Stephen 'The Devil' French asked criminals menacing question on first night in prison

Stephen French, once one of Britain's most feared gangsters, has revealed that prisoners were 'baying for his blood' on his first night in prison. Raised in Toxteth, French began his criminal career as a petty mugger and house burglar.

However, as the drug trade flourished, he started robbing city barons of their vast wealth, resorting to violence and torture until they paid - earning him the moniker 'The Devil'. The psychology graduate later rebranded himself as a reformed peace activist and anti-gun campaigner.

In 2013, he was sentenced to three years in prison after assaulting a businessman with a pistol and discarding a replica firearm and a machete into the Mersey. Speaking on the podcast Untold Prison Stories, hosted by former drug trafficker turned YouTuber Shaun Attwood, French recounted his first night behind bars.

He said: "So let's start with my arrest in 2013. [...] I got rid of the machete and the fake piece, and I threw them in the Mersey, and an off duty cop saw me. Yeah, that's the downfall of being on TV. So they marked where it was, yeah," reports the Liverpool Echo.

"And they came to arrest me. Yeah. And it was all over the press. It was all over the radio.It was all over the news.

"And I was in the police station for the day and a half. Yeah. Late February 2013, yeah. So it got to HMP Liverpool that the devil is on his way to B wing. Yeah, he's in there. I was in St. Thomas Street police station. Yeah, but I was eventually gonna end up, yeah, remanded in custody and I'll be coming in to HMP Liverpool."

He explained: "I found out retrospectively that the chat went up over the old jail 'when that grass gets here, watch what happens to that grass. Yeah, he's gone, this is gonna happen to him. That's