A former gang leader who amassed a cult following on social media since being released from prison carried on recording as he was attacked by a man with a hammer.
Darren Gee, 42, a former member of a notorious drug-dealing crew which caused misery in Everton's Grizedale estate, was jailed in 2006 for ordering the murder of 36-year-old David Regan, shot dead outside an Old Swan car wash in May, 2004. He later admitted he mistakenly believed Mr Regan had ordered a bungled hit on Gee carried out by former SAS soldier Darren Waterhouse, which killed his friend, Craig Barker, and wounded his brother, Ian Gee.
However it later emerged Waterhouse had been hired by drug dealer William Moore. Gee served 18 years for conspiring to commit Mr Regan's murder, and has said he accepts he 'wasted his life' and bitterly regrets the decisions he made when he was involved in serious crime.