During the 1980s Terence "Terry" George Adams formed a syndicate with his brothers Thomas "Tommy" Sean Adams and Patrick "Patsy" Daniel John Adams as its financier and enforcer respectively. A lot of the people involved in this kind of business don't have a lot going on up top. He didn't stand a chance. On March 9 Terry Adams (52) was sentenced to 7 years in prison. The Adams family insider claimed that ten years after Nahome's murder the police told his widow that Baker was a suspect. He was also required to pay 800,000 in prosecution costs. I remember talking to one youth worker who told me that their aspirations were limited to crime, jail or death. Jade Braithwaite, 18, Michael Alleyne, 20, and Juress Kika, 19, were part of the new wave of "wannabe" criminals vying to emulate "old-school" crime lords such as Adams. But as he got older and started dealing, this side of him was all but extinguished, replaced by a brutal desire to make money through drugs. Doggy day-care! In February 2010 a 38-year-old man, claiming to be Terry Adams' nephew, was convicted in a case known as the jigsaw murder: the trial revealed that the man, Stephen Marshall, had disposed four bodies for the Adamses, which sentenced him to at least 36 years in prison. He was released on 1 million bail. In 2014, Sean "Tommy" Adams and 13 other people believed to be affiliated with the Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate were arrested in a police operation codenamed "Octopod." You need to be a member of Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org to add comments! Sean "Tommy" Adams gained high-profile public attention during a trial in 2004, when he was described as having attended a meeting in 2002 at the request of the former football international Kenny Dalglish. It's a cheesy, '70s-style variety show, hosted in-character by actors dressed up as the Addams Family. He was summoned to Islington, where a van was waiting. ThisAddamsFamilyfeels an awful lot like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, only it embraces the spooky and creepy instead of fearing or unmasking it. . Adams, 64, and wife Ruth, 58, have set up home in a council flat in a converted townhouse in Bloomsbury, north London. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. But despite being charged in May 2003 with money laundering, tax evasion and handling stolen goods, it wasn't until 2007 that he was finally put on trial for what essentially amounted to laundering his own wages. On 9 March (year?) He was bleeding in the car being driven by his friend and rather sensibly thought I dont want to have a gun on me.. The Clerkenwell crime syndicate, also known as the Adams Family or the A-team, is an English criminal organisation, allegedly one of the most powerful in the United Kingdom. It alters the whole balance of risk they face.". As the trial had progressed they had eyeballed witnesses and feigned boredom in court. The Independent stated in 2001 that he was living in exile in Spain in a walled villa bristling with security cameras a few miles south of Torremolinos. Think of it like starting up your own business and being able to say one of those blokes from Dragons' Den is backing you. Gangsters able to recruit police officers through secret society, says investigation for Scotland Yard. Met detectives reopen probe into unsolved murders of gangster duo 16:18 BST 26 Feb 2019.