Man who starred on high TV present ‘turned life round’ however is now serving 11 years for capturing
A gun thug featured on a Channel 5 cleaning programme was jailed this week for 11 years after shooting at a rider in an alleyway. Joseph Kidd claimed to have turned his life around following his friend’s murder and appeared on the hit show.
But the 42-year-old from Everton, has been caged after cornering a Sur-Ron rider. Kidd was among the five-person mob who drove to the Pendle estate in a stolen Toyota Hilux before chasing down the rider. The electric bike rider escaped unscathed and the hit squad fled, before eventually being cornered by armed officers close to Aintree racecourse.
The Liverpool ECHO can reveal that Kidd is a former cleaning business owner who featured on Channel 5’s Hoarder Homes where he travelled to Middlesbrough to help a family clear their overrun house.
Kidd has also told his story on Billy Moore’s All or Nothing podcast, claiming to have turned his life around after one of his best friends was murdered with a gun.
Kenneth Quadrio and Lucas Maguire flee the car after being pursued by armed police officers(Image: Merseyside Police)
The dad also started his own podcast where he spoke about everything from American drill and hip hop music, Trent Alexander Arnold following his move to Real Madrid and alleged EncroChat corruption.
In his Billy Moore podcast appearance in February 2023, Kidd said he grew up around Scotland Road with a dad who was a boxing promoter and owned a nightclub.
But he said in his late teens he and his friends were devastated when their friend, innocent Craig Barker, was shot dead. Darren Waterhouse, an SAS-trained hitman, was hired by drug dealer William Moore, no relation to Billy Moore, to kill a rival over a feud.
Waterhouse fired eight bullets at a Ford Galaxy, with seven of them hitting Mr Barker, 19, who was the passenger seat. Minutes later, a second man, Ian Gee, younger brother of drug criminals Darren and Danny Gee, was also shot as he walked down a nearby road.
Liverpool’s Joe Kidd on the podcast(Image: handout)
On the Billy Moore podcast description, it said Kidd “grew up on the wrong side of the path in Liverpool and lost a good friend to a horrific murder [hitting] many rock bottoms, but changed his life to become a successful businessman and own his own cleaning company”.
Kidd set up Pro Mobile Cleaning solutions and was in the ECHO in 2020 after helping clean hoarder houses, including one house where rubbish was piled from the kitchen floor all the way up to the work surfaces. Another job involved cleaning a house with a terrible smell which was later revealed to be a dead dog hidden behind a cabinet.
His success led Channel 5 to get in touch to feature on Hoarder Homes, where he travelled to the north east to help a family clear out their home. The couple’s home took Kidd and his team five days to clear and was the longest hoard he was ever involved in.
Later in the series, viewers saw Kidd clean homes in Allerton and Walton, with the residents of both homes struggling with pest problems caused by their excessive hoarding. “There’s great satisfaction in getting it all done and sorted for them,” he told the ECHO.
Police conducting a search on Bowland Drive, close to Fulwood Way, in Litherland after the incident(Image: Liverpool Echo)
Around the same time as his appearance on Billy Moore’s podcast, Kidd launched his own called “I Kidd U Not”. In one series of shows, Kidd spoke out on what he said was EncroChat corruption. In one video, he claimed he had been handed paperwork telling him he was in contempt of court for speaking out against the prosecutions.
He also spoke to the ECHO in 2022 after he claimed the Health and Care Professions Council had forced him to delete a TikTok account with 100,000 followers after he interviewed two men who went to Glastonbury dressed as paramedics.
Sur-Ron rider shot at before police car rammed
At around 4pm on March 23 this year, police officers on patrol around Litherland’s Pendle estate saw a Toyota Hilux pursuing a Sur-Ron rider. CCTV later recovered as part of the investigation, saw Lucas Maguire, 18, and Kenneth Quadrio, 23, picked up by the car, which already had Kidd, Adam Bigley, 33, and Lee Nimbley, 21, in it
Joseph Kidd, 42 and of Portland Place in Everton, sentenced to 11 years in prison after a shooting in Litherland(Image: Merseyside Police)
The group then followed the victim, who was riding the electric motorbike, to Bowland Drive. Once there, a man got out of the car armed with a gun, while three others also followed and chased after the rider. While in an alleyway, one of the men shot at the rider, who managed to escape unharmed.
The car was driven away, but armed response officers tracked and pursued the vehicle. At a set of lights on Melling Road, Aintree, the Toyota reversed back, damaging one of the pursuing police cars, at which point Quadrio and Maguire fled on foot.
After seeing the damage to the police car, Quadrio, who was located shortly after cowering in undergrowth close to the nearby canal, told a passing member of the public: “Tell the streets Kenny Quad took one more Volvo off the road lad.”
Meanwhile Maguire ran through a back garden, claiming when challenged by the homeowner that he had been robbed of his bike and phone. He managed to return home but was later arrested.
Bigley, Nimbley and Kidd remained in the car and drove off before abandoning the vehicle in Epsom Close. CCTV captured the trio leaving the vehicle and climbing over garden fences towards the canal.
Bigley and Nimbley were intercepted by armed police on the canal towpath, having discarded a bag containing two guns on their way, and Kidd was detained on Cheltenham Close. The firearms were recovered and one forensically linked to the shooting.
Bigley, of Portland Place, Everton, was jailed for 15 years with an extended four year licence period, while Nimbley, of Stanley Park Avenue South, Anfield, was sentenced to 11 years.
Quadrio of no fixed abode, was jailed for four years, while Maguire, of Ridgewood Way, Bootle, was sentenced to 32 months in prison, suspended for two years.
Kidd, of Portland Place, was convicted of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life, two counts of conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, conspiracy to possess ammunition. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Detective Inspector Chris Clark, from Merseyside Police’s firearms investigation team, said: “The sentencing of these men should send a very clear message that Merseyside Police will not tolerate the use of firearms on our streets.
“All five men attempted to evade capture, but our officers were more than a match for them, and they have now faced the consequences of their actions. Bigley, Nimbley, Kidd and Quadrio are now behind bars, and unable to cause further harm to our communities, and our work to bring anyone involved in such dangerous offending to justice goes on.”
