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Gangster

Introducing Gangster: The Story of Paul Massey

Gangster

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Gangster is the extraordinary story of Paul Massey - labelled Salford's Mr Big. It charts his rise and inevitable fall from a young tearaway on the streets of Salford to the head of an organised crime group controlling drugs, security and nightclub doors in Manchester. It’s a story told not only by some of those close to him – but uniquely by Massey himself – though excerpts from an interview most of which has never been broadcast before. Presenter Livvy Haydock enters the secretive underworld to speak to hardened criminals who reveal how Massey climbed his way to the top through violence and extortion. But Massey was unlike many other gangland bosses. He wasn’t just in it for the money, he also saw himself as a community leader. To many in his neighbourhood, he was seen as a Robin Hood figure – looking after their interests, promising to keep hard drugs off the streets and enforcing his own style of street justice.

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0:11.2

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0:29.3

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0:37.4

A quick warning.

0:38.8

This podcast contains strong language and descriptions of violence.

0:44.6

Did you know Paul Massey?

0:46.2

Oh, he didn't know Paul Massey.

0:48.6

I know people who plan to take me out.

0:51.5

They're not threat to me.

0:52.4

They're not going to deal no harm to me.

0:53.7

They've got a fucking balls.

0:55.4

This is the extraordinary story of Paul Massey.

0:59.6

Gangland Mr Big.

1:02.0

If somebody opened their mouth, there are other threats like

1:04.9

actually no exaggeration, these people, the original separados.

1:08.8

Infosar.

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