Reviled by his foes, the police and many others for his heinous crimes, Lee Amos' helped XXXX

To his family, he was a caring father and son trying to make the best of his time behind bars. It's a dichotomy many who have written about big-time criminals are familiar with.

Gooch gang boss Amos did terrible things when he was a younger man, helping Manchester earn its unwanted nickname 'Gunchester' in the 2000s. He thought he was 'untouchable'.

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Yet the picture painted of him this week - during an inquest into his death from a heart attack , at HMP Oakwood, a privately-operated category C prison in Staffordshire, on April 22 last year - was of a sickly man whose loved ones wanted answers about the care he received behind bars.

Amos had Crohn's d

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