Siting behind the walls of his office in manchester, the director of one housebuilder still does not feels safet. "Once they find you, you don't argue," he says. "Our sites have been trashed. We've had people followed. Someone on a meagre salary is not prepared to take risks with his own family for the sake of his job." The director does not want to be identified. He fears "ending up in a ditch" somewhere in Manchester at the hands of gangland security firms competing for control of his site. "They arrive in the middle of the night and cover your site with their signs," he says. "The next day, they introduce themselves and say they'll be providing your services from now on. You don't have much choice when that happens."
展开▼
