The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, has delivered an uncharacteristically stinging attack on the Church of England over its decision to disinvest in companies profiting from the occupation of Palestinian land. They were granted leave to seek a court order by a High Court judge with the comment that the United States’ view of what constitutes torture “is not the same as ours and doesn’t appear to coincide with that of most civilised countries.”. That’s changed and the area is very much up and coming.”Not everyone, however, believed the rule of the Baybasins is over. Three British residents held in Guantanamo Bay have won a legal battle which could lead to the Government demanding that they are freed by the US. Police confirmed that they were concerned about two members of the Baybasin clan. “We think they are trying to continue the family ‘business’,” said one detective..

Sixteen other members of his gang have been convicted of offences that include conspiracy to kidnap and blackmail, and conspiracy to supply heroin.On Green Lanes life has greatly improved since Baybasin and his thugs were locked up. One man said: “When I first arrived in this area shopkeepers told me that they used to be taxed, and about finding blood on the pavements – it sounded like something out of the wild west. During that trial a witness said Baybasin and his brother were responsible for 90 per cent of the heroin trade in Britain.Baybasin will be sentenced in both cases at the end of next month. Two weeks earlier he was found guilty of drug charges involving 5.5lb of heroin. “You could hear within the room people getting kicked and punched As well as extortion they used to tax other criminals. For example, people who did human trafficking were told to pay £1,000 levy a person.Police also recorded discussions about plans for petrol-bomb attacks on shops that would not pay for protection.But Apo’s reign of terror came to an end last Friday when at Woolwich Crown Court he pleaded guilty to extortion.

The room contained a settee, a small table, television and computer.”Baybasin’s would turn up two or three times a week to run the business,” said Det Chief Insp Plummer. In November 2002 a battle broke out between about 40 men armed with guns, knives and baseball bats outside a cafe, the Dostlar Social Club, in Green Lanes, north-east London. Twenty men were injured and an innocent man, Alisan Dogan, a 43-year-old Kurdish cleaner, was fatally stabbed.By now the elite National Crime Squad had Baybasin in its sights and as part of Operation Marmot managed to fit a hidden camera in the network’s headquarters in 2003.The premises used by Baybasin and his cronies was a dingy room that was accessed via a reinforced glass door by the side of a food shop on Green Lanes. With his imprisonment it was Abdullah Baybasin’s turn at the helm.The new leader was wheelchair-bound after suffering a spinal injury reportedly from a ricocheting bullet during a shooting in the Netherlands. He is thought to have come to the UK in 1997 and applied for temporary leave to remain as a political refugee.

In the same year he bought a six-bedroomed house in Edgware, north London, for £375,000, which was paid for in cash. He is married to a woman who has UK citizenship, and the couple have a teenage son.Tensions between his followers and PKK supporters grew after “Apo” Baybasin decided to stop funding the separatists, according to police intelligence. Some of the huge profits being made by the Baybasin network was siphoned off by the family to buy properties and land in Turkey, and a hotel in Brighton, while the PKK continued to receive a share.In 2001 the eldest Baybasin, “the Emperor”, was convicted on charges of conspiracy to murder, kidnapping and drug smuggling and sentenced to 20 years – later increased to life – in jail in the Netherlands. The enterprise generated a fortune and Huseyin Baybasin earned the nickname of “the Emperor”. His international network smuggled hundreds of millions of pounds-worth of the drug into the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Germany each year. From the 1970s the family manufactured heroin in secret factories in the Lice area of Turkey.