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A Gangster, A Celebrity & A Police Officer: Episode 379
A Gangster, A Celebrity & A Police Officer: Episode 379
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Feb 28, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
Todays story is from Liverpool where a shooting outside a nightclub left a number of questions unanswered. Serious players in the underworld were loosely connected and did all they could to make the charges related to the shooting go away. Add to this mix an attempt to bribe a Police Officer and a 90's reality star and that is this weeks story on the UK True Crime Podcast.
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Sources
TV stars, drug cartels and Merseyside's real Line of Duty cases - Liverpool Echo
BBC News | UK | Ex-TV Gladiator and detective jailed
BBC News | Entertainment | Portrait of a police force
Detective jailed for corruption loses most of pension | The Independent | The Independent
Corrupt Cop 5.mpg (youtube.com)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/senior-detective-risked-officers-for-bribe-from-britain-s-top-drug-baron-1200337.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jan/10/10
Watch the True Crime Podcasters Roundtable - February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XsBoMbcpEU
Find out more about the UK True Crime Podcast:
https://www.uktruecrime.com
Join me at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime
Join the UK True Crime Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime
Buy my book 'Gone Fishing' about serial killer Angus Sinclair:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gone-Fishing-Unsolved-Crimes-Sinclair/dp/1914277201
Sources
TV stars, drug cartels and Merseyside's real Line of Duty cases - Liverpool Echo
BBC News | UK | Ex-TV Gladiator and detective jailed
BBC News | Entertainment | Portrait of a police force
Detective jailed for corruption loses most of pension | The Independent | The Independent
Corrupt Cop 5.mpg (youtube.com)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/senior-detective-risked-officers-for-bribe-from-britain-s-top-drug-baron-1200337.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jan/10/10
Released:
Feb 28, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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