Twins who rose up the ranks and terrorised gangland

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Marvin Berkeley stares impassively at the camera holding a pistol in his right hand. He's already carved out a formidable reputation on the violent and bloody streets of Manchester's gangland despite the fact he's barely in his 20s.Marvin and twin brother Michael had risen from teenage ASBOs to shot-callers in what was called the Fallowfield Mandem, a splinter group of Moss Side's notorious Gooch Gang.

As reported by the Manchester Evening News, FMD began life in the early 2000s as a Grime-inspired sound system.They were initially known more for anti-social behaviour rather than serious criminality.

Ben Black wrote in Shooters: "They were considered more of a neighbourhood nuisance than hardened gangbangers, and no-one outside their turf knew who they were."However, in January 2003, that all changed when 19-year-old Marcus Fullerton was shot dead on Thelwell Street in Fallowfield after an argument.

Black explained: "It should have served as a salutary warning to any local youths. Instead a number of lads who had grown up with Marcus and who called themselves Fallowfield Mandem, patois for 'those Fallowfield men', were drawn, as too often happens, into gang culture in the years following his murder."Front and centre were the Berkeley twins - and the brothers were delighted in playing the gangster.