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LIVERPOOL: FAMILIES, RIVALRIES & REPUTATION

Explore Liverpool stories through the Gee family, the Fitzgibbons, the Bootle and Formby investigation and the Arobieke profile.

THE VIEWING ROUTE

These documentaries approach the city from different angles: family connections, criminal investigations and the way a reputation takes hold. Each film has a dedicated companion, so you can follow a single case or compare the stories without treating an entire community as one narrative.

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CRIME FAMILIES41:25 · 2021

THE GEE BROTHERS: FAMILY AND CONSEQUENCES

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.

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CRIME FAMILIES20:28 · 2021

THE FITZGIBBON FAMILY

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.

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POLICE INVESTIGATIONS6:45 · 2021

BOOTLE & FORMBY

Street Crime UK connects Lewis Clarke, Malcolm Graham and Adam Mercer in an account linking Bootle and Formby, with a disagreement and mobile-phone evidence forming the documentary’s investigative premise.

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CRIMINAL HISTORY11:38 · 2021

AKINWALE AROBIEKE: THE PERSON AND THE MYTH

Akinwale Arobieke’s story sits at the intersection of reported conduct, legal restrictions and urban folklore. The documentary examines how a real person became a widely circulated figure, and how race and repetition shaped that transformation.