The Everton criminal was issued with an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence in 2010 - the sentences have since been abolished
Everton gangster Daniel Gee , who is currently wanted by police after he absconded from prison, was serving an indeterminate sentence due to the risk he posed to the public.
Gee, who along with his brother Darren led a violent gang who controlled illicit business on Everton's Grizedale estate the north, was jailed after he plotted to arm himself after making death threats to 16-year-old gunman Jamie Starkey. Gee was seriously injured after being shot by Starkey, which happened outside an Anfield pub in the early hours, with one of the bullets piercing his stomach and lung before going out his back.
Gee was handed an indefinite prison sentence and was ordered to serve a minimum of four years behind bars before his case would be considered by the parole board. The sentence ran at the same time as the seven-and-a-half year sentence he was serving for drugs offences. IPP sentences were introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003. They could be given to offenders convicted of one or more specified serious violent or sexual offences where a maximum sentence was 10 years or more. The sentences have been heavily criticised for the "cruel and degrading" sentences.
However, the government rejected the committee's suggestion that all existing IPP prisoners be re-sentenced, and also refused to reduce the licence period during which released IPP prisoners can be recalled to custody.
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