The Tax Man: Liverpool's Deadliest Gang Wars

Liverpool's underworld: the feuds, the doors and the gang wars, told by the people who were there.

1. The Tax Man: George Bromley · He would tie a man to a chair, strip him and turn a steam iron up to full. Then he would drip water on the metal so his victim could hear it hiss. In 1990s Liverpool, "taxing" meant robbing drug dealers of their money, t
2. The Straightener That Started a War: David Ungi v Johnny Phillips · It started with a pub. Cheers, on Egerton Road, was the local for David Ungi, a well-liked boxer from the Dingle and a former Golden Gloves champion, and for his friends and family. Then Johnny Phillips of Toxteth, a pow
3. The Meat Cleaver Feud: Charlie Seiga v the Hughes Brothers · This is a feud told by the man who started the fighting. It comes from Killer, the memoir of the Liverpool villain Charlie Seiga, and it begins with a man he only ever calls the Dog. ## The Dog Seiga had known the Hugh
4. Slaughtered: The Killing of Karate Champion Andrew John · Andrew John was 6 foot 4, a champion martial artist and a hero to young people in Toxteth. He was also feared by Liverpool's underworld. One night he got out of the back of a friend's car to face a man he had been feudin