Man behind mob murder who was once respected boxing coach unmasked as drugs kingpin
dailyrecord.co.ukThe man behind a savage mob murder - who was once a respected boxing coach - has been further unmashed as a cocaine kingpin.Until this year, John Dillon had been a respected figure in his sport and seemingly lived a purposeful life running his gym in Kirkby.
But the Liverpool Echo has revealed the 55-year-old was leading a double existence as he imported millions of pounds worth of cocaine sourced from cartels in Europe and Colombia.His trust in the EncroChat encrypted phone network proved to be his undoing when detectives were able to link him to the handle 'DeepOasis'.
As destructive and poisonous as large scale Class A drug trafficking is, an examination of Dillon's past revealed an arguably even darker and more shocking set of offences - rooted in Liverpool's notorious 'door wars' of the 1990s.Twenty-seven years ago feared Cream nightclub bouncer Stephen Cole was able to handle himself and had connections to incidents of serious violence and intimidation.
He was described as a "Jekyll and Hide" character - to some a loving and dedicated husband and father and to others a "bully", happy to throw his weight around in the then murky world of Liverpool club security.No one, however, would have stood a chance when faced with the mob of heavy-set, heavily armed men who went hunting for former Liverpool FC reserve player Mr Cole with evil intentions on May 19 that year.Mr Cole was struck with a baseball bat and then "hacked to death" with machetes and large knives in front of his horrified wife, Lorraine Cole, in the Farmers Arms pub, Fazakerley, shortly after 9pm.
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