Big K, Beefy, and The Fish - the men who armed 'Gunchester'
They supplied items of clout, kudos and lethal force to criminals. They were 'merchants of death' as one was branded, feeding gangs with firepower.
Away from his job in his family’s successful clothing business and his £350,000 Chorlton home, Akhtar was a lynchpin in one of the country’s biggest gun-running networks. Since guns are passed from hand to hand, or even rented out by their owners for specific jobs, police believed the seizures prevented hundreds of maimings and worse.
He became a highly respected armourer for the gang and kept a photograph collage of fellow Longsight Crew members - many of whom were jailed for gun crime offences- on his wall. Also on his wall was the message "LIVE BY IT + DIE BY IT=THE GUN." "This is yet another example of the gang-related crime with which this city is plagued...It seems to me for the ammunition to be there to answer the needs of those who want to terrorise and kill is, if anything, more serious than if you were intending to use that ammunition yourself and is an indication of your standing within the gang."
Ostensibly the guns were for sending distress flares from boats, and had been bought legally on the Continent. They looked enough like real guns to convince in robberies, and with the right expertise, Sammon and Tyrer hoped; they could be adapted to shoot real bullets. The guns fetched up to £700 a time on the street. With dreams of converting 200 a week, Sammon started to talk of expanding the operation, of setting up a factory in Spain and importing thousands more, with buyers for the guns flocking from from Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester, Yorkshire, Scotland, Bristol and Wolverhampton.
Sammon would remain at large until 2008 after using a series of false identities to evade capture. He was finally tracked down to a holiday park in Hampshire, tried, and jailed for thirty years following guilty verdicts. At the time, 140 of his weapons had been seized. Using the handle 'Big Corey', he was well known to serious organised crime groups in Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, the Midlands, and London and would travel up to 700 miles to exchange illicit goods. In one series of messages he discussed the sale of 30 kilos of heroin split between locations in London, Leicester and Oxford.
In another message, Derrane references a dispute he has over drugs and money with another man, saying: “‘That’s all they have to wait and I just need 2 bullets in a gun.” The image of Zaheer above provided police with a crucial breakthrough as they were able to find the same clothes he had been wearing on the picture at his home. The Louis Vuitton T-shirt, grey top, trousers and trainers were all recovered by police.
EncroChat messages revealed how Khan, known as 'Legend killer' on the network, revelled in possessing the deadly machine gun.
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