Inside the Jennifer Ellison gang war: How star’s gangster ex saw her embroiled in terrifying battle between drugs clans in Liverpool

At the summit of his fame, Jennifer Ellison seemed to be condemned to make quantum jump from Soap Star to Hollywood Princess.

The eye -catching Scuser fascinated the audience as the girl next to Brookside, before being selected to appear with Gerard Butler and Patrick Wilson in Opera’s Phantom.

However, his major break in the 2004 Joel Schumacher film was threatened when he shot a house in the suburbs of an armed AK47 and Liverpool.

In a second attack, the player was included in a terrible chase in his hometown when he followed a weight gang car, equipped with machete.

At one point, the talented actress had to jump over the central reservation to escape.

Jennifer had a target on his back because of his relationship with Liverpool Gangster Tony Richardson, who often accompanied in flashy red carpet activities with a confused look on his face.

The truth is that Richardson was a key player in a violent gang war that was angry at Liverpool in the early 2000s.

Machine rifle fire in the houses, the woman was attacked and men were stabbed and cut.

An old underground figure with the knowledge of the 2004 gun attack on Jennifer’s house told Mailonline: ‘The armed man was taken home with a white taxi under his jacket.

When it is opened [fired] The lice of the house began to come.

‘I think one of the neighbor’s lights came, so he decided to get off.’

Podcaster James English Jennifer admitted that his former partner Tony belongs to a Liverpool gang.

Ak-47 said in his attack: ‘He was involved in something I could not understand.

‘Only Gangland has nothing to do with Liverpool. But they[other gangs] I haven’t seen it like this.

“ I was on television and very famous, I was a target. These are terrible people who don’t care.

“ They will enter the pubs and people will show the machete. They didn’t care, but it had nothing to do with it. ‘

The old model, who claimed to have rejected the chance to model for £ 500 thousand for Playboy, described his relationship with Richardson as part of a double life.

He said to English: ‘One day I left the hose, a well -known family in Liverpool was chasing me in the car.

He was yelling at me and I had to hit it, and then I went over a central set and the car was removed from the feet.

‘This is very crazy, but one of the ladies (Tony) seized his ankle and beats the car with a machete.

“ This was at the summit of my fame. Only two parallel worlds. ‘

The crew of Tony Richardson grew up in the Stanley Park area of ​​the city in the shadow of Liverpool FC’s Amphield.

Tony and his brother Mark belonged to a new wave of criminals in the late 90s and in the early 2000s in North Liverpool.

Loose association, Everton, James ‘Pancake’ Taylor, David Hibbs Turner, Carlos Escoffee and Richard Caswell were feared.

Farley brothers – Ian and Alan – and Thomas Gildea were higher than the chain.

Gee brothers turned the bad Gredale land into a 24 -hour drug market and school children patrolled the sidewalks on the mountain bike.

However, tensions were boiling between the new generation of young criminals, in line with drug money and governed some of the best nightclubs of Liverpool.

The truth is that the club owners and the doorman did not click on the new Gangster wave around the city.

After a leading member of the young mafia refused to enter a nightclub, there was a stance in the city center.

The crew exploded tensions when he drew a car to the father of Boxer Tony Bellew, a respected doorman at Liverpool at that time.

A source said: ‘After making a tonker (Bellew Snr), the game continued.’

The owners of the nightclub decided to create their own bandit unit accused of taking the fight back to young Gangsters and their families.

Dangerous nightclub janitor Michael Brown and Gary Hampton were on the front of this war.

While those who sacrificed were expected to defend the door of the club, this new gang war changed the engagement rules.

Brown and Hampton were hunted for Richardson brothers and friends at night. They entered the houses and bars, cut off everyone they suspected that they were linked to the enemy and smashed them.

Carlos Escoffe was stabbed after exploding in a mafia Liverpool Pub and once an innocent member of a people was subjected to violence.

Michael Brown and Gary Hampton were convinced that they saw one of the brothers Richardson at a bootle nightclub.

The two sacrifices gave Chase and caught their prey and caught their prey behind a back-shocak pub where they stabbed him. Tragically, the victim turned out to be a richardson gang member, but an innocent Clubber Colin McGindty. Brown and Hampton were later imprisoned for life.

However, when the young mafia launched a car bombing campaign, the war increased even more – he hit terror among senior figures in Mersexide Police.

Cars were loaded with an industrial fireworks and gasoline boxes with cocktails and parked in clubs, houses and police stations.

As a mafia ruled by James ‘Pancake’ Taylor, there were cars chase and shots.

Police, with severe sentences in the city causing a lot of trouble to stop car bombs Thornapple launched the operation.

However, he was suspected that the brains behind the bombings were never defined.

Finally, many of the heroes in the gang war entered the prison system.

Mark Richardson and David Hibbs Turner were imprisoned in 2009 because they took part in ‘ruthless, deliberate, cold -blooded murder’ when they were three years old.

This led to a new conflict behind the bars, and the rival members paid money to target each other on the wings.

The observation Taylor then fell with the opponent drug Thug Lee Siner, who overthrew it in a prison reception area.

Taylor then caught Siner, a former boxer in a Mediterranean restaurant close to the city university.

Taylor and Tony Richardson were imprisoned for the attack showing that the gang members were trying to escape while hacking Siner with a Samurai sword.

Jennifer’s relationship with Richardson ended when he published a story questioning the loyalty of world news.

He said to English: ‘I was afraid to leave, but he was caught while cheating in front of the world news.

“ This is my prison card. That meant that I wouldn’t cut my face, as he always said. ‘

“ In a group, as I was after his wife would always be paranoid.

We went to a nightclub and it was really funny all day.

He started drinking and we started to make this argument in the middle of the club and I went like this when I got back [throwing motion] with my drink.

“ That’s why a Budweiser bottle exploded behind my head.

“ `I remember put a gap on my head and put me in the ambulance.

“ All over the news.

The hospital said, “Your extension has saved your life. You were literally a juguder from the vein,” he said. I should have had ten staples in my head. ‘

I was horrified for my family. He always said that he would do a lot for my mother and things like that. I thought his friends or family would take my mother or do something to my mother’s house.

Thank God the world news was on it for three days. He had records. ‘

Jennifer later met Mersexide Boxer Robert Ticket and fell in love.

The proud mother now runs a successful dance studio and continued her life.