Tommy Pitt was a brutal gangster who wanted to be the most feared in Manchester - but his reign of terror was brought to an end, and he will now stay behind bars for the next decade Tommy Pitt was a gangster

Even by the gritty standards of Manchester's gangland scene at the turn of the century, Tommy Pitt's savage brutality and penchant for violence set him apart. Labelled by a judge as an "infinitely cruel" man who was "obsessed with his own importance", kidnap, torture and murder were his preferred methods of operation.

Having been groomed in south Manchester's gangs from a tender age, crime was the only life he knew. He'd done time in a young offenders institution, wielded a gun while barely out of junior school and as a young teen in the early 1990s, he'd plied his trade in t

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