The ringleader of a notorious gang used compensation to start a turf war after the murder of his brother.
When Julian Bell was 12 he fractured his spine in motorbike accident which left him paralysed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. Six years later, he was given a £500,000 pay-out.
Bell then went on to spend his compensation on a bungalow, a specially adapted BMW and his move into crime. His long career in organised crime started in Manchester, but eventually led him to Southport, where he teamed up with a local dealer Kieran Robinson and supplied heroin and crack that was ferried from Liverpool to dealers in Gloucestershire.
