Manchester's 'Mr Big': Secrets From A Northern Crime Boss | British Gangsters | Absolute Crime

Faces of the British underworld rarely rear their heads, but in this series, they shed the secrets on the darkest secrets from the criminal underworld in the UK. Featuring an interview with Paul Massey, Manchester's Mr Big - plus Jimmy ‘The Weed’ Donnelly, Arthur Donnelly, Sean Keating, Bernard O’Mahoney, Wayne Barker, David Fraser, Christopher Brayford, and other members of the famed Quality Street Gang.
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[@BoxersRealty]

Around 1980-81, I was working as a bartender in a pub called "The Lord High Admiral" In London. It was located just off the Edgware Road on Church Street. We had a public bar and a lounge bar. The police would drink in the public bar and a local gang called the Quality Street Gang, used to drink in the lounge bar. Just wondering, if the QSG of London, who lived near the Edgware Road (Church Street) were related to the QSG in Manchester? They were actually a nice bunch of fellows and never caused a problem. They always treated me with respect and were great to chat with. The pub's landlord was a fellow called Joyce from Ireland.

[@sybennett7392]

My heart goes out to Kelly his daughter seeing all these things about her dad

[@JBLancs]

I know & his wife & other children & his lifelong pals. No need for it

[@sybennett7392]

@@JBLancs I remember running out of petrol out side a pub in Salford an the was a group of men came out laughing i got talking to a bloke that give me some money to get fuel an after he got shot they put his picture on TV me pal called me asking if it was him an it was God bless Paul rip

[@JBLancs]

@@sybennett7392 I didn't know him but what I saw & hear of him being staunch as they come he was my kind of bloke ie made the same. Staunch.

[@sybennett7392]

@@JBLancs yeah he was a good man I told Kelly this story

[@G.E.MTFC_]

@@JBLancs no need for what ? Come on now , being clean and innocent was a big front

[@user-ev3es2tk4w]

My one regret was never getting to see Wayne before he left us as we all grew up together in the 70s and early 80s ,he lived at 4 Rock street Higher Broughton with his mother Mary ,Dad Eric and sisters Lorraine and Tracy .We lived further up the street and we were all in the same group most nights hanging out on the street ,Wayne was a couple of years older than me and many nights i would end up sat there counting out how many times he jumped with his skipping rope ,fastest skipping ever ! super fit he was even as a young teenager .And the Partington part he mentions was all correct as i was there the night he left ,eventually over the years i lost touch with him and the family and it was only through facebook this last few years we reconnected but sadly it was too late as he had already passed with Cancer ,would of loved to of seen him again .Very sad so RIP my old mate .

[@grumpyoldman9805]

This program is ruined by bern the grass

[@JBLancs]

💯

[@andybowyer3602]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sybennett7392]

Who he grassed on

[@seabassmcgee3367]

They're all grasses the sooner you realise that the better

[@bigal2417]

Paul Massey just shows u ,u cant judge a book by its cover , looks like a normal man

[@paulmorganmorgan7541]

Great documentary bernard 👏

[@schrisdellopoulos9244]

Jabba the Hut talks about the good old days as he is splayed on a chair weighing 450 lbs, using a cane, and not managing his diabetes.

[@jarrad5244]

You mean Jabba the slut? He was loose 😂

[@dean7652]

Ha ha

[@maverickg1740]

Why do you think that's funny?

[@Moretti19728]

Was the real deal back in his time, he is older now. Happens to all of us

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting documentary

[@NewTheoryMagazine]

New subscriber 🍿

[@deeppurple883]

Really it's all a fantasy, the cardboard gangsters. What do most if not all got to show for all the wasted year's. They might have a few good stories to tell on podcast but that's the extent of it. Yesterday's news, good for reminiscing, makes them feel that they've achieved something in their life. The one's that were smart we're the ones who were paying them. I'm not having a knock just stating a fact or two. 🥊☘️🥊

[@M......0161]

rip 🙏 Paul you were a true salford heart ❤️

[@Dinocharlie16]

Gangsters makes money off ordinary people. Just so you know...enemy of the people! As useful as the government

[@anyawaleofondo]

My bedroom window overlooked that Partington gypsy camp.

[@bigal2417]

i met Stalker in a restaurant 35 years ago near Epsom in surrey , i knew who he was but i asked him if he was Jim Bowing off of bull eyes, hes face was a picture 🤣

[@paulwalmsley6419]

Too many adverts. You should be ashamed cashing in on legends. Hope they catch up with you.

[@bigal2417]

GREAT ADD BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THE SECEART IS NOT LISTEN TO A LOT OF SHXT FOR 20 MINUTES

[@edwardodonnell6857]

I think it’s true in life we reap what we sow not always sometimes horrible things happen to really good honest people that is the unfairness of life sometimes.Being shot down assassination is tragic it shouldn’t happen unfortunately in the underworld it does happen someone looses a dad grandad husband not a world I would ever want to be part of.

[@stevenwalton1431]

Rip Paul true Salford man blessings to you and your family 🙏

[@fullyawakeloyah8844]

Wow he mentions fighting the N w 0 and b @ n k5 t£r 5 etc back then what a guy

[@brianmorecombe2726]

Pretty sure some of the QSG used to drink in the Circus Tavern om Portland Street.

[@dennfett]

I spent a little time with Ken and Sean back in the early 90s.

[@Sycophants_should_suffer]

What a fantastic story and the way you told it made me feel like I was there with you all. Bravo.

[@dennfett]

@@Sycophants_should_suffer thanks.

[@Jammo1978]

Givin old docs new titles, and that o'mahoney is a fuckin midnight

[@carlosdeno]

Manchesters Mr Big 😂 the man was an absolute weapon.

[@nigelkent-ux7ye]

Mason's had something to do with what happened to John stalker

[@patkearney9320]

BOM the one the jealous love to hate he's not my cup of coffee but fair play to him. It's funny the way low profile villains dislikes him, yet big fish let him swim.

[@patmc-so9ks]

rest in peace paul prays to your family and friends

[@nigelkent-ux7ye]

Did Bartley Gorman inherit big justs crown as king of the gypsys

[@eddieomahony507]

Anyone remember martin o shes

[@justonsullivan3807]

Does anybody know what year Wayne Barker died. 🙏🇺🇲🗽🇬🇧🙏

[@martinjamessmith1045]

Does Freddie macfarland from Coventry ring a bell to anyone in Manchester,he hooked up with people in china town ? 80s

[@jonwalton4286]

Ohhh Yh. Known as Chinese freddy up in Manchester lethal with a pair of chop sticks was mad Freddie 😅

[@Pauliwallnuts3694]

Yeh his Chinese burn was legendary back in the day!

[@stuca78]

Gangsters 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DarkStar-wu9nq]

I have Jimmy’s cane that he has here

[@thesatisfiedcustomer4869]

United smashed Citys firm before a derby at the Whalley.

[@Leo-dr4qm]

How he get in America

[@Soyuz2578]

Massey's brown bread now isnt he?

[@rhysjones407]

😊

[@NeoKnotSee]

Cultural enrichment?

[@anyawaleofondo]

What??

[@NeoKnotSee]

@@anyawaleofondothis is what happens when you let immigrants into this country. Our people learn from them and then this is what we get

[@paulweir6862]

Fs this is old nothing new

[@AbsoluteCrime]

Well, Paul Massey did die in 2015

[@motty420]

42:15 it was originally aired in 2012. An oldie but a goodie in my opinion

[@jakehope6811]

We know that mate but some people won’t have seen it

[@donnaloz3741]

All new to me!

[@guy4469]

Frank gallager runs manchester .

[@Edward-iv9fs]

Thugs acting like victims. Hilarious.

[@dean7652]

I bet Massey phoned the old bill as soon as he got shot considering he hated them

[@GemLKirk]

No darling he rang an ambulance 9 times and it kept disconnecting. The ambulance automatically send the police. You know a lot don’t you

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

​@@GemLKirkHow can you ring an ambulance 9 times when you have got no fingers left.

[@GemLKirk]

@barbarahalkyard1901 what a sick thing to say. Your not well in the head you and you would find a way.

[@lisahynes9949]

Respect to Paul Massey, big Manchester United fan. 💥❤️👹👹👹❤️💥❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[@FUCKgmp]

Paul Massey was running for mayor of Salford ! Being mayor gets you some benefits 😢 The government wouldn’t want Paul having access to anything .

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

Normal law abiding citizens wouldnt want a ganster as mayor either you muppet.

[@johnstringer221]

Why is a grass comontating

[@adilabbas8628]

Which one? There's a few on here lad 😮

[@steeny9845]

He’s not saying he’s not a grass 😂