The lad who stood up to estate's 'big shot' drug dealer - and paid with his life
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTony Adams is not a man who tolerates his status being challenged. A ‘big shot’ drug dealer, he oversaw his empire with an iron fist.
But he wasn’t bargaining on one of his own flipping and speaking out against him. After a teenager was stabbed to death following a row in Adams’s name, one of the boy’s friends felt compelled to expose him. “I want justice for Callum, he was a mate of mine,” George Davidson said. “It’s only right.” Callum Riley, 17, was murdered after daring to back Davidson.
He had been accused of breaking the underworld omerta and being a ‘grass’. READ MORE: Trio guilty of murder after Callum Riley stabbed to death amid feud with drug dealer After rumours spread that Davidson was ‘shouting’ about the location of Adams’ drugs stash house, Adams moved to quell the apparent breach of the sacred vow of silence, a claim always denied by Davidson. “Why am I getin fone calls sayin u shoutin wer my stash gaf is, sayin u guna grass.
Aint no Darnhiller u nw,” Adams warned Davidson. Adams, 34, thought he could choose who was and wasn’t a ‘Darnhiller’ - a member of his crew on Heywood’s Darnhill estate.
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