Overview

• Jamie Rothwell, aligned with Michael ‘Cazza’ Carroll’s Anti A Team, received a 43-year prison term for multiple gun and drug offences at Liverpool Crown Court this month.
• Greater Manchester Police treat cross-border claims—such as a 2023 ‘straightener’ fight in Dubai—as intelligence logs rather than confirmed events.
• Key figures from both gangs are largely neutralised: Mark Fellows is serving a whole-life term for Paul Massey’s 2015 murder, while others are jailed, deceased or operating abroad.
• Earlier peace efforts—including GMP’s 2022 plan to recruit Northern Irish ‘paramilitary mediators’ and a 2019 Spain meeting between Britton and Rothwell—failed to end the rivalry.
• Detectives warn that despite diminished operations, the personal animosity between leaders Stephen Britton and Michael Carroll endures with no clear resolution in sight.