The stories of some of Britain's most powerful gangsters, looking at how they came to control the drugs trade in four of the nation's biggest cities. The first edition reveals how brothers Dessie, Dominic and Damian Noonan rose to dominate Manchester in the 1980s and '90s, taking over the doors of the city's clubs like the Hacienda to control the supply of drugs onto the dancefloor. Featuring interviews with a bare-knuckle boxer, a bouncer who used to run with their gang, and the police officers who were on their trail.
The Daniel family were raised on the vicious, poverty-stricken streets of Glasgow in the years after shipbuilding had declined, with Jamie locked in murderous and bloody feud with a rival gang, the likes of which Glasgow had never seen before. Torture and killings by the Daniels' feared enforcer Kevin `Gerbil' Carroll led to tit-for-tat shootouts as the rivals fought for control of Glasgow's drugs trade.
A look at how the Adams family reigned over a notorious criminal organisation in Clerkenwell, central London. Known as the A-team, the three brothers' drugs empire was reported to be worth millions and became so powerful that MI5 were tasked with bringing them down.
The story of the Fitzgibbons brothers and their bid to become top dogs of gangland Liverpool. From their family home they reportedly built a global drug dealing network worth millions of pounds.
