The Satans Slaves Motorcycle Club (SSMC) is an international

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founded in Shipley, England in 1966. The Satans Slaves MC is one of the largest outlaw biker clubs in the United Kingdom, and has 29 chapters in England, Scotland and Germany.Riders on the storm
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History

The Satans Slaves Motorcycle Club was founded in Shipley,

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in 1966. Additional chapters were subsequently formed in

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and on the

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chapter was established in

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.Criminal history of biker gang
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faction was created in October 1986 after three bikers from

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began "prospecting" for the Fife chapter the previous year. The club was incorporated on 16 February 2004.Satans Slaves Motor Cycle Club (Shipley) Ltd
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"patched over" to join the Satans Slaves.Inside the mysterious former Aquila clubhouse in Plymouth
Charlotte Turner and Daniel Clark, '' The Herald'' (10 April 2022) The club is primarily based in

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and Scotland, with 17 English chapters and two Scottish chapters. There are also seven chapters in Germany, located in Gronau,

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, Langenfeld and Nienborg.

Insignia

The Satans Slaves' insignia consists of a skull, and the club utilises a black-and-white colour scheme. Members wear the Satans Slaves' insignia and other patches, such as those denoting each member's rank within the club, on their "

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", a black sleeveless leather vest.

Membership and organisation

Each Satans Slaves chapter is headed by an officer corps, consisting of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and

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. The club is governed by strict hierarchies and rules, with mandatory requirements for membership including a motorcycle license. The Satans Slaves have 29 chapters in England, Scotland and Germany. The club has approximately 200 members in the United Kingdom.

Criminal allegations and incidents

United Kingdom

England

At a motorcycle event in

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on 19 September 1983 sponsored by the

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chapter of the

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, a fight broke out in a queue where bikers were lining up to

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a woman, pitting 24 members of the Satans Slaves'

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chapter against six members of the Road Rats of

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. Two Road Rats bikers, Michael Harrison and Colin Hunting, were stabbed to death in a mass brawl involving axes, knives, chains, baseball bats and shotguns, but the remaining four were able to herd around twenty Satans Slaves into a barn, which they then set alight. The violence came to an end when the Hells Angels intervened. The bodies of the two dead bikers were dumped at local hospitals and three people were hospitalised in stable condition. 46 men and five women were arrested and questioned at six local police stations in an investigation involving 70 officers.46 men and five women held
Arthur Herman,

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(19 September 1983) A Satans Slaves member was among eleven bikers imprisoned for a total of 55 years. The

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Satans Slaves chapter was involved in a

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with the Hells Angels' English Nomads chapter, which began after Hells Angels members Stephen Harris and Barry Burn were fired upon during a trip to

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. Nomads chapter president Harris was wounded in the arm while Burn escaped injury. Another Hells Angel, David McKenzie, was stabbed eight times after being attacked outside a pub in

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months later. In April 1991, Stephen "Grumps" Cunningham, a leading member of the Nomads chapter and major amphetamine and cannabis dealer, lost his right hand when a car bomb targeting a Satans Slave biker exploded prematurely in Southampton.Le culte de la moto
xavier-raufer.com The Satans Slaves member targeted by Cunningham was the leader of a rival drug enterprise. Members of the

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chapter of the Satans Slaves allegedly carried out a serious assault on a man and his girlfriend at the Vintage Rock Bar in

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on 18 December 2010.'Satan's Slaves' in pub attack
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'' (22 January 2011) The largest ever seizure of illegal firearms in the United Kingdom took place when a dozen sawn-off shotguns, rifles and pistols and over 2,000 rounds of ammunition were discovered during searches of a house in Holme and a farm outbuilding in

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as part of a joint operation carried out by the

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regional organised crime unit TITAN along with the

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and the

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(NCA) on 4 November 2015. A rented property at

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was also searched.Cumbria man in court after county's 'biggest ever seizure of illegal firearms'
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'' (3 June 2016) Paul Holmes, the alleged sergeant-at-arms of the Lancaster Satans Slaves chapter, pleaded guilty to fourteen charges relating to the possession of prohibited firearms and ammunition at

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on 6 June 2016.Cumbrian man denies being arms supplier to motorcycle gang

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(29 July 2016) On 1 August 2016, Holmes was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.Man jailed after guns and ammunition seized in Morecambe
''Lancaster Guardian'' (25 August 2016) A Satans Slave biker was involved in an altercation with a motorist following a collision between a group of club members on both English and German registered motorcycles and a

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on 12 August 2017.Police search for Satan’s Slaves after ‘altercation’ in York

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(7 September 2017) On 19 June 2021, a group of Satans Slaves assaulted a patron at the Malt Shovel pub in

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after he intervened when a row broke out between the bikers and the pub landlord over

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regulations. Satans Slaves member Mark Isherwood pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 12 months, at

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in November 2022.Army veteran floors man with punch in West Yorkshire pub after row over Covid rules
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Scotland

George "Pussy" Ritchie, a member of the

chapter of the Satans Slaves, was convicted of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old boy and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in 1999. In October 2015, Ritchie was sentenced to eight years in prison and placed on the

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after pleading guilty at the

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to various sex offences, including attempted rape, committed against his niece and two other girls in

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and

between 1977 and 1982.Satan’s Slaves biker gang leader who molested girl aged six and later tried to rape her finally jailed four decades later
Jennifer Hyland, '' Daily Record'' (5 October 2015) A Satans Slaves biker was imprisoned in 1979 for brandishing a knife and confessing to plotting a £150,000 robbery.

gangster George Kerr survived being shot three times by a Satans Slaves member in a drug dispute at the Cutty Sark pub in 1993. The biker was also hospitalised as he was attacked after firing the shots.Introducing securiwars new recruit ..a thug with 666 etched on his back; Ferris hires heavy to run east coast
Russell Findlay, '' Sunday Mail'' (22 June 2003) In 2011, the Satans Slaves were reportedly involved in a biker war with the

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References

External links

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