"starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. In the 1931 ""The Sleeping Cardinal"" he is played by Louis Goodrich. In the 1935 ""The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes"" he appears very briefly played by Wilfrid Caithness. He then appears in a larger role as Moriarty's right-hand man in the 1937 ""Silver Blaze"" (a.k.a. ""Murder at the Baskervilles""), here played by Arthur Goullet. Moran appears as a mathematician and the main villain in the 1946 Basil Rathbone film ""Terror by Night"", played by Alan Mowbray. In the film ""Without a Clue"", Moran (portrayed by Tim Killick) appears as Moriarty's tall bodyguard and has"
"Lenny McLean Leonard John McLean (9 April 1949 – 28 July 1998), also known as ""The Guv'nor"", was an English boxer, bouncer, criminal and prisoner, author, businessman, bodyguard, enforcer, weightlifter, television presenter and actor, and has been referred to as ""the hardest man in Britain"". McLean's pugilist reputation began in the East End of London in the late 1960s and was sustained through to the mid-1980s. He has stated that he had been involved in up to 4,000 unlicensed fight contests. McLean stated in his autobiography that he has been well known in the criminal underworld. As a respected and"
"Red Dillard Morrison Dillard Morrison Sr. (1919) — known as ""Red"" Dillard — was an American mob boss and enforcer in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Once called the ""most dangerous man in the country"" by federal law enforcement agents, Morrison's underworld résumé includes running a multimillion-dollar heroin ring, enforcing, pimping, extortion, and engaging in shootouts with rivals like Bumpy Johnson. A Robin Hood like figure in the Harlem community, Morrison's exploits with crime, women, and music are legendary. Though he would spend decades behind bars over the course of his life, Morrison was never convicted of murder. Morrison was"
"Desmond Noonan Desmond ""Dessie"" Noonan (8 August 1959 – 19 March 2005) was an English organised crime figure from Manchester, who acted as a political fixer for the Noonan crime family. He and his younger brother, Dominic Noonan, were suspected by police to be responsible for at least 25 unsolved murders during their 20-year reign over Manchester's underworld. Mainly because of the very dangerous contacts Desmond Noonan had made during his reign as ""Britain's number one Drag Queen "", his family was at the end of the 1990s known as ""one of the most notorious crime families in British history""."
"most dangerous woman I have ever met. For a decade, she has targeted men sexually, financially and physically. The men of Britain can sleep safe tonight knowing she has been taken off the streets."" A judge described her as: ""one of the most fluent liars I have come across."" Detective Chief Inspector Martyn Underhill noted Thompson's misandry, stating: ""I think the events of her childhood have made her hate men. If you look at her life, it is always men she has targeted."" Thompson was born Dena Holmes in 1960 in Hendon, North London. She worked for a building society."
"Whitechapel Vigilance Committee were involved in the search for the killer or killers. Despite extensive inquiries and several arrests, the culprit or culprits evaded identification and capture. The murders drew attention to the poor living conditions in the East End slums, which were subsequently improved. The enduring mystery of who committed the crimes has captured public imagination to the present day. In the late Victorian era, Whitechapel was considered to be the most notorious criminal rookery in London. The area around Flower and Dean Street was described as ""perhaps the foulest and most dangerous street in the whole metropolis""; Dorset"
"to the 2011 England riots. Noonan's brother Dominic Noonan was filmed talking to looters in Manchester. Desmond Noonan Desmond ""Dessie"" Noonan (8 August 1959 – 19 March 2005) was an English organised crime figure from Manchester, who acted as a political fixer for the Noonan crime family. He and his younger brother, Dominic Noonan, were suspected by police to be responsible for at least 25 unsolved murders during their 20-year reign over Manchester's underworld. Mainly because of the very dangerous contacts Desmond Noonan had made during his reign as ""Britain's number one Drag Queen "", his family was at the"
"the excess consumption of alcohol by followers and supporters of the parades in Belfast causing violence on occasions. He also noted that if the parades had an outward route only without having a return route the potential for disorder would be decreased. The comments were condemned by other loyalists and were said to have driven a further wedge between the wider UDA and its North Antrim and Londonderry Brigade, which had been the source of some dissident activity. McDonald is the most senior UDA brigadier, and author Jon Moran credits him with restoring order to the organisation due to his"
"East End of London named the ""Guv'Nors"" along with Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, reputed to be the ""most legitimate"" of the three brothers. McLean was also been described as a ""fixer"" and a ""minder"" (or bodyguard) for criminals and celebrities including Mike Reid, Freddie Starr,Henry Simpson, Boy George, and the casts of television shows such as ""EastEnders"" and ""The Bill"". According to McLean's autobiography, his name was useful for the smooth progress of various criminal dealings, and to warn off members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Mafia. In 1992, McLean released an album"
"was convicted of drug charges. He died of bladder cancer in prison in 1989. Red Dillard Morrison Dillard Morrison Sr. (1919) — known as ""Red"" Dillard — was an American mob boss and enforcer in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Once called the ""most dangerous man in the country"" by federal law enforcement agents, Morrison's underworld résumé includes running a multimillion-dollar heroin ring, enforcing, pimping, extortion, and engaging in shootouts with rivals like Bumpy Johnson. A Robin Hood like figure in the Harlem community, Morrison's exploits with crime, women, and music are legendary. Though he would spend decades behind bars"
"two bullets as he was getting into his car outside his luxury home in Aberfeldie. Jason Moran was imprisoned on assault-related charges for a brawl in a King Street Nightclub for trying to feel up other men (sexually). Alphonse Gangitano was also charged but was murdered before sentencing. Jason Moran was considered a person of interest in Gangitano's murder. On 21 June 2003, Jason Moran and associate Pasquale Barbaro were shot by a lone gunman whilst watching a Saturday morning Auskick Australian rules football clinic his children were attending. Police feared the murder of Jason Moran would lead to further"
"was imprisoned. London Monster The London Monster was the name given to an alleged attacker of women in London between 1788 and 1790. The attacker had a signature behaviour of piquerism, the pricking or stabbing of victims with a knife, pin or needle. The first reports of the Monster appeared in 1788. According to the victims (most of them from wealthier families), a large man had followed them, shouted obscenities and stabbed them in the buttocks. Some reports claimed an attacker had knives fastened to his knees. Other accounts reported that he would invite prospective victims to smell a fake"
"Joseph P. Moran Joseph P. Moran (1895–1934) was an American doctor known for catering to the Depression-era criminal underworld in the early 20th century. He was also a peripheral member of the Barker-Karpis gang, and was possibly the last physician to see the mortally wounded John Hamilton, a member of the John Dillinger gang, whom Moran refused to treat. Moran disappeared in July 1934. He is believed to have been murdered by Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis. During World War I, Moran served as a pilot in the Army Signal Corps with the rank of lieutenant. Moran graduated from Tufts"
"murdered by Arthur and Fred Barker and then buried in a lime pit in Michigan. The most accepted version of the tale is that Karpis himself, along with Fred Barker, took Moran on a boat ""ride"" on Lake Erie, during which they both murdered him. Joseph P. Moran Joseph P. Moran (1895–1934) was an American doctor known for catering to the Depression-era criminal underworld in the early 20th century. He was also a peripheral member of the Barker-Karpis gang, and was possibly the last physician to see the mortally wounded John Hamilton, a member of the John Dillinger gang, whom"
"Lewis Moran Lewis Moran (7 July 1941 – 31 March 2004) was an Australian organized crime figure and patriarch of the infamous Moran family of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Notable for his involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings, Moran was shot dead in The Brunswick Club Hotel in Melbourne on 31 March 2004. His murder occurred one week after the funeral of fellow Melbourne underworld criminal and suspected hitman Andrew Veniamin. Moran, married to Judy Moran, was the father of murdered Melbourne underworld figure Jason Moran, murdered in 2003, and stepfather of Mark Moran, murdered in 2000. Moran was a long"
"Charles Bronson (prisoner) Charles Arthur ""Charlie"" Salvador (formerly Charles Ali Ahmed; born Michael Gordon Peterson on 6 December 1952), better known as Charles Bronson, is an English criminal who has been referred to in the British press as the ""most violent prisoner in Britain"" and ""Britain's most notorious prisoner"". He has spent periods detained in the Rampton, Broadmoor and Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospitals. First arrested as a petty criminal, he was convicted and sentenced in 1974 to seven years' imprisonment for armed robbery. Additional time was added due to attacks on prisoners and guards. Upon his release in 1987, he"
"the ground can be a source of danger."" Other leaders of the UK's Muslim community took a similar view. Ken Livingstone, the then Mayor of London, defended the police as having acted in the way they thought appropriate at the time, and with the aim of protecting the public. Confirmation bias on the part of the Metropolitan Police may have come into play in this case. Disconfirming evidence that Menezes was the suspect may have been present, but interpreted incorrectly. The threat of a suicide bombing on the Underground may have produced stress and time pressures in individuals within the"
"was the last survivor of the North Side gunmen; his succession had come about because his similarly aggressive predecessors Vincent Drucci and Hymie Weiss had been killed in the violence that followed the murder of original leader Dean O'Banion. To monitor their targets' habits and movements, Capone's men rented an apartment across from the trucking warehouse and garage at 2122 North Clark Street, which served as Moran's headquarters. On the morning of Thursday, February 14, 1929, Capone's lookouts signaled gunmen disguised as police officers to initiate a ""police raid"". The ""faux"" police lined the seven victims along a wall and"
"then stab them in the face with the spike hiding within the flowers. In all cases the alleged assailant would escape before help arrived. Some women were found with their clothes cut and others had substantial wounds. In two years the number of reported victims amounted to more than 50. The press soon named the maniac ""The Monster"". Descriptions of the attacker varied greatly. Some men even founded a No Monster Club and began to wear club pins on their lapels to show that they were not the Monster. Londoners were outraged when the Bow Street Runners, the London police"
"he was obliged to retire from the army and return to London. Outwardly respectable, with an address in Conduit Street, Mayfair, and membership of the (fictional) Anglo-Indian Club, the Tankerville Club and The Bagatelle Card Club, he was nevertheless recruited by Professor Moriarty, and served as his chief of staff. Ultimately he is used solely for assassinations that required his peculiar skill with the rifle; Holmes mentions the killing of a Mrs. Stuart in 1887 which he suspects (but cannot prove) Moran was involved in. In ""The Final Problem"" (early 1891), Moran escaped incrimination, and followed the Professor to Reichenbach"
"ward. In a 2003 London Evening Standard journalist David Cohen described Coldharbour Lane as the most dangerous street in the most dangerous borough in London. The headline asked whether the street is 'the most dangerous in Britain'. In 1997, the street was the scene of several shootings. Devon Dawson, a 29-year-old Jamaican in the UK with a six month visa, was shot dead with a sub-machine gun outside the Green Man pub on Coldharbour Lane in April 1997.On 3 June 1997 Anthony Baker was shot in the head during a raid at the Control Tower takeaway in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton,"
"also said to be men who would like to see Ritchie out of the way because of certain women who favored him with their regard.”¹ Other likely suspects included the Mazzocchi brothers, Willie Moretti, and even close friend Al Capone. The number-one suspect, however, was Abner “Longy” Zwillman, a man sometimes referred to as gangster number two. When the Boot’s thirty-eight-caliber revolver fell to the hospital floor, after the attempt on his life, prosecutors had a case against him. It was an unusual one that appeared to be putting the victim of a crime on trial, rather than the perpetrators;"
"term associate of Graham Kinniburgh after meeting as workers on Melbourne's waterside. Kinniburgh was earlier executed outside his Kew home on 13 December 2003. He was also the brother of underworld figure Desmond ""Tuppence"" Moran, who was shot dead on 15 June 2009, just outside a cafe on Union Road in Ascot Vale. On 31 March 2004, Lewis Moran and Herbert ""Bertie"" Wrout were at The Brunswick Club Hotel, on Sydney Road, Brunswick, which was their regular drinking place. Both men were on bail and did not carry firearms, which would have been a breach of their bail conditions. Moran"
"and their leader, a man called ""Bill, or the King"". Matthews' delusions had a definite political slant: he claimed that the purpose of this gang was espionage, and that there were many other such gangs armed with Air Looms all over London, using ""pneumatic practitioners"" to ""premagnetize"" potential victims with ""volatile magnetic fluid"". According to Matthews, their chief targets (apart from himself) were leading government figures. By means of their ""rays"" they could influence ministers' thoughts and read their minds. Matthews declared that William Pitt was ""not half"" susceptible to these attacks and held that these gangs were responsible for"
"manager and his family all bound, but physically unharmed. The Bank of England, to whom the money belonged, was reimbursed £25 million by Securitas AB the same day, and assured the public that Securitas would make up any additional loss. Securitas and their insurers offered a reward of £2 million for information leading to the thieves' capture. On 23 February 2006 at around 19:00 police confirmed the arrest in Forest Hill, South London of a man aged 29 and a woman aged 31, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery. There were thought to be at least six armed robbers"
"danger."" Its defenders argued that it was less cruel and dangerous than fox hunting, and one local newspaper asked ""Who or what is this London Society that, usurping the place of constituted authorities, presumes to interfere with our ancient amusement?"" A rather noncommittal riot trial in 1836 tried only five men, and convicted a mere three; this inspired the town to plan an even bigger event for the next year. The mayor of Stamford – at the direction of and with the support of the Home Secretary – used 200 newly sworn-in special constables, some military troops, and police brought"
"largest police force in the United Kingdom, responsible for policing Greater London, except for the financial district, the City of London. The latter has its own force, the City of London Police. The Met's commissioner at the time was Sir Paul Stephenson; the City of London Police commissioner was Mike Bowron. Responsibility for supervising the Met falls to the Metropolitan Police Authority, chaired by the Mayor of London, at the time Boris Johnson. The officer seen pushing Tomlinson was a constable with the Met's Territorial Support Group (TSG), identified by the ""U"" on their shoulder numbers. The TSG specializes in"
"Killing of David Morley David Morley (3 October 1967 – 30 October 2004) was a barman who was fatally attacked by a group of youths near Waterloo station in London on the morning of 30 October 2004. The attack garnered widespread media coverage as a fatality of a violent trend known as happy slapping and due to the original (false) belief that the attack was motivated by homophobia. In December 2005, four youths were found guilty of Morley's manslaughter. A fifteen-year-old girl, Chelsea O'Mahoney (aged fourteen at the time of the incident) was sentenced to an 8-year custodial sentence. Her"
"a criminal career. Among those who earned their living in the streets of London, the more criticized were the hackney coach drivers. Moreton defines them ""the scum of the people, and, generally speaking, the worst of rogues"", robbing their customers on a regular basis, and often in league with highway robbers. Hackney coach travellers were generally at the mercy of their carriers, and even the simplest travel could easily turn into a real danger. Even the most ""honest"" among them were used to rework the city routes and rates as they pleased in order to increase their profits. Hackney coach"
"time, as a result of the raise in threat level. The terror threat level was then returned to 'Severe' by JTAC on 17 September 2017. Citing the Parsons Green train bombing, police advised the public not to record terrorist events, but instead to ""run, hide, tell"". US President Donald Trump tweeted: ""Another attack in London by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!"" He also touted his proposed travel ban. His comments were described by Theresa May, who characterised the tweets as inaccurate speculation, as ""not helpful."""
"Sydney identity Darcy Dugan. Dugan and an accomplice, William Cecil Mears, were convicted by Herron for a bungled hold-up of the Commonwealth Bank at the Sydney suburb of Ultimo. Mears shot the bank manager Leslie Nalder, and both Dugan and Mears were charged with wounding with intent to murder. Herron sentenced both to death, but both sentences were commuted. Eventually Dugan and Mears were paroled. Herron was involved in hearing the criminal charges against Charles Ivan le Gallien. Le Gallien was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Herron received a death threat as a result of this trial, and was"
"alleged to have been investigating drug-related police corruption in south London before his death. Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery, stationed at Catford police station, was assigned to the case, but did not reveal to superiors that he had been working unofficially for Southern Investigations. In April 1987, six individuals, including Sid Fillery and Jonathan Rees, the brothers Glenn and Garry Vian, and two Metropolitan police officers, were arrested on suspicion of murder; however, all were eventually released without charge. At the inquest into Morgan's death in April 1988, it was alleged that Jonathan Rees, who had experienced disagreements with Morgan, told"
"probably causing the popping sounds reported by witnesses, and only one minor injury was reported. The suspects fled the scenes after their bombs failed to explode. On Friday 22 July, CCTV images of four suspects wanted in connection with the bombings were released. Two of the men shown in these images were identified by police on Monday 25 July as Muktar Said Ibrahim and Yasin Hassan Omar. The resultant manhunt was described by the Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Ian Blair as ""the greatest operational challenge ever faced"" by the Met. During the manhunt, police misidentified Jean Charles de Menezes as"