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Gerrard’s unsavoury in-laws! As his daughter announces pregnancy with the son of one of Ireland’s most notorious gangsters, what does England’s ex-football captain really think about sharing grandad duties with an arms-dealing convict? 351.
On a humid June evening in 2023, a middle-aged man called Liam Byrne was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences while dining with family at a restaurant in the Majorcan town of Alcudia.
Byrne clearly hadn’t seen it coming: CCTV footage from the local police station shows him dressed casually in shorts, T-shirt and flip-flops as he’s escorted into a cell by officers from the National Meanwhile, around the time Byrne was being slapped in handcuffs, a very different scene was unfolding many hundreds of miles away in the city of Liverpool.
There, Lilly-Ella Gerrard, the then 19-year-old daughter of the footballing legend Steven, a former England captain and considered to be one of Liverpool
Football Club’s greatest-ever players, was busy uploading a sweet video onto social media showing her lip-syncing to a pop song as she cuddled her two dogs in the front of her car.