EXCLUSIVE: The 61-year-old has issued a statement to the Manchester Evening News
05:00, 09 Nov 2025Updated 08:03, 09 Nov 2025
Dominic Noonan, aka Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy(Image: M.E.N.)
Notorious gangland figure Dominic Noonan was released from prison before he had served half his sentence as part of emergency measures introduced by the Labour government last year to ease overcrowding in jails, the Manchester Evening News can reveal.
The 61-year-old, released from a sentence for sex crimes last month, remains the subject of strict licence conditions. It is understood he is banned from parts of Greater Manchester.
Noonan told the Manchester Evening News: “Clearly I’m innocent of all the charges brought against me. I’m going back with this to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). Anyone who did this should go to to jail but there are so many mistakes in the evidence.”
He declined to reveal where he was living.
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In May 2018 Noonan, who changed his name to Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, was convicted of 13 historical sex offences against four boys as young as 10. He was jailed for 11 years after a jury found him guilty.
He denied the 13 charges he faced. A jury at Manchester Crown Court found him guilty of eight counts of indecent assault; one count of attempted rape; two of inciting a child into sexual activity; one count of sexual assault; and one of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.
By the time of his sentencing, Noonan was already serving a separate 11-year jail sentence handed down in 2015 for arson; blackmail; and perverting the course of justice. His eventual release date of October 2025 was calculated in part because he had already served 281 days on remand by time he was sentenced in 2015.
Dominic Noonan(Image: MEN Media)
Following his 2018 trial, sentencing judge His Honour Judge Martin Rudland, told Noonan: “You were clearly determined to seek sexual gratification where and when you wanted it, and as a means of pursuing that end, and other objectives no doubt, you surrounded yourself with teenage boys. You gave them food, drink, drugs, occasional employment, and a sense of being part of your entourage.”
Prosecutors alleged Noonan ‘groomed and sexually assaulted’ young boys over several decades after plying them with drink and drugs. They claimed he traded on his ‘notoriety’ and ‘reputation’ in Manchester to commit the offences.
It is understood Noonan has been released partly under a scheme introduced by Labour in September last year, three months after the party won the general election.
Under the scheme, eligible prisoners can be released after serving 40 per cent of their fixed-term sentence, rather than the usual 50pc.
The scheme was launched as an emergency measure on September 10 last year, days after the prison population reached a record high of 88,521. Some 38,042 inmates had been freed as of the end of June this year, according to the Ministry of Justice.
A spokesperson for HM Prison and Probation Service said they would not comment on the licence conditions of individual prisoners.
It is understood Noonan was released ‘under SDS40’, which refers to inmates on ‘Standard Determinate Sentences’ eligible for release after serving 40pc of their sentence.
Ministers said when they launched the ‘SDS40’ scheme that it would not apply to sex crimes. It can apply to a sex offender in discounting sentences for non-sex crimes they had committed however, a Ministry of Justice spokesman told the Manchester Evening News.
The M.E.N. has calculated that if Noonan was released half way through his combined 22 year sentence, taking into account time spent on remand, his release date would have been February 27 next year.
Dominic Noonan
Offenders released on licence are supervised by the Probation Service and are subject to strict conditions including restrictions on their movements and contact with others. They can be recalled to prison for breaching these conditions or exhibiting behaviour suggesting they pose an increased risk to the public.
A spokesperson for HM Prison and Probation Service said: “Offenders released on licence are subject to strict conditions and we do not hesitate to send them back to prison if they break the rules.”
When he was sentenced in 2018, Noonan was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention order, with a number of other prohibitions upon release, aimed at eradicating the risk of further offending.
The prosecutor in the 2018 case said he had been found guilty of sexual offences over a number of decades, which showed his behaviour was ‘entrenched’ and not something ‘age or infirmity’ will necessarily prevent.
Alongside the order Judge Rudland said he would be subject to strict licence conditions when he was eventually released.
Noonan had been serving his sentence at HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough but was later moved to HMP Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire before his release on licence last month.
One of 14 siblings, all of whose first names begin with a D, Noonan became the spokesperson for the notorious crime family following death of his brother Damian, aged 37, in a motorbike accident in the Dominican Republic in 2004, followed by the murder of his brother Dessie in Chorlton in 2005.
Dominic Noonan(Image: MEN Media)
Before his murder, Dessie boasted of being behind 27 killings to documentary-makers during an interview in which he appeared beside Dominic. GMP failed in an attempt to stop the program being broadcast after his death.
Dominic Noonan was involved in other high-profile incidents. In the 1990s he was abducted from a prison van at traffic lights in Pendleton, Salford. But the incident was a ruse to spring him from custody.
In May 2014, in a protest against GMP, he climbed the Big Wheel in Piccadilly Gardens. For six hours he sat perched 100ft up as a large part of the city centre was cordoned off and brought to a standstill.
His name change was another attack on authority. Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy stands for ‘Love all those that love all you – f*** off those that f*** off you’.
Noonan was handed a nine-and-a-half year jail sentence in 2005, when a gun and ammunition were found under the bonnet of his Jaguar when police stopped him. A judge described him as ‘a very dangerous man’.
He remained a target criminal for GMP and other forces after being released on licence five years later. Noonan had a go at being a stand up comedian but was recalled to prison when, as a pedestrian, he was involved in a ‘road rage’ incident with a woman in Gorton. During the fracas he shouted ‘do you know who I am?’.
In the summer of 2011 his profile rose again when he was suspected of orchestrating riots in Manchester city centre which resulted in wholesale looting and stores being torched and wrecked.
The CCRC has been approached for comment.