Moment Daniel Gee drove away in handcuffs as police surround ‘pub’

This was when Daniel Gee was arrested at what is understood to be a pub in Wigan.

Merseyside Police confirmed that the 44-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday 25 June in Wigan by officers from Merseyside Police. The former Everton gangster, who turned his own estate into a 24-hour drug-trafficking zone, escaped from Kirklevington Grange Prison in North Yorkshire on May 27.

He is currently in police custody and will be returned to prison. A video, widely shared on social media, showed Gee being arrested outside what is understood to be Kirkless Hall Inn in Aspull.

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In the video, Gee, in a blue vest, can be seen in handcuffs being led away by masked police. He was then taken away in a police car. 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 a Anfield pub in the early hours, with one of the bullets piercing his stomach and lung before exiting the back. In an October 2009 trial, Gee was found guilty of two counts of threatening 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.”

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