He said: "Shaun has a great personal story, although unlike many of the people I wrote about he never sold drugs. My understanding is that Shaun needed a gun for his own protection because he was being threatened by dangerous people. " Johnson Described in parliament as an "investigative reporter supreme". [9] [ clarification needed] Johnson has covered stories including drug dealing in Britain, [5] people smuggling in Europe, child slavery in India and Pakistan, and war in the Balkans. Johnson's novels have been published by Mainstream Publishing and Simon & Schuster. [ citation needed]

A former criminal from Liverpool says he is involved in negotiations with Hollywood-based production companies interested in making a film about his life. When I started writing books about organised crime in Liverpool in 2003 it was very much a cult audience – now it’s mainstream." Shaun Smith, who grew up in Kirkdale, served out a prison sentence after he was linked by police to a handgun. Mr Smith says he is now involved in advanced stage negotiations with production companies and agents who are interested in dramatising his life story.

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They flooded Merseyside with heroin from Turkey, cocaine from South America, ecstasy from Holland – and all controlled from a double semi-detatched house in a suburb of Liverpool.

She was the so-called company secretary. She laundered the money and advised on how to avoid detection. The Fitzgibbon clan dealt in violence, money and drugs for more than a decade, amassed a fortune, yet claimed thousands of pounds in benefits, writes Channel 4 News Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel. But a listening device was planted inside, and for three years Soca investigators eavesdropped and recorded hundreds of hours of conversations.

To research his debut novel, Powder Wars (2004), Johnson spent several years on and off embedded with some of Britain's most notorious gangs. [ citation needed] Johnson worked at the Sunday Mirror from 1997 to 2005 and for six years was the newspaper's Investigations Editor. [1] [3] Her 40-year-old son Jason (above, left) was in charge of transport; her other son, Ian (above, right), aged 39, was in charge of logistics. Place of safety a b Siddle, John (2013-07-05). "The Devil struggled against demons, says author". Liverpool Echo . Retrieved 2023-01-21.