Moment Daniel Gee led away in cuffs as police surround 'pub'

Olivia Williams

26 June 2024 at 8:43 am·2-min read

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

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

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

In the video, Gee, in a blue vest, can be seen in handcuffs being led away by police wearing masks. He was then taken into a police car. Gee was originally jailed on an indeterminate sentence for the public's protection in 2010 following his conviction for gun offences after he plotted to arm himself to take revenge against a teenager.

The courts heard he had plotted to arm himself after making death threats to 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 piercing his stomach and lung before going out his back. In a trial in October 2009, Gee was found guilty of two counts of threats to kill and another two of blackmail.

Daniel Gee being arrested in Wigan -Credit:TikTok

Jurors were unable to agree on the two more serious charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to possess firearms and ammunition. As his 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 am in no doubt that the public must be protected from you in the future. I really do not know when it will be safe to release you."

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