MEMBERS of one of Manchester’s most notorious gangs have today been convicted of a string of crimes including the brutal murders of a young dad and a mourner at his wake.
The trial marked the end of a massive organised crime investigation sparked by six months of appalling gun violence which claimed the lives of two young men from Longsight.
Gang war on city streets
Victims: Ucal Chin and Tyrone Gilbert
Police and prosecutors believe the conviction of the killers and their cohorts has dealt a body blow to the Gooch gang, whose members have dealt drugs, carried out violent robberies, and fought fierce gun battles with underworld enemies for nearly twenty years.
Gang leader Colin Joyce, 29, of no fixed abode, was convicted of killing father-of-two Ucal Chin, 24, who was shot dead in a daylight ambush in June 2007, at Anson Road, Longsight. He believed the young father to be a member of rival gang, the Longsight Crew.
The following month Joyce and fellow gang leader Lee Amos, 33, of no fixed abode led a drive-by hit squad that targeted mourners paying their respects to Ucal at a wake on Frobisher Close, Longsight.
Tyrone Gilbert was killed after the gunmen sprayed the street with bullets after pulling up in three high-performance cars with blacked out windows.
The 23-year-old left behind three children and a pregnant partner.
Joyce and Amos’ accomplices in the Gilbert murder were crack cocaine and heroin dealers Aeeron Campbell, 25, of Withington, Narada Williams, 28, of Fallowfield, and Ricardo Williams, 26, of Moston.
All five were found guilty of the murder of Tyrone and the attempted murder of Michael Gordon who was shot in the leg in the same incident.
Joyce, Williams, Williams and Campbell were found guilty of conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life. Williams, Williams and Campbell were convicted of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
Gang war on city streets
Victims: Ucal Chin and Tyrone Gilbert
The six month trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard that detectives used mobile phone technology to link the guilty men to the Chin and Gilbert murders. And a series of special legal powers was used by the Crown to shatter the wall of silence which has hampered similar investigations in the past.
Narada Williams has been found guilty of an additional charge of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life for his part in a shootout with rivals from the Doddington Gang at Wilcock Street, Moss Side.
Kayael Wint, 20, of Old Trafford and Tyler Joel Mullings, 18, of Urmston have been found guilty of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life for their part in the same gunfight.
Their fellow gang members Hassan Shah, 25, of Longsight and Aaron Alexander, 23, of Gorton, have also been found guilty of possession of firearms with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. Ricci Moss, 21, of Denton, has also been found guilty of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
Amos was also charged with the murder of Ucal Chin. The charge will lie on file after the jury failed to reach a verdict.
An eleventh man, Gooch gang driver Gonoo Hussain, 26, of Longsight, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs at an earlier hearing.
They will all be sentenced this afternoon and tomorrow.
For an even more detailed look at the trial, the gangs involved, the victims and more exclusive news about the massive investigation, see tomorrow’s M.E.N.
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These animals put fear into people wherever they go, you cant say boo to them. Personally I would love a one to one with any of them creeps. Aren't you supposed to hit the supply of drugs, after all it's been twenty years. It's no good the people round the edges don't you go for the protected core.
More scum off the Streets, SCUM .
it doesnt make much differance how long they get someone some where is rubbing there hands with glee, of the thought of taken over the "turf" and being the new drug dealer.
All they are is gutter trash and the sooner Manchester is rid of the likes of these animals, the better for all of us.
Lets hope they are locked away until their late 60s or longer if possible.
the rope is the only answer here!! i wonder if they will be dead hard when they get to wakefield nick with out there guns and gangs, . BRING BACK THE ROPE NOW !!!!
Well done to the Cops....
Vermin like this lot should be put down...
One just hopes and prays they get a decent sentence and that they are not early released after 1/4 of their sentence owing to a lack of prison spaces
Not so long ago the old gangsters ruled the streets and neighbourhoods and its said they kept the young chancers in their place.
Next it was the massive mob families from england ,Scotland and Ireland,some of them travellers who settled,some homegrown.Eveyone walked on eggshells round them.
Now its little boys with guns.Nobodies by all accounts get together and aquire some weapons and rule the streets.
What do we have to suffer next?By the look of the news from Doncaster 'tooled up 10yr olds?
People are even afraid to challenge kids this age.Ive seen it many times.
Not because they are afraid they may end up getting arrested.More that they are afraid of the repercussions from the parents of these kids or they just dont care,as long as its not them that are being tormented or having their property damaged.
At weekend a family member was on a bus with his son who has learning difficulties and cant stand loud noise.
A young woman and 2 boys got on shouting,screaming and swearing.Everone looked out of the window as this went on.
The 6yr old with learning difficulties turned round to them and said 'Please be quiet'.Complete silence for the rest of the journey.
Shamed into it?I dont know.
All we need now is the courts to lock them up forever (seeing as they can't be hung).
Well done G.M.P.
Bring back captial punishment - preferably in public - These are the scum of the earth
They should take the young kids on the verge of joining the gang scene into southern cemetery and show them how hard these former Goonsters are now they are pushing up daisies and what to expect from their lives of they do join the gangs
Either bring back capital punishment or put them on the front line & TRY to teach them some respect ??. A few bullets around there ear's & feet should train the mind ???.
The old gangsters are still about. All quite dapper chaps. But you look at these lot and they are wannabees.
Do they run every licensed establishment in Manchester? Do their construction firms win every contract in Manchester? Do they get a cut from every take a cut for every company that wants to open up a new business in town? Probaly not. Real gangsters do.
These are just idiots with guns. They would last a minute in Chicago.
They always look the same too - exactly like the idiots that you get on the Metrolink messing about.
LISTEN THEY R NOT ALL GUILTY SUM OFF DEM R INNOCENT SO DONT DARE CALL DEM SCUM U MUST ALL BE SAD 2 COMMENT ON DIS GET A LAUGH U MUPPETS
unless you know anyone of them personally keep your comments to yourself,i for a fact know theres one who is one of the most loving,caring and respecting individuals you could ever meet,you only know what you hear or read,the law in this country is not alwaysright .many an innocent person has been convicted of crimes they didnt do.i personally judge no one on what i hear or read,watch this space...........
now imagine them with out the guns and drugs ,bring back the birch,imagine these in iraq or iran,
The thing is Tall Mike, are they dapper in the head, don't they all have an end to a goal that breeds badness.
Just by giving people hard drugs you are guilty, you know they are dying long term but you just want to look after yourself and line your own pockets, loving and caring people look after everyone and not just family.
DOLLYDOUGHNUT
more like DOLLYDIMPLE.
Try English, we might understand what you're on about. innit G
Do you know what? I nearly said before that I am surprised that nobody has been on here saying 'you don't know them so you can't say anything about them' or that 'they were nice lads'. I so nearly wrote it but thought it would be too obvious.
No I don't know them but I can comment. I never knew the Yorkshire Ripper but I have a view on him. I never knew Jeffrey Darmer but I have a view on him. Am I not able to have a view becuase I didn't know somebody?
They hardly look angels to me.
As for this 'there are a lot of innocent people in prison' well I am sure they all think they are innocent. Put it another way, there are a damn sight more guilty one's not in prison and many of you lot will know who they are so don't com eon here peaching unless you are willing to turn someone in.
Look at the shootings in Moss Side. The police ask for witnesses and nobody knows nuffink 'because I ain't not gonna grass on nobody me'.
Not many people get sent down for something that they didn't do - FACT, Yes there have been miscarrieges of justice. Like people founf with traces of explosives on them but they got banged up on a technicality that wasn't quite correct. Me? We;; I am a salt of the earth normal lovely lad and I have yet to be picked up by old Bill for the types of crimes that this lot are accused of. I've had a speeding ticket, been done for having a bald tyre but can't say firearms has been pinned on me yet.
Accept the judgement and move on.
Oh and by the way. You don't get locked up for your personality, you get locked up for what you did wrong.
Just because you are a nice bloke, good to your mother, always having a laugh etc doesn't mean that if you go out and take a man's life that you can get off with it.
Can you imagine the Judge saying 'we have the strongest evidence possible that you committed this crime but you seem a lovely chap otherwise so I'll let you off'.
If they want to play the Big Man they should be able to do a stretch from time to time.
Some of you need a good hard look in the mirror.
You will face the ultimate Judgement when you die so I would start to lead a better life NOW.
It’s one of the simplest and oldest equations known to man – ‘demand = supply’ and until someone finds a solution to that equation there will always be people like theses. There is a lot of hypocrisy in the world, ‘SCUM! People shout, but it’s a fact that anyone who has ever taken an e, smoked a spliff, or chased a dragon or two is indirectly responsible for the existence of people like the ones mentioned in this article. I think you would be suppressed at the number of people in the population who would fall into one of the categories above; and yet are all too quick to look down there noses at people from the inner cities.
I won’t cast aspersions, but if any of them have done the things described above then they deserve to be locked up (no sane person could defend actions such as these). Do innocent people sometimes get unfairly treated by the law, absolutely; and until you know someone it has happened to you just cannot imagine the effect something like that has on that person and their family. Our society is fundamentally broken, how do we fix it? If anyone has the answer I’d love to hear it!
Worthless trash. Should be incinerated.
most of you leaving your comments on here need to go get a life,its the likes of you that would hang an innocent person,like i say if you dont know them personally dont be so quick to judge,less of the scum and animal calling you sad sad people.how many innocent people in history have been hung for crimes they didnt commit,how many right now are doing long lengthy sentences for crimes they havent done,there is good and bad in us all including the law.none of us are perfect we allmake mistakes and believe me that includes the so called justice we have,oh and by the way theres alot of corrupt people in this world that will do almost anything to further their career.use your imaginations you silly self centred narrowminded little people.
unless you know anyone of them personally keep your comments to yourself,i for a fact know theres one who is one of the most loving,caring and respecting individuals you could ever meet,you only know what you hear or read,the law in this country is not alwaysright .many an innocent person has been convicted of crimes they didnt do.i personally judge no one on what i hear or read,watch this space...........
kathleen joyce
yeah sure you no one love
For sure these are the SCUM of Manchester.
In fact so bad that we didn't want them here and sent them to Liverpool.
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