Darren Gee Reveals the Brutal Gang War that Resulted in Two Murders

and talk to me about the murder of David Regan what you want to know so I mean the reports are that that was ordered by you um and and I think it was it was a there was was there some confusion around what that potentially related to well we can't speak about the mayor of David Reagan without speaking about the mayor of Craig Barker tell me about that that's where it all stems so was a innocent young man never participated in any violence he he trained Under 12 football team he was only 18 himself but this is what he he wanted to be a football coach he loved his football Jordan not period with the with the right way we're having friction with the rights within Liverpool you've got families connected to families and families connected to families so at the higher level all these families like the daughter of that family will be married to the son of that family and that connects these criminal families if you like to understand I'm not here William Moore comes into the picture right so um it is what it is we're doing what we're doing the grass bounce and William Moore's being in jail while we're going through this process he was sent to prison in Birmingham for 12 years for being arrested with 10 kilograms of brown on the motorway so he's gone into custody during this period but his family is still out doing what they do um we started getting into friction with William Moore's younger brother called John Moore because he was a drug dealer in the area we're 23 24 he's 40 41 he's been doing it for years all of a sudden we're stepping on their toes so John Moore John Moore's grafters ended up standing on and we've done what we normally do pull them out the car seriously at them took the phones off them and they've took that as an insult so John Moore's popped up so I'll tell you the story so I came into a lump sum of legit money anyway from my grandparents and I invested it into bricks and mortar and just on the end of the garage Dale Estates I managed to get hold of the property turned it into the coffee and a flat above it and I was living in the flat and I had the coffee underneath and everyone used to come to the cafe and eat the all the local drug dealers used to come to the cafe and eat the dinner and breakfast and one of it and then on this particular we'd already damaged this John Moore's grafters drug dealers we've already pull them out the car cut them took the phones and stuff like that this one morning I got a phone call off an old associate saying um this Porky Moore's looking for you because that's what they call them Porky more because you look like a little fat pig he said Porky Moore's looking for you and as he's saying that Pokemon comes past me on the outside so I come out with the coffee he's driving past he pulls over now he must have been thinking I was going to um go to bits and you know crumble because of who he was but he happens I've gone right around to the passenger seat sat in the passenger seat of his car and as I'm in the passenger seat of the car he must have panicked because it just opened his door sat in he's dropped something but I haven't let them not have seen it he started running his mouth off about respect and this that and the other I was bowing down because I knew he got something in the car but he hadn't let on I bowed down got out the car walked around to the driver's door was even saying goodbye and snatched the keys out the ignition then have told me friends to get a blade of the coffee he's brought it all there and I've plunged him in the shoulder slapped him up and he screeched off I'm gonna tell her will he it's just another confrontation with another local drug dealer although they were old school and they they basically they were the ones with the kilos and you know right shift and huge amounts of drugs and we'd front of the if you're like so what's happened there is within a week or so and I've had a phone call off Willie Moore right but before before all this before all this Willy Moore's out of prison and he's come onto the garage sale Estates and he spoke to me and he's offered us this and he's offered his dats and and we've said okay we'll take a test there we'll get back on you but we never got back on him because we were remaining loyal to the other firm yeah and we took that as an insult as well and that's why his brother put his grafters on our estate you know to step on the toes so we get a phone call off Willy Moore you disrespect my family blah blah blah and that was that during this process we're still having a bit of trouble with Michael Wright and Michael Wright had an older brother called Joseph Wright and Joseph writes drug deal and partner was David Regan became the goal between between you know like the peace negotiator between the right and those so every time an incident happened Davey really going to be placed in the picture and go and talk to them just trying calm it down all that type of stuff so we're moving along uh one of one of the kids who's been around us for years Craig Arrow Smith this is all in the same period okay he's got his wages he's gone into town with his girlfriend when he's gone into town with his girlfriend he's bumped into um distant relatives of the right Fame we've got on a team he caught a little bit of trouble with him in the 051 nightclub he'd come out the 051 nightclub and okay little adult Little Creek senses beard on not playing bath okay girl Smith he's put his Gail in a taxi and another confrontation with this group of lads the group of lads have chased them to a hotel called the Adelphi and on on this side of the Adelphi you've got a wall which is about four foot high but on the other side of the wall it's a hundred foot drop so Craig's being getting chased jumped over the wall shall we start so we're all a bit destroyed off him dying we've been to his funeral we've been you know doing what you do you go to the week you go to the funeral you're bury him we've done we've just went through that process so um as we we're just chilling now it's the day after the funeral there's we're in a car the streets in the car me the youngest brother Ian and a lot called Michael Mark Richardson he's liked off now for the Michael Wright murder so this theme is in the car and we go on to our Estates and as we go on to our estate we see Craig Barker the 18 year old kid yeah just by himself on the estate so we say do you want to come with us we're going for we're going for a screening now so we get in the car and he was into his Auto Traders and he goes look at this look at this look at this card identical to yours wearing a Galaxy Z set 2.3 on a 52 plate and he showed as a Galaxy 2.8 guy RX on a 52 plate there was only one one number in the Reds difference and it was like a more powerful car more luxurious you know and screens in the headrest where you could rig up a computer and he was go he was he source to convince me when you get it done when you get it done so when you know what go and get this money for me got 10 grand went away the car was for sale in Southport so the four rivers have drove to Southport ended up purchasing this car for about nine and a half thousand pounds me and Craig have jumped in the new Galaxy and Ian and Mark have followed us behind him and we've drove home to me Mars estate drove in the close and then left in the new Galaxy to go to speak and the reason we went to speakers to buy a computer because this new car had screens in the headrests where you can bring it so we went to speak but uh the computer Adam McDonald a few hours later Me Mum's rang me saying come and get your washing show me mum was doing me washing because I lived in the flat around the corner we've come in went to New mum's I've asked at this moment Craig's in the bath with Mark playing on the new computer to come and send me mum's with me and get these bags of washing we've got the bags of washing put them in the boots then I've said to Craig you've been on there for an hour or two now swap seats so Craig's got out the back seat and got into my seat which was the passenger seat because I was banned everyone knew me in the passenger seat now I'm in the backseat we drive out coming out of our state to do it right towards me flat where the coffee was it's becoming Josh from now on the 6th of April and as we do that there's a car face just in the side seat with its lights off but it's engine running and my little brother goes get on the Monday all day with his lights off so we were going to drive and I was going to follow us and do the deed probably outside McGuff but I've said slam at reverse so now we're looking at the driver he's only got his face covered with his hand so as we're looking at the driver the back passenger job opens so we're focused on the driver the bath passenger seat opens the gunman was lying flat on the back seats and come out the car seat first and when he's opened the battle he's being crouched behind a back door so you couldn't see him You Could Only See the back door swing open so as I've said get on the bath or other folks that just opened he's popped out and let us shot off to the passenger window the bullet's gone through the passenger window the SeaTac 2.3 that we left those Army mums was automatic the new one was a manual so when the bullets come through the glass I've told me younger brother put your foot down and get out of here he's let the clutch out too fast and stored on the spot the gunman this um Waterhouse SAS trained Soldier zigzagged up to the car punched on Craig Porter's gone point blank to Craig's chest and wear it to understand them emptying the clip now as Craig's taking them bullets he's trying to get away from him so he's going over the center console where the I'm breaking that is in the car and he's ending up on Aim so Craig's back is on Ian all of the gunman's Waist Deep now he's followed him so Craig couldn't get away from him all them bullets that's gone through him I've come out of them and gone into me little brother so he's doing his deeds I've had to open the back door gone to Ian stormy younger brother the driver's door he's fell out I've picked him up put him on the back seat Mark's already opened the door and ran away he got one in the shoulder but he's open the he's opened the door and ran away from the scene about to push Craig back over into the passenger seat start the car and go towards the Liverpool Royal Hospital it's so so Craig Craig ended up being killed your brother's seriously wounded how soon after that was the decision to go after David Regan 10 days later 10 days later and you go after David Regan and that was did you call the shot yes so to get to that point of what happened then I've gone I've gone from the hospital at least died we're doing all you know we're all I'm feeling responsible you know the gunman came for me I just swapped seats craze dead Ian's in a coma I've come out of that Royal hospital that night Mead's gone I go back to another apartment so he had in the city center I'm sitting there with two guns me we'd intake went through the roof so I'm getting more paranoid and more suspect about anyone and everyone eventually you know I've got to go and see his mum Craig's mum she sends a gazebo up outside the family home I'm sitting in there we're all thinking Revenge retaliation but we didn't know who it was eventually I get a phone call of William Moore what we've been through with blah blah blah that that kid shouldn't be shot dead David Reagan was driving the car and that's what put David Regan in the picture right so we fast forward now to the 18th of May so the 6th of April Craig's shot dead 10 days two weeks later we get the information that David Reagan was driving for a week or 10 days we're letting them know that we know he was involved phone calls threatening phone calls telling them up with his brother's house you know looking for them stuff like this yeah eventually I've got the whereabouts of his business which was a a car wash business most drug dealers back in the day used to use them sort of businesses to launder the money yeah so we found out where his business was a couple of days before we went down and done a little wrecking on it you know had a little look around what we were going to take on the 18th of May we purchased a car we just sent some smack head down to purchase a car just a little old car and a little escort we'd also add another galaxy so obviously we needed a firearm one of me mates dad Ricky he was connected to the Follies we asked we asked Ricky to speak to because they weren't involved in security then was that that sign we've asked them for a firearm they'd give us a Beretta with a silencer we've put the burrito silencer in the glove compartments of the escort that we purchased we'd left it at the bottom of the road parked up for a few hours got a phone call saying David Reagan is now at the car wash so we've just left out of state five of us after discussion about you know we need to get in we need to show them what the the Craigs did we need someone to pay for it We've Ended up in the car chandam it's about quarter three in the afternoon on the 18th of May it's a nice sunny day where we drive up Everton Road go down West Derby roll down to do a right onto Green Lane end up on lower lower Kensington Road Prescott Road and we do a right we come across the car wash it's on the left we see David Reagan's BMW he's he's sat in the front with his brother the gunman is in the escort with the driver I'm in the Galaxy with the driver and there was another car floating behind us a theater bath with someone else in there we slam on outside the the garage the gunman jumps out with the Beretta that's a shot off through the windscreen David reading gets out starts running the gunman precision and hit some three times in a bath and then he's dead two days later I'm arrested for conspiracy nor for murder they couldn't charge me with the murder I'm about to be released from custody uh the girlfriend of David Regan made numerous statements that we're untrue I ended up getting charged with threats to kill went to court under armed guard with a helicopter and all this sort of stuff ended up in prison on the thrifts to kill six weeks later they've come back and charged me with conspiracy to murder with persons or no and that's that and what did you do for that what sentence yes so I've got 18 years I'm doing 12 for away class there's the gunman I was classed as a conspirator someone who conspired with the unknown gunman and what happened to David Walter house he was responsible for killing your friend Craig Adam Morrison William Moore apparently yeah they got convicted for the contract killing right it was proven in court and back in the day a policeman being murdered or a contract killing by firearm you'd end up with 30 35 plush recommendations so they ended up with 35 years each for contract I ended up with 18. because the judge back in back in that time pre-2004 he could give you a discretionary life sentence yeah or a long determined for conspiracy to murder no it's 30 Rock standard it's a recommendation it's very different now because we're in a threat to the public you give me a long detail in a sentence

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Published: Sun May 21 2023