Two gangsters went from "blood brothers" who broke out of a prison van together to sworn enemies as their underworld bond disintegrated.
Kirk Bradley and Tony Downes were once "thick as thieves" but their friendship ended in a prison knife attack after their criminal exploits turned them against each other.
The pair specialised in contract violence and were paid by the Huyton Firm - a Liverpool crime gang - to carry out a terror campaign across Merseyside.
Bradley, known as 'The Turk', and Downes, who went by the name 'Fat Cat', once busted out of a prison van and escaped to Amsterdam.
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