Domenyk Noonan was described by the judge who jailed him in 2005 as a ‘very dangerous man who is clearly a risk to the public’

Domenyk Noonan was described by the judge who jailed him in 2005 as a ‘very dangerous man who is clearly a risk to the public’. But Noonan, 45, who has been let out on licence half way through his nine-and-a-half year jail sentence, said: “I started going to the Christian meetings in prison. Now I go to church every Sunday morning. People change. I’ve passed a lot of exams in prison.”He was jailed after a revolver and ammunition were found under the bonnet of his Jaguar when police stopped him. Noonan, – who has changed his surname to Lattlay-Fottfoy and is originally from Moston, is now appealing against the conviction. The Criminal Cases Review Commission is considering the case. It may decide to send the case to the Court of Appeal if it rules there is fresh evidence to consider. Noonan insists he was going straight at the time and that criminals planted the gun before tipping off police. He said he was ‘100 per cent sure’ that his conviction would be quashed. He added: “I was running a security firm legally, paying tax and insurance, and employing 450 people. They’ve all lost their jobs. I was legitimate.”
The freed gangster is the brother of murdered Manchester hard man Desmond Noonan, who was stabbed to death on a Chorlton housing estate in 2005. Shortly before the killing, the pair were filmed for a TV documentary about gangsters where Domenyk boasted of being the head of the Noonan criminal dynasty and having a ‘bigger army than the police’. He was jailed for 14 years in 1993, for escaping from prison, plotting a robbery and carrying a loaded gun.
The court heard he had planned the escape which he tried to pass off as a kidnap so he could take part in a £1.5m security van robbery.

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