Hidden messages between some of the most vindictive and violent criminals on the streets of Merseyside exposed the chilling world of gangland hitmen trading in extreme violence.
Kirkdale gangster Jonathan Gordon, aka EncroChat user 'ValuedBridge', was involved in a number of breath-taking conversations which laid bare the sheer ruthlessness and cruelty of what he was prepared to do for a payday, detectives found.
At Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, known 'Deli Mob' member Gordon, 34, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 24 years and eight months in prison. A jury had convicted him of hurling acid into the face of St Helens dad Lee Deakin, plotting two other similar attacks which were aborted at the last moment, and a series of shootings across Liverpool and Warrington.
