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Jimmy the Weed was the nickname for Jimmy Donnelly, who was for many years associated with the gang. [1] Philomena Lynott , the mother of Phil Lynott , the singer/songwriter of the band, ran the Clifton Grange Hotel in Whalley Range at the time and it was there that some of the alleged gang members met, along with showbusiness people and sports ...
James Alfred Moody (27 February 1941 – 1 June 1993) was an English gangster and hitman whose career spanned more than four decades and included run-ins with Jack Spot, Billy Hill, "Mad" Frankie Fraser, the Krays, the Richardsons and the Provisional IRA. Described by police detectives as "extremely professional" and "extremely intimidating ...
The first series contains 6 episodes: Glasgow – Featuring interviews with Walter Norval, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Joe Steele, Paul Ferris, Ian 'Blink' McDonald; Manchester – Featuring interviews with Jimmy 'The Weed' Donnelly, Arthur Donnelly, Paul Massey, Sean Keating, Bernard O'Mahoney, Wayne Barker, David Fraser, Christopher Brayford
Other gangland figures participating in this truce were Paul Massey, Damian Noonan, Paul Flannery and apparently Jimmy "the Weed" Donnelly, who was a prominent figure in the Quality Street Gang, another Manchester gang. Noonan was released from prison in 2002 and became head of the Noonan crime family after Damian's death in 2003.
Joey Pyle was born on 2 November 1937 [4] (his tombstone in Merton and Sutton Cemetery gives his date of birth as 1935) in The Angel, Islington, London, the son of Arnie and Cath Pyle, and the youngest of their three children after his brother Ted and his sister Jean.
Adult Swim has been busy taking its popular games and putting them on Facebook. The latest to make the jump is the FarmVille parody Hemp Tycoon, where -- you guessed it -- you grow hemp, sell it ...
Gwyneth Paltrow dropped by "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" to promote her new cookbook, "The Clean Plate," and got a little more than she bargained for.The late night host challenged her ...
The Krays wanted the social status they thought an Earl on the board would bring. They either did not know or more likely did not care about his poor reputation and past criminal convictions, bankruptcy, bounced cheques, assaults, a dropped charge of manslaughter and the imprisonment of an ex-wife in Holloway as a threat to the British state.