He was a 'monster' gang boss who brought terror to the streets and was groomed by Al-Qaeda - now he is doing the very opposite
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn ex-gang boss who groomed children into OCGs across the north west and ‘flooded the streets with guns’ is now looking to use his past for good and steer young people away from crime.
Sicarius McGrath was once described as presenting a “monumental risk to the public" but has now turned his life around. The 41-year-old was involved in gang violence from a young age, from the mid-1990s until 2016, and was sent to prison multiple times including for intimidation, violence and in 2003 was jailed for his role in setting up an illegal gun factory.
In 2016 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiracy to blackmail, controlling prostitution and possession of cocaine and a canister of CS gas found at his home on his arrest.
It was as he sat in his cell for these crimes in 2017 that his criminal lifestyle hit home. “I was sat in my cell and a programme covering the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones was televised, Little Boy Blue,” he said. READ MORE: Heartbroken community in shock after boy, 14, killed and mum badly hurt in 'ferocious' double stabbing “It brought me to tears.
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