A lot of people idolise him but you have to remember, he even taxed his "friends". If he was in town, about a thousand people had a shit night because any of them could be his target. Imagine being in town with your bird and he walks past and then you wake up in hospital coz he sparked you out to impress whoever he's with. Like it or not, the world is a better place without people like him, and those who think he's some sort of hero are kidding themselves, he'd have sparked you out, broken your jaw and made you paranoid forever for a free pint if he felt like it.
A bit OTT this comment like 😂 he didn't terrorise just anybody he sought out so called hard men and drug dealers. Doesn't sound like a bully to me he used his status to help people out too
When he got stabbed he couldn’t get a taxi cos he was always refusing to pay fares to cabbies. Fair enough taxing dealers but taking liberties with straight goers was out of order.
He didn't try ring for 1 ridiculous comment. Before you start yes a few drivers supposedly drove past but most would seeing all the commotion. Quite certain though somebody did pick him up/stop. Not 100 percent on the facts as wasn't there.
All the people that didnt like him chased the taxi's off and where shouting die ya c**t why he was trying get up with adrenaline still kicked in, he actually fell twice and still got up each time and staggered. Regardless of what people say and think even the copper said he was a one off, unique and there will never be another.
@@daveywilliams7508 Well, of course not. With CCTV everywhere their mental lifestyles would be under constant scrutiny now. The only reason they behaved that way in the first place was because they thought they could get away with it.
@vordman I don't know about that 🤔 getting caught then would of been far worse than now more people are committing crime now than then 100 percent I think it's to do with the real gangsters of today being in parliament than on the streets and what you have today is tit's watching to much "top boy" and the likes of jake paul
Save your energy typing things like this the people who admire him don't know how that code works he was a horrible man he attacked my friend outside a pizza shop for no reason, the police got involved and one officer gave some off duty advice wich was don't take it any further you'll only make things worse if he finds out where you live he's got his ways of slipping through loops he'll get what's coming to him and not even a year later he did
I worked with a lad who was attacked by duffy for no reason just because he felt like it. The lad spent time in hospital but remained silent out of fear. The lad was only physically small as well.
Why do people make videos blowing smoke up someone’s arse who never fought anyone who could fight just bullying weaker people and sidelining people who were drunk
@@SkyBlue-px1tc He'd constantly be in police custody these days as there's CCTV everywhere now. Probably end up being sectioned. Sounds like he was a manic depressive.
A few years back I was on a cruise and got talking to a nice couple from Middlesbrough. I asked them about Lee Duffy and they looked blank-faced at me. They had never heard of him. So not quite the legend people seem to think he is amongst the population at large.
@@Fudge-picker No, but seeing as they were from the same town I happened to mention the name. They would have been about the same age as Duffy if he had lived. Drew a complete blank. My point was that people on these sites have the perception these people are famous when they're not. Just yobs and jailbirds and completely beneath the notice of real people.
In Haverigg, I met an old Mackem con who told me that in Durham, young prisoners would flock to Duffy, who they knew was the only man who could (and would) protect them from Sykes
You make him out to be some kind of amazing person who talks about respect. He was a thug and that’s how he was thought of by the normal people in this area
He did leave his town he got to Newcastle and a few prisons around the country 😂😂😂 to the people of south bank he was like Philious Fogg 😂😂😂. I live about 25 miles from Middlesbrough and the place is a shithole.
@@howey935 you're right l live 13 miles from the dump, it gets worse every year, just smeghole of desperation. Was always rough but had some character and characters, but they levelled most of the streets ordinary folk lived in and made the riverside into expensive housing as in most places,, you could be in Stockton, Hartlepool, anywhere like that all sewage farms. Trouble is a lot of the scum move into the smaller towns surrounding and infect them with their drugs and thievery. Some villages and small towns have more junk eyes than the bigger towns and cities thanks to scum bags.
@@danchaplin134 older people used to call him Ronnie, I never knew why until years later when I realised they meant Ronnie Kray which explains a few other stories. Why are you asking if he was dangerous when on other threads you’re acting like you know all about him & telling people they’re wrong about things they’ve said about him? 🤔
Two Bob Bully, didn't the Sayers mob take a tanking the night he was stabbed? i'm sure i read somewhere the mob turned on them right after. Anyway, LONG before ( around 1995) youtube, internet etc, a guy i used to work with ( He was from Boro) told me of a cruel little party trick Duffy used to amuse himself and his chums, he would proclaim that the next person to enter the pub was getting chinned by him, and he didn't discriminate. What a scumbag.
Manchester was the same except it was full mobs of Salford or the moss side crews. We all went all over the north than party in our own city. They ruined the scene in manny sounds like big Bri and Duffy did the same in the boro.
@@thesatisfiedcustomer4869 I think it was the same everywhere lad..im a Brummy and I remember certain firms of lads from certain areas turning up mob handed to certain clubs or events or raves etc back in the 90s and absolutely ruining the whole night and vibe by robbing people and pulling blades out on people..some people got battered..some stabbed etc and eventually people started going to other places outside of Birmingham to avoid these divs because they didn't go out to enjoy themselves..they went out for trouble and they were total nobheads.
Brian is the biggest bullshiter going neither him or Duffy went near Vic graham and that's a fact they both knew where to find him and only ever went to Newcastle when viv wasn't there and that's a fact, aye both could handle themselves but Brian got smashed by DG so I honestly don't think he would of stood a chance with viv , all the story's about is complete fantasy bullshit
I met this dude once, when I was selling drugs, waaaay up north. He thought he was some kind of crime godfather, or summat. He made me an offer I couldn't understand
What's the big fascination with this guy? I just don't get it at all. Every town and city has someone like him he's not unique trust me. I knew a lad in Halifax back in the late 90's who was far worse than Lee Duffy, the whole town was afraid of him and for good reason. He used to tax drug dealers, he was working the doors at 18 year old he was fucking huge and murdered at least 2 people that I know of. He threw a guy out of a flat window 12 stories up and made a drug dealer inject air into his vanes before taking his drugs, money and even stole the guys trainers off his feet. A seriously horrible and dangerous man.
The Duffer..a freak of nature really..its very seldom that a young guy barely out of his teens and into his 20s makes a point of not only going around challenging all the local hard men and doormen and bullies etc but to actually be able to back it up and be banging 3..4..and 5 doormen out with relative ease is very rare. Its a shame he turned into a bully and a character that nobody wanted around..ive heard many a story(like the one from the night he died)about him poisoning the atmosphere of wherever he would go and demanding free drinks to not smash places up and just taking all the drugs of local dealers etc..the problem with that behaviour is that it creates so many enemies both known and hidden and he had apparently been picking on Allo for ages before that fateful night..beating him up and humiliating him whenever and wherever he would bump into him and that night in the Blues Club was the same..Lee turning up poisoning the atmosphere and starting on Allo and this time it ended bad..shame because he was still so young and if he had packed all the heavy drug use in and matured a bit he might have been a decent bloke and even more of a legend than he already is. R.I.P to the Duffer 🤜
@@BoroFrontLine I'm not sure who your comment is aimed at but I never mentioned Ducko in my comment..I've never read any books on Lee and I've never heard of spanny so I'm guessing your comment is aimed at someone else but it's in the reply section on my comment but like I said it can't be aimed at me because the things you mentioned don't add up with what I said.
I was in Durham jail with the bloke and his head was like a bash hat. 🤣 He says so you box and I was yeah I've boxed so he says fancy abit of sparring in our cell. So like an idiot I says aye nb. So we wrapped our hands in our prison towels and got down to it I made the mistake of catching him a few times and to say he took abit of a liberty with me was an understatement. I had towel burns all over my face. Hehehe I wouldn't back down though and he loved me for that cz I'd just come out of the young offenders into the big jails and I was quite a big kid myself but only 5'10" Anyway I was glad he wanted to get padded up with his mate after two nights. Then he got bail and was killed a mth later. I knew their laury better cz I'd been in deerbolt with him, not like Lee though, thought he was but no fighter at all. Lol
I was in pubs in the boro, when Duffy came in them me and my mates would leave our drinks and leave, because he would just smack anyone at the time, spoilt many a night for descent people who where enjoying a night out.,!
I wouldn't use what the sayers say as a source of information when researching lee Duffy. Steven sayers was never confident in Lee beating Viv Graham, that's why he would take Lee to Vivs clubs on the days that Viv was off work, and the bouncers he beat up werent even tough gangsters, most of them were family men that just loved the gym, and i think its telling how it's only ever the sayers crew, and Brian Cockrill's side of the story we ever hear on Duffy and Viv, apart from paddy conroy, who actually knew (and respected) both men, and he believed Viv would of beat Duffy quite easily if they ever fought (obviously just his opinion but he had no hatred for either men). As for Brian Cockerill, I wouldnt believe a word that comes out of his mouth, especially regarding his past (hes a prolific liar, and exaggerates everything).
Ive been in Durham, there is no rec room, and he most definitely didn't spark up a joint, ten screws would've been on his head in seconds, also screws are always known as screws, even among themselves, and he always attacked the weak and vulnerable.
I was in Durham 70s, 80s and 90s,, there was a rec room tv room and table tennis and darts on the ground floor of A wing, which housed, pedoes and grasses on the basement level and first 2 floors then YPs on the last 2,.. I was a YP in 74 and we had tv nd rec between 5pm and 7pm we used to take the section 43s the pedos n grasses, n perves buckets of tea and soup ( gravy with the vegs leftover from dinnertime ) and buns ( big hard yellow lumps of dough nearly solid ) at supper time, the screws would stop us before our first cell and spit in the tea and soup ) there would be matchsticks and cockroaches in the buns for the 43s, l was a bit disgusted but was more disgusted at what some of em were in for, they had their meals and exercise and showers seperate from the rest of the prisoners to stop them being attacked, l was on remand on the main wing thaat joined A wing in the 80s, and in 90s for breaking a court order, the rec was still there just 2 cells knocked into one, when l was there in the 70s it was a high security for male and females you could see the women in their seperte part out in the grounds dressed in bib n braces some big butch lasses who offered to rip our privates off for staring at em, the next time l was on remand as a teenager l was at low newton, which had several of my mates in there were young girls there too,, we had sunday service with them but as we entered the chapel we were screamed at by the screws to keep our gaze averted from the girls, yeah that was what we did lol,, some of the girls would deliberate turn to look at us and made bj gestures with their hands and mouths. It was notorious for sh1t parcels, which were when banged up for the night you tore off a piece of sheet if you were busting for a crap and threw them out the windows,,, often they would burst on the walls, there was crews of lads mde to collect them every morning, one night the lad l was twoed up with called Alan from Hartlepool made a parcel chucked it out window inadvertently catching a screw with it on his cap n tunic shoulder, there was a bellow of rage, as one screw shouted l saw that come out of level 3 cell 6,, and another shouted you can see a fresh smear on the window ledge, we heard a bunch of em opening passage gates and bombingup the stairs, they wrnt to the cell next door but aa screw said no the basterd cell there ours, the door crashed open ( no mean feat as they were very heavy doors about 12 screws were in the landing one hatless and coat less, as they had ran up the stairs we sat on our beds reading mags trying to look casual,the lights were still on as it was only around. 8.30pm when 3 of the screws came in the hatless one shouted which of you filthy animals threw that shit parcel at me, the other screws were all boiling with rage wanting to do harm or appearing too dunno how real it was, we just sat dumb, stand up we were told, we did, stick your hands out in front of you we did, the screw sniffed my hands then alans," this twat" he shouted and grabbed him by the hair another two grabbed him and threw him out the cell onto the landing, the door was closed fast and l could hear blows hitting alan fists n boots and alan screaming "I'm sorry it was an accident" then just muffled pain shouts from him as they bundled him down the stairs and for a minute or so we could aall hear the smacks and kicks and grunts as they kicked the crap out of him taking him down to surgery some lads were shouting out the window wanting to know what was going on the others were shouting at the screws to leave him alone after ten mins or so a screw came along the landing banging on doors and telling everyone to shut the f up or they would all be joining alan down in the basement l think he got put in solitary but no one saw him again in the fortnight l was there,, l was taken to magistrates court and given probation for my offence of being in a riot at our local town near Redcar, When next l was there they had placed very small bore grids to the outsides of the windows to stop the parcels. The screws there were quick to hit you but not as bad as the short sharp shock detention centres that appeared but only lasted a few years cos of the violence done to lads by the screws who volunteered to work there so they could beat upon the lads and was sanctioned almost officially by the powers that be until even they couldnt turn a blindeye to the beatings results and ensuing suicides. I think Deerbolt & Medomsley were involved but later became open Borstals. Yes we were bad lads and some probably deserved tough guidance,, but many were just soft lads who got picked on by sadistic screws, the hard lads never got bothered much only the real hard core ones who wouldnt kow tow to anyone. But there weren't many. I was well built mostly due to gentetics, my dad and uncles on both sides were big broad stocky men,, aarms like body builders just through hard work, so l was mostly left alone certaainly by other inmates, but one boro towny screw had it in for me for some reason known only to himself, maybe I'd been with his sister lol l never knew, but he tried to provoke me but got embarrassed to death when he had an Alsation which they stood with as we wrnt to work as l approached them he said something to the dog and it became fully alert, he walked towards me as if he was going to loose the dog on me but as l got closer the dog started being frisky and jumped all over me licking me and wagging its tail as if id been its long lost master, well babys and dogs had always taken a shine too me dunno why, but even l was amazed at its behaviour he staarted shouting at it trying to get it under control but when he tried to pull it away from me it growled at him and lunged for his hand,, then turned back to me wriggling and squirming and acting daft as a pup, all the other lads were laughing even some of screws, one head screw shouted at him " mr t" '' '*n get your animal under control , they made me stand still while two of them dragged the dog away, l got bailed 2 days later. Havent been in trouble since 1992, model citizen now,, l was even starting to respect the police until a run in with one a few months ago about a fairly trivial event but the copper was a right fool l literally chucked him out of my house and he ran to his van like a scared kid, bearded too, l didnt know they were allowed beards,, but if he was an example of todays coppers lord help us all.
You would think these tough guys who aren't afraid of anyone would have learnt from the past IE: so many of them who lived by the sword have either been shot or stabbed to death. Jack the hat, george cornell, frank mitchell, viv graham, lee duffy, pat tate, tony tucker, jon kinsella, paul massey, jimmy moody ETC & that's a few of the UK one's ! & according to freddie foreman, the kray's would have joined them if they hadn't gone inside when they did.
Seen different side too Lee when he gave my mate a lovely tip for taking him and his mates to Sheffield for an hour even though they did sort of hijack the minibus😮 😮
Seen duffy in blaises night club dancing on his own off his box with just a pair of shorts on everyone was on edge he was a monster of a man he was built like an athlete not a bodybuilder type build his legs were fckn huge he was a one off even with the big lads of today duffy would still stand out ,he was a violent man who died a violent death Rip duffy .
Wow! Blazes, I didnt think that’d be his thing it was alternative rock full of mucky student types, it used to smell as well. I thought he’d be more into hardcore techno
Duffy worked for the Sayers, they were trying to take over all the doors in Newcastle and went out and got one of the hardest lad in the prison system (Lee.Duffy)
Sounds like an utter bell end. I am 45.... Iv'e known some genuinely dangerous people, but they were actually decent Humans. There was a saying that a well know criminal, currently serving time for a murder many think he did not do, because HAD he done it, nobody would have known. He said ''The loud ones never last'' As depicted in the Rise Of The Foot Soldier, and the book, and he is right. The ones that are SO desperate too be ''something'' are usually drugged up, steroid use violent NOBODIES, desperate too be a somebody, and they don't care who they hurt on the way. Lee Duffy Pat Tate Craig Rolfe Tony Tucker..... Many more, all come too the same end.
This glamorizes Duffy. Making it sound like he sought out the best. Which wasn’t true. He was a bully and a thug, attacking random people in clubs and bars for just looking at him!
I’m fascinated with this guy and his story I’ve tried finding video of him etc and there’s none about . Tough tough man who bullied the bullies by all accounts . Built like a brick shit house . Pure power house . Came to a sad end though . RIP big lad
He always looked like he may have suffered from alcohol fetal syndrome like greta thumberg, probably why he was always so quick to anger and ran around beating people up so much. Its funny that every area has a local "hardman" like this which is just usually some nutter than everyone else tries to avoid and attacks random weaker people to act tough.
Well after listening to that i make an assessment that he was nothing more than a bully himself. The bullied becomes the bully. Piss enough people off and one day you will get your karma.
I respect an american who goes to the trouble of learning the correct pronunciation of our English towns. Edit: ok you trailed off further in, it's pronounced like 'bruh', like watup bruh, middles-bruh (not middles-boro)
The 90s in Middlesbrough was a rough place, take it from someone who lived there at the time, guys like duffy weren't good people because they understood what happens to nice people in boro, smackheads were rampant and guys like duffy were the only people who would help, the police don't give a shit if your below the poverty line, so yeah he was rough but anyone who knew him would tell you he couldn't take a joke but he'd have your back if you asked him for help, especially if you were a mother, saved my mam from being mugged while she was pregnant with me, even escorted her back to my dad and gave him a slap so yeah maybe not a "good guy" but at least he didn't ignore people because they didn't have money.
In Doncaster we had HANCOCKS 😅 ,i always wondered how he managed to get any sleep 😴, he was constantly aggressive/angry 😅 , of course there were bigger fish 🐟 but they were more measured/calm ,Malpas/Joplin/Kamara/Shenton. 🇬🇧 80s 90s
Got to reply with that shit you say lol ,calling boro a small town nah much bigger and rougher ,than you obviously know why talk shite about something ,you don't know much about and I'm not from round there ,but if you know you know .
@@mickharrison9004 fuck off lad, lived there for two years. Barker road, linthorpe. Small town mentality, big lad throwin his weight around. Loud ones never last lad.
@@tigertruckerman they were probably over in blackpool in the early 80 s ,with the 6,000 you brought and no kidding fought with us ,all over town that day before the match at the match 50 came in our end ,and with numbers they got wasted but before police came in ,they were bloody and in a bad way ,but with there backs to the fencing back then they were still game ,and wanted some more we had our fair share of handy lads back then though ,believe or not someone put it down to fighting with ,thousands of scots who used come throughout the season and so many of ,our lads back then we're game and used to being in ,some big scraps most weekends during summer one thing ,I will say about back then we stuck together had each other's backs ,if needs be I'll always respect boro lads after that crazy day lol .
@@custommadeknivesif he lands first I think you might be right, but Lee struggled against smaller tough men. Allison is only 5'10 and dropped Lee in their fight. Ernie was like Marciano. A bull.
Lee bumped into Sykes in Durham Lee put his fists up an said come on bully bully me but nout happened Big brian said about it on his TH-cam live one night
Absolute nonsense they were never in Durham together. If they were then Brian would've been dining out on that story for years instead of just suddenly pulling out of his arse a couple of years ago
@@stephenm8898 did not eat about bri ramming the gates at HMP Durham in a cosworth an pulled up out side his cell door on B wing then drove away happily ever after 😂😂🤦🤦👍
@@sybennett7392 it's mad as fuck how he's got thirty odd years out of kicking about with someone for about six weeks. I reckon there's maybe 5% or less of what he says is true
A lot of people idolise him but you have to remember, he even taxed his "friends". If he was in town, about a thousand people had a shit night because any of them could be his target. Imagine being in town with your bird and he walks past and then you wake up in hospital coz he sparked you out to impress whoever he's with.
Like it or not, the world is a better place without people like him, and those who think he's some sort of hero are kidding themselves, he'd have sparked you out, broken your jaw and made you paranoid forever for a free pint if he felt like it.
Well said man
@@wanderer4life 100%
A bit OTT this comment like 😂 he didn't terrorise just anybody he sought out so called hard men and drug dealers. Doesn't sound like a bully to me he used his status to help people out too
he taxed his mates, lol fk me man
He would pick on the wrong person one day and some skinny mma kid would bend him up. 😂 Bully’s always get their just dessert.
When he got stabbed he couldn’t get a taxi cos he was always refusing to pay fares to cabbies.
Fair enough taxing dealers but taking liberties with straight goers was out of order.
He couldn’t get a taxi because all the people there where telling them to fuck off and they wanted him dead
He didn't try ring for 1 ridiculous comment. Before you start yes a few drivers supposedly drove past but most would seeing all the commotion. Quite certain though somebody did pick him up/stop. Not 100 percent on the facts as wasn't there.
@@Auty1973 that's EXACTLY what happened mate
lol
All the people that didnt like him chased the taxi's off and where shouting die ya c**t why he was trying get up with adrenaline still kicked in, he actually fell twice and still got up each time and staggered. Regardless of what people say and think even the copper said he was a one off, unique and there will never be another.
There’s a difference between ‘being respected’ and ‘being feared’,
and it baffles me why so many people insist on confusing the two.
He had both respect and fear they don't make men like this anymore
@@daveywilliams7508 Well, of course not. With CCTV everywhere their mental lifestyles would be under constant scrutiny now. The only reason they behaved that way in the first place was because they thought they could get away with it.
@vordman I don't know about that 🤔 getting caught then would of been far worse than now more people are committing crime now than then 100 percent I think it's to do with the real gangsters of today being in parliament than on the streets and what you have today is tit's watching to much "top boy" and the likes of jake paul
Save your energy typing things like this the people who admire him don't know how that code works he was a horrible man he attacked my friend outside a pizza shop for no reason, the police got involved and one officer gave some off duty advice wich was don't take it any further you'll only make things worse if he finds out where you live he's got his ways of slipping through loops he'll get what's coming to him and not even a year later he did
I worked with a lad who was attacked by duffy for no reason just because he felt like it. The lad spent time in hospital but remained silent out of fear. The lad was only physically small as well.
Gets painted a picture of been a great bloke as well.
@bombardierbeaumont8351 Duffy was a nasty thug with the IQ of a tadpole. His mom shud av swallowed
You say taxman I say bully.. karma caught up with him.
He was a bully that's a fact that's why he wouldn't show up for his boxing match's only training he was to scared to lose.
@southside1975 wouldn't think he wasn't scared like what drugs are u on 😂😂
@@southside1975The lad wasn't scared of anyone , he'd rather be out at the clubs /music instead of turning up in the evening for a bout.😊
Only bullied his own kind. I knew him well! Stop talking nonsense when you clearly didn’t know him. Not even old enough to know him.
@@BoroFrontLine UTFB
Nothing clever about thugs and bullies people are easily impressed
Why do people make videos blowing smoke up someone’s arse who never fought anyone who could fight just bullying weaker people and sidelining people who were drunk
You’re right on all that apart from he didn’t fight anyone who couldn’t fight?
He often sparked out doormen who where cold stone sober
Mmm he could fight trust me
Your wrong he was fearless even the police said after his death no one could do what he had done and that's take I the drugs Lords of the North east
@@deanBOROcold stone sober
You know what I meant ya helmet
Chavs in the comment section “RiP” lol.
Yeah this lad seems like a joy to be around!
They won’t even be chavs, it’ll be young pale kids who spend all night on fortnite listening to drill rap
People were a lot tougher back then
He wouldn't last long doing what he did now.
@@SkyBlue-px1tc He'd constantly be in police custody these days as there's CCTV everywhere now. Probably end up being sectioned. Sounds like he was a manic depressive.
A few years back I was on a cruise and got talking to a nice couple from Middlesbrough. I asked them about Lee Duffy and they looked blank-faced at me. They had never heard of him. So not quite the legend people seem to think he is amongst the population at large.
Mate, I'm not sure if you should be interviewing the type of people who go on cruises and take it as a measurement of public knowledge 😂
@@Fudge-picker No, but seeing as they were from the same town I happened to mention the name. They would have been about the same age as Duffy if he had lived. Drew a complete blank. My point was that people on these sites have the perception these people are famous when they're not. Just yobs and jailbirds and completely beneath the notice of real people.
It seems to me that he spent the majority of his time from 16 to 26 in prison?
Yeah...... legend.
In Haverigg, I met an old Mackem con who told me that in Durham, young prisoners would flock to Duffy, who they knew was the only man who could (and would) protect them from Sykes
of course you did
What utter nonsense
the pied piper hey
Another one typing utter crap
i was in haverigg in 94 i think
You make him out to be some kind of amazing person who talks about respect. He was a thug and that’s how he was thought of by the normal people in this area
Stop moaning, Lisa.
Died skint never left his town. Legend 😂
He did leave his town he got to Newcastle and a few prisons around the country 😂😂😂 to the people of south bank he was like Philious Fogg 😂😂😂. I live about 25 miles from Middlesbrough and the place is a shithole.
@@howey935 HEY!!! Stop sullying the word 'Shithole'. :)
@@howey935 you're right l live 13 miles from the dump, it gets worse every year, just smeghole of desperation.
Was always rough but had some character and characters, but they levelled most of the streets ordinary folk lived in and made the riverside into expensive housing as in most places,, you could be in Stockton, Hartlepool, anywhere like that all sewage farms.
Trouble is a lot of the scum move into the smaller towns surrounding and infect them with their drugs and thievery.
Some villages and small towns have more junk eyes than the bigger towns and cities thanks to scum bags.
I’m from middlesbrough and we used to call him Sloth from the Goonies when we were kids
Obviously not to his face 😂
Was he that dangerous? Tell us more please mate
@@danchaplin134 older people used to call him Ronnie, I never knew why until years later when I realised they meant Ronnie Kray which explains a few other stories. Why are you asking if he was dangerous when on other threads you’re acting like you know all about him & telling people they’re wrong about things they’ve said about him? 🤔
@@TayWoodeso he was bent then?
Took the shit of streets I say simple
Two Bob Bully, didn't the Sayers mob take a tanking the night he was stabbed? i'm sure i read somewhere the mob turned on them right after. Anyway, LONG before ( around 1995) youtube, internet etc, a guy i used to work with ( He was from Boro) told me of a cruel little party trick Duffy used to amuse himself and his chums, he would proclaim that the next person to enter the pub was getting chinned by him, and he didn't discriminate. What a scumbag.
Him and cockril were nothing but bully’s and hated on Teesside ,, killed loads of good nights out with thier presence ,,
Manchester was the same except it was full mobs of Salford or the moss side crews.
We all went all over the north than party in our own city. They ruined the scene in manny sounds like big Bri and Duffy did the same in the boro.
@@thesatisfiedcustomer4869 I think it was the same everywhere lad..im a Brummy and I remember certain firms of lads from certain areas turning up mob handed to certain clubs or events or raves etc back in the 90s and absolutely ruining the whole night and vibe by robbing people and pulling blades out on people..some people got battered..some stabbed etc and eventually people started going to other places outside of Birmingham to avoid these divs because they didn't go out to enjoy themselves..they went out for trouble and they were total nobheads.
Brian is the biggest bullshiter going neither him or Duffy went near Vic graham and that's a fact they both knew where to find him and only ever went to Newcastle when viv wasn't there and that's a fact, aye both could handle themselves but Brian got smashed by DG so I honestly don't think he would of stood a chance with viv , all the story's about is complete fantasy bullshit
Ya know what mate ,,all these fkn bully ,taxing ,bouncer , types ,look at them now they ain’t got a tanner ,, and no friends
Who is DG?@@chrisharkness5260
Brilliant docu! Really enjoyed this 👍
I met this dude once, when I was selling drugs, waaaay up north. He thought he was some kind of crime godfather, or summat. He made me an offer I couldn't understand
He knew who he could mess with
Bully boy
Your not keen on him then 🙄🏴
Just happens that the bully boy was a fuckin machine
Bully chicken never boxed
It’s ok saying stuff about someone who’s not here to answer, I doubt very much you would have said that to his face 😂
@@chrisjenkins5846😂😂Died like the man he was screaming in the street. Allo you’ve killed me.😂
What's the big fascination with this guy? I just don't get it at all. Every town and city has someone like him he's not unique trust me. I knew a lad in Halifax back in the late 90's who was far worse than Lee Duffy, the whole town was afraid of him and for good reason. He used to tax drug dealers, he was working the doors at 18 year old he was fucking huge and murdered at least 2 people that I know of. He threw a guy out of a flat window 12 stories up and made a drug dealer inject air into his vanes before taking his drugs, money and even stole the guys trainers off his feet. A seriously horrible and dangerous man.
I know exactly who you are talking about
What happened him in the end
@@martobeairn he left the country
@@martobeairnbecame Keir Starmer
@@OldSchoolStrength got any more stories on this guy? interesting.
Sounds like your typical bullying pos who eventually messed with the wrong person.
It always happens.
Telling the cops if anything happens to him I’ll hold you responsible 😂😂😂😂absolute made up crap like the rest of the stories by local fan boys
So the bullied lee duffy later became a bully himself.signs of a coward if u ask me.
Like a fully grown umpa-loompa
The Duffer..a freak of nature really..its very seldom that a young guy barely out of his teens and into his 20s makes a point of not only going around challenging all the local hard men and doormen and bullies etc but to actually be able to back it up and be banging 3..4..and 5 doormen out with relative ease is very rare.
Its a shame he turned into a bully and a character that nobody wanted around..ive heard many a story(like the one from the night he died)about him poisoning the atmosphere of wherever he would go and demanding free drinks to not smash places up and just taking all the drugs of local dealers etc..the problem with that behaviour is that it creates so many enemies both known and hidden and he had apparently been picking on Allo for ages before that fateful night..beating him up and humiliating him whenever and wherever he would bump into him and that night in the Blues Club was the same..Lee turning up poisoning the atmosphere and starting on Allo and this time it ended bad..shame because he was still so young and if he had packed all the heavy drug use in and matured a bit he might have been a decent bloke and even more of a legend than he already is.
R.I.P to the Duffer 🤜
That's a very good comment 👌
@@stephenmclaughlin-uv8nm thanks pal 👍
That never happened , complete fantasy stories
The puffer lol😂
@@BoroFrontLine I'm not sure who your comment is aimed at but I never mentioned Ducko in my comment..I've never read any books on Lee and I've never heard of spanny so I'm guessing your comment is aimed at someone else but it's in the reply section on my comment but like I said it can't be aimed at me because the things you mentioned don't add up with what I said.
Dark slruth secrets. You should do a video about Viv Graham
If he was as he is now in these times he would be nothing
That forehead is a snipers dream
@@BG-ef8sk 💯 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I was in Durham jail with the bloke and his head was like a bash hat. 🤣
He says so you box and I was yeah I've boxed so he says fancy abit of sparring in our cell. So like an idiot I says aye nb. So we wrapped our hands in our prison towels and got down to it
I made the mistake of catching him a few times and to say he took abit of a liberty with me was an understatement.
I had towel burns all over my face. Hehehe
I wouldn't back down though and he loved me for that cz I'd just come out of the young offenders into the big jails and I was quite a big kid myself but only 5'10"
Anyway I was glad he wanted to get padded up with his mate after two nights.
Then he got bail and was killed a mth later.
I knew their laury better cz I'd been in deerbolt with him, not like Lee though, thought he was but no fighter at all. Lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@javyruckshunson2525 deerbolt in Barnard castle?
@@davidmilne430 aye that's the place. I was in there 88-89 👍
If you behave bad in life and cause harm to a lot of people, then the laws of the universe step in
I was in pubs in the boro, when Duffy came in them me and my mates would leave our drinks and leave, because he would just smack anyone at the time, spoilt many a night for descent people who where enjoying a night out.,!
Never a legend. Legends usually achieve greatness.
Probably best video on duffy about
Well done. Enjoyed that
Appreciate that!🙏🏼
@@DarkSleuthSecretsgreat video 👍
I wouldn't use what the sayers say as a source of information when researching lee Duffy. Steven sayers was never confident in Lee beating Viv Graham, that's why he would take Lee to Vivs clubs on the days that Viv was off work, and the bouncers he beat up werent even tough gangsters, most of them were family men that just loved the gym, and i think its telling how it's only ever the sayers crew, and Brian Cockrill's side of the story we ever hear on Duffy and Viv, apart from paddy conroy, who actually knew (and respected) both men, and he believed Viv would of beat Duffy quite easily if they ever fought (obviously just his opinion but he had no hatred for either men). As for Brian Cockerill, I wouldnt believe a word that comes out of his mouth, especially regarding his past (hes a prolific liar, and exaggerates everything).
Bullied and terrorised somebody weaker than him who stabbed and killed him. LOLZ.
The part just after 11 mins about his reply to viv is utter nonsense, he admitted to manny burgo that he was nervous when viv phoned him
Light my fire by the doors, great tune
That was great. Really informative and photos I haven't seen before. Thank you
Ive been in Durham, there is no rec room, and he most definitely didn't spark up a joint, ten screws would've been on his head in seconds, also screws are always known as screws, even among themselves, and he always attacked the weak and vulnerable.
I was in Durham 70s, 80s and 90s,, there was a rec room tv room and table tennis and darts on the ground floor of A wing, which housed, pedoes and grasses on the basement level and first 2 floors then YPs on the last 2,.. I was a YP in 74 and we had tv nd rec between 5pm and 7pm we used to take the section 43s the pedos n grasses, n perves buckets of tea and soup ( gravy with the vegs leftover from dinnertime ) and buns ( big hard yellow lumps of dough nearly solid ) at supper time, the screws would stop us before our first cell and spit in the tea and soup ) there would be matchsticks and cockroaches in the buns for the 43s, l was a bit disgusted but was more disgusted at what some of em were in for, they had their meals and exercise and showers seperate from the rest of the prisoners to stop them being attacked, l was on remand on the main wing thaat joined A wing in the 80s, and in 90s for breaking a court order, the rec was still there just 2 cells knocked into one, when l was there in the 70s it was a high security for male and females you could see the women in their seperte part out in the grounds dressed in bib n braces some big butch lasses who offered to rip our privates off for staring at em, the next time l was on remand as a teenager l was at low newton, which had several of my mates in there were young girls there too,, we had sunday service with them but as we entered the chapel we were screamed at by the screws to keep our gaze averted from the girls, yeah that was what we did lol,, some of the girls would deliberate turn to look at us and made bj gestures with their hands and mouths.
It was notorious for sh1t parcels, which were when banged up for the night you tore off a piece of sheet if you were busting for a crap and threw them out the windows,,, often they would burst on the walls, there was crews of lads mde to collect them every morning, one night the lad l was twoed up with called Alan from Hartlepool made a parcel chucked it out window inadvertently catching a screw with it on his cap n tunic shoulder, there was a bellow of rage, as one screw shouted l saw that come out of level 3 cell 6,, and another shouted you can see a fresh smear on the window ledge, we heard a bunch of em opening passage gates and bombingup the stairs, they wrnt to the cell next door but aa screw said no the basterd cell there ours, the door crashed open ( no mean feat as they were very heavy doors about 12 screws were in the landing one hatless and coat less, as they had ran up the stairs we sat on our beds reading mags trying to look casual,the lights were still on as it was only around. 8.30pm when 3 of the screws came in the hatless one shouted which of you filthy animals threw that shit parcel at me, the other screws were all boiling with rage wanting to do harm or appearing too dunno how real it was, we just sat dumb, stand up we were told, we did, stick your hands out in front of you we did, the screw sniffed my hands then alans," this twat" he shouted and grabbed him by the hair another two grabbed him and threw him out the cell onto the landing, the door was closed fast and l could hear blows hitting alan fists n boots and alan screaming "I'm sorry it was an accident" then just muffled pain shouts from him as they bundled him down the stairs and for a minute or so we could aall hear the smacks and kicks and grunts as they kicked the crap out of him taking him down to surgery some lads were shouting out the window wanting to know what was going on the others were shouting at the screws to leave him alone after ten mins or so a screw came along the landing banging on doors and telling everyone to shut the f up or they would all be joining alan down in the basement l think he got put in solitary but no one saw him again in the fortnight l was there,, l was taken to magistrates court and given probation for my offence of being in a riot at our local town near Redcar,
When next l was there they had placed very small bore grids to the outsides of the windows to stop the parcels.
The screws there were quick to hit you but not as bad as the short sharp shock detention centres that appeared but only lasted a few years cos of the violence done to lads by the screws who volunteered to work there so they could beat upon the lads and was sanctioned almost officially by the powers that be until even they couldnt turn a blindeye to the beatings results and ensuing suicides.
I think Deerbolt & Medomsley were involved but later became open Borstals.
Yes we were bad lads and some probably deserved tough guidance,, but many were just soft lads who got picked on by sadistic screws, the hard lads never got bothered much only the real hard core ones who wouldnt kow tow to anyone. But there weren't many.
I was well built mostly due to gentetics, my dad and uncles on both sides were big broad stocky men,, aarms like body builders just through hard work, so l was mostly left alone certaainly by other inmates, but one boro towny screw had it in for me for some reason known only to himself, maybe I'd been with his sister lol l never knew, but he tried to provoke me but got embarrassed to death when he had an Alsation which they stood with as we wrnt to work as l approached them he said something to the dog and it became fully alert, he walked towards me as if he was going to loose the dog on me but as l got closer the dog started being frisky and jumped all over me licking me and wagging its tail as if id been its long lost master, well babys and dogs had always taken a shine too me dunno why, but even l was amazed at its behaviour he staarted shouting at it trying to get it under control but when he tried to pull it away from me it growled at him and lunged for his hand,, then turned back to me wriggling and squirming and acting daft as a pup, all the other lads were laughing even some of screws, one head screw shouted at him " mr t" '' '*n get your animal under control , they made me stand still while two of them dragged the dog away, l got bailed 2 days later. Havent been in trouble since 1992, model citizen now,, l was even starting to respect the police until a run in with one a few months ago about a fairly trivial event but the copper was a right fool l literally chucked him out of my house and he ran to his van like a scared kid, bearded too, l didnt know they were allowed beards,, but if he was an example of todays coppers lord help us all.
*The Ducklings*
with there fearsome reputations.
😂😂😂😂😂
I mean you have to be handy don't yer. 😅
Would be the same for you jeffrey😅
Hardly a name to inspire fear, unless you knew them, but l must ask were any of them ugly 😂
@@Darkside-tu6hq 'I'm free' 😅
Those who live by the sword die by the sword.
Most violent men are frightened men.
Sounds like a bully to me who can respect that, not me.
He was hard ass fuck . Even the police respected him .
@@malcolmbooth5656 he was a lower class scummy little nonce
You would think these tough guys who aren't afraid of anyone would have learnt from the past IE: so many of them who lived by the sword have either been shot or stabbed to death.
Jack the hat, george cornell, frank mitchell, viv graham, lee duffy, pat tate, tony tucker, jon kinsella, paul massey, jimmy moody ETC & that's a few of the UK one's ! & according to freddie foreman, the kray's would have joined them if they hadn't gone inside when they did.
Whoever wrote this garbage should stick to their day job...at VIZ!!
Love the new pictures
Seen different side too Lee when he gave my mate a lovely tip for taking him and his mates to Sheffield for an hour even though they did sort of hijack the minibus😮 😮
Seen duffy in blaises night club dancing on his own off his box with just a pair of shorts on everyone was on edge he was a monster of a man he was built like an athlete not a bodybuilder type build his legs were fckn huge he was a one off even with the big lads of today duffy would still stand out ,he was a violent man who died a violent death
Rip duffy .
Wow! Blazes, I didnt think that’d be his thing it was alternative rock full of mucky student types, it used to smell as well. I thought he’d be more into hardcore techno
Recall he used to go to the bongo club a lot, and that one halfway up linthorpe road which I can’t remember.
@@simony2801 the havana
@@TayWoode student goth nights during week then week ends it was dance house music .
@@simony2801 haha The Crown? On the corner?
Duffy worked for the Sayers, they were trying to take over all the doors in Newcastle and went out and got one of the hardest lad in the prison system (Lee.Duffy)
Lee met Stephen at an early age in borstal. They were mates beforehand. Lee's only proper job was a doorman.
Hard family
Respected too
His head was the size of the moon.
Always brought a downer on any night he visited Club Havana in early 90s
'Aw the same wi a chib in the guts." - Franco Begbie.
Sounds like an utter bell end.
I am 45.... Iv'e known some genuinely dangerous people, but they were actually decent Humans.
There was a saying that a well know criminal, currently serving time for a murder many think he did not do, because HAD he done it, nobody would have known.
He said
''The loud ones never last''
As depicted in the Rise Of The Foot Soldier, and the book, and he is right.
The ones that are SO desperate too be ''something'' are usually drugged up, steroid use violent NOBODIES, desperate too be a somebody, and they don't care who they hurt on the way.
Lee Duffy
Pat Tate
Craig Rolfe
Tony Tucker..... Many more, all come too the same end.
Man youre all still arguing all these years later acting on like yous knrw him the most. Who gives a fuck
Karma at work , stop idolising these divs
Nothing more than a thug,
Heard so many stories about this man,end of the day he sounded like a bully
Marty turner was my ex boxing coach, guys a legend and done a lot for the community
Interesting how he is still talked about some 33 years after his untimely death.
Lee Duffy just a bully
Yeah verry hard one never be another one like him simple
@brianwilliams3365 There are plenty like him
@davidhopkins848 no one like the duffy maybe nearly just like him but whst he did u never see again he's just a one off
Paul venis is meant to be like him ?
@@El89po he's now where near like duffy
Great Video " Thanks for the Content 👏
Glad you enjoyed it!🙏🏼
@@DarkSleuthSecretsawesome video do one on jimmy moody
Yes 🎉new content
Well done mate.
The Duffer a pure one off
🤡
This glamorizes Duffy. Making it sound like he sought out the best. Which wasn’t true. He was a bully and a thug, attacking random people in clubs and bars for just looking at him!
Good content
Appreciate it!🙏🏼
I’m fascinated with this guy and his story
I’ve tried finding video of him etc and there’s none about .
Tough tough man who bullied the bullies by all accounts .
Built like a brick shit house . Pure power house .
Came to a sad end though .
RIP big lad
He always looked like he may have suffered from alcohol fetal syndrome like greta thumberg, probably why he was always so quick to anger and ran around beating people up so much.
Its funny that every area has a local "hardman" like this which is just usually some nutter than everyone else tries to avoid and attacks random weaker people to act tough.
Well after listening to that i make an assessment that he was nothing more than a bully himself. The bullied becomes the bully. Piss enough people off and one day you will get your karma.
Brian cockrill from new castle. I don’t think so. He was originally from Scotland and then later settled in Redcar.
Nobody cares
Why do people make vids likee this when they haven't! a clue
Shut up doyle
Its 2024 research isn't difficult
best Duffy information i have heard. from an American. good job i say.
10k views. It's working. Fair play
What was wrong with the video?
Hearing an American talk about the tees is offit 😂😂
middles-burrow aha
@@soul146 😂😂😂 I always think what would they make of it living here 😂
I respect an american who goes to the trouble of learning the correct pronunciation of our English towns.
Edit: ok you trailed off further in, it's pronounced like 'bruh', like watup bruh, middles-bruh (not middles-boro)
I have to keep correcting the southerners in my family 😂
Do you think it’s an American? Or AI?
@@davegadge1 Probably AI. I doubt an American would have heard of or be interested in him.
It's an AI voice
Its actualy pronounced "shithole" lol
I wander why he wouldn't show up for the boxing match's only training to scared to lose.
In a boxing match his opponents wouldn't be pissed drunk and would fight back.
@@THISISLoleshBouncers weren't drunk!
Of course they weren't 🫣@nocando5365
The 90s in Middlesbrough was a rough place, take it from someone who lived there at the time, guys like duffy weren't good people because they understood what happens to nice people in boro, smackheads were rampant and guys like duffy were the only people who would help, the police don't give a shit if your below the poverty line, so yeah he was rough but anyone who knew him would tell you he couldn't take a joke but he'd have your back if you asked him for help, especially if you were a mother, saved my mam from being mugged while she was pregnant with me, even escorted her back to my dad and gave him a slap so yeah maybe not a "good guy" but at least he didn't ignore people because they didn't have money.
After his death, a woman came forward saying she was raped by him - he should have been cremated long BEFORE he died
Two women to be exact. Warrant for his arrest.
Won’t tell you that in the books. 🙄
real ones know that first shot is of linthorpe road
The ducklings….holy shit how scary 🤣
Really enjoyed thst documentary just a shame some comments about him after his death and not before strange that?
In Doncaster we had HANCOCKS 😅 ,i always wondered how he managed to get any sleep 😴, he was constantly aggressive/angry 😅 , of course there were bigger fish 🐟 but they were more measured/calm ,Malpas/Joplin/Kamara/Shenton. 🇬🇧 80s 90s
he was shit scared of the lad who killed him just reading between the lines
He was a bully boy.
I doubt he could still punch people while on crutches. Rubbish!
There is always someone bigger.
Good effort on what is let's be fair a fairly niche character in a fairly small area a long time ago.
He looked like oddbod from the carry on film Carry on Screaming.
No wonder Light My Fire is number one.
Was a bully and spoilt a 1000 nights for 1000 people
Lee looks like he was casting for the village people in some of those photos, was he ever married or did he have any kids?
no, he used to hang around mens public toilets alot tho
@@ArchibaldTheKoala2096And you know this how? 😂
He had girlfriends and 3 daughters
@thenightdrivingavenger2200 Yes, he had kids
Never heard of him
Yes he could clear a room quickly but he could also have one in uproar of laughter just as quickly. But nobody talks about that.
why did his farts stink that bad then
When he walked in a room, most people walked out.
@@BoroFrontLine they must have been thaty bad lol
1983 with a club dj playing cdj??
I don't think so.
Small town bully, wouldn’t of lasted 5 mins in a big city with those antics
Got to reply with that shit you say lol ,calling boro a small town nah much bigger and rougher ,than you obviously know why talk shite about something ,you don't know much about and I'm not from round there ,but if you know you know .
@@mickharrison9004 fuck off lad, lived there for two years. Barker road, linthorpe. Small town mentality, big lad throwin his weight around. Loud ones never last lad.
Boro is a big place,and one of the most deprived areas, I used to be in with the front line,Elliott brothers olly, leggy,bunza, hard hard lot
@@tigertruckerman they were probably over in blackpool in the early 80 s ,with the 6,000 you brought and no kidding fought with us ,all over town that day before the match at the match 50 came in our end ,and with numbers they got wasted but before police came in ,they were bloody and in a bad way ,but with there backs to the fencing back then they were still game ,and wanted some more we had our fair share of handy lads back then though ,believe or not someone put it down to fighting with ,thousands of scots who used come throughout the season and so many of ,our lads back then we're game and used to being in ,some big scraps most weekends during summer one thing ,I will say about back then we stuck together had each other's backs ,if needs be I'll always respect boro lads after that crazy day lol .
the tall dwarf
Apparently lee wouldnt dare start trouble up sunderland because ernie bewick would have flattened him
lol, ernie was a good bloke but lee would of wiped the floor with him
@@custommadeknives Ernie would've done Lee no problem back then. He never done anything in Sunderland because there was no reason to
@@custommadeknivesif he lands first I think you might be right, but Lee struggled against smaller tough men. Allison is only 5'10 and dropped Lee in their fight. Ernie was like Marciano. A bull.
Police rang Duffy after his mate assaulted a taxi driver,makes me wonder just how loose with the truth you are.
Lee bumped into Sykes in Durham Lee put his fists up an said come on bully bully me but nout happened Big brian said about it on his TH-cam live one night
Must be true if bullshit Brian said it .
Absolute nonsense they were never in Durham together. If they were then Brian would've been dining out on that story for years instead of just suddenly pulling out of his arse a couple of years ago
Your a special kind of stupid if you take brians storys as gospel haha....he is a grade a bullshitter milking lees name
@@stephenm8898 did not eat about bri ramming the gates at HMP Durham in a cosworth an pulled up out side his cell door on B wing then drove away happily ever after 😂😂🤦🤦👍
@@sybennett7392 it's mad as fuck how he's got thirty odd years out of kicking about with someone for about six weeks. I reckon there's maybe 5% or less of what he says is true
They've kicked the arse out of the Lee myths now 99% of the stories are from blowbacks from way back trying to make a comeback
Going too any city for a Saturday night out was a nightmare in 80s 90s with mobs returning from football
So big and hard yet he got murdered and no1 got revenge or cared
I was in a few classes with his daughter Sammie Jo... There's times you could tell that she couldn't stand him.
Bullshit was he
Is this video true
broadly yes.
@JustAnotherThisDJ thank you