Quality Street gang
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The Quality Street gang were a gang, the principal perpetrators of organised crime in Manchester, England during the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1986, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police John Stalker was suspended over accusations that, amongst other things, he had attended social events at which members of the gang were present. Stalker was later cleared.
A widely repeated urban myth relates that in the 1960s, notorious London gangsters the Kray twins set out for Manchester to establish a hold on the city. The story goes that following a meeting between the Quality Street gang and Greater Manchester Police, the Krays were greeted at Manchester Piccadilly station, by massed ranks of police and local gangsters who turned them round and put them back on the train to London.
[edit] Bibliography
- Walsh, P. (2005) Gang War: The Inside Story of the Manchester Gangs ISBN 1-903854-29-6
