That group, without Bennett, was jailed for a combined total of 90 years at Liverpool Crown Court. Live score, commentary and match stream as Liverpool take on Atalanta in the UEFA Champions League. As the Tory leader calls for criminals to be kept behind bars, police are investigating his role in a royal pardon for two men facing 18 years in prison. House of Commons Hansard Debates for 21 May 2004 (pt 20), House of Commons Hansard Debates for 25 Nov 2008 (pt 0016), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Haase_(criminal)&oldid=961516685, Prisoners and detainees of the United Kingdom, British people convicted of perverting the course of justice, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 June 2020, at 23:00. Fugitive Paul Bennett was arrested in June on the Algarve after eight years on the run. After sentencing the two men to 18 years each in prison, Judge David Lynch was contacted by the customs officer in charge of the investigation, Paul Cook. He has nothing to hide and the papers will show that.'. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. But Bennett escaped. But before a decision was reached on the second appeal the time limit for keeping Bennett in custody expired and under Portuguese law he was set free. Why did Michael Howard let him out of jail after ten months? Even though children were in the area he aimed at them. More than 20 black funeral cars lined Fountains Road while the service got underway and close friends and family delivered heartfelt tributes to the 73-year-old, who died suddenly in hospital surrounded by his family. To a simple-minded lay person such as myself, there can be only two possible conclusions. 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In March 2001, Kilfoyle was granted a half-hour Adjournment debate in the House of Commons at which he brought up the subject of Haase and Bennett; specifically the damage done to the people of Liverpool by them being allowed back onto the street after such a short period of time in prison, and the basis on which they got out (that is, the Royal pardon they received).[6]. HM Customs, Merseyside police and the Treasury have also asked for extensions to the 20-day deadline for responses recommended by the legislation. But today the 42-year-old from Anfield was a free man after time ran out and Portuguese officials had to let him go. Will Home Bargains, B&M, Wilko and The Range close in lockdown? 34-year-old caught after just over a year on the run, Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletter. Royal pardons are rare: only a handful are granted each year and the Home Secretary must ask the Queen to use the royal prerogative to order the release of prisoners. [18] In December 2003, he was refused permission to appeal his murder conviction. The arms caches, in safe houses and cars across Merseyside, were a set-up, planted on Haase's instructions from a mobile phone he had smuggled into prison. Francis 'Franny' Bennett was caught by police on his third visit to the burning building to rescue the crop ... LIVERPOOL ECHO) The judge handed Bennett eight months in … Howard may now wish he had never acted. [5], Investigative journalist Graham Johnson records McAteer's career as beginning in 1979, when he started to forge links with Glasgow's main drug barons. Commenting on the police inquiry he said: 'This is a matter for the Metropolitan Police. Howard demanded immediate disclosure of the papers in an attempt to demonstrate that he has nothing to hide. “Double sessions five days a week. Although Kilfoyle put his Freedom of Information request to the Home Office at the beginning of the year, he has yet to receive the papers. His real concern, however, concerns an obscure file on two of Liverpool's most dangerous gangsters, John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were granted a royal pardon in … A Merseyside Police statement said: "A Merseyside man wanted by the courts having been convicted of conspiring to supply heroin and cocaine has today been caught and arrested by 'Titan', the North-west regional organised crime unit with the assistance of Merseyside Police. [18], Ferris found it implausible that McAteer, whom he described as being "so cautious as to be almost paranoid", would implicate himself in such a way, and concluded that Selkirk was killed by Irish criminals due to unpaid debts. [4], According to Observer crime correspondent Tony Thompson, McAteer threatened to shoot multiple police officers as well as anyone who testified against him: at least two criminals were given new identities under the witness protection program in return for their testimony. A deeply controversial decision that allowed two of the most dangerous men in Britain to walk free to continue their deadly trade could still come back to haunt the Leader of the Opposition. On the face of it, the customs were duped, the police were duped, the Home Office was duped, the judge and the judiciary were duped. The first is that Customs and Excise, the Prison Service, the police, the judiciary and the Home Office were all duped by Haase and Bennett. He then passed information about the guns' locations to his customs handler Paul Cook, suggesting the guns belonged to other criminals. "Eleven other members of the wider organised crime group investigated by Titan were jailed for a total of 90 years on December 21, 2015 but Bennett failed to appear and a judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest. Howard's visit, revealed here for the first time, resulted on Friday in a letter to John Gieve, the Permanent Secretary at the Home Office. [4][5] By age 11, an impoverished McAteer was robbing purses and handbags to feed himself and his four siblings, all of whom had fractured childhoods and spent time in foster care. Liverpool transfer news and updates including the latest on Erling Haaland, Thiago Alcantara, David Alaba, Kylian Mbappe, Mohamed Salah and more. Following the conclusion of the trial at which the two drug barons received sentences of 20 and 22 years for perverting the course of justice in 2008, Kilfoyle called for an independent enquiry into the issues surrounding the case. [13] He has two children. A Foreign Office spokesman said: “Paul Bennett was released from detention when his custody time limit expired. The gun thug was one of 12 members of a cross-border drugs trafficking cartel operating under the direction of 37-year-old Welsh and his right hand man Neil Sutemire. 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The truth was that they could lead the police to the arms because they had arranged for them to be planted there themselves. [8] He was known within Merseyside as "Mad Jock";[9][10] "Little Hands" has been reported as an alternate nickname. 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Although he had good reason to believe he was untouchable, Haase was finally rearrested in 1999 and later sentenced to 13 years for money-laundering and supplying firearms to fellow gangsters. You were probably doing seven days and not telling no-one (sic). Doubts were expressed by police and Customs and Excise officers as to the authenticity of the information that Haase and Bennett gave, and local Liverpool MP, Peter Kilfoyle campaigned for an investigation.
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