Operation Tiberius

Police corruption? Who would have thought it? Lots of people, not just me. See e.g. Police Corruption. The villains on the outside are recruiting the filth on the inside using Freemasons.

Don’t let the bad guys get away with it

  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 02 February 2014
  • Leaders
 

...the gangland boss David Hunt. He had sued The Sunday Times over a 2010 report saying that he and members of other notorious crime syndicates stood to gain millions of pounds from derelict land they owned close to the Olympic site in east London. Mr Hunt lost his case and also his...

Revealed: how corrupt detectives shielded crime lord

David Leppard
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 02 February 2014
  • Crime
 

YARD has known for at least 12 years that a network of corrupt detectives has helped the crime lord David Hunt to evade justice, a secret report has revealed. Hunt, an East End businessman, is still at liberty despite being named by a High Court judge last year, in an unsuccessful...

The long fight to expose brutal ‘Long Fella’

David Leppard
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 02 February 2014
  • Crime
 

...ago when the investigative journalist Michael Gillard met an informant with intimate knowledge of London’s criminal underworld. The source told him about David Hunt, a colourful East End businessman who owned a scrap metal business. He was known as “the Long Fella”. Hunt final...

‘The Met almost cost us the case’

Tim Rayment
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 11 August 2013
  • Features
 

...murder. Police contacts had given him the name of a suspect and he was about to turn up on the doorstep. Wilson knew the suspect, David Hunt, was dangerous. But criminals were sometimes willing to pass on local knowledge and he hoped for an insight into the murder of Maxine Arnold and...

Why have I ruffled police feathers, m’lud? Perhaps it’s because I’m a friend of Mike Tyson, the pigeon fancier

Tim Rayment
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • Focus
 

The mask never really slipped. It took nine days in court before David Hunt showed any emotion, and even then you needed to have watched him for the other eight to know that that day was different. Until that moment, the man accused of being a prominent crime boss had maintained an...

Why have I ruffled police feathers, m’lud?

  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • Ireland

THE mask never really slipped. It took nine days in court before David Hunt showed any emotion, and even then you needed to have watched him for the other eight to know that that day was different. Until that moment, the man accused of being a prominent crime boss had maintained an...

Betrayed by the force he loved

Michael Gillard
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • Focus
 

Hunt final The police helicopter hovered high in the Essex sky on the morning of November 7, 2006. Camera images of David Hunt driving his Bentley out of his mansion gates were fed back to DCI David McKelvey and his team nearby. Detectives intercepted Hunt while others...

Letters and email: August 18

 

Long arm of law must not fall short of Mr Bigs CONGRATULATIONS on your tenacity in unmasking the crime boss David Hunt (“This man was too big for the police to investigate but The Sunday Times exposed his brutal reign as a gangland boss . . .”, News Review, last week). Many of a more...

The Untouchable

Michael Gillard
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • News
 

On July 8, 2005, Billy Allen swung his car around Trafalgar Square straight into a traffic jam on Whitehall. London was in a virtual lockdown after two days of drama and terror. On July 6 the city had won the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics. On the morning of July 7 that elation had turned to...

‘Extreme violence and fraud’: portrait of East End crime boss

Fiona Hamilton
  • The Times
  • Published: 06 July 2013
  • Crime

...later, according to a police report, Mr Powell was asked to meet David Hunt, the East End businessman exposed in the High Court this week as an organised crime boss. The report outlined claims that Hunt asked Mr Powell — the dresser of the notorious gangster Ronnie Kray and of...

Fast & louche

Matt Rudd
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 25 August 2013
  • Magazine
 

...medallions. A decade when men could be men and racing drivers could be bonking, boozing racing drivers. And the king of them all was James Hunt, the last great playboy world champion. His reputation as a hothead, an oaf, a serial womaniser preceded him. He punched officious race-track...

Lifting the lid on the profession of violence

  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • Ireland

Tony Soprano bears some resemblance to David Hunt, who this newspaper unmasked as a powerful and feared criminal. He sued us for libel, but our verdict on his character was upheld last week. Like Mr Soprano, Mr Hunt lives in luxury and cares about his family. Unlike Mr Soprano, he...

Gang boss ‘infiltrated’ police units

David Leppard and Michael Gillard
  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • National
 

...whistleblowers say David Hunt, an East End businessman named by a judge last week as the head of an organised crime network, used “sleepers” inside the Yard to help him evade justice for three decades. Using a “network” of corrupt serving and former officers, Hunt is alleged to...

The untouchable

  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • Ireland

On July 8, 2005, Billy Allen swung his car around Trafalgar Square straight into a traffic jam on Whitehall. London was in a virtual lockdown after two days of drama and terror. On July 6 the city had won the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics. On the morning of July 7 that elation had turned to...

Exposed: the profession of violence

  • The Sunday Times
  • Published: 07 July 2013
  • Leaders
 

Tony Soprano bears some resemblance to David Hunt, who this newspaper unmasked as a powerful and feared criminal. He sued us for libel, but our verdict on his character was upheld last week. Like Mr Soprano, Mr Hunt lives in luxury and cares about his family. Unlike Mr Soprano, he...

Crime boss exposed by newspaper libel battle

Fiona Hamilton
  • The Times
  • Published: 05 July 2013
  • Crime

Court judge concluded yesterday that David Hunt, who has never been convicted of a serious offence, was the head of a crime gang. Mr Justice Simon’s conclusion raises serious questions for Scotland Yard after allegations that Hunt, 52, was able to operate with virtual impunity...

Businessman denies being ‘a criminal mastermind’

Fiona Hamilton
  • The Times
  • Published: 01 May 2013
  • Law

...in prison, a court heard yesterday. David Hunt, 52, is suing The Sunday Times over an article which accused him of being the head of an organised crime group and of alleged involvement in murder, drug trafficking and fraud. Mr Hunt, who has been under prolonged investigation by...