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About Paul Grimes (criminal)
- Paul Grimes (born 26 May 1950) is a former gangster who, from an early age, was active in Liverpool's criminal underworld.
- He has 38 criminal convictions and was involved in a range of violent and illegal activities.
- He also set up legal businesses recycling scrap metal and disposing of waste.
- He was rich, successful and at the top of the gangster hierarchy when his son Jason died of a heroin overdose in 1992, at the age of 21.
- This tragedy led to Grimes becoming a police informer with the aim of bringing down the drug dealers who he felt had destroyed his son's life.
- His evidence has led to successful prosecutions against high-profile dealers such as John Haase and Curtis Warren.
- The information Grimes provided also led to his son Heath being jailed for five years.Grimes is now part of a witness protection program.
- He has survived six assassination attempts and has a £100,000 bounty on his head.In the book Powder Wars Graham Johnson offers insight into Paul Grimes' life as first criminal and then supergrass.
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