The Whitney gang were a notorious family gang from the Anfield

Anfield, Liverpool

Anfield is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward.-Toponymy:Originally common pasture land, the area had the name of Hanging-fields or Hangfield - the name originating from the deeply sloping nature of the terrain. The name was also frequently written as...

 district of Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

. As of November 2011, all members of the Whitney gang have been jailed for 82 years

Whitney Family

• Carol Whitney
• Leslie Whitney
• Lisa Whitney
• Paul Whitney
• Anthony "Tony" Whitney
• Gary Whitney (Deceased 2006)

Associates

• Mary McCabe
• Gary Edwards
• Thomas Dowd
• Michael O'Toole
• Matthew Nayor
• Neil Brady
• Wayne Hincks
• Michael Waters

Conviction and Imprisonment

All members were jailed for a total of 82 years in Novermber 2011. The last member to be extradited from Spain was Anthony "Tony" Whitney from his home in Dénia

Dénia

Dénia is a city in the province of Alicante, Spain, on the Costa Blanca halfway between Alicante and Valencia, the judicial seat of the comarca of Marina Alta...

where he got mixed up in another smuggling plot, and was apprehended for smuggling 50,000 tablets of an ecstasy-type substance.