However, PC Helsby, one of the officers who chased the car, had inadvertently stumbled on a much more gruesome incident than a dangerous driving case.  As the policeman and his colleague approached the injured vehicle where it crashed, on Cairo Street, they realized that someone was trapped in the trunk. 
Inside, police found 44-year-old drug dealer Kenneth Murphy “in a terrible condition.”  He had been beaten with a crowbar and beaten to the point that one of his eyes was swollen, he was drenched in blood from a deep rupture in his forehead and he was “completely petrified and begging for help”. 
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Mr Murphy’s abduction and torture were part of a “Deli Mob” craft that took its name from the Delamore Street area of ​​Kirkdale.  The ruthless, extremely violent and frightened North Liverpool street gang has made headlines again in recent weeks thanks to the conviction of Jonathan Gordon, who has been in the gang for more than a decade.

Gordon, 34, was brought to justice for breach of the EncroChat telephone network, which revealed that he was advertising his services as a brutal executioner who was willing to throw acid in the faces of opponents for money. Intercepted messages from the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that Gordon charged 6. 6,000 to carry out an acid attack, rising to £ 10,000 if the client wanted a victim to be permanently blinded. Gordon sprayed acid on the face of a man in St. Helen in April 2019, causing serious eye injuries and leaving him in need of intensive treatment to restore his sight. But examining Gordon’s EncroChat account, with the ValuedBridge handle, led detectives to realize that he had been involved in a number of serious firearms-related offenses, including involvement with guns on the streets of Liverpool, where he saw a flies through the address window of an elderly couple on Carisbrooke Road, Kirkdale, in May 2020. Gang Executor Jonathan Gordon (Image: NCA) Gordon pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm. two charges of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, and one charge of conspiracy to possess a firearm with the intent to endanger life and will be convicted on Wednesday along with two accomplices. Dylan Johnston, 27, and Stephen Wissett, 28. Gordon was never charged with assaulting Murphy in 2016, but had evidence of links to those involved. Merseyside police would learn that Mr Murphy was driving an Audi when he was swept away by two other vehicles at an intersection in Norris Green. Masked men jumped from the other cars, broke the driver’s window and dragged Murphy out of the Audi, hitting him on the head with a crowbar and punching him repeatedly before throwing him in the trunk. Although Mr. Murphy was severely beaten, the intervention of PC Helsby and his colleague undoubtedly saved him from a much worse ordeal. Police later found blood-stained handcuffs, a hammer, pliers, cables and a blood-stained crowbar in one of the other vehicles linked to the abduction. Later, five men were charged with false imprisonment and intentional injury and tried in Liverpool Crown Court in 2018. However, four of the men were acquitted and only the criminal Paul Dwyer, 6 feet 4 inches and 22 stones, was convicted of assault. Dwyer’s father, then 29, was jailed for 14 years with an additional four years leave. Deli Mob partner Paul Dwyer jailed in 2018 for falsely imprisoning and brutally beating a man in Walton Dwyer and some of the other men charged were associates of Deli Mob. The gang rose to fame about a decade ago to dismantle other drug dealers, most notably cannabis burglars in north Liverpool. In 2011, Merseyside police went to court to secure anti-social behavior orders (ASBOS) against six men who are described by the force as members of the Deli Mob for terrorizing the north of the city. An appeal to the North Liverpool Community Justice Center at the time stated that the gang “would break into areas used for cannabis factories, steal goods and everything else, sell drugs and / or consume them themselves.” he would use the money to buy money laundering and drug supply vehicles and use their presence and violence to hold their territory around County Road. “ Of the six men targeted in the ASBO applications, two were Jonathan Gordon and Paul Dwyer. A pair of infamous brothers were also included. Jake and Jamie Glenholms. Jamie Glenholms was one of the men acquitted of Murphy’s abduction, but soon found himself before another jury again for another particularly brutal attempt to rob a drug dealer. The tramp, then 24, led a gang of masked intruders who broke into a property in the Fazakerley area just three months later, in January 2017, in search of a man named David Higgins, who was on bail awaiting trial. drugs at that time. . At first, Mr. Higgins was not there, so the gang gathered his family and waited for his return. Their goal was finally met and they came face to face with Glenholmes and his crew, armed with baseball bats and knives and demanding .000 50,000. Jamie Glenholmes, left, and his brother Jake Glenholmes As Mr. Higgins tried to convince the intruders that he had no money, one of the gang broke out with a knife and cut him in the face, causing significant injuries and leaving a permanent scar. The terrified victim tried to run but was beaten with a baseball bat until a safety light in a neighbor’s garden disturbed the gang and made them flee. In the weeks following the incident, Glenholms knew he had been identified by Mr Higgins and sent messages offering him money to leave the case. However, a court in Liverpool Crown Court concluded that he was in charge of the raid and was the man who killed Mr Higgins. Jake Glenholms, though not charged with as serious a crime as his brother, Dyer or Gordon, has spent much of the last seven years in prison for offenses such as growing a 32 32,000 cannabis farm in his home, attempting to break into in a convenience store and the sale of heroin. . Most recently, in March 2020, Jake Glenholmes admitted to threatening a Walton prison inmate with a “scary” improvised knuckle. As he was convicted in that case, the court was informed that Glenholms had been attacked himself and had been targeted “because of his name” and “because of who his brother is”. On Wednesday, Gordon will be the last of the 2011 Deli Mob class to face a mammoth penalty, probably much higher than that imposed on either Dwyer or Jamie Glenholmes. A snapshot of a young Jonathan Gordon released by Merseyside Police in 2011 (Image: Merseyside Police) Merseyside police have pointed to the bleak future of the most violent members of the gang as a warning to others to avoid organized crime. Detective Mark Kameen, chief of Merseyside Police Investigations, said: “Our message to young people is that crime does not pay and is not charming or rewarding. Imprisonment sentences like these underscore how seriously the police, the CPS and the courts take this kind of organized crime. So, think again, why organized crime is a prison ticket. “When a vulnerable young person is identified, we work with partner services to protect them and work with them to enable them to take a different and better path in life. Organized crime greatly harms our communities and we need the help the public to detect any crime in your neighborhood. “It is vital that everyone who cares or knows young and vulnerable people understand the issue and identify the warning signs to help them.” Read more related articles Read more related articles