A TikTok account posting rap videos featuring what appeared to be an imprisoned former member of the infamous Croxteth Crew has been deleted.
Wesley Brown, 38, was jailed indefinitely for public protection and ordered to serve a minimum of three years and 50 weeks for firearms offences in 2006. In 2017, when he was 33, he organised an illegal phone smuggling gang while serving time at HMP Manchester.
The ex-gangster hit headlines again in January 2021 when videos posted to YouTube saw him rebrand himself as a rapper, with a well-produced music video which showed mask-clad men driving around Croxteth on quad bikes and scrambler bikes. A man who appeared to be Brown was shown rapping in a balaclava in a jail cell, saying: "I pray every night for the roads, I've still got lives to take."
