GREAT BRITAIN’s secret gang headquarters network stretches across the country, from bulletproof mansions to council houses.
But behind the reinforced doors of these crime centers lies a world of panic rooms, gun shops and extraordinary luxury.
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Set on streets across the country, you may be just a stone’s throw from some of Britain’s most ruthless gangsters and their homes, but you don’t even know it.
Here, The Sun Online tracks down the mob mansions of current and former crime bosses.
David Hunt – Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire
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Living in a large seven-bed mansion straddling the Hertfordshire/Essex border lives David Hunt.
The crime lord’s alleged links to murder, drug dealing, arms smuggling and money laundering have made him one of the most feared gangsters in the UK.
Known as ‘Long Fella’ for his six-foot-five height, his ties to corrupt police officers have derailed more than thirty investigations into his criminal enterprises.
It is believed that he lives in The Morleys, located in a leafy Woodside Green, near Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire.
Hellbanianz – Barking, London
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High up in the tower blocks of the Gascoigne estate in Barking, armed Albanian gangsters are about to take over the UK’s £5 billion cocaine trade.
With fleets of Rolls Royces and Betleys, the Hellbanianz are street dealers and enforcers for the Shqiptare Mafia.
The mobsters, who release their own exercise music where they brag about possessing AK-47s, chose skyscrapers because they are easy to defend.
With profits in the millions, Balkan mobsters also carry out armed robberies throughout the capital and are believed to congregate near the Kings Lounge pub.
Terry Adams – Bloomsbury, London
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The Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate, one of the most powerful in Britain and run by the Adams family, is believed to be more brutal than the Krays.
Headed by Terry Adams, the £200 million family had its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s through its influence in murder, extortion, robbery and drug dealing.
One of his victims, a former hitman who would use a samurai sword to kill family enemies, is rumored to be buried in concrete under the Millennium Dome.
The 64-year-old, jailed for seven years in 2007 following a £10m police investigation, is linked to 25 gang killings.
He lived in a 4,600ft ‘Fallowfield’ mansion, Barnet, with a £1.6m sex bedroom, for several years.
But when the authorities closed in, his fortunes collapsed and he ended up in a one-bed flat in Bloomsbury, London, with his wife.
Thomas Kavanagh – Oak Hill, Staffordshire
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As the “top man in the UK” for the multi-billion dollar Kinahan drug cartel, Thomas “Bomber” Kavanagh considered himself untouchable.
He operated out of a gated Staffordshire mansion with bulletproof windows and reinforced doors in the posh Oak Hill area of Tamworth.
Through criminal connections abroad, he organised, imported and distributed millions of pounds worth of drugs for the Irish cartel.
When National Crime Agency officers raided his Sutton Road stronghold in 2019, they discovered revolvers, stun guns, Samurai swords and drugs.
Kavanagh, 55, was jailed in 2022 for 21 years for smuggling £30m worth of cocaine and cannabis into Britain in an asphalt removal machine.
Timothy Eastgate and Paul Flisher – East Anglia
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Cocaine mobsters Timothy Eastgate and Paul Flisher lived a “James Bond” criminal lifestyle in East Anglia.
His gang transported millions of pounds worth of Class A drugs from bases in Essex to users in Plymouth, Devon.
Eastgate bought the sprawling Sutton Farm site near Wymondham, Norfolk, while Flisher took over the Old Bakery in Chingford, Essex.
The couple spent money on Ferraris and Lamborghinis, houses in Bulgaria and Dubai and a 007-inspired boat called “Shaken, Not Stirred.”
When the cops raided Sutton Farm, they found a gun in the freezer.
Eastgate and Flisher were caged in 2011 for 23 and 21 years respectively.
Liam Byrne – Dublin and West Midlands
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Liam Byrne, a top affiliate of the Kinahan crime family, ran operations from ritzy addresses in Birmingham and Ireland.
An £860,000 semi-trailer in Crumlin, Dublin featured a panic room, fortified walls and a jacuzzi, gym and games rooms.
But the Raleigh Gardens address was raided in 2019 by Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and later sold.
Byrne, whose brother David was shot dead in 2016, is also believed to have property near Birmingham, West Midlands.