Rise in deadly sub-machine guns on London streets




Scotland Yard today said police are seizing more deadly automatic weapons from criminals in London as detectives revealed that an innocent bystander was gunned down with a suspected Skorpion sub-machine gun last month .

Police believe two murders have been carried out by gangsters armed with the deadly military grade Skorpion weapons in the last eight months.

Last month Oliver Tetlow, 27, died in a hail of bullets when his killer stepped out of a blacked-out car in Harlesden and opened fire.

Detectives believe Mr Tetlow was killed in a case of mistaken identity and say the weapon used was a Skorpion sub-machine gun which can fire 1,000 rounds of ammunition per minute and is used by the Czech army.



Murder: Oliver Tetlow was killed with a sub-machine gun (Facebook)

The weapon has also been linked to the murder of bakery owner Erdogan Guzel, 42, who was also the innocent victim of a gangland drive-by killing in Wood Green in July last year. Another woman bystander was also struck by bullets but has since made a full recovery.

New figures seen by the Standard show that police seized 18 sub-machine guns from criminals in the capital last year, compared to 13 similar weapons in 2014.

Police also revealed that sub-machine guns had been fired in London 11 times in the last 12 months, compared to seven times the year before.

In October last year three plain clothes officers escaped injury despite being shot at by a sub-machine gun - also thought to be a Skorpion - when they were carrying out inquiries in Willesden.

Today police said there had been a “worrying” increase in the use of automatic weapons but they were seizing more of the weapons from criminals.

Detectives believe the guns are being smuggled in from Europe via established contraband routes or thorugh the post.


Last year a crime boss who smuggled eight Skorpion sub-machineguns into the UK via Parcelforce was jailed for life.

Alexander Mullings, 23, used a hidden phone in his Wandsworth prison cell to arrange the trafficking of the weapons to addresses in London. Three weapons were recovered by police but five were outstanding.

The figures were revealed as the Met announced a new crackdown on armed criminals saying they had recovered eight handguns and three AK-47s in the past week.


                          

Sub-machine guns were fired 11 times in London in the last 12 months (National Crime Agency)

Thirty people have been arrested in a series of intelligence-led operations against gangsters while officers are mounting extra armed patrols and armed stops on cars linked to gun criminals.
Det Supt Damian Allain, of the Trident gangs unit, said: “There has been a slight increase in the use of these automatic weapons. We are seizing more automatic weapons and we recognise there are potentially more Skorpion weapons in circulation but we are targeting the suppliers to get them off the streets.
“Gun crime in London is low in comparison with other world cities, but we are determined to bring it down yet further.
“This operation is not just about catching people in possession of firearms - it’s about letting them know that police are out on the streets, targeting gun crime activity and disrupting their ability to move guns about London.”
He added: “We are calling on Londoners to tell police what they know about people in their community who carry guns. We will do something about it.”
He said police were also seizing more non-lethal weapons such as air and BB guns.
In a similar operation last year police seized 11 guns, including a Skorpion, three shotguns, six handguns and an AK47.










George Cornell's son breaks 50-year silence: "I hate the Krays but people who hero worship them are worse"

The family of a man murdered by Ronnie Kray in the Blind Beggar pub have broken their 50-year silence .
George Cornell’s son Billy Cornell has told how his dad’s shooting at the East End Pub wrecked his family and has haunted him and younger sister Rayner ever since.
Billy, 58, says: “ The Krays widowed my mother and orphaned two children, and my daughter and nieces and nephews never met their grandfather. My father was not the only victim that night.
“I hate the Krays and anyone who is part of their family – and worse, the people who hero-worship them today as some kind of glamorous Robin Hoods of the East End. They were vicious and evil.”
The slaying of his father, which has been re-enacted countless times in films about the Kray twins – most recently in Legend, starring Tom Hardy – is one of Britain’s most famous murders.
It illustrated the power the Krays believed they had, and demonstrated psychopath Ronnie’s warped thirst for violence.
But it also signalled the beginning of the end of the twins’ violent stranglehold over the East End of London.
Ron Kray  was jailed for life for the killing and died behind bars.
His brother Reggie, who went on to kill Jack “The Hat” McVitie in Stoke Newington, North London, also got life for that murder.
Cornell had known the Krays since childhood, when the three of them were growing up on the streets around Whitechapel, and for a time they even did business together.
George worked as a Billingsgate fish porter from the age of 13, and then at the nearby docks where he ran credit rackets.
Billy says: “Dad knew all the traders in Mile End and the guvnors of all the pubs. He made his money setting up warehouses and buying in goods on credit then selling them cheap and folding the business without paying his bills.
“He was from a very poor family but was physically strong and good with his fists. When people saw he could fight he got respect, they were afraid to challenge him.
Billy tells how, aged four, he went to the Krays’ East London home with his dad for a business meeting.
He says: “I recall being in the front room and them drinking tea.
“Ronnie was very edgy, like he could snap at any point and his brother was flash with a nice suit and slick way about him.”
He says his father grew to despise Ronnie in particular, and refused to show deference to the twins. He says: “Ronnie was gay and liked being with young boys and to my dad, who was a gentleman who wouldn’t let anyone swear in front of a woman, in those days that was unacceptable.”
Cornell left the East End in the mid-1950s when he married wife Olive from Camberwell, South London, and set up his family in two flats there.
Billy says: “He made a success of himself in the most difficult circumstances. He was always well turned out in Aquascutum suits, Burberry raincoats and crocodile skin shoes.
“We had money and nice food at Christmas and he had a car and we lived in two flats in south London and had a house in the countryside.”
George became close to the Krays’ arch rivals, South London’s notorious Richardson gang – who, with their enforcer “Mad” Frankie Fraser terrorised London in the 1960s and 1970s.
And Cornell could look after himself. “Dad wasn’t scared of anyone,” says Billy. “I recall more than one occasion where he came home bashed up after a fight.
“One time we were in Maidstone, where we had a bungalow, and we’d stopped in the town centre so mum could get some cakes.
“My dad parked his Austin 11, and we were waiting in the car when a bloke came over and told him not to park where he had as it was for cabs.
“My dad told him to ‘leave off’ and said he was only waiting for his wife but the bloke wouldn’t let it go and three other men came over and were getting on to dad.
“He got out of the car and took all four of them on and gave them a hiding.”
But it was Cornell’s refusal to show fear to Ronnie Kray that was to sign his death warrant.
On March 8 1966 there was a bloody confrontation between the Kray gang and the Richardson gang at Mr Smiths nightclub in Catford, South London.
Richard Hart, a friend of Ronnie and Reg , was shot dead outside the back doors. But the next day George Cornell went to the Krays’ territory in the East End with two associates to visit a shot pal being treated at the Royal London Hospital.
Billy says: “My dad went into the Blind Beggar opposite the hospital for a pint after he had seen his mate.
“I’d seen him earlier that evening as I’d been a naughty boy and he’d given me a clip around the ear and sent me to bed. Dad was talking to someone he knew in the pub but they said they had to go – I think West Ham had just qualified for Europe and the only place you could get coverage was on the radio and he said he was going to listen to that.
“He didn’t though, he went outside and called the Krays and told them dad was in the pub.”
The Kray twins drove to the pub, stopping to pick up a gun on the way.
Billy says: “Dad was drinking and turned as the door opened and saw Ronnie, and said: ‘Look what the cat’s dragged in.’
“Ronnie pulled out a gun and as dad went to get off his stool he shot him in the head.”
Legend has it that the juke box in the pub was playing the Walker Brothers song The Sun Ain’t Going to Shine Anymore and a warning bullet which ricocheted off the ceiling made the record stick, playing the chorus over and over again.
Billy says: “I think dad probably knew what was coming when Ronnie walked in but he wasn’t afraid of anyone. The twins drove off and my father was taken to the hospital but although they tried to save him he died two hours later.
“The two men he was with had to leave London as they knew they would be next as witnesses.”
Back at the Cornell family home, young Billy was woken by the sound of his mum answering the telephone.
He says: “I could hear her saying ‘who is this? What is your name?’
“She put down the phone and called my auntie Pat and told her a fella had phoned up and said dad had been shot.
“I must have gone back to sleep but when I woke up a couple of hours later and went into the lounge it was full of men sat smoking.
“People were talking to me, asking me about football and how I was, but no one said dad was dead – but I knew he wasn’t coming back again.
“It was mum who told me, she said: ‘Your dad went out and there was a fight, it was with someone he has been angry with for a while, someone he worked with, he got killed.’
“It didn’t really sink in, I don’t know when it did. I know there was a big funeral and I wasn’t allowed to go. I remember looking out the window of our flat at the square of green outside and it being covered in bunches of flowers, like a carpet.
“My father was liked and respected and people showed their respect.”
But that was the end of the life young Billy had known.
His mother, widowed in her 20s with a son of seven and six-month-old baby daughter, “never recovered”, he says. She died from cancer aged 59, 20 years ago.
He says: “She loved dad from the moment they met to the day she died, she never got over his death.”
In the hours after George died, Olive is said to have gone to the Krays’ family home in Bethnal Green and thrown a brick through the front window.
He says: “She hated them more than anything in the world from the day he died.”
Former market trader Billy, who now lives in Bermondsey, South London, fell into crime and was jailed for pick-pocketing several times.
He once served a 14-month term in Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of Wight, next door to Parkhurst Prison – home at the time to Ronnie Kray.
He says: “Mother begged me not to do anything if I ever saw him.
“I used to dread her coming to visit me in case she bumped into any of his family on the ferry crossing, she would not have handled it well.”
Billy’s sister Rayner has had her own brush with the law, pleading guilty in 2011 to money laundering in relation to a plot to traffic more than a tonne of cocaine worth £375million.
Her husband Robert went on the run but was caught by police two years ago and is 18 months into a 10-year sentence for possession of 3kg of the drug.
She says: “I guess I’m like my mum and married a villain but you can’t help who you love.”
Billy said he has avoided the TV shows and films about his father’s death.
He says: “I can’t watch the films, people making money from those two killers makes me sick. When they died I wanted to go down to the funerals and tell all those people who have their faces tattooed on their arms what they were like, but my mum begged me not to.
“My sister got sick of being known around here because of dad’s death and moved to Spain to try and protect her children from it as they grew up.
“I used to see a lot of the old faces around, Frankie Fraser knew my dad and said he was a good guy to me and people say I look like him. But no one ever wants to hear our story, it’s always about them – but they wrecked our lives.
“People should remember they were killers and not be fooled by the pictures of them in suits with celebrities.”

Hatton Garden raider: Brian Reader sentenced to six years for role in jewellery heist

More than £14 million worth of jewellery was stolen in the raid.

The man believed to be the 'mastermind' of the Hatton Garden raids, Brian Reader, has been sentenced to six years and three months in jail.
Aged 77, he was the oldest member of the gang, who stole more than £14 million worth of valuables in one of the most audacious raids on record.
Appearing by videolink in court today, was sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
Mr Reader suffered a stroke in Belmarsh Prison following his arrest and now walks with a walking frame.
Five other men were sentenced for their role in the raid earlier this month.
Addressing the court today as he sentenced Reader, Judge Chris Kinch said that when deciding his punishment he had taken into consideration that Mr Reader is "seriously unwell" and has a range of health issues which are "potentially very serious indeed"; requiring him to need assistance for routine tasks. However, he said that he had to take into account Mr Reader's prominent role in the raid and said: "I'm satisfied that you were rightly described as one of the ringleaders and involved in regular meetings."



THE KRAY BLOODLINES CONTINUE?....






I'M REGGIE KRAY'S SECRET DAUGHTER; Sandra tells of her mum's fling with gangster and a moving prison reunion.
WHEN THE last of the notorious Kray brothers was laid to rest he took one final secret to the grave with him.
Among the thousands of mourners who gathered in London's East End to pay their last respects to Reggie Kray was the secret daughter he did not want to know.
Sandra Ireson, a 42-year-old mother and gran, was born after a brief romance between Reggie and cabaret dancer Greta Harper in 1958.
And she didn't discover who her real father was until 1995 following the death of Reggie's twin brother Ronnie.
For the next five years she tried to forge a relationship with Britain's best-known long-term prisoner.
But only once did she manage to meet Reggie, who was jailed for life in 1969 for stabbing small-time villain Jack "The Hat" McVitie.
Sandra, now 42, briefly hugged the ageing mobster after an hour-long chat inside Maidstone Prison two years before his death from bladder cancer, in October last year
But he later rejected his daughter's attempt to cement their relationship.
He had been devastated by the death of his elder brother Charlie in April last year and feared upsetting his young wife Roberta, 41.
But last night, speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mirror, Sandra said: "I am his daughter and I couldn't care less who knows.
"I don't feel any shame about who my real father is. It's time it was out in the open and the world knew the truth."
Sandra's existence was until now, a closely-guarded secret known only to her family and a handful of Kray's close associates.
She was told the truth by an aunt - years after both her mother and the man she thought was her father had died. Sandra, whose son Tim, 20, is the spitting image of the young Reggie, was stunned.
But as she and half-sister Tracey, 39, absorbed the news, things began to fall into place.
"All through my life I felt something was not quite right," said Sandra who lives in a detached home in King's Lynn, Norfolk with husband David, 43, and Tim.
"I knew Mum and Dad worked for the twins in London in the 50s and they often talked about them.
"But it was when I asked my Auntie Anne about it that she said:" There's something you should know, Reggie is actually your father.'
"Once we started thinking about it, it made a lot of other things make sense. My Nan, who was my mum's mother, always said, 'I've always treated you two girls exactly the same'.
"It was said as if she should have said afterwards, 'Even though you've got different Dads'."
Sandra, whose daughter Tammy, 21, and two-year-old grand-daughter Zilanne live near her in King's Lynn, added: "My son Tim has always asked where he got his big nose from. Now he knows.
"He laughs about the fact that he's Reggie Kray's grandson."
Sandra was conceived when her mother, Greta Harper, then 21, had an affair with Kray, 24 at the time. Greta was working at the RR club in London's West End as Reggie and twin Ronnie were beginning their reign of terror in underworld London.
Reggie's affair with Greta lasted on and off for around eight months after her relationship with regular lover Jimmy Steptoe hit a difficult patch.
But by the time Sandra was born Kray had ended the affair and Greta was back together with Steptoe.
And as the family moved to Norfolk to run a caravan park, Jimmy raised Sandra as his own.
It was when Sandra finally found out the truth that she struggled to forge a relationship with the notorious gangster.
She wrote to him in prison and he phoned and agreed to see her. Sandra said: "It came as a real shock. He just said,'I think you better come and see me'. He said he would send me a visiting order. Straight after he spoke to me, he posted it to me and I got it the next day."
The scrawled note, in Kray's distinctive style, reads: "Sandra, good to talk to you. You have nice soft voice. Will arrange a visit. God bless, Reg."
That one meeting with her natural father happened on October 7, 1998, when they spoke for an hour in Maidstone Prison.
"When I first saw him. I remember thinking, 'Oh God he's a little old man'. I expected him to be much bigger than he was and to fill the doorway when he came in.
"But he was smartly dressed in a nice shirt and trousers and his manner was nice. It was quite formal to start with.
"When he first came in he shook my hand and just said, 'We better get this sorted out'. As we talked more he relaxed. He said: "I am not frightened of the truth but I have got to know that it is the truth.
"He said he would leave the ball with me and told me to get back to him.
"And then when he stood up to go he gave me a cuddle and a kiss on the cheek."
Yet they were to have no further contact as Kray became pre-occupied with fighting drugs charges brought against his older brother, Charlie. And Sandra was left distraught by Reggie's death.
She blames much of Kray's reluctance to contact her on his wife Roberta.
"Once I left that prison I never heard from him again," she said. "I can only think it it because of Roberta, who is the same age as me and didn't want to know about his secret daughter.
"I wrote a letter telling him he was messing up my life but even that didn't get a response."
But Reggie did open his heart to close friends about the daughter he had kept secret from the world .
Jan Lamb, 51, a long-term Kray associate and an ex-lover of Reggie's, said last night: "Reggie wanted people to know about Sandra.
"He feared people might use her and her family to get back at him if they knew about his daughter when he was alive.
"But he wanted the world to know about her after he was gone. It was his dying wish."
When Kray died of bladder cancer last October, it left Sandra frustrated over the lost relationship.
"I was distraught," said Sandra,"I thought 'How dare you die before this is sorted out'. I couldn't believe it."
Despite her feelings, Sandra went to his funeral. "I felt I had to, or I might regret it.
"I would have liked to have known him and for him to know my kids and to have had some sort of relationship. I think it would have given him something.
Sandra, whose family run a pub in King's Lynn, does not condemn her father for the way he lived his life. "Everyone is different," she said.
"You have got choices in life. If you want to go the wrong way in life and can live with the consequences that's up to you.
"And it was awful that they kept Reggie inside for so long.
"No matter who he was, it is really bad that somebody was treated like that.
"I always hoped they would let him out so that something could happen.
"Reg would never have taken my Dad's place. He would have just been Reg I suppose.
"But he would have been fun to have around."



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'Pornography' shown at funeral for Cardiff father and son

An investigation is under way after pornography was allegedly shown on a TV at a funeral for a father and his baby son.

The service for Simon Lewis, 33, and his son, Simon, was held at Cardiff's Thornhill Crematorium on Wednesday.
Rev Lionel Fanthorpe said the incident left mourners "desperately upset" and Cardiff council has apologised to the family and friends for the "inappropriate content".
Mr Lewis and his son died following a car crash on New Year's Eve 2015.
Media Wales reported a claim from an unnamed mourner that  porn appeared on the screen.
A council spokesman said: "The council has forwarded a written apology to the family and is carrying out an urgent investigation."

Rev Fanthorpe said: "I'm either looking at the congregation or at the prayer book. To me, it sounded something like voices in a shopping centre but I couldn't see.

"Simon's father-in-law was desperately upset. He came rushing forward. He was looking for an engineer and urging them to 'turn it off, turn it off'. Fortunately it was off in seconds.
"This was not what anybody could have ever imagined or wanted. I just felt the deepest possible sympathy."
Four screens were being used to display tributes and the council said the TV which showed the content had been recently installed.
"We are trying to establish if the new screen - which is a smart television - could have accepted or picked up a broadcast by accident via blue tooth or across a wi-fi network," said the spokesman.
"The other three screens which aren't smart TVs were unaffected. We are clear that it isn't possible for any member of staff to play or download anything on the computer that links to the screens in the chapel."
The screen in question has been disconnected while engineers carry out an investigation.
Mr Lewis, from Trowbridge, was the driver of a Daihatsu Sirion carrying his wife Amanda and their three-year-old daughter when it was involved in a crash with a Peugeot 307.
The Lewises' son was born three months premature when a decision was taken to carry out the emergency Caesarean section, amid concerns the baby was in distress.
 MR Kyle Kennedy, 29, from Rumney, Cardiff, has appeared in court charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, driving without insurance, failing to give a blood sample, driving while disqualified and aggravated vehicle taking without consent.

Angel Garcia not happy with WBC forcing Danny G to fight Khan






Angel Garcia is not happy with the news about the World Boxing Council ordering his son newly crowned WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia (32-0, 18 KOs) to defend his title against WBC #1 mandatory challenger Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) on or before June of this year.



Angel feels that Danny should be able to move on to bigger fights that they have their eyes on. It’s unknown what big fight Angel is eying for Danny, but it obviously something that he must feel that is a bigger fight than a rematch with Khan.



Garcia did not impress with his 12 round decision win over Robert Guerrero (33-4-1, 18 KOs) last Saturday night to win the vacant WBC welterweight title at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The judges scored the fight 116-112, 116-112 and 116-112.



The fact that Garcia was allowed to fight #6 WBC Guerrero for the WBC title instead of Khan or one of the higher ranked contenders like Shawn Porter was a controversial one, because the WBC skipped right over those fighters without giving them a chance to take the fight. In other words, Garcia was allowed to fight a lower ranked guy for the WBC title instead of someone higher ranked and arguably a better fighter than Guerrero, who had lost two out of his last four fights coming into the contest with Garcia.




“I don’t see nothing there,” Garcia said . “(If they fight) it’s going to be a repeat of the same thing again. Danny will knock Khan out. I’m not underestimating him but, I don’t want to get into the WBC politics. Danny is the champ. But I don’t see nothing happening there, in my opinion. I don’t think we’re even looking at that, honestly. Why would we fight Khan? There are bigger names out there right now. Khan had his time.
 He made a lot of money in boxing. I don’t know why he stood around waiting for  Mayweather to fight. It never happened. I don’t see (this fight) taking place.”






Garcia stopped Amir in the 4th round in 2012. However, Khan was dominating the fight going into the third round. It was a tough fight for Garcia until he was able to drop Khan in the 3rd. Regardless of the fact that Garcia beat Khan in the past, he’s still the No.1 contender in the WBC’s rankings and he was passed over by the WBC. He shouldn’t have been passed over in the first place, and now that the WBC is looking to give him a chance at fighting for the title afterwards, Angel is unhappy about it for some reason.






Does Angel want the WBC to just ignore their No.1 contender and let Danny Garcia fight whoever he pleases? It doesn’t make sense for them to do that. If Angel wants his son to be seen as a legitimate champion and not a paper champion due to the way he was allowed to fight a lower ranked guy for the belt, then he should be fine with letting his son fight Khan. At least if Garcia beats Amir again, he’ll have defeated the No.1 contender in the WBC’s rankings and he’ll look a little more legitimate in the eyes of the boxing public.






Angel says his son won’t be vacating the WBC title, because he feels this would be a sign of disrespect to the sport.





“We’re not trying to go on bad terms with anybody,” Garcia said of the WBC. “Were not trying to do that. Why would you be the champ and then vacate the belt? That’s disrespecting the boxing world. If we have to do it, then we have to do what we have to do. But I’m just saying I don’t see nothing there for me. (But) we’re not going to run from anybody. We’re not scared of (Amir Khan).”




If Angel and Danny aren’t going to run from Amir, then they need to let it go and accept that they’re going to need to fight Khan by June. If they can’t handle that, then they need to vacate the title and go look for Rod Salka to fight again or whoever else from the lightweight division.



We don’t even know if Amir is going to take the fight with Garcia. Khan seems a little conflicted about what he wants to do. He might end up facing IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook next in the summer because the money for that fight is a lot more than what he’d make in a rematch against Garcia.