Noonan told the Manchester Evening News he would breach his licence conditions on purpose in protest

16:35, 21 Dec 2025Updated 16:37, 21 Dec 2025

Dominic Noonan

Notorious gangland figure Dominic Noonan is back behind bars for breaching the terms of his early release from prison.

Noonan told the Manchester Evening News he would refuse to sign in as required at the bail hostel where he is staying on Friday night and instead present himself to a police station in Yorkshire to be arrested.

Today officials at the Ministry of Justice confirmed Noonan had been recalled to prison. Before his recall, Noonan told the Manchester Evening News he would prompt his own recall as an act of protest at the alleged 65 conditions he faces as part of his release from jail licence, particularly one condition which he said bans him from Chorlton in south Manchester. He said he was furious he could not visit the grave of his parents at Southern Cemetery at Christmas.

A spokesperson for His Majesty’s Prison and Probation spokesperson said: “As this case shows, we do not hesitate to send offenders back to prison if they break the rules.”

Noonan was released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for serious sex offences, in October before he had served half his sentence as part of emergency measures introduced by the Labour government last year to ease overcrowding in jails. He has spent most of his adult life behind bars.

The 61-year-old was subject of strict licence conditions which banned him from parts of Greater Manchester.

Before his recall, Noonan told the M.E.N. he was subject to 65 conditions including one which bars him from Chorlton. He said it meant he could not visit the grave of his parents, and murdered brother Dessie Noonan, at Southern Cemetery. “It’s wrong. The public of Manchester need to know,” he said.

He claimed he had twice been offered jobs, one in a cafe, but was told he had to turn them down by the Probation Service as unsuitable. He said he’s not allowed to use the internet nor have more than £200 in his possession.

Dominic Noonan

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.

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 50 per cent.

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 in October.

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.

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.

Dominic Noonan spent six hours on the Big Wheel(Image: Manchester Evening News)

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.