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Episode 4: Tattoo parlours, nightclubs and firebombs – how businesses were blackmailed
By Alon Aviram and Michael Gillard
In the last episode of the Cornerman, the Cable lifts the lid on protection rackets from London to Bristol, revealing how local businesses were forced to pay gangsters for security.
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Episode 3: A disappearance, two murders and a hole in the ground
By Michael Gillard and Alon Aviram
Two murders and a disappearance: How the Cornerman slipped through the net.
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Series: The Cornerman Investigations
The cornerman cast of characters
By Alon Aviram and Michael Gillard
Meet the players in a vast criminal network linking Bristol to London.
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Episode 2: Bangers and mash, football and boxing
By Alon Aviram and Michael Gillard
The gangster jailed for drugs and blackmail who courted footballers, boxers and MMA fighters.
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Episode 1: Unmasking The Cornerman
By Michael Gillard and Alon Aviram
This Bristol Cable investigation exposes one of Britain’s most elusive organised crime bosses after two decades in the shadows.
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Relative of Bristol Brink’s-Mat gangster jailed as part of organised crime ring
By Michael Gillard and Alon Aviram
10 men including John 'Goldfinger' Palmer's son-in-law jailed for roles in extortion, drug dealing and blackmail gang.
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How witness intimidation threatens us all
By Alon Aviram
Failure to clamp down on witness intimidation is allowing domestic violence perpetrators to get off scot-free, and failing survivors.
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The far-right bomb maker who wasn’t charged with terrorism offences
By Alon Aviram and Adam Cantwell-Corn
He built bombs and published racist, far-right views online. Why wasn't Matthew Glynn charged with terrorism offences?
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Reports Ice Cream Slavery Case
Lopresti ice cream bosses slavery trial date set
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
Salvatore and Roberto Lopresti face modern day slavery charges.
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Update: Loprestis’ ‘No plea’ in slavery case
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
Ice cream bosses face will face Crown Court next month
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Exclusive: Lopresti ice cream bosses face slavery charges
By Adam Cantwell-Corn and Alon Aviram
Salvatore and Robert Lopresti face charges of forced labour.
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This is the company set to profit from an arena in Filton
By Alon Aviram
The infrastructure giant is one of the largest in southeast Asia.
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