Notorious brothers Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon have both been returned to the prison system after breaching the terms of their licence.
Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon were both jailed in 2013 after it emerged they were plotting to flood the UK with Turkish heroin.
The brothers and their associate Danny Smith were locked up following a massive surveillance operation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
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However the ECHO can now reveal that:
- Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon have both been recalled to prison for breaching the terms of their licence.
- Jason was recalled earlier this year
- Ian was recalled last year
- The brothers are suspected of breaching the terms of their licence in relation to exclusion zones
- The brothers have not been recalled for committing further criminal offences
- The two men are unlikely to be released from the prison system in the near future
The Fitzgibbons were jailed in 2013 after it emerged that SOCA had planted a bug in their mum's Mossley Hill home.
Detectives were astounded when they listened back to the tape of Jason and Ian rowing over who was the more adept criminal.
Jason said: "What ever he can do I can do ten times better."
Ian said: "But who do you know over there lad. Who do you know? Who brought everything back? When has yours brought anything back? When?"
The same device also recorded the brothers singing a pop song called 'It's all about the money.'
In 2013 police said the brothers had built up a network of drug contacts across Colombia, Mexico, Spain and Turkey.
Jason, then 40, and Ian, then 39, were jailed for a total of more than 30 years .
In the underworld the Fitzgibbons were known as 'givers' in that they bought Class A drugs at their source and understood the complicated logisitcs of importing the contraband into the UK.
Both brothers are well known in the criminal fraternity and Jason was said to be the family's hardman.
Jason and his associate Daniel Smith battered a car dealer several years over a petty dispute.
The dealer agreed to meet Daniel Smith near the Village Hotel in Whiston. But when he arrived he was jumped by a group of men wearing balaclavas, and then stabbed. Smith and Jason Fitzgibbon later admitted GBH.
Barrister Anthony Baraclough, defending Jason Fitzgibbon, said: "Here, with Jason you have a big lad from a notorious family who are capable, so the police say, of more than just a little frightener.”
In 2006 Jason was involved in a major confrontation with a north Liverpool drug gang in the Mosquito club in Victoria Street.
The ECHO understand there were tensions at the time between the Fitzgibbons and a north Liverpool drug gang headed up by Mark Richardson and David Hibbs-Turner. Richardson and Hibbs-Turner are now serving life sentences for murder.
Last year Jason and Ian were both named on the latest official ancillary orders register published by the National Crime Agency (NCA.)
Both brothers are subject to Serious Crime Prevention Orders, Travel Reporting Orders and Financial Reporting Orders.
The restrictions, aimed exclusively at those who have been involved in serious organised crime, impose a range of strict lifestyle restrictions which become active when individuals are released from prison.
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