The Whole of The Moon: Lee Duffy

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Gary Firby and Paul Venis have been cast as Viv Graham and Lee Duffy in a film about Stephen Sayers (Image: handout) We spent three days talking through the walls before we became firm friends and as the years progressed we became extremely close, not just Lee and I, Lee became close to my brothers too." There is only one good thing that has come out of this - Lee would not have wanted him to go to jail because Lee was not a man who wanted anyone to go to jail. Lee could have accepted it, but it is different for me." Now following auditions last week, it has been announced Paul Venis will play the notorious thug, who knew of Duffy as he was growing up. Originally from South Bank, Venis said: "I remember Lee vividly. He lived over the road from us and I would see him often.

Like most people he could argue till he was blue in the face but if he was proved wrong then he would always apologise and admit that he was wrong." Read More Related Articles Jamie said he decided to research Lee’s life as he wanted to find out how one young man became so renowned. Following Duffy's death, characters from Middlesbrough’s seedy underworld vied for the top criminal spot left by Duffy. Around half a dozen men looked to muscle in and fill the shoes of the feared crime boss. When we introduced the two of them it turned out that they had previously fought each other in the ring at an unlicensed show. Cheers erupted from the public gallery and Allison smiled as a jury found him not guilty of both murder and manslaughter, ruling that he acted in self-defence.It delves into the lives of Stephen Sayers and his brothers John Henry and Michael, from childhood in Newcastle's West End right up to the present day. The book features unseen court documents, statements and interview recordings to explore the notorious family's past, and police's attempts to bring them down, Chronicle Live reported in 2020. The ex-boxer and bouncer was shot on two separate occasions and once had petrol poured over him. But in August 1991, Duffy’s life came to a violent end when he was stabbed during a brutal street brawl in Marton Road, Middlesbrough, aged just 26. Boyle claiming to be the Teesside authority figure on Duffy is beyond parody. He will have been about eight when he was murdered. For Duffy's funeral in September 1991, hundreds of people lined the streets and two lorries were needed to carry the floral tributes. Many from Middlesbrough’s seedy underworld vied for the top criminal spot left by Duffy.

And in his own autobiography Stephen claimed a fight had been arranged between the pair – but Graham did not show up. A former Teesside top cop will be lifting the lid on notorious criminal Lee Duffy in the last book documenting his life. It was at the hands of a man who he once called a friend that Duffy lost his life. David Allison and Duffy had exchanged words at a blues party in the Afro Caribbean Centre. There were a few times where I had told him something about someone and then later on if we bumped into that person he would repeat what I had said about them to their face. And now the author is set to have the final say on the former bouncer with The Blood Moon, the final book in the Lee Duffy saga.

The chapter, named The Duffer, documents the close friendship Lee Duffy had with Stephen Sayers after they first met as youngsters in Low Newton Remand Centre in 1982. The book will be released in August and will include exclusive insight from former Cleveland Police Detective Inspector, Ray Morton, as well as school friends and former underworld figures. Teessider Duffy’s was said to have made regular trips to Newcastle in an attempt to antagonise Viv, who he viewed as a rival. It adds: "Lee did have regrets in life. He loved his mam dearly and he was ashamed of what he had put his mother through over the years. I would often hear Lee punching walls with towels wrapped around his hands. I even heard Lee fighting with two screws once and I could hear them reeling from him banging body shots into them.