Gangster Daniel Gee has been arrested in Greater Manchester weeks after he escaped from prison

Former gang leader Daniel Gee has been arrested in Greater Manchester after more than a month on the run. The ex-Merseyside gangster, who turned his own estate into a 24-hour drug-trafficking zone, escaped from Kirklevington Grange Prison in North Yorkshire on May 27.

Merseyside Police, who took over the investigation from Cleveland Police, confirmed to the Liverpool Echo today, Wednesday June 26, that he was apprehended in Wigan yesterday. The Echo understands Gee was found in the New Springs area of ​​the city.

A spokesman for Merseyside Police said today that he is currently in police custody and will be returned to prison.

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Gee was initially sentenced to an indeterminate sentence for the protection of the public in 2010 after being convicted of weapons offenses after plotting to arm himself in revenge against a teenager. Courts heard he plotted to arm himself after threatening to kill 16-year-old gunman Jamie Starkey.

Gee was seriously injured after being shot by Starkey, which happened outside an Anfield pub in the early hours, with one of the bullets going through his stomach and lung before exiting the back. In an October 2009 trial, Gee was found guilty of two counts of making threats to kill and two counts of blackmail.

Jurors were unable to agree on the two more serious charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to possess firearms and ammunition. As the second trial was about to start, Gee, formerly of Maryport Close, Everton, admitted the second charge. Prosecutor Ian Unsworth KC said Gee’s desire for revenge “knew no bounds”.

The then Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Henry Globe KC, said: “I have no doubt that the public must be protected from you in the future. I really don’t know when it will be safe to release you.”

More to come.