A drawing of a football pitch is displayed. Moss Side E00026573 RACIAL tensions have eased considerably in one of Manchester's most ethnically diverse areas, according to researchers. Universal Credit Benefit Statistics for Claimant Count Best Worst Lower is better 0 15411 30822 46233 61645 Trafford 14307 Tameside 21512 Oldham 26104 Manchester (includes ) 61645 [6] During what has been termed the Madchester phase of the history of Manchester, narcotic trade in the city became "extremely lucrative" and in the early 1990s a gang war started between two groups vying for control of the market in Manchester city centre the 'Cheetham Hill Gang' and 'The Gooch Close Gang', in Cheetham Hill and Moss Side, respectively. The map now highlights the areas with the largest increases in children aged under 15 years. Moss Side is noted as an area with a greater population density and a faster population growth than other areas of the city of Manchester, with an increase of 17.4% between 2001 and 2007. RACIAL tensions have eased considerably in one of Manchester's most ethnically diverse areas, according to researchers. This website is now obsolete! Young men would hang around a Shebeen on Gooch Close selling drugs which is where the gang started and how they got their name. The ward is represented by Labour Councillors: Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed (Lab),[15] Emily Rowles (Lab),[16] and Sameem Ali (Lab).[17]. Evidence of this is Manchester Carnival, which started in 1972 when a group of people from the Caribbean threw an impromptu street party. [13] Three other members of the gang were given minimum sentences of between 30 and 35 years.[12]. [2] Manchester City played at Maine Road in Moss Side between 1923 and 2003. The gangs - whilst supplying to the street dealers - also tried to ensure that the dealers were protected from other gangs by protecting their territory. Moss Side is categorised by the Office Moss Side E00026549 The boys chilled as friends. Moss Side E00026571 In court, the defendant denied that conversation; in summing up Openshaw said the defendant had said AO meant nothing to him, but someone had told him earlier that AO was a gang. Amnesty International has argued that young black men are classed as gang members and criminalised based on weak indicators, including themselves having been victims of violence, or for reasons as trivial as the music they listen to and the videos they watch online. As of 2021, Manchester is the most densely populated of the North West's 39 local authority areas, with around 34 people living on each football pitch-sized area of land. <> Kensington and Chelsea had an estimated population of 143,400 in 2021, which was around 15,200 fewer than in 2011 and a decrease of 9.6%. 3 0 obj It describes patterns of neighbourhood diversity and residents' accounts of social interaction, within their own ethnic groups and across others. "Moss Side and Rusholme District Centre Local Plan". When the pub was closed down and the gang targeted by police, they reformed around nearby Doddington Close and would go on to become known as the Doddington Gang. An estimated 7,000 people of Somali origin live in Moss Side, one of the biggest communities in Britain, following unrest in the East African country. Nearby areas like Salford and Cheshire East have seen their populations increase by around 15.4% and 7.7%, respectively, while others such as Stockport saw an increase of 4.1% and Trafford saw smaller growth (3.8%). What's the least amount of exercise we can get away with? Noreen Muzaffar, (Information and Communications Officer), Greater Manchester Employer Coalition Telephone: 0161 873 1241 Fax: 0161 873 1150 Email: Moss Side E00026540 [11], Colin Joyce, aged 29, known as the leader of the gang, was given a minimum 39-year sentence. The joint enterprise murder charge seems inappropriate and unfair, she wrote, and, in my opinion, has the potential to be a miscarriage of justice., Openshaw acknowledged Williamss character witnesses, the good testimonials for Walters and several others, the fact that five of the 11 had no criminal convictions and three had no relevant convictions. For other uses, see. [59], The Millennium Powerhouse youth service caters for 8- to 25-year-olds and includes a music studio, fitness studio, dance studio, sports hall and offers information and advice to young people, including a library, along with recreational and sport groups. Obviously, I feel sorry for a man who has been through that, and as a parent I sympathise with the parents of the victim in this incident, Williams says. Joined by Indian immigrants around the same time, over the next few decades the area became a thriving cultural centre for Commonwealth migrants. 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Weve transformed Manchester, and Moss Side, in recent years, in partnership with GMP, Lawrence says. 1 0 obj Figure 3 shows that no one ethnic group accounts for more than a third of the population in Moss Side and Cheetham wards. <> Around 100 years ago, Moss Side became a centre for immigrants - particularly from Ireland and Poland. Maine Road has since been demolished and a mixed development of two-, three-, and four-bedroom houses, flats, and a primary school has been built on the site. The built environment of Moss Side is broadly characterised as a high-density residential area. The 2021 Census data is now available at our new website, CensusData.UK! One person was the knife man; my son and his friends werent even friends with him, they were a close group who all liked playing football. But the judge said: Although each denied it, I find as a fact that each convicted defendant was a member of the AO (or Active Only) gang, or at least was affiliated to it.. Moss Side E00026568 In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Pepperhill gang were involved in a gang war between Moss Side and the Cheetham Hill Gang from North Manchester. Judge Peter Openshaw declined to comment on his handling of the trial. Manchester City beat Newcastle in the Premier League thanks to goals from Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva at the Etihad. Don't miss a thing by signing up to the MyOldham newsletter here. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Neither GMP nor the CPS advanced any case that the teenagers were involved in drug-dealing, the standard financial reason for a gang to control territory or, indeed, involved in any other criminal activity. "If you don't have a job, it causes more people to turn to crime. The gang narrative formed the basis of a prosecution under the joint enterprise law. More than 60 white, Caribbean, Somali and Asian people living in the area were interviewed during a two-year study commissioned by a leading charity after riots in Oldham, Bradford and Burnley in 2001. In December 2010, it was reported that this 'once failing school' was 'now named as one of [the] UK's best'. It shows the number males and females in each age group as a percentage of the total population for the North West in 2021. Labelling them as a gang was wrong, it shouldnt have happened. u!5 The places that have seen the largest increases in the population aged under 15 years are Dartford in Kent, where the size of this age group increased by 31.8% between 2011 and 2021, and Peterborough in the East of England (23.8%). Moss Side E00026566 [6] Gang members Colin Joyce and Lee Amos had been arrested in 2000, when they had been apprehended at their 'nerve centre' in a house in Moss Side, found with an 'extraordinary array of firearms'. [55] A local disused space, known as 'The Triangle', involved a community group in regenerating wasteground into a communal garden. [7] "Turf wars" between rival drugs 'gangs', resulted in a high number of fatal shootings. Moss Side has a high crime rate. In England, the largest age group in 2021 was people aged 30 to 34 years. The gang they were alleged to be in was Active Only AO. Test yourself with these 12 questions, Do you know your local leaders from your Manchester suburbs? Moss Side is in the local authority with the highest number of Universal Credit claimants in the area. Although there has been a small village in the area for hundreds of years, Moss Side really started growing in the late 1800s as Manchester's cotton industry grew. [49] Additionally, the Somali Bravanese Sisters and the Polish School Manchester cater to the Somali and Polish communities, respectively. She wrote to Openshaw that he was an exceptional role model whom, due to his articulate and intelligent approach, she had advised to apply for university. This includes mainly Victorian and Edwardian terraces to the east and centre, with more recent developments, primarily the Alexandra Park Estate, built in the 1970s to the west of Princess Road. The School proceeded to build a reputation as one of the country's leading educational establishments, a position it still holds . Moss Side E00175815 Only Cantrill, who had a conviction for violence, and two other of the Moss Side teenagers, had any relevant previous criminal record. But you have to look at the facts of the case, and you cannot ignore racism in the way the police went for joint enterprise here. Telephone: +44 1329 44 4972, Rank of local authority areas for population size in England, view the full Census 2021 first results dataset, download the data used in this article (XLSX, 138KB), download data from the 2011 Census (XLSX, 265KB). [35] Prior to its expansion, part of the site of the Royal Brewery, where Moss Lane East meets Princess Road, was occupied by a library, fire station and police station. Most of their problems occurred when rival street dealers started to move into territory already controlled by a gang or when a gang 'taxed' a rival dealer - a move seen as damaging street credibility and respect. Manchester City F.C. Moss Side E00026570 But as the teenagers and their families point out now, none of them habitually wore red. The Pepperhill gang declared that nobody from South Manchester was to have dealings with Cheetham Hill. "You don't see the racial tensions in Manchester that you see elsewhere it's a city that is built on migration.". Deighton directly compared AO to Doddington, one of the gangs from a notorious previous era of drug-dealing and gun violence in Moss Side in the 1990s and early 2000s, saying they controlled similar territory. Home England and Wales England North West Manchester Moss Side Ethnic Group Moss Side. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Evidence at the trial included many hours of CCTV, more than 20 eyewitness accounts, DNA, as well as evidence from the mobile phones and social media accounts., GMP declined to answer specific questions about PC Deightons evidence, the rap video, or the way the gang allegations were presented. % ITVs flagship talk show sees Jonathan Ross joined by a host of celebs, Meet the incredible woman whose SEVEN dogs are already heroes but are now hoping to win big at Crufts, You might spot them on TV as they take part in Crufts next week at the Birmingham NEC, Channel 4 Grand Designs star 'reinvents' the toilet so you can hide it in your wardrobe, The toilet can not only help vulnerable people, it can save you space in your bathroom, Andy Burnham and Oldham council leader back community fridge fighting food insecurity in Greater Manchester, Anyone will be able to use the community fridge, which is based at Greenacres Community Centre, 'Is that you?' not add exactly.Changes over time have been calculated with Working at the time with Manchester Young Lives, another charitable initiative whose partners included Manchester city council and GMP, she provided a character reference for Williams after his conviction. Select from premium Moss Side of the highest quality. The places that have seen the largest percentage decrease in the number of children aged under 15 years are Westminster (19.4%) and Kensington and Chelsea (17.8%) in London and Richmondshire in Yorkshire (12.3%). The Gooch often bought and sold drugs with the Cheetham Hill Gang. The Polish church occupies a former Methodist chapel built about 1875 in the Neo-Gothic style and contains stained glass windows commemorating victims of the Holocaust. [33], The brewery was later acquired by Walker and Homfrays and merged into Wilsons in 1949. ,jeK-}m. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. "That lack of community contributed to the social problems that you see," she adds. Unemployment stood at nearly 30% up to three times the national average in the early 1990s. [10] Not unusually, the perpetrators of gun crime were also the victims, with Amos's brother Stephen Baba-Tunde Amos having been shot dead, in a gang-related shooting, aged 21, outside a bar in Ashton-under-Lyne in 2002. [65], The area has five primary schools: Claremont Primary School, Devine Mercy RC Primary School, Holy Name RC Primary School, St Mary's CE Junior and Infant School and Webster Primary School. Every local authority area of England is shown as a dot on a chart, with the legend running from the largest percentage decrease to the highest percentage increase in population. This was a terrible incident, but those boys were not a gang, they werent involved in drugs or crime, they didnt all kill that young person. [32], In 2003, Ducie Central High School was replaced by the independently run Manchester Academy, with the aim of overcoming barriers to education and achievement faced by young people in the community. The total population of local authority areas varies a lot, from Birmingham with around 1,144,900 people to the Isles of Scilly with around 2,100 people. The map then zooms to centre on Manchester and show neighbouring areas. Hafidahs sister, Safia, would read a victim impact statement at the end of the subsequent murder trials, speaking of how the killing had devastated her family. [1] Moss Side is bounded by Hulme to the north, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Rusholme and Fallowfield to the east, Whalley Range to the south, and Old Trafford to the west. might have been temporary for some and more long-lasting for others.First results from Census 2021 are rounded to the nearest 100 so may The report considers whether ethnic difference is a source of "Anthony Burgess". of National Statistics as . http://www.ukcensusdata.com/moss-side-e05000710/ethnic-group-ks201ew, http://ukcensusdata.com/a-e05000710/b-ks201ew, White: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British, Mixed/multiple ethnic group: White and Black Caribbean, Mixed/multiple ethnic group: White and Black African, Mixed/multiple ethnic group: White and Asian, Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: African, Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: Caribbean, Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: Other Black, Other ethnic group: Any other ethnic group, Mixed/multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean, Mixed/multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African, Mixed/multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian, Mixed/multiple ethnic groups: Other Mixed. "It's those kinds of problems that lead to gang violence, because there's a chasm there. The shoot had been arranged by Kemoy Walker, an. "Manchester as a city has a longer history of multiculturalism than we might already assume," says Dr Charlotte Wildman, who is an expert on modern history in the North West and lecturer in modern British history at the University of Manchester. <>/OutputIntents[<>] /Metadata 1235 0 R>> The video, shot by a film student at Manchester Metropolitan University who had answered a call on the social network Instagram for somebody with the necessary skills, was the perfect project. A map of local authority areas in England is coloured to indicate the percentage change in population of each area. The area of each circle indicates the total population. [7][9] Aided by the work of Xcalibre, the Greater Manchester Police's task force, founded in 2004, and the multiagency Integrated Gang Management Unit, gang related shootings in the area have fallen by about 90% in recent years. Moss Side E00026555 Moss Side E00026536 [52][53], The Reno was a late night club at the junction of Princess Road and Moss Lane East in Moss Side. At the other end of the population density scale for England, the amount of land in Eden in Cumbria works out at around five pitches per resident. Tower Hamlets saw the largest percentage growth in population in England, increasing 22.1% between 2011 and 2021. However, the way GMP investigated, the Crown Prosecution Service brought charges, and the judge, Sir Peter Openshaw, presided over the trials, one held in Manchester the other in Preston, have led to complaints of racism by the defendants and their families, and prominent supporters, who argue that the outcome is a miscarriage of justice. Moss Side E00026537 Read about our approach to external linking. [28] On 11 May the development was awarded the UK's Best Affordable Housing Scheme at the national Housing Excellence Awards 2011[29][30], Land adjacent to the development, formerly occupied by Bilsborrow primary school and the Stagecoach bus depot, both demolished as part of regeneration, remains vacant with no clear future use at present, though local community groups have short term plans to use the space for a gardening/food growing project. The most notable of these being the Longsight Street Soldiers, Old Trafford Crips, Rusholme Crips and Fallowfield Mad Dogs. The Gypsy or Irish Traveller group had its In February, 1,000 young black men were taken off the Metropolitan polices Trident gang matrix, after a review found they posed no or little risk of committing any violence. Manchester City Council runs the Greenheys Adult Learning Centre on Upper Lloyd Street. 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Tower Hamlets in London has become the most densely populated local authority area in England (overtaking Islington) with the equivalent of around 112 people per pitch. moss side Manchester great western street most diverse black British area walk around good or bad. MP Lucy Powell says that similar cases involving groups of white youths are not tried in the same way as those involving black youths. A key element of the GMP evidence and prosecution case, to prove the existence of this ruthless gang, was the AO video that had been made two years earlier. Moss Side E00175928 "People were very happy there and reminisce very fondly about that period.". Moss Side now has the second largest Arab community, with Cheetham's Arab population standing at 903 residents in 2011. Hafidah is alleged to have attacked one of the group a year earlier and broken his arm with a baseball bat, another said he had recently threatened him. View the data as At conservative gathering, Trump is still the favourite. Moss Side E00175821 This angered the Gooch and a fierce war erupted, dividing the Alexandra Park estate in half, with the Gooch on the westside and the Pepperhill on the eastside. Manchester City Council. The club would play there for the next 80 years.[5]. People living in Moss Side, which experienced ugly race riots during the early 80s, told researchers they felt proud to live in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood. Deighton said the red showed emulation of the notorious LA gang Bloods. RACIAL tensions have eased considerably in one of Manchester's most ethnically diverse areas, according to researchers. "The party I was at was beautiful," he said. phL~Mz0$ZCs^0S4/`\[ O4tk@ /"zn: I would not be lending my support if I thought they were all guilty. The other three incidents were violence allegedly committed against two of the defendants, Reanu Walters and Durrell Ford, whose arm was broken in the 2015 attack, and another Moss Side teenager, who was not a defendant. But it's not always had that reputation and, in recent years, money has been spent on the area to try to redevelop it and give it a new image. Niall Cunningham. Moss Side E00026561 The Gooch is part of an alliance of Crip gangs,[3] and has had violent disputes with many other South Manchester gangs, most notably The Doddington Gang (formerly known as the Pepperhill Mob), The Moss Side Bloods and The Longsight Crew. On 9 May, sales demand was reported as strong, with 60% of the properties having been sold. 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They argue that rather than charging participants in chaotic, spontaneous violent incidents for offences according to their actions, collective prosecutions have led to black youths serving hundreds of years inside for crimes they just didnt commit. Youth worker Kemoy Walker is bewildered as to why the rap video was used in court against the boys. UKCensusdata.com has the 2011 census data for all English and Welsh local authorities, wards and output areas. =cJ},Edgwvwp&L>j*qra(#qJ?a>J?2 1HYF:=ySxy!r]9Q$n!DJ`heM>epyH~p}Q\a{t[ u@p:P"z>H$c4sF,oZuT//63:L3h]OB~},@!C\gyZV``Y7Ip_)Rcy+!n1fu8fn{\p)lTu.&4RU'\K@5#Br:U9v|T$ MMX[GR2N=m"\saAn2mya[@;-f"$VH^-?? [48] These organisations and institutions include The West Indian Sports and Social Club, the African and Caribbean Mental Health Service, and the African-Caribbean Care Group, which serve the Afro-Caribbean community. _P+9jjw50PnC`XMr(-mWo>yJ{__P%CyVgU%_5 i_KMWKC]}>\oh+dh3s}{m7'z3U' More than a year later, the video would be used as a key piece of evidence to convict seven teenagers of murder and four of manslaughter under controversial joint enterprise laws. The call for a review of the case is supported by the local Labour MP, Lucy Powell, who argues that similar incidents involving groups of white teenagers are not similarly prosecuted, the academics Williams and Clarke, and Eithne Quinn, a senior lecturer at Manchester University who has appeared as a defence expert in cases where rap and drill music have been advanced as prosecution evidence. About Polish Church of Divine Mercy. Angela Lawrence, a campaigner against Manchester gang violence in its era of notoriety, and a member of the police and crime panel for Greater Manchester Combined Authority, also supports the group, arguing that it was a racist, lazy prosecution. Walters and others said they were not particularly friendly with Cantrill, just that he happened to be in the park at the same time as them that day. Five had no criminal records at all, three had minor previous convictions that Openshaw said were not relevant. Those who donate the apples get a share of what is produced.[40]. A CPS spokesperson said that the gang prosecution was justified, that the 2014 rap video had referred to territory, and pointed to the fact that the convictions were arrived at by juries: Our practice on gang-related offences has always been to be extremely careful not to use that label when it is not justified. Day, for example, students and in some urban areas.These changes People living in Moss Side . The Young Gooch started to war with the newly emerging Longsight Crew, a younger offshoot of the Doddington gang whose members were based on a number of estates in the Longsight and Ardwick areas of south Manchester, especially their headquarters of Langport Avenue.[5]. In 2007, the Moss Side ward was estimated to have a total population of 17,537, of which 8,785 were male and 8,752 were female. The second largest ethnic minority group in Manchester is African, which has grown fourfold and faster than any other group since 1991. moved to a new stadium on Maine Road on 25 August 1923, having moved from Hyde Road, Ardwick; on its opening it was one of the most capacious sports stadiums in the United Kingdom, capable of holding up to 85,000 spectators.