A high-profile gangster has rebranded himself as a jailhouse rapper and released a series of prison music videos.
Wesley Brown, who was jailed indefinitely for a host of crimes, raps about his roots, gangland history and shooting ducks in his local river.
Famously the thug - now in his 30s and using the rap alias 'Wesavelli' - once accidentally shot himself during a drive-by attack in 2003.
He is a former member of Liverpool’s Croxteth Crew, one of the city’s most feared gangs.
In one video, Brown performs a freestyle rap in which he sings "any disrespect then Wes murder man straight" and describes testing guns on ducks by the River Alt.
While he remains in jail his performances have been caught on camera and uploaded to YouTube, the Liverpool Echo reports.
His lyrics focus on his links to Croxteth and his gangland past and contain lines such as: "Wes Brown, shot man up from the shin to the backbone."
One of the songs has been used to create a slickly produced music video in which mask-clad men drive in convoy around Croxteth on quad bikes and scrambler bikes.
In the video a man that appears to be Brown is showcased rapping in a balaclava in a jail cell while stating: "I pray every night for the roads, I've still got lives to take."
The clips features men driving past landmarks such as Croxteth Library and down Croxteth Hall Lane donning black T-shirts bearing slogans such as "Free Wez B".
Other T-shirts say "Free Lloydy" - thought to be a reference to Ryan Lloyd, the Croxteth Crew member jailed for life after organising the murder of Strand Gang rival, Liam Smith, moments after a bust-up between the pair in the Altcourse prison visitors area in 2006.
Brown is in jail having been locked up indefinitely for the public's protection over a decade ago.
He was ordered to serve a minimum of three years and 50 weeks after being found guilty of possession of a firearm without a certificate and possessing a firearm with intent in 2006.
In 2004 he was also found guilty of possessing a prohibited weapon - a self-loading rifle - and possessing a firearm when prohibited.
Brown was caught brandishing guns and bullets with other Croxteth Crew thugs on footage played to a jury when Lloyd was on trial for conspiring to possess prohibited weapons and ammunition with intent to endanger life and to cause fear of violence in 2006.
That case heard of the violent feud between rival Croxteth and Norris Green gangs that would continue for years and which later took the life of innocent schoolboy, Rhys Jones, when he was caught in the crossfire of a shooting in 2007.
