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April 15 2005 at 12:24 PM
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Gang boss stabbed to death



Dessie Noonan

A NOTORIOUS gangster was knifed to death days before a documentary is to be screened in which he boasts of being behind 27 killings - and of being untouchable.

Police have stepped up patrols after Desmond "Dessie" Noonan was stabbed and his body was dumped in Merseybank Avenue, Chorlton, early on Saturday morning.

The 6ft, 20-stone father-of-two operated as a fixer for his brother, Dominic, the Urdu-speaking head of the notorious Noonan crime family based in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

The pair feature in Gangster, journalist Donal MacIntyre's documentary on Britain's mob scene and Manchester's gangland culture due to be broadcast on Channel 5 tomorrow at 11pm.

In it, Desmond Noonan, 46, suggests the Noonans are untouchables, saying: "We have a lot of strong loyal people around us. We will always have that. If they think they can take one of us out, they are silly people. Very silly people."

He also says: "I've got a bigger army than the police. We have more guns than the police."

Noonan, a father of two, was taken by ambulance late on Friday night to Manchester Royal Infirmary where his death was confirmed.

Dominic Noonan told the M.E.N. his brother had been drinking in The Parkside pub in Wythenshawe on Friday night. He said Desmond left at 11.30pm and it is not known whether he left the pub alone or how he got to Chorlton.

Dominic said: "He phoned his wife, Sandra, to say that he had been stabbed and he asked her to come and get him. Sandra came down and he was lying on the floor unconscious at the time. She phoned the ambulance and then phoned me.

"Dessie was drunk at the time so we believe that someone took advantage of him. It was certainly not a robbery. He was a good lad. He helped a lot of people out. Everyone always turned to the Noonans to solve their problems. His death could be connected to a problem that he was involved in.

"Sandra is shocked. If people do not want to talk to the police then they can talk to us. He was a very funny guy and everyone is terribly upset. He was very well known and very well liked."

Desmond Noonan and the Noonan family first rose to notoriety in the Manchester gang scene after the murder of "White Tony" Johnson, the leader of the Cheetham Hill Gang, who was gunned down in 1991. Desmond was charged but acquitted after a re-trial.

In 1995, Desmond was described in court as a "psycho" for a violent attack on twin brothers and was jailed for 33 months.

In the programme, Desmond Noonan, who had a string of convictions including intimidating witnesses, smiles when asked about the collapse of court trials when key witnesses pull out and says: "They don't come to court . . .they haven't got the bus fare. Some are deranged . . . because they are in the back of a boot tied up and they don't know what day it is. That's a joke by the way."

He boasts: "I've got a bigger army than the police. We have more guns than the police, silly b*******."

While being interviewed in a pub, Noonan admits police believe he was behind 25 murders. Asked if he was indeed responsible for the killings, he smiles, covers his mouth and says "no".

His brother Dominic then says it was actually 24 before Desmond Noonan holds up seven fingers and thumbs, indicating 27.

Donal MacIntyre denied suggestions that his film glamorised the Noonans and insisted his work was an accurate portrayal of the brothers in their own surroundings.

"There's good and bad in everyone and the Noonans are the product of great poverty. Any sense that they are an alien species from an alien planet would be wrong. However, Dessie was clearly a very dangerous man but also a very complex one," said Mr MacIntyre.

One man has been arrested in connection with Desmond Noonan's death.






    
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DIE ON THE WALL

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April 15 2005, 12:39 PM 

DIE ON THE WALL
Gangland boss Noonan knifed to death days before his TV documentary



Dessie Noonan

ONE of Britain's top gangland leaders has been murdered on the eve of his own fly-on-the-wall TV programme.

Desmond Noonan - who boasts that the police blame him for 25 murders - died early yesterday after being stabbed in a street.

ONE of Britain's top gangland leaders has been murdered on the eve of his own fly-on-the-wall TV programme.

Desmond Noonan - who boasts that the police blame him for 25 murders - died early yesterday after being stabbed in a street.

The Noonans are Manchester's most notorious crime family and police now fear a gangland feud will erupt in the city.

Noonan, 46, died on his way to hospital after being attacked in the city suburb of Chorlton, just before midnight on Friday night.

He and his brother Dominic, 39, appear in the first of Donal MacIntyre's new series of fly-on-the-wall documentaries which start on Tuesday.

In the film, entitled The Trials of Mr Lattlay Fottfoy, Desmond Noonan is seen bragging about gangland killings while sipping a bottle of beer in a pub.

He tells MacIntyre: "They (the police) reckon I am behind most of the murders in Manchester."

Then he adds: "I've got a bigger army than the police. We've got more guns than the police. Silly bastards.

"I am down for 25 murders. What a load of bollocks."

He tells the film-maker when he first meets him: "Yeah, my friends told me to whack you."

The gangster then chillingly brags of nobbling witnesses and says on camera: "The police pressurise key witnesses to tell lies about us. In the end they see sense and don't come to court.

"Some can't go to court because they haven't got the bus fare.

"Some are deranged and delusioned because they are in the back of a trunk tied up!"

He adds: "That's a joke, by the way."

MacIntyre obviously doesn't believe it is, especially when Noonan issues a warning to rival gangsters and police.

He says: "No one wants to hurt us at the end of the day. And if they did, by God there would be some fireworks."

At one point Noonan covers his face and smirks when talking about gangland killings and whether he is responsible or not.

When MacIntyre bluntly asks: "And are you?" Noonan covers his face to stop a smile before answering: "No".

His brother Dominic adds: "He's a good Catholic."

And Desmond says: "I am a Catholic. I don't believe in a life for a life. I don't believe in taking life."

Then, in a sick mock apology, the convicted armed robber laughs and adds: "I'm sorry. I want to say sorry to everyone."

Most of Tuesday's documentary is devoted to Desmond's gangster brother Dominic who calls himself Fottfoy - meaning "f*** off those that f*** off you" .

The two men come from a family of 16 with every one of the 14 children - boys and girls - christened with a name beginning with the letter D after the city of Dublin.

The Noonans have been feared in Manchester for more than 20 years.

Yesterday the area where Desmond was killed was flooded with police officers. A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police refused to confirm the dead man's name, but he said: "Detectives in Chorlton are appealing for information after a 46-year-old man was stabbed and his body found outside an address in Mersey Bank Avenue.

"Paramedics attended and treated him for injuries and took him to Manchester Royal Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"We would like anyone who saw anything suspicious to come forward, and we ask residents to look out for clothing that might have been disposed of or any bladed instrument in their gardens."

NOONAN'S BOASTS

The police blame me for 25 murders But I've got a bigger army than them ..

..And I've got more guns..silly b*******







    
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Noonan send off

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Farewell to gangster Noonan

Nicola Dowling
Friday, 22nd April 2005



THE brother of stabbed gang leader Dessy Noonan led a 16-piece pipe band through the streets of Manchester at his funeral today as black-plummed horses pulled the carriage carrying the coffin.

Hundreds of people lined the road outside St Aidan's Catholic church in Northern Moor, as the procession for Dessy, 45, arrived.

Desmond Noonan's brother, Domenyk walked on foot flanked by four men from D J Noonan Security wearing black jackets with the words, ``We serve to protect,'' written on the back.

Two schools were closed today because of the funeral.

Angry parents only found out about the decision last night - after they had shut.

Staff at Chorlton High and Thomas Aquinas High sent a letter home with nearly 1,800 pupils telling their families the schools would be closed. They said the decision was taken on the advice of the police, although that was denied by GMP.

Both schools are in Nell Lane near Southern Cemetery, where the funeral cortege was going.

At the church, behind the security men, the pipe band and drummers were followed by the horse-drawn carriage topped with white flowers bearing the coffin. Also in the procession were 12 black Daimlers filled with floral tributes in red and white. Included among them were wreaths saying, ``Uncle'', ``Our Kid'' and ``Dez''.

The funeral comes just over a month after Noonan was stabbed to death. He was found collapsed in the street outside a house on the Merseybank Estate in Chorlton.

A man has been charged with his murder.

Outside the church today youngsters handed out copies of the order of service to mourners who had come to pay their last respects. A note was also passed around which said: ``The Noonan family would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for attending Dessy's funeral.

"This is a very sad time for family and friends. We wish to give Dessy a really good send off which is what he deserved.

"We have given permission for Channel 5 to film and take photographs of the procession. Anyone who knows Dessy knows that he would love all this attention.''

The statement added: ``Everyone is welcome to the Southern Public House, Nell Lane, after the funeral. The landlord has kindly offered all profits sold on bottles to go towards the cost of the funeral.''

Four days after Desmond's death a documentary about the family by undercover reporter Donal McIntyre was screened.

The Noonan family became notorious in the Manchester gang scene after the murder of ``White Tony'' Johnson, the leader of the Cheetham Hill gang, who was gunned down in 1991. Desmond was charged but acquitted after a retrial.

Following the requiem Mass the funeral procession travelled to Southern Cemetery for the internment.






    
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May 3 2005, 12:21 PM 

Gang funeral stops Gunchester

By Russell Jenkins
April 23, 2005



Dessie and Dominic with Donal McIntyre

HUNDREDS of mourners, many from Manchester’s gangland underworld, paid their last respects to the notorious crime enforcer Desmond “Dessie” Noonan yesterday.

His brother Dominic, an even more feared gangland figure, led the funeral procession the 500 yards from the family home on a council estate in south Manchester for the Requiem Mass at St Aidan’s RC Church.

Traffic came to a standstill as a traditional kilted pipe band led the way. Four black plumed horses drew the carriage carrying Noonan’s bulky body while a cortege of 12 black Daimlers each weighed down with suitably sentimental floral tributes, followed sedately in its wake.

The city has not seen anything like it. . . at least, not since the last Noonan died. More than 15,000 mourners joined the procession in August 2003, and parts of the city were cut off, when Damian Noonan, a familiar 22-stone figure, was interred after a holiday motorbike accident.

Dominic said: “Anyone who knows Dessie knows that he would love all this attention.”

If there was a passing similarity between the scene in the Southern Cemetery yesterday and the funerals of the Krays in London’s East End, it is no surprise. As with Reggie and Ronnie, the Noonan brothers, who come from a large and well-known Irish family, represent underworld royalty.

The Noonan brothers were in the thick of the gang wars that kicked off the “Gunchester” era in the 1980s and more often than not one or the other left their metaphorical dabs at the scene of armed robberies, prison riots and gangland murders.

Their reputation for violence and sheer longevity in a dangerous world placed them in a pre-eminent position and made it possible for them to broker deals between the warring, and often much younger, factions.

Over the years people in Moston, a poor working-class district whose residents complain of feeling abandoned by the authorities, including the police, have come to look to Dominic, Dessie and their gang for their own special kind of street justice.

In the recent fly-on-the-wall documentary MacIntyre’s Underworld on Five, Donal MacIntyre explained that when somebody was burgled, people would turn to Dominic Noonan to sort it out.

Dessie Noonan, 46, was stabbed to death close to his home in Chorlton last month as he and his brother were putting the final touches to their own legend as “invincible” crime bosses.

His name had been linked to dozens of armed robberies and several murders.

THE CLAN

The Noonan brothers are among 14 siblings all with names starting with the letter D after Dublin, their original home city

Dessie Noonan achieved notoriety when he and three others, including his brother Derek, walked free from Manchester Crown Court in February 1993 after a jury was unable to decide who murdered Tony “White” Johnson, an armed robber

Dominic Noonan, now head of the clan, has spent 22 of his 40 years behind bars.





    
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A GANGSTER branded "a very dangerous man" by a judge was jailed for 91/2 years for having a gun and ammunition in his car.

Domenyk Noonan, who appeared in court under the surname Lattlay-Fottfoy, is a member of a notorious Manchester gangland family.

When stopped by police near Darlington in May, he was found to have a handgun and five .357 Magnum bullets in his Jaguar car.

The jury at Teesside Crown Court convicted him of three firearms offences after just over an hour's deliberation.

Lattlay-Fottfoy, 41, of Bacup Street, Moston, Manchester, who ran a security business, is the brother of murdered Manchester hardman Desmond Noonan, who was head of the criminal family until he was stabbed to death , earlier this year. Both brothers had appeared in a controversial TV documentary about the Manchester criminal underworld in which Desmond, a father-of-two, had hinted he was responsible for 27 murders.

Armed police had been guarding the courtroom and its exits all week.

Judge Michael Taylor told Lattlay-Fottfoy : "You are by occupation a professional criminal. You have many convictions for offences of dishonesty and more disturbingly convictions for violence and firearms.

"You are a very dangerous man who is clearly a risk to the public."

Lattlay-Fottfoy claimed he had been set up by a Darlington man, whom he blamed for planting the gun and ammunition in his car.

Aaron Berry, 20, of Taymouth Avenue, and Adam Walsh, 18, of Bankwell Walk, both Manchester, had previously admitted firearms offences.


 
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Gangster Noonan to sell his story

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Domenyk Noonan is appealing against a jail sentence for having a gun in his car, claiming he was "set up" by the police.

He has also revealed he is spending his time in prison writing a book about the notorious Noonan family.

"There is a good story to be told," he said.

He is set to join a number of gangland figures who have gone on to have literary careers like "Mad" Frankie Fraser.

Stabbed

In December, Noonan, who has changed his surname to Lattlay-Fottfoy, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years after he was found to have a handgun and five bullets in his car when he was stopped in Darlington.

He claims a man had planted the gun and ammunition in his car.

He is appealing after a jury at Teesside Crown Court convicted him of three firearms offences.

Noonan, 41, of Moston, is the brother of murdered Manchester hardman Desmond Noonan, who was stabbed to death last year.


 
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how can i contact ....

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January 31 2006, 5:50 PM 

after watching several programmes on dominic noon i have become intregued by both his family and his personal life

is there an address or web site i can contact dominic on or even a prison address

 
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January 31 2006, 5:54 PM 

As far as I know Domynick is currently in H.M Prison Frankland...

 
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noonan contact

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February 1 2006, 11:29 PM 

try the following yell.com link to contact through his firm - dj noonan security...........

http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAction.do?searchType=classic&ooa=on&keywords=&companyName=dj+noonan&location=MANCHESTER&x=0&y=0

 
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HOW CAN I

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February 3 2006, 4:03 PM 

IF U DO FIND OUT HOW 2 CONTACT DOMINIC LET ME NO PLEASE, COS I HUNG WITH HIM AND HIS FAMILY ABOUT 27 YRS AGO, AND HAD TO LEAVE MANCHESTER TO GO LIVE IN LIVERPOOL, NEVER FORGOT THEM AND OVER THE YRS HAVE WONDERED HOW THEY ARE AND WHAT THERE DOING. I LIVED ON ALEXSANDER ROAD AND WENT TO THE LOCAL SCHOOL WITH HIS SISTER, DONT WANT TO SAY HER NAME, BUT SHE IS AROUND 39YR OLD, AND WE WERE GOOD FRIENDS... PLEASE HELP................

 
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respect

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March 22 2006, 10:34 AM 

safe you and your family r gud people and only look after each other weres the wrong in dat

 
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contacting dominic noonan

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January 31 2007, 11:12 AM 

i am sean noonan dominics nephew if you would like to get in contact with dominic then get in contact with me and i will b happy to help you

 
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would be grateful

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February 28 2007, 8:02 PM 

WOULD BE NICE TO HERE FROM DOM, I WASN'T ALOAD TO KNOCK ABOUT WITH HIM LOL, BUT WE HAD A CALL SO I WOULD NO IT WAS HIM,ASK HIM DOES HE REMEMBER IT WAS THE TARSAN! CALL LOL. NEVER WANTED TO LEAVE MANCHESTER I LOVED IT. I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH DI AND WE WERE GOOD FRIENDS, BUT WAS A TOM BOY MYSELF SO LIKED KNOCKING ABOUT WITH THE LADS. HE MUST REMEMBER ME WE WERE CAN SAY MORE BUT NOT ON HERE.........

 
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ANNE MARIE POWELL

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November 30 2007, 12:27 PM 

anne marie you wont know me im j (not my real name for confidential reasons) im di noonans son im 14 my mum has spoke about you alot growing up she remembers you being best friends and beverly beaumont if you can remeber, my mum has just turned 40 on 11 nov its a shame i didnt read your message earlier it would be nice for you and my mum to keep in touch as you go way back, if you could respond to this message i would be grateful x x

 
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December 1 2007, 3:30 PM 

wow wot a lovely surprise thanks 4 replying to my msg, i did write u one bk yesterday but not sure if u got it? i would love to here from yr mum di often think about her and the family, i was only young wen i left manchester to go live in liverpool which i hated but thats were my family were. i now live in barrow in cumbria, dont want to leave to much information on here, was in manchester the other wk and drove by to my old address on alexander rd, its a bit run down from wen i remember it i also noticed mine and yr mums school was replaced with houses, wot a shame about that loved that school, well wen i was ther lol. plz u shud av my e mail add now so wud love to here from yr mum di, yrs greatfully annmarie x

 
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November 7 2007, 2:01 AM 

Hiya,
im very interested in your uncles life after watching the programme. Would be great if i could get in touch with him. thanx for ya help

 
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January 3 2009, 4:45 AM 

Sean i would just like to say that you have an amazing voice. I heard you sing in that doc. A veryy British Gangster and thought you were very talented. Good luck in future, and i hope you and your family are well.

 
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February 14 2007, 12:59 PM 

just wanting to let you know dominic doesnt want people writing to him that he does not know i was a good iend of his brother damien and his children. i was there when damien died may he rest in peace but dominic is wanting to get this sentence over and done with and wants to come back out to his family and friends

 
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January 29 2008, 9:07 PM 

domanik noonan latlay fottfoy <fe0005>

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contact mi soon mikey noonan dessis son x x x


rip dad a manie hero x x x

 
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MIKEY NOONAN IS A FAKE

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May 15 2008, 9:48 AM 

Mikey noonan you say ur related to me and my family its a lie ur neva related u dont no my family u just say u are so it makes u look big well it makes u look like a lyin nob how are you related ????

 
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October 24 2008, 12:27 AM 

dominick can be contacted on bacup road in manchester!!

 
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Noonan case woman 'told to flee city'

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January 31 2006, 5:46 PM 

Wednesday, 12th October 2005
Noonan case woman 'told to flee city'

POLICE advised the girlfriend of a man accused of killing "notorious gangster" Dessie Noonan to leave Manchester and start a new life, a court heard.

But mother-of-six Shajahan Cooke failed to tell them alleged killer Derek McDuffus had suffered a cut to his leg the night Noonan was stabbed, the jury was told.

The prosecution claims McDuffus murdered Noonan when he turned up at his home on the Merseybank estate in Chorlton to buy crack cocaine on March 18.


McDuffus denies murder. Cooke, 39, denies attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Examining why Cooke had not mentioned her boyfriend's leg injury, Paul Worsley QC said police had not directly asked her about it but had instead asked her to account for a red stain found at the top of the stairs in her home.

Although previous witnesses have said Cooke knew her boyfriend had killed Noonan, the court heard two police interviews in which she said she knew nothing about it.


Drugs

She told police she had first met McDuffus in a club in Hulme in March 1992 and they had set up home together until he was jailed for four years for drug offences later that year.

After serving two years, she said he was freed and the family moved from their rented home in Chorlton to their council house in Merseybank Avenue.

Earlier in the trial the court was told police called for armed officers to protect McDuffus because Noonan's brother Domenyk had launched his own murder hunt and was prepared to use guns to avenge his brother's death.

A risk assessment report argued police were needed to protect him when he was taken to hospital after his arrest with a gash to his thigh and high blood pressure. McDuffus told police at the time that he had suffered the cut as a result of a motorbike crash.

The trial has heard Noonan had in recent years become addicted to crack, but that McDuffus, who the prosecution say sold drugs from his home, refused to sell to him and that there was a history of bad blood between the pair.


Staggering

As a result, witnesses said 45-year-old Noonan used to ask other people living on the estate to go to McDuffus' house to buy drugs for him. On the night he was killed no one was prepared to help.

He was last seen alive staggering towards Merseybank Avenue drunk after a night out in a pub.

Soon afterwards he rang his wife on a mobile phone saying he had been stabbed. She found him collapsed near McDuffus' home. He died a short time later from a stab wound to his stomach.

The court heard the estate was awash with rumours following the killing and there were fears of reprisals from the Noonan family, some of whom had featured in a TV documentary just days after Noonan was killed.

A friend of Cooke, giving evidence during the trial, said she had a phone call saying everyone knew that McDuffus had killed Noonan and that "they" were going to bomb her house.




 
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January 31 2006, 5:51 PM 

Derek McDuffus was eventually found guilty of Dessie Noonan's murder and was seriously assaulted just hours after arriving in prison, spending several weeks in the hospital wing.

 
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January 24 2006, 5:19 AM 

Thank you for this.

 
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January 24 2006, 10:07 AM 

No problem Soze! The Noonans are respected very much by their own people I hear. They have been active in anti-facist campaigns amoungst other things. They're really in touch with the needs of their community. I'm not saying they're angels, but who is??

 
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Re: Noonans

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January 24 2006, 1:24 PM 

Do you know where to find this movie "Gangster" by any chance?

I'd definately be interested in picking this one up.

 
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Film

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January 24 2006, 1:28 PM 

If it's on dvd you'll get it on www.amazon.co.uk. Can't quite remember what that film was about, is it new?

 
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January 24 2006, 1:37 PM 

"A NOTORIOUS gangster was knifed to death days before a documentary is to be screened in which he boasts of being behind 27 killings - and of being untouchable..."

"...The pair feature in Gangster, journalist Donal MacIntyre's documentary on Britain's mob scene and Manchester's gangland culture due to be broadcast on Channel 5 tomorrow at 11pm."

That's the movie I was referring to. I apologize, I was out too late last night and up too early this morning.

It looks like it was just a TV program type documentary.

I wonder if I can get my hands on it. These Noonans sound... interesting to say the least.

 
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Documentary

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January 24 2006, 1:42 PM 

Ahhh, yes, it was on UK tv last night on Ch5. It's an hour long documentary following Dominick Noonan around Manchester, UK. It was first screened last year. Sorry, I haven't a copy of it Soze and I'm not sure how you could get a copy. Unless Ch5 have a website that you can download it off or even purchase it. Good luck!

 
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January 24 2006, 1:48 PM 

I appreceate the information.

Since I'm over here in the states I'll have to track down a copy.

If I do I'll definately let you and everyone else know.

I've been lurking at this forum for a bit now, just finally decided to become active for some reason. Maybe to show some support.

I appreceate the hard work you put into making this site work I.H.

 
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January 24 2006, 2:04 PM 

Thanks Soze, it is beginning to create alot of interest recently. Hopefully it will continue to become more informative with member's own articles and stories being posted on this topic.

 
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Dessie Noonan

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January 25 2006, 2:14 PM 

Dessie was also a good anti-fascist, involved with AFA and part of the Man Utd fanzine `Red Attitude`.

Manchester BNP couldn't organise because of Manchester AFA, here's what the fascist site National Vanguard wrote about him, while reviewing a book about anti-fascism.


Hann gives a partly accurate account of the collapse of South Manchester BNP in 1993 after the branch organiser was singled out for intimidation by an anti-fascist gang. One member of this gang is identified in the book only as "Dessie, an anti-fascist from the Eighties who was by now a well-known local 'face' about town." Hann gleefully tells the tale of how Dessie personally threatened the BNP organiser, ordering him to tell AFA everything he knew about the party in the region.

This gentleman's full name is Dessie Noonan, recently described by a Manchester journalist as "the underworld equivalent of Robocop." He was head doorman at the notorious Konspiracy Club in Fennel Street, Manchester, from November 1989 until police closed it in December 1990. This was the era of 'Madchester', when Salford's white gangs controlled the booming ecstasy and amphetamine trade, while the black gangs of Moss Side and Cheetham Hill dominated the heroin business.

Noonan has several brothers whose names all begin with the letter D – their father's tribute to Dublin, the city of his birth. Dominic Noonan is a convicted armed robber; Damian became head doorman at the Hacienda, the most famous club in Europe and centre of the dance music craze until rampant drug dealing forced its closure in 1991; Derek was a partner in the Penny Black pub in Cheetham Hill, headquarters of Manchester's leading criminal gang.

Dessie himself, in the words of Manchester Evening News journalist Peter Walsh, "was a notorious enforcer who had emerged from a jail term for conspiring to pervert the course of justice by threatening to kill witnesses in a robbery trial – the witnesses were police officers."

In 1989 Dessie had joined members of the Manchester anti-fascist Squad in a brutal attack on a group of Ulster Loyalists in the Rusholme district. One of his cronies, Paddy Logan, infamously bit the earlobe off one of the Loyalists. Many years later in July 1999 Logan was shot dead by a hooded assassin at his home in the Withington area of Manchester, sparking off a bloody gangland feud. Dessie Noonan preferred life at the safer end of a gun.

At a New Year party in 1991 some of Damian Noonan's successors on the door at the Hacienda were threatened by a gun-toting 22-year-old named Tony Johnson. Known as 'White Tony' because he was the white co-leader of a predominantly black gang of drug dealers, Johnson was already in trouble with members of the Noonan family because of a dispute over the division of the spoils from a £362,000 security van robbery at Mumps Bridge, Oldham, in November 1990.

White Tony was pushing his luck. On February 22nd he was driving with a friend past Derek Noonan's Penny Black pub when his car was flagged down. Johnson was shot several times, and then finished off at point blank range while lying on the ground in the pub car park. Manchester police were instantly aware that this was one of Manchester's most important gangland murders. They arrested Dessie and Derek Noonan, together with two of their known criminal associates.

The Noonan gang were tried twice for Tony Johnson's murder. The first trial in 1992 collapsed, the second in 1993 ended in acquittals. Greater Manchester Police are not looking for any alternative suspects. In 1999 Damian Noonan was shot while on the door at the Phoenix Club in the city. He refused to cooperate with police inquiries.

 
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Re: Dessie Noonan

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January 31 2006, 12:11 AM 

SOunds like scum of teh earth to me, glad the fucker got taken out.

 
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noonan dvd

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January 31 2006, 7:30 PM 

ive got the documentarys of the noonans burnt to dvd if you want me to send them to you just let me know

 
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noonan dvd

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February 1 2006, 11:06 PM 

m bison - i'd like a copy of both documentaries on dvd if you still have them.

 
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Noonan DVD

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February 7 2006, 12:11 PM 

Hi, would love a copy of the dvd if u still have it??! friends being banging on about it since it was on tv and really want to watch it now!!!
email ksr123@hotmail.co.uk to arrange
muchos gracias

 
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Re: noonan dvd

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February 13 2006, 11:30 PM 

m bison,

Please get in touch with me by clicking my name in this post.

I'm very interested.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Soze

 
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noonans=brain dead thugs

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January 31 2006, 1:50 AM 

So called gangsters yeah right oh,hard men who like to be know for intimidating people.
A real hard man is some 1 who can fight with their hands 1 on 1.
Ive done my bit in the dutch specials and knowwhat crime is all about.
I laugh in the face of these so called hard (gangsters)hahahaha.
It will be funny when there all gone,domanic will be next i bet.
That is with any luck.
Wipe this scurge of the planet.

 
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Re: noonans=brain dead thugs

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January 31 2006, 1:15 PM 

watched the program on tv last night and thought they stupid shouting off there business for the whole world to see.
real gangsters move in silence...................

 
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Re: noonans=brain dead thugs

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January 31 2006, 1:31 PM 

I think The Noonens biggest problem is the youth who are trying to live on their name and reputation. Without Dominic they have no one to lead them or guide them.
They obviously have gained a lot of repect, as could be seen by the turn out for Des Noonens funeral. But the young loudmouth (who sucks his thumb) will never have the grace because he doesnt understand the correct motives for living the lifestyle other than for kicks.

 
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what a stuip scum bag family.

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January 31 2006, 4:48 PM 

Only do stupid people go and pay the respects to such a scum bag family as the noonans.All those who went to the fureal were there to get on the camera or are as brain dead as the noonan family.in fact every one who was there looked like uneducated benefit scum,even red necked hill billy's from in bred americans deep south who marry brothers and sisters and have kid's probably have more brain's.
No education,no self respect nothing pond life.
As some 1 put real gangsters if you want to praise them and call them that have mec's porches bmw's and roll's royces not clapped out volvos???hahaha.
They all so dont get asked to be filmed like that brain dead family did,and live in big hundreds of thousands of pound houses with off shore bank accounts and the police under their belt and judges on the payroll too.
The noonans what a utter laugh.
I feel sorry for the people of manchester,good hard working honest kind law abiding people.
And fancy saying we have more guns and a bigger army than the police,this shows the intelligence of these illiterate scum.
All i can say is sentence the lot to the gas chamber,and let donal put that on tv that would make brilliant veiwing.


 
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jaan the dutchman

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February 14 2006, 12:21 PM 

You keep calling the noonan's and anyone who like's them thick and illiterate, have you checked your own spelling? your not very bright are you jaan?. Also people are entitled to there opinion without being rideculed and put down just cause you dont agree. Your making your self sound silly you dont know the noonan's, i do and they are not the low life you think they are. In future think before you post cause you will end up looking daft and silly as you do now.

 
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March 21 2006, 1:20 AM 

You obviously don't know the difference between "Your" and "You're"

 
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Re: what a stuip scum bag family.

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March 10 2006, 8:21 PM 

They drive sick cars, trust

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