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Chapter 1: Who is Scott Capper and what is his criminal background?
There's a big brawl in a pub, which includes David Sauce's movie, and there's numbers of violent incidents in the aftermath. Capper was ultimately sentenced to nine months for that. But I suppose it shows that at that point, that gang, the flashy organisation, had been able to challenge people that had been heavily involved in organised crime for a long, long time.
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A chaotic career criminal who's made his way up through the ranks of the Gucci gang and later as an enforcer for the flashy mob is before the courts again for offences, this time behind bars. Today I'm talking to Niall Donald about Scott Capper and his violent and unpredictable criminal career. You're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.
So Scott Capper, an enforcer, he's described as an enforcer for the Flashy gang. Of course, we have recently named Flashy as Glenn Ward, who is serving a prison sentence. Capper is 37 and has a string of convictions, is constantly finding himself before the courts in disciplinary problems in prison. And we're going to talk about some of the more recent cases he's been involved in.
But really, Capper has been around since... Flashy became Flashy since before that when they were called the Gucci Gang. Since the Gucci Gang were probably under the tutelage of Trevor Byrne. And if he looks back to his younger days and his circle of friends, he probably sees a lot of faces are gone, missing.
And they've either been shot dead or they have been, they have been, they've died through addiction issues or other things like that. So 37 years old, He is a twin, is he not, Scott Capper?
But he has a brother, Mark Capper, who at one point was... But he's a twin sister. He does have a twin sister, sorry. And he has a brother, Mark Capper, who came before the courts in relation to a botched hit on Patsy Hutch, which he'd actually sort of backed out of, but he was prosecuted in relation to it.
And which one was that? Was that the one where Patrick Curtis, etc. were caught up in or was it a separate hit? Yeah. Where there was the big, the big hit team were found in an underground car park. He had been included. I remember now he had been there and he backed out of it because he kind of felt. Well, it felt it wasn't. He felt there was a, he could smell a rat basically.
It was something uncomfortable for him.
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Chapter 2: What role did the Gucci Gang play in Scott Capper's rise to crime?
So if you look back to the beginning of the feud, which is exactly 10 years ago, he's in his... He's 27, yeah.
He's 26, 27.
Some of the others are 22, 23. They are, they're slightly younger. And, you know, they are, you can see them if you go back far enough in social media, they're all socializing together.
Yeah.
They're all hanging around together. Now, at some point, things become a bit more distinct. And certainly Sean Little and some of his associates are really working in the Kulak area and Flashy goes on to really dominate.
And what you're saying is Sean Little and his associates sort of become the Gucci... They take on that moniker while Glenn Ward goes off a little bit on the side. And we see, of course, when Sean Little himself is murdered, and there's a spree of murders around this time. His friend, Zach Parker, is killed in 2019, in the January of 2019, outside a gym. He's shot dead in a Jeep.
Little known kind of criminal at that stage, very young. I think he's only 19 or 20 when he's killed. He has a
few bob in a bank account maybe about 20,000 he's a Rolex on his arm and he likes to wear sort of Montclair and brands like that and he likes to go on holiday so he's killed Sean Little sort of is chief mourner at his funeral but will find himself dead and staring down the barrel of a gun himself at the side of a road not long after that is it maybe even is it a year it's certainly within the year
He's shot dead. And in the middle of it, they're hanging around with this older guy called Hamid Sanambar, who's an Iranian who's been in the country for years and years, but at the time, who's rumored to be a sort of an assassin trained in beheading and having been sent in by Daniel Kinahan as his personal hitman. He's nothing of the sort.
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Chapter 3: How did Scott Capper transition from the Gucci Gang to the Flashy Mob?
Some of it is clear and other bits, the stories that go around the mix and you can never, like for example, you know, some people would say he was a heroin addict. I know he did tell the courts at one point that he did, but he did it for a reason. And the reason was he wanted a free education.
Yeah, no, I mean, it's very interesting, the heroin addict. And maybe we'll come back to that.
We'll come back to it because that is something that, you know, certainly some people close to him say that was never the case. Yeah. And those who are sort of, I suppose, become his enemies in more recent times would definitely say that like it's a... A stick to beat him. Exactly. Yeah. But there's other little bits that are unusual. We'll start and we'll go through as much as we know factually.
And then we'll also discuss the rumours. So he's born in 1957. He's six years older than Gerry the Monk Hutch, which just gives him a little bit of a You know, we can we can see where he is. He's what I would always say was into the bosom of a respectable middle class family. Now, some intrigue comes with this.
His father, to my understanding, was a taxi driver who worked the Gresham rank on Stephen's Green. And that would have been a good job.
That would have been a good job, a well earning job. Certainly taxis back in the day when taxis were protected. His father was also at some point registered or went, I think, as a dairy farm manager.
And also people would say he was involved in kind of street trading, not, you know, as a lot of people in Dublin would have been over the years, involved in some stalls and selling in that sort of arena. So Christy Kinnan, is raised in Cabra but his birth certificate says that he was born in England in a place called Perryvale near Ealing I think in London.
So this is the late 1950s when at that time in Irish history we were you know there was high unemployment a huge number of people left Ireland to go to England at times to get work. Many of them returned, but that would have been one of the big points of emigration where young couples got married and went over there.
Certainly, Christy Kinnan wasn't raised in England, but he certainly does seem to have had lived there at times. He's had connections to Birmingham and that sort of area, maybe all his life. So he's described, I suppose, as a middle class, having a middle class upbringing.
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