StoryCast '21: EP 9/21 The UK Biker Wars

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On August 12, 2007, mechanic and Hell’s Angel, Gerry Tobin, was shot dead by a rival biker gang as he was riding his motorcycle on the M40 in Warwickshire. The shooting, on a busy Sunday afternoon, was carefully planned by members of the Outlaw’s biker gang and had roots in a turf war.
But the nature of the attack, brought a previously underground world screaming into the mainstream. Sky Correspondent, Darren Little, was dispatched to the murder scene, not knowing that it was the beginning of a story that would take more than two years to tell and culminate in a face-to-face meeting with one of Europe’s most notorious crime bosses.

CREDITS

The UK Biker Wars was written and produced by Rob Mulhern
Special thanks to our contributors, Darren Little and actor Tom McCall
Digital by Tom Gillespie
TV treatment, Victoria Hudson-Grant
TV output editor, Emily Deeker
Head of Radio, Sky News, Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Chris Scott
Press and Marketing, Alexandra Horton
Email: [email protected]
For more on this story log on to www.skynews/storycast21
#StoryCast21

Transcript

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0:00.0	Get ready for 1.21 gigawatts of entertainment with Back to the Future The Musical.
0:08.0	Winner of every major Best Musical award and from the creators of the original movie phenomenon.
0:15.0	When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious hit.
0:20.0	Back to the Future The Musical at London's
0:22.9	Adelphi Theatre. Book your tickets yesterday. I'm Jane Secker and this is episode nine of
0:36.0	Storycast 21. In 2007, a shooting in the UK Midlands
0:41.2	sparked a war between two biker gangs, so serious that 13 years on, members of both gangs
0:48.7	refused to speak about it. But in this instalment of Storycast 21, one former gang member has agreed to speak with us,
0:57.4	thereby giving us access to this story. Because of fears for his safety, we're using an actor
1:03.1	to voice his testimony. This is the UK Biker Wars.
1:11.2	My name is Darren Little and on Sunday, August the 12th, 2007, I had a phone call from the
1:18.6	Sky News desk saying that they'd been a shooting on the M40 motorway near Warwick.
1:25.7	I got there as quickly as I could.
1:28.3	It was a lovely summer's day.
1:29.3	Lots of people out of their cars all over the motorway.
1:32.3	It was a very strange scene.
1:35.3	And all of us knew that the Bulldog Bash had been going on that weekend.
1:40.3	It was a massive, massive event.
1:42.3	And this was attended by Hell's Angels from all over the world.
1:48.3	And there was some kind of a score settling or a feud that had gone on.
1:52.8	Seven members of the Outlaws murdered House Angel Jerry Tobin on the M-40 in 2000.
1:58.0	We learned that the biker who was shot was called Jerry Tobin.
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