Homicide and Organised Crime by Mohammed Rahman

Author:Mohammed Rahman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030162535
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Moody’s fearless reputation was recognised by organised crime groups, namely the London-based Thursday Gang, who used him as an enforcer for violent robberies during the mid-1970s. Eventually, Moody was apprehended for a string of armed robberies and while on remand in HMP Brixton for his part in several armed robberies; Moody escaped from the prison in the company of Gerard Tuite, a senior member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and Stanley Thompson, who was renowned for having escaped from other prisons in the past. Thompson, Tuite and Moody tunnelled through the walls of their respective cells until they were able to drop down into the yard below. As Tuite remembers, given Moody’s fearsome reputation, he was ‘a man I need[ed] to get to know’ (p. 139). During his time on the run, Moody taunted police officers, who were always one step behind. As one detective explained:A lot of us wished that Moody would just go away and stop taunting us. We knew he was around cooking a snoot at us but we also knew we had no chance of getting to him. I remember one senior detective said he wished somebody would take Moody out and pull us all out of our misery.

(pp. 167–168)

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