Lottery jackpot, riots and murder: What happened to younger Noonans after Dominic and Dessie died

They were the notorious crime family who held a fearsome grip on Manchester's underworld for almost two decades.

Damien, Dessie and Dominic Noonan spent years ruthlessly building their empire across the city. The gangster brothers - who grew up in Whalley Range in a family of 14 siblings whose first names all began with the letter D - first made their mark specialising in armed robbery.

But with Dessie and Damien regulars on the doors of some of the city centre's most popular nightclubs, including the Hacienda, the pair soon realised that drugs were a far more lucrative way of making their fortune.

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With Damien at the helm and Dessie as the enforcer and hit man, the brothers took over clubland's doors. During the Hacienda's heyday, the Noonans were said to be making £50,000 a night from the club alone.

But with rival gangs prepared to do whatever it took to get a slice of the pie, defending their turf often came at a cost. The Noonans became 'synonymous with violence', according to one former GMP officer, and were rumoured to be linked to more than two dozen murders.

Their burgeoning empire was nearly brought down after the murder of 'White Tony' Johnson, the leader of the Cheetham Hill Gang, who was gunned down in the car park of the Penny Black pub in 1991.

Dessie went on trial for his murder. The first trial collapsed amid rumours of jury tampering and at the second Dessie was acquitted.

It was not until more than a decade later that the Noonans' reign of terror finally came to an end.

First, Damien was killed in a motorbike accident while on holiday in the Dominican Republic in July 2003. Then in March 2005, Dessie was stabbed to death