Pancake Taylor is described as a fearsome individual

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How Liverpool docks became a hub of Europe's deadly cocaine trade | World news | The Observer: "Pancake Taylor is described as a fearsome individual, typifying a new generation of thug who has made the big time, and operates in a fashion poles apart from the methodical dealings of Smith. His emerging position in the city's cocaine trade is the first time one of the so-called 'Soljas' – the hooded scallies of the sink estates – has reached the summit of the Liverpool mafia food-chain.
According to one former Liverpool gangster, 'Smith was old-school. His word mattered, payments were upfront and on time. The Pancake has no social skills, he is seen as violent and unpredictable, more interested in shooting than making serious money.
'They are heavily armed, they plant homemade bombs outside pubs. If the Mexicans are doing business in Liverpool, they have met their match.'
Liverpool is a place where all roads feel like they head to the banks of the Mersey, the brown plume of water that is the city's lifeblood. From the waterfront, Merseyside's famous docks stretch north for 10 kilometres, eventually swallowed by the haze above Crosby.
Perhaps it is no surprise that the river that shaped a city should also mould its criminality. One police source said: 'Dockers walked off with whatever came in on the ships and this evolved in the 1970s and 1980s"