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Ben Scott
Best-selling true crime author of The Toe Cutters and Gangland Rave Wars, a pre-order best seller. Ben Scott writes about Britain's and Australia's underworld: the firms, the doormen, the prisons and the cases that never closed. He narrates the EM Films documentaries on Gangland True Crime Docs.
Gangland Rave Wars: Manchester Lit the Fuse
Book 1 of the Gangland Rave Wars series. A pre-order best seller, out 4 December 2026.
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Hunting Ground
Inside Britain's high security units, where the predators become the prey. Out 8 January 2027.
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Blood Brothers, Part 1: the lulu
Alphonse Gangitano and Jason Moran were best mates, and co-accused. On 16 January 1998 they shook hands outside court. Part 1 of an EM Stories exclusive.
Paul "One Punch" Doyle and the night Ajax's top boy picked the wrong man
Amsterdam, 1998. A six-foot-five Dutchman walked up to a Salford man on a pool table and told him who he was. It was not his lucky night.
Chopper Read and Mad Charlie, the Don who waited for his door to be opened
At seventeen Mad Charlie Hegyalji had Chopper Read as his bodyguard. In 1998 he rang Chopper for his birthday. Six days later he was dead at his gate.
Damian Noonan v Paul Doyle, the straightener nobody agrees on
Salford's One Punch Doyle against Manchester's Damian Noonan, bare knuckle at the Inn of Good Hope. Doyle says he won it. Some who watched say otherwise.
David Bieber, the American who shot PC Ian Broadhurst in Leeds
On Boxing Day 2003 a big man in a stolen BMW told two Leeds traffic officers he was Canadian. Eight seconds later one of them was dying.
Gavin Preston, the breakfast at Sweet Lulus and the question nobody has answered
Two young men from Sydney waited three hours in a stolen Audi to shoot a Melbourne hard man they had never met. A court jailed them. Who sent them?
Paul Massey v Paul Doyle, the friends who went to war over Salford's doors
They grew up fighting side by side in Salford. Then a party in Ordsall ended with a gun, and the door war began. Only one of them lived to write about it.
Ronnie O'Sullivan Sr and the killing of the Krays' driver at Stocks
Chelsea, October 1991. Charlie Kray's old driver died on the King's Road pavement. Two stories of that night were told, and only one was told in court.