By Ben Hill For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:57 BST, 7 May 2019 | Updated: 05:57 BST, 7 May 2019
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An Italian migrant who became an 'untouchable' Sydney drug lord has died of cancer.
Henry 'Danny' Charles Landini, 74, was described as having an 'extensive criminal history', being charged 60 times with drug and other offences beginning in 1960.
He moved to Sydney from Italy as a young boy with his mother and grew up in Woolloomooloo in the central city.
Landini was a prominent figure in the Sydney gang wars of the 1980s. Many of his close friends were shot dead during the tumultuous period.
He drank in inner-city pubs with notorious crime figure Arthur 'Neddy' Smith. Smith is serving a life sentence in prison after being convicted of murder, rape, armed robbery and drug
