A crime family armed themselves with guns stolen from the army and lived the high life after flooding the streets with heroin and crack cocaine.
The Whitney gang peddled drugs next to primary school playgrounds and lived a life of luxury off the back of it. Relatives and associates had spent years at the top of a massive Anfield-based criminal network, which had a stranglehold across much of Liverpool.
They made selling heroin and crack cocaine a 24-hour business, running a cash and carry-style operation - with 13 members of the gang ultimately handed 82 years in total in 2011. Ringleader Paul Whitney is now facing another lengthy spell behind bars after trafficking huge quantities of illicit substances via EncroChat, using the handle Bullet Hawk.
