put him at the centre of a criminal network involved in protection rackets at nightclubs and pubs. The Hunt Syndicate A police investigation into organised crime groups in north and east London, codenamed Operation Tiberius, included details of the Hunt Syndicate's activities. The Tiberius report stated that the syndicate had managed to evade prosecution through a combination of utilising corrupt police contacts, and the intimidation of witnesses. The crime gang were uncovered by the crime squad in Newham, East London in 2006, when a scrapyard in the Docklands area of East London was searched for stolen metal. When another nearby property was raided as part of that operation, 42 containers were unexpectedly discovered to contain the contents of 18 lorry thefts and a commercial burglary. Counterfeit goods were also seized. Dave McKelvey, head of the crime squad, discovered that the gang had been corrupting police officers for over a decade and that despite a gang insider leaking information to the police, the information was never acted upon. Despite overwhelming evidence, the case collapsed after a corrupt anti-corruption detective sent a dossier to prosecutors raising concerns about McKelvey, who was then investigated for two years (the investigation was found to be fatally flawed and McKelvey exonerated, with Detective Chief Superintendent Albert Patrick stating that he struggled to understand what McKelvey was being accused of). As a result of the raids, McKelvey was informed, whilst interviewing a petty criminal, that a known contract-killer had been contracted for £1 million to kill three police officers including McKelvey himself, who now lives under round the clock police protection. In 2004, a book written by former Hunt associate Jimmy Holmes (under the pseudonym Horace Silver), titled Judas Pig, was published. Presented as a fictional book based on a career criminal called Billy Abrahams, it was a thinly disguised autobiography of Holmes's time as a career criminal during the mid-80s and through to 1995, with the names of well known living gangsters changed to avoid libel action. Hunt, referred to in the book as Abrahams' "psychopathic partner in crime" Danny, is exposed as a violent gangland boss, who is responsible for numerous murders and serious assaults whilst running drugs, pornography and protection operations in London and Essex. Danny (David Hunt) falls out with Abrahams (Jimmy Holmes) and puts a contract out on his life. A follow up book titled The Charity Committee was re-written and published