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Annie Allix, Votes: In 1964 when Adams was aged 8 he had to start carrying a knife to school for self-defence. But the project was beset with objections from the local community and, by November of 1998, the Adams family wanted their 300,000 investment back. David Harris, Colette Camden "I've never met Wynter or had anything to do with him, and I told the police that.". The family is said to be one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the country and have been linked to up to 25 murders. "I never had any contact with [the Adams] family," said Spooner. Lee Walden, Not Rated Documentary, Crime, History. Designer watches, six shotguns and large sums of money were found in other addresses across the city, with a concentration in north London. | A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) Truly one of the most devastating true crime documentaries ever produced, Dear Zachary is an absolutely unbelievable story that will . $3.12M, TV-MA Matt Damon, | Gross: 39,254 Regan Burns, All Rights Reserved. Documentary, Crime. One of these was a divan bed delivery company. [74], Tommy Adams was charged with involvement in the handling of Brink's-MAT gold bullion but in 1985 was cleared of involvement in the laundering of the proceeds during a high-profile Old Bailey trial with co-defendant Kenneth Noye. Documentary, Crime. [72], In 2008, Tommy Adams lent 2.5 million of his family's money kept by him under the floorboards to Lord Edward Davenport to invest it in the purchase of the fashion label of Irish celebrity shoe designer Patrick Cox. Follows events and characters surrounding the January 6th, 2021 insurrection of the U.S. Capital Building in the days preceding the attack. | A troubled journalist (Amy Adams) returns to her hometown to cover the apparent murders of two girls in this limited series. Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, he wooed women online, then conned them out of millions of dollars. Support for the theory came from a former associate of both men, David Duff, who was taken into the witness protection scheme in 2003 after a fallout with Baker. Stars: Charlie Russell [129], In June 2017 George Adams was involved in a shooting at his flat in Islington where Danis Salih who owed him 200,000 was wounded during a shooting. John Hodgman, | | During his recent trial, Baker described how, in the early-90s, Christian Arden then-chairman of Po Na Na gave him "a chance" to work for his public company and "earn a very good living and live a very nice lifestyle". | Director: $0.49M, Not Rated 150 min Dan Alexandru Condrea, Jason Bell, [124], Lord Davenport owed 8.5 million pounds to the Adams family after a sale of 33 Portland Place which was part-owned by them[125][124] In 2018, when Patsy Adams got in touch with Davenport from HMP Framkland trying to recover the money that was owed to his family, Davenport tried to delay matters and instead of paying up, introduced him to a young blonde woman with big breasts. 101 min | How Ben Kinsella's murder brought crime elders up against the young For two decades he walked around freely, all while 13 people were kept in the police witness protection scheme, some after giving evidence against him when he was prosecuted and then acquitted for kidnap, extortion and murder. A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. It's Me, Margaret. Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime. Stars: | Fox on Parkinson's and how he finds "optimism is sustainable", Preview: Michael J. Documentary, Crime, Mystery. Before leaving home, he told his mother he believed himself to be the incarnation of the devil. Dan Ariely, Check out these must-watch true crime documentaries streaming now on Hulu. [84] His father George Adams worked as a lorry driver in 1960s and later as a mechanic at a Jaguar dealership in North West London. TV-MA Liz Garbus | 467 min | Gross: | Busted: The fall of Britain's most ruthless gangster Yet she was the wife of a prominent businessman who ran a gambling outfit, and she was carrying around $1,800 in her purse on the day she shot him. William Bradford Huie's book "The Crime of Ruby McCollum" inspired the new documentary. Dean Barrow, | But the court refused to grant an injunction prohibiting the publication. [67], In 2001 Tommy Adams met a high society socialite and a night club owner Lord Edward Davenport, and started charging him money for protection racket after threatening to smash up his nightclub in Chelsea. | | 89 min Documentary, Crime. 109 min "He's got a natural cunning when it comes to making money.". Director: James Marsh | | Brandon Z Ruiz, On arrival at Heathrow airport, he was arrested by police and Kim Adams was. The first film takes a look at the faulty police investigation into the three teenage boys - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley, best known as the West Memphis 3 -- who end up being convicted . Duff claimed to the police that Baker had admitted murdering Wynter with the help of a childhood friend at a flat in Chelsea, to take over his security operation and retain Spooner as a "golden goose" client. "But with older folks there's still a great divide. [26] It was discovered that Adams had worked as jeweller in Hatton Garden and later as a fashion designer. Documentary, Biography, Crime. Director: Jimmy Carter, Danis admitted possession of ammunition without a firearms certificate and possession of 27 tablets of Alprazolam, 26.9 grams of cannabis, 3.02 grams of cocaine and 1.83 grams of opium. This documentary explores the depth behind the case of a woman whose vehicle collision killed numerous people, including herself. Director: Neil Cavuto, 47 min 88 min | . "Andy was the brightest of a bunch of goons [working] for Gilbert," said the insider. The Addams Family: Created by David Levy. . Stars: Transcripts of the surveillance by the MI5 and investigations into several front companies Adams set up proved that Adams has operated a string of legitimate businesses including that of a jewellery company, a film production business[25] and a fashion label.[27]. Director: [54] His first was a wallet theft in Angel, Islington which made him 10 (which equals 197 in 2023) which he used to buy a new leather dog collar for his dog also named Tommy, and a pair of Adidas trainers for himself. Syamsul Arifin, [104] Adams ran up to Teirnans car and managed to grab the weapon. Director: David Farrier, William Bradford Huie's book "The Crime of Ruby McCollum" inspired the new documentary. On 26 November 1993 a Lotus Carlton registered "40 RA" was reported stolen from a home in the West Midlands. Christine Cynn [75] $0.87M, 77 min 72 min 'grass', "Crime boss Terry Adams's wife angered by M15 who 'spied on us alleven our cat", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clerkenwell_crime_syndicate&oldid=1152524491, Organized crime by ethnic or national origin, People from the London Borough of Islington, Secret societies related to organized crime, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles that may contain original research from April 2023, All articles that may contain original research, Pages using infobox criminal organization with rivals parameter, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The Adams crime family have inspired the 2022 TV series, Clerkenwell crime syndicate was the inspiration for, In 2020 wife of Terry Adams actress Alfie Adams, This page was last edited on 30 April 2023, at 19:25. | [32], In 2011, after his release from prison, Adams started working in Hatton Garden as a jewellery designer. Sam McCollum Jr., one of McCollum's children, told the filmmakers that a white doctor in the Jim Crow-era South was akin to a "God in the community.". Later, in the late 70s he began selling waterbeds when he realised that those started becoming popular in England and by 1976 were in high demand. An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival. $2.96M, TV-MA 2015 The Associated Press. The film re-examines the case of Randall Dale Adams, who at the time of filming was in prison for the murder of a Dallas police officer. Andy Baker leaving court in May of 2006. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chris Smith A gunfight between Danis and George ensued and Danis was shot and wounded. [10] Two of his younger brothers were under surveillance by the MI5 and police in Spain. Felicity Morris [115] In 2013 Police launched a covert operation to find Adams after circulating him as wanted in connection with wounding a British security services informer Paul Teirnan in Islington, North London, and fleeing the country. | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Some 15 people were arrested and thousands of pounds . Directors: | The North Londoners, once estimated to be worth 200million, had many names, including the Clerkenwell crime syndicate, the Adams Family and the A-Team. Stars: [84] He comes from a very poor working-class family from Northern Ireland and is one of 11 children. Space Invader, $21.58M, TV-MA The car was never recovered and no charges were brought against him. | | His work included forged signatures and documents from the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Mark Twain, Betsy Ross, Francis Scott Key and Paul Revere. [87][88] His first convictions at the age of 10 included stealing a Christmas Turkey from a carvery in Islington[89] on Christmas Day and robbing a festive gift shop on New Year's Eve in order to get a Christmas gift for his mother. Mary Ann Broberg, | | Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic. [65], In 1980s Adams made a lot of money on drug trafficking, robbery and operating a protection racket but lost around 1.5 million in the early 2000s after a string of poor investments, one of those being the purchase of 33 Portland Place, a 24 bedroom Robert Adam mansion located in the West End which was acquired by Adams jointly with Lord Edward Davenport who used it as his personal residence whilst Adams himself lived on a council estate. Debora Guetta, Votes: Melina Abdullah, | In 2022 Adams was released from prison after settling the confiscation order of over a million pounds. Diana Davis, Alex Gibney, [81] He is best known for operating a protection racket for brothels and nightclubs in the West End of London with his son George Adams. [60] Before the 2017 arrest shaun Adams worked in a night club in Soho as a manager until February 2022 when he opened a property consultancy business SGA Consulting[58] he runs from his Islington flat in Claremont Square which was used as the filming location for 35 Portland Row in the Netflix adaption of Lockwood & Co.[61], In 2009 Tommy Adams met an Irish solicitor Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE of Dawson Cornwall Solicitors in Hatton Garden, Holborn who until her death in October 2020, was instructed to advice him in matrimonial matters, specifically in contact arrangements with his son Sean Patrick who was born in 2011 and lived at 33 Portland Place where he was being raised by a nanny until 2014. Member of feared Adams crime family 'blasted rival in the stomach' The Thin Blue Line - Trailer. Amy Berg Michael Moore, Some speculated that only he would authorise the ironing out of two such heavyweights, but the police bugs hidden inside Terry's home showed a crime boss knocked sideways by the two murders. Michael Moore Votes: 4,248. Sammy Silverwatch, Alexander Nanau "I could not wrap my head around the story, that a woman of Ruby McCollum's stature would see anything that could be a good future for her to have a sexual relationship with a white doctor," Hagin said. Ken definitely had some psychotic tendencies he claimed he'd been sectioned twice and once went with Jo to the local supermarket in nothing but his pants. Robert Steffey, Freddie Rodriguez, criminal organisation, allegedly one of the most powerful in the United Kingdom. $0.01M, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee. Brad Mulcahy, Not Rated Kathleen Bagby, Votes: Terence George Adams was born 18 October 1954 in London. Clark Gregg, As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. [28] He was arrested in April 2003 detectives found art and antiques valued at 500,000, 59,000 in cash and jewellery worth more than 40,000 in his home. Stars: A source close to the investigation said that he must have found nearly three-quarters of a million pounds "down the back of the sofa". Sr. Avila A middle-class family man hides a secret life as the head of an organization of contract killers in this drama series. The Addams Family in Court: Directed by Nat Perrin. The Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate, also known as the Adams Family or the A-Team,[3][4] is a Herman Koto, Michelle Alexander, The shallow documentary "Broken Harts" examines a tragic crime: In March, 2018, the Washington couple Jennifer and Sarah Hart killed their six adopted children by driving off a California . In 1998, Adams was convicted of masterminding an 8 million hashish smuggling operation into Britain for which he was jailed for seven years. Director: The story chimed with other police intelligence, which linked the Wynter and Nahome murders to a land deal in Lancashire. The family's oldest member Terry Adams was imprisoned in February 2007 and released on 24 June 2010. Chris and Shanann Watts' Final Texts Revealed - People Adams pled guilty and was given a nine-month sentence, suspended for 12 months. [78], Tommy was further convicted of money laundering and sentenced to 7 years in 2017 after a number of significant cash seizures of criminal money were linked to him. | Nicky Campbell, TV-MA In 1996, while Wynter was overseas, Spooner sold Embargo and bought a new club down the road in Fulham Leopard Lounge, whose investors included Lord Edward Spencer Churchill, a relative of Britain's wartime leader. Spooner, a former student at Gordonstoun the top public school where his parents taught and Prince Charles was educated has had a troubled association with Baker for over 20 years. Alex Gibney | Sean Horlor Mike Albanese, True Crime Documentaries - IMDb Then, one morning in March of 1998, it was Wynter who disappeared, never to be seen again. Galante, Ed Adams. [49] Born to poor Northern Irish emigrants from the remote rural town of Donegal,[50] he was re-told Donegal's old myths, lore and folk tales by his mother as a child and by the age of seven when he knew over a thousand of those, he started selling them to Irish papers in London for 0.90 a tale, re-telling them so well that the Irish papers bought them by the dozen. Puppet Master Netflix: New TV series tells shocking tale of Robert Stars: Randall Adams, Bryan Gibson, Votes: | The Confession Tapes. Baker appeared untouchable until 2017, when Avon & Somerset police began secretly targeting his organised crime group. This White officer led Black troops during the Civil War. 110 years McCollum was found guilty and sentenced to death at her first trial but later avoided execution by winning an insanity plea. Director: It was in Angel that Terrence designed his first bespoke suit at the age of just 14, and it was in Angel that Terrence came to understand the transformative power of style. Documentary, Crime, Drama. Notorious Adams crime family thought to be behind Hatton Garden heist . 90 min Documentaries Like The Staircase | POPSUGAR Entertainment "[29] The former Scottish gangster Paul Ferris asserted that none of the brothers is primus inter pares (first among equals or in sole charge). | [63], Despite investing millions in properties and having several children with different women, Tommy Adams continued living on his own in a one bedroom council flat near the family's traditional Islington base, wearing tracksuit and having beans on toast for dinner. Richard Brosal, "I was just so worried, I had to either yield or maybe die, I suppose that was what would happen," Ruby McCollum testified, according to trial transcripts. 146,238 Stars: Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 25,073 Bruce Sinofsky "Green beans work, too." In a new documentary from Netflix, newly-revealed letters and texts show that Shanann had no idea that her marriage . Razvan Lutac, Documentary, Biography, Crime. Tim Travers Hawkins 107 min 85 min [11] The family is believed to have connections with various criminal organisations, specifically with South American drug cartels and Cosa Nostra.[12]. Stars: Gylfi Zoega, He didn't drop gangster names on me; he dropped posh, rich, influential people's names that he claimed to know, to do business with. Texas man who lost wife and son in shooting shares story, NYPD officer Troy Patterson dies 33 years after being shot in robbery, Supreme Court to hear case that could curb power of federal agencies, The weirdest items passengers leave behind in Ubers, MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo found dead at 46, Michael J. Skye Borgman Crime boss Tommy Adams scrambling to sell London home to avoid seven So far he has coughed up just 277,613.20 with a balance of 965,657.55 plus interest of 86,272.41 still to pay. Andrew Bagby, Tony Brooks, (disclaimer - fair use based on research and studying ) The Adams family led a criminal organisation, reported to be worth millions and MI5 were tasked with . | Known as the A-team", "The real-life mob family that inspired Gangs of London? A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century". Documentary, Crime. $14.36M, R Personnel and members of the Clerkenwell crime syndicate includes some 300 members. ", In 1997, Baker stepped up when Wynter went to visit his mother in Jamaica. | Directors: "The stuff about the land deal is right," said the Adams insider. [51] Despite being brought up as an Irish Catholic, Adams became disillusioned with the faith when he was 12 years old after an incident with his mother. A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America. | Michael Moore, In 1998, Tommy Adams was convicted of organising an 8m hashish smuggling operation, and was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Jessob Reisbeck, [6] Media reports have stated they have a criminal fortune of up to 200 million. Damien Wayne Echols, [5], The syndicate was founded by Irish gangsters Terrance Adams, Patrick Adams and Tommy Adams and is based in Clerkenwell and Islington, North London. [27], In March 2017 Adams lost his appeal against the order to pay 700,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Despite being known for their prudish outlook, the Victorians loved nothing more than a grim horror story. Banksy, | Gross: [30] Also, on 21 May 2007, he was ordered to file reports of his income for the next ten years. After September the 11th, Scotland Yard began diverting manpower and resources away from fighting organised crime, and towards the war on terror. Stars: Documentary, Crime. Documentary, Crime, Mystery. Police, Crown Prosecution Service staff and jurors were said to have been bribed and intimidated leading to not-guilty verdicts against members of the gang that were said to be wrong.[16].