37 Facts About Cecil Kirby

Cecil Kirby grew up in a working-class neighbourhood of Toronto and preferred to use violence from his childhood onward to solve problems.

Cecil Kirby began his career in organized crime as a member of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club, which he joined in August 1969.

Cecil Kirby rose up to become the sergeant-at-arms of the Satan's Choice Richmond Hill chapter.

Cecil Kirby wrote in his 1986 memoirs Mafia Enforcer that there was one clerk who had access to the most classified information of the Canadian Police Information Centre and:.

Those know Cecil Kirby well described him as being "schizophrenic" as he alternated between extremes of kindness and cruelty.

Cecil Kirby was clean shaven and had no trouble at the airport as he did not look like an outlaw biker, unlike McEwen whose long hair and beard caused the airport security to view him as a trouble-maker.

Cecil Kirby described most of the Outlaws he met in Fort Lauderdale as deeply troubled Vietnam veterans unable to readjust to civilian society whose most notable qualities were a fondness for drugs and even more so for violence.

Cecil Kirby worked as a courier for Satan's Choice delivering amphetamines and sometimes served as a bodyguard to the Satan's Choice national president Bernie Guindon.

In 1975, after Guindon was arrested at the Oba Lake drug bust, Cecil Kirby visited him in jail in Sault St Marie together with his close friend Frank "Cisco" Lenti.

Cecil Kirby was disappointed that Guindon failed to pay him back a drug debt he felt he was owned by Guindon, causing him to become disenchanted with his club.

Cecil Kirby had a dispute with another Satan's Choice member who he had asked to watch outside as he went into a house to beat up somebody who owed him money, who refused to serve as his look-out on the grounds that he just ordered a pizza, causing Cecil Kirby to quit in disgust.

In March 1976, Cecil Kirby left Satan's Choice and began to work for the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type criminal organization based in the Calabria region of Italy.

Later in 1976, Cecil Kirby blew up the car of a Brampton salesman, Antonio Burgas Pinheiro.

On 11 November 1976, Cecil Kirby left a stick of dynamite in the mailbox of the owner of Pozzabona Construction to pressure him to pay a plastering bill to a client more promptly.

On 3 May 1977, Cecil Kirby bombed a Chinese restaurant in Toronto, the Wah Kew Chop Suey House.

Cecil Kirby had been hired via the Commisso brothers by the Kung Lok Triad, who were unhappy that the owners of the Wah Kew Chop Suey House were running an illegal gambling house in the back of the restaurant without paying protection money.

On 1 August 1978, Cecil Kirby blew up the car belonging to a Hamilton businessman named John Ryan, as part of a Commisso extortion bid.

Later in August 1978, Cecil Kirby went to Montreal to assassinate Irving Kott, the stockbroker to Vic Cotroni, the boss of the Cotroni family, at the time the most powerful organized crime group in Canada.

Cecil Kirby was told Cotroni had been hired by others to have Kott killed, but Cecil Kirby believed that Kott had cheated Cotroni, who did not want to admit that he had been fooled.

In 1979, Cecil Kirby was hired by mobbed up Israeli-Canadian night club owner Harold Arviv to blow up his $1 million disco called Arviv's in Toronto.

Cecil Kirby used 30 sticks of dynamite to destroy the disco at about 5 am on 9 January 1980.

Cecil Kirby supplied the gun used to kill Toronto Police constable Michael Sweet at the Bourbon Street Tavern on 14 March 1980.

In November 1980, Cecil Kirby contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and offered his services as an informant.

In exchange for immunity from prosecution for all his past crimes, some $1,950 per month for his information and witness protection for himself and his family, Cecil Kirby became a RCMP informant.

In February 1981, Cecil Kirby was sent to Stamford, Connecticut, to kill what was described to him as "some broad that is causing problems".

The RCMP informed the American Federal Bureau of Investigation of the murder plot against Nafplotis, and after Cecil Kirby arrived in Stamford, the FBI took charge of handling him.

Commisso asked for proof that Cecil Kirby had indeed killed Volpe, leading him to produce Volpe's wallet with his driver's licence in it, which Cecil Kirby said he had taken from his corpse.

Notably, Cecil Kirby proved far more willing to testify against the Commisso brothers and the people who had employed them than he was against his former associates in Satan's Choice, providing the police with hardly any information of value about his former outlaw biker club.

Cecil Kirby revealed much about the influence Commisso 'ndrina and Satan's Choice on the Canadian economy such as:.

In November 1986, Cecil Kirby published his autobiography Mafia Enforcer, ghostwritten by an American journalist Thomas Renner, which provoked controversy with many charging that a criminal should not be allowed to profit from his crimes by writing a best-selling book.

Cecil Kirby has expressed no remorse for his crimes, and was as of 2012 living in hiding under police protection.

Cecil Kirby openly admitted that he felt no remorse for his crimes and that his reasons for turning Crown's evidence were not moral, but rather practical, namely that he feared that the Commisso brothers were planning to kill him.

When he was a member of Satan's Choice, Cecil Kirby had staged robberies in Toronto with another Choice member, Gerard Michael Vaughan, between 1972 and 1974.

In 2015, Cecil Kirby contacted Edwards to say he was no longer under police protection after he had quarreled with his RCMP bodyguards.

Cecil Kirby has expressed much fear of social media, believing that the Mafia will find him one day via Facebook.

Cecil Kirby stated that he was very frightened when a woman he did not know took a photograph of him on the street with the intention of posting it on Instagram, causing him to violently berate her until she deleted the photo from her phone.

Cecil Kirby has expressed much remorse for turning Crown's evidence, telling Edwards: "I wish I would have taken a bullet in the head instead of cooperating with those bastards".