From Liverpool to Manchester and Scotland, follow the family connections, rivalries and investigations at the heart of the archive.
These films examine how personal relationships become entangled with criminal activity. The Gee and Noonan stories look at families whose names became closely associated with particular neighbourhoods, while the Scotland series follows the Lyons and Daniel rivalry. Read each companion alongside the film to separate an individual’s actions from the wider reputation attached to a family name.
Darren and Danny Gee’s stories place family loyalty, imprisonment and the possibility of change in the same frame. This companion follows the documentary’s movement from Liverpool’s Grizedale estate to Darren’s later anti-violence message.
Manchester’s club economy forms the setting for this account of Dominic, Dessie and Damien Noonan. The documentary follows the connections between family organisation, nightclub security, criminal activity and the events that broke the brothers’ shared influence.
Part five of the Nottingham series examines a family-based criminal network through the pressure it places on others. The central themes are influence from prison, the circulation of weapons and the difficulty of securing cooperation.
Part two follows the rivalry associated with the Lyons and Daniels families in Glasgow. Its central concerns are the relationships that sustain a conflict: loyalty, shifting alliances, retaliation and the pressure of a shared family identity.
The opening instalment of Street Crime UK’s account of the Lyons–Daniels conflict considers family identity, personal grievance and the consequences of a dispute extending beyond its original participants.
A Liverpool family story opens onto an international drugs investigation, as Street Crime UK follows Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon, covert recordings and the effort to interrupt a heroin-importation plot.
This documentary narrows the Lyons–Daniels story to attacks described as attempted murders, focusing on Steven Daniel and the account of six men found guilty in connection with the wider series.
Follow this route through the collection, or choose the story that interests you. Read each film’s companion for its own facts, themes and publication context.
Danny and Darren’s cases form separate strands within the family narrative and should not be conflated.
Liverpool / 41:25 / 2021Manchester’s nightclub economy is a specific setting for the documentary’s account of the Noonans’ influence.
Manchester / 23:17 / 2021This chapter focuses on how a network may retain influence when an individual is imprisoned.
Nottingham / 55:38 / 2022The instalment is structured around the relationship between two Glasgow family-associated networks.
Glasgow / 12:56 / 2021This is the first part of an archive series about the Lyons–Daniels conflict.
Scotland / 5:24 / 2021The documentary links Liverpool to an investigation involving Turkey and the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Liverpool / 20:28 / 2021The description identifies the attack on Steven Daniel as an attempted murder.
Glasgow / 8:43 / 2021These are individual archive accounts. A shared place or theme does not establish a connection between the people or incidents in separate films.
