They were the notorious crime family who held a fearsome grip on Manchester's underworld for almost two decades.
Damien, Dessie and Dominic Noonan spent years ruthlessly building their empire across the city. The gangster brothers - who grew up in Whalley Range in a family of 14 siblings whose first names all began with the letter D - first made their mark specialising in armed robbery.
But with Dessie and Damien regulars on the doors of some of the city centre's most popular nightclubs, including the Hacienda, the pair soon realised that drugs were a far more lucrative way of making their fortune.
