death_date death_place birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation image_name
19 march 2005 chorlton , manchester whalley range , manchester , lancashire , england 8 august 1959 desmond noonan
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desmond noonan

desmond `` dessie '' noonan -lrb- 8 august 1959 -- 19 march 2005 -rrb- was a british organised crime figure in manchester of irish descent who acted as a political fixer for the noonan crime family .
he and his younger brother , dominic noonan , were suspected by police to be responsible for at least 25 unsolved murders during their 20-year reign over manchester 's underworld .
mainly because of the very dangerous contacts desmond noonan had made during his reign as `` britain 's number one crime boss '' his family was at the end of the 1990s known as `` one of the most notorious crime families in british history '' .
