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In the past, a former businessman jailed for a series of robberies had been concerned about the delivery of a firearm related to the Liverpool underworld. On Monday, August 3, Thomas Mee, 42, was jailed for 8 years and seven months for organizing a The ‘Mee Series, assisted by John Barlow, 58, and Vincent Ball, 52Array, targeted the homes of Premier League footballer Raheem Sterling, Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay, Bury FC owner Steve and other wealthy people. The men, described as “career criminals” in court, stole more than 500,000 euros in luxury goods, which Mee helped sell. The three Liverpool men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal and Mee also admitted to wi driving stolen property. Mee was concerned about the movement of a Glock pistol that had been used in two shootings in Merseyside.
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The move took place on the esplanade of an Anfield garage in November 2012, where Mee met two men on the esplanade and passed them the gun. The two men were then kicked off the scene at a Ford Fiesta before police stopped at Utting. Avenue and retrieved the gun.
Evidence revealed that the Austrian-made Glock had already been used in a shootout at a space on Yellerton Road, Anfield, on December 6, 2011, and that it had skyrocketed in a business on Glendower Street, Waterloo, in April 2010. It has been hidden, meaning it can be transmitted through criminal gangs without police tracking their story. In June 2013, Mee was imprisoned for five years after admitting he was moving a firearm. A 23-year-old boy imprisoned for six years and three months and a 26-year-old boy imprisoned for five years after they both admitted to owning a firearm.
Judge Stephen Clarke told them: “There is simply no valid explanation for why you own a semi-automatic pistol. You may not have had any legal use and that may only have a malicious purpose.” What’s more disturbing is that this weapon was unloaded in two shootings past in this city. I can only guess if it was going to be reused through someone else. “These firearms are all too common. They allow other people to bring out their own form of gangsterism.” They are used in territorial wars among those supplying drugs and it will have to be transparent that anyone who is discovered in possession of a firearm can only expect an era of truly extensive imprisonment.
After Mee served his time for the firearms offense, he became involved in the primary demining systems at Merseyside.
He was director of Mees Demolition Group from 1 November 2017 to 19 October 2018 and Mees Demolition Manchester Limited from 20 June 2018 to 7 August 2019. Mees doesn’t seem to have had any other business since his resignation from Demolition. Manchester in August last year.
In 2017, he spoke to ECHO after taking over the demolition of the Nation nightclub in Wolstenholme Square.
In January 2018, the Mees Group announced that it had acquired a waste treatment plant at Acorn Way in Bootle. Last summer, a chimney devastated tons of waste that had accumulated after the site became a safe haven for dumpsters.
During this time, Mee has been willing to present herself as a member of the business network and as someone who was not concerned about crime.
On Monday, August 3, the Chester Crown Court heard that Mee had 19 convictions for 40 felonies dating back to 1990, as well as similar convictions for attempted robbery, handling of stolen property, theft, conspiracy to borrow and conspiracy to make burgers. Mee received a nine-month suspended penalty sentence for “borrowing a motor vehicle.”