Extortion by gangsters

[Carol Anne]

My husband reckons that every single Chinese owned restaurant, take-out shop, cash&carry etc. in the country have to pay dues to the Triads. This of course being conducted in the secrecy so associated with that culture, that in effect the law is completely powerless to stamp it out. There was a case here in Glasgow in the late eighties when a gang of Chinese thugs came all the way from Southampton to burst in to a busy restaurant kitchen and start chopping up the staff and owner. They were caught and subsequently exposed as Triads but the police barely were able to scratch the surface as to their motive.
Can organised crime exist in this country with such impunity or is it more likely to be a total myth?

[Carol Anne]

I seem to recall numerous razor sharp cleavers and hatchets were found discarded in the locale the following morning