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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Damon Wilkinson

The violent rise and fall of gangster 'White Tony'... devoted Winnie Johnson's other lost boy

Winnie Johnson had already suffered more than enough heartache for one lifetime. Her son Keith Bennett was just 12-years-old when, in 1964, he was snatched from the street by Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley before being tortured and killed - his body never found.

But tragically it wouldn't be the last time Winnie, a mother-of-nine, found herself mourning the violent and senseless death of one of her boys. In 1991 her grandson Tony Johnson was shot dead aged 22 in a 'Chicago-style' execution outside a pub in Cheetham Hill, yet another victim of a murderous turf war which threatened to tear Manchester apart.

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