How the notorious abduction of a dad-of-four from Rochdale helped expose long-standing underworld links between Manchester and Dublin
A deadly pub brawl in Ballyfermot, Dublin, known as the 'Ballyfermot Bloodbath', resulted in the death of Jason Lee Martin and exposed a gangland alliance between Irish and Manchester criminals. The brawl, involving two rival factions, was arranged after a boxing match and ignited a feud stemming from a prior drug bust in Manchester involving John 'Seanie' Cromerford. The feud resulted in the death of two brothers in a hail of bullets nine months after the brawl.
