp graham allen lodged a complaint against mr green to the ipcc i believe he has been guilty of serious misjudgment not just in giving the interview but in his original decision to take beat officers off the streets of nottingham mr allen told the observer newspaper mr green perhaps sensing his job was in jeopardy told reporters who by this time were hoping for an all-out war between achieve constable and the home office that the interview was a big mistake for whatever reasons i gave the interview i must concede that the interview itself was not my finest hour reset with hindsight i was wrong to accept the word crisis during the interview but nevertheless investigating murders is a major challenge to us marian bates widower victor pulled no punches nottingham has always been as lawless as it has been under this chief constable the man is a menace to law and order he told reporters the way the criminals in nottingham have been allowed to flourish under his regime is ridiculous it’s frightening there are less police officers on the street and we now have a community warden who has no power it must have cost the lives of over 15 people over the last two years including my wife the criminals have been encouraged by a system that prevails crime is now a lively occupation because the chances of being caught are so little later mr green who would eventually leave nottinghamshire police in june 2008 was critical of victor bate’s stance claiming that he was being led by others with an agenda of their own i have listened to what victor bates has said and he is perfectly entitled to his opinion he told nottingham evening post i have no problem with victor i respect he’s been through too much it’s for people who have been advising him that are beneath the content their actions have meant that the opportunity mr bates had to exercise the power he had to do good was wasted steve green also claimed he had fallen into a trap because his mind was preoccupied with the arrest of colin good i tried to give the journalists honest answers as i always do but i do not get paid to fall into elephant trap i recognize i fell into that one all i can say is my attention was focused on the operational matters and i just didn’t see it coming on the day i did that interview colin gunn was arrested for the sterling’s murder we should have been in celebration mode instead we were fighting off that as best we could however mr green’s memory was faulty in fact colin gunn was not arrested until thursday the 17th of march 2005 almost a week after the interview was carried out nottinghamshire officers picked him up and they started driving out on the a52 and passed into lincolnshire mr gum was surprised where are we going he asked just a trip to the seaside colin replied an officer why are you missing nottingham already colin was interviewed at skegness police station by lincolnshire detectives i had no direct or indirect involvement with the murders he claimed john sterling was known to me as he used to drink with me and my friends i’ve never had any bad feelings towards john or joan sterling it was of course a blatant life by now the drains at his bungalow in revelstoke way were severely blocked with phones and sim cards and other evidential debris a plumber would be called out some two and a half years later because of the damp patches inside the three-bedroom property he just built over the block drain to solve the problem who knows what secrets are held on the phones but to the knowledge of the reporters they remain where they are to this day
UK Drill Rappers in Prison for Shooting Sentenced
three men have been jailed for their parts in tit-for-sat shootings in nottingham a jury heard how a shooting at a car in tennyson street in redford on the 3rd of august 2018 was reciprocated with the revenge using weeks later in all north street radford on the 21st of august thankfully while causing minor damage both shots missed their targets incidents form parts of operation snapper a complex investigation into the supply distribution management of firearms relating to a gang grounded in the saiyans area of nottingham members of the gang were feuding with several rival gangs from across the city one of these rival gangs operated from the radford area and the tension between them led to a string of vicious incidents involving guns and knives in april 2019 four people were jailed for their involvement in the second revenge shooting in november 2019 three others were jailed for a further foil plot from march 2019 it can now be reported that two men richard bernard and traquam lambert were recently jailed at nottingham crown court but assisting those who carried out the all north streets using as well as for their involvement in the march 2009 plot sentences took place on the 19th of may but they were reporting restrictions which have now been lifted bernard of hmp nottingham was sentenced 24 years after a jury found him guilty of conspiracy to wounded intent to cause gbh conspiracy to possess a firearm with an intent to cause fear of violence and three counts of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place lambert of hmp nottingham was sentenced to 18 years after the same jury found him guilty of the same offences as richard burnett the judge said he was satisfied richard burnett was a ringleader and that lambert had played a lesser role and this was reflected in their respective sentencing third defendant rudy burnett was also sentenced for his part in the march 2019 incident 30 year old was sentenced to 11 years after a jury found him guilty of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence it will also have two-thirds of their sentence in prison and the rest unlicense delivering the sentences judge stephen cooper said the revenge shooting involving richard burnett and lambert had been a terrifying incident that created a real risk of injury or worse he added the foil plot from march 2019 in which all three defenders armed themselves and knives a truncheon and a loaded pistol went looking for a rival gang members in a van the judge said you drove around looking for people it was just look that you missed them i have no doubt that had you found them these people would have been attacked by your group wearing balaclavas and using these weapons following the sentences specter mark adder said this was a complex investigation undertaken by a large regional team into a tit-for-tat gang rivalry that culminated in the use of guns on nottinghamshire streets it was only a matter of time before a bullet was going to make contact with a person intended target or not and no doubt resulted in very serious harm or even death organized criminal gangs should be under no doubt that the police possess significant specialist investigative capabilities that will use them to break up their activities and keep the community safe guys that’s a story coming from nottingham let me know what you think it’s your boy gc keep it locked to keep it real