CALLS are being made for jailed members of Sheffield's most notorious postcode gang to be kept away from each other while locked up in prison.
At least nine members of the S3 gang are currently behind bars for attacks on each other over the last year – two of which have proved fatal and a third which left a gang member fighting for life.
Between them, the gangsters are locked up for a total of 205 years.
While on remand waiting for their trials to get under way, many of the thugs were kept at Doncaster Prison and some are still there serving the first few days and months of their lengthy sentences – posing a headache for prison officials.
Guards have to stop warring factions of the gang from continuing their hatred of each other and clashing on the inside.
And South Yorkshire Police wants to prevent the gangsters from associating behind bars full stop – in a bid to disband the group.
Sheffield Brightside MP David Blunkett, former Home Secretary, said he wants to see gang members sent to different jails.
"There is a contradiction between the demand for local prison places accessible by families and the understandable desire of the police to break up the gangs and their contacts, which otherwise continue inside the prison system," he said.
"We have to put the safety of the public at the top of the agenda, and despite pressure on prison places, ensure that wherever possible gangs are broken up.
"There needs to be co-operation by the Prison Service and police to
help disconnect individuals."
Superintendent Andy Barrs, responsible for tackling guns and gangs in Sheffield, said: "We are working in partnership with the local prison to ensure that criminal networks don't extend to behind bars.
"We have a good relationship with the prison with both sides committing to restricting criminal activity.
"We are trying to curtail and disband the S3 network both on the inside and out so that the S3 is no more."
The power that some of the gangsters wield is so great that Nigel Junior Ramsey, 23, of Andover Street, Burngreave, was still able to continue controlling his S3 'street soldiers' from his prison cell when he was locked up at HMP The Wolds in Everthorpe, East Yorkshire, last year.
He ordered the murder of 17-year-old Tarek Chaiboub, who was gunned down outside Frenchie's barber's shop, on Spital Street, Burngreave, last July.
Ramsey, known as 'The General' got his younger brother Denzil Ramsey, 20, of Andover Street, Burngreave, 17-year-old neighbour Levan Menzies and pal Michael Chattoo, 21, of Daniel Hill Street, Upperthorpe, to carry out the shooting.
The four were all found guilty of murder and last week jailed for a total of at least 110 years.
Nigel Ramsey, Chattoo and S3 member Javan Galloway, 20, of Nottingham Street, Burngreave, were also found guilty of attempted murder after Tarek was stabbed a few days before the shooting.
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