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Darby Sabini is the secondary antagonist in Season 2 and a major antagonist in Season 4 of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders.
He is the head of the London Italian mob and one of the two dominant crime bosses in London. He is based on the real-life gangster Charles Sabini.
He was portrayed by Noah Taylor, who also played Locke in Game of Thrones, Thomas Rogers in the 2015 version of And Then There Were None and Adolf Hitler in Preacher.
Biography[]
Season Two[]
Charles "Darby" Sabini is the leader of the Italian mob in London and controls the gambling in the city. He is at war with Alfie Solomons, the leader of the Jewish mob, whose bookmakers Sabini expelled from the Epsom races. When looking to move his business into London, Thomas Shelby, leader of the Peaky Blinders gang, decides to side with Solomons against Sabini and signals his intent by leading his brothers Arthur and John in an attack on the Italian-owed Eden Club.
In revenge for the attack on his club, Sabini introduces himself to Tommy by having his men beat him to within an inch of his life before slicing open the inside of his mouth with a razor and ripping out his tooth. He is only prevented from killing Tommy by the arrival of police led by Chief Inspector Campbell, who force Sabini to run away. Sabini also sends more men to gang-rape Tommy's sister Ada and beat her to death, but men working for Tommy manage to save her.
Sabini is informed by one of his lieutenants that one of the Shelby's bookmakers has been arrested. Sabini decides to have him killed to send a message, although not before accusing the lieutenant of being a police spy, and orders the man's throat slit in his cell. In reality the man had nothing to do with illegal bookmaking and was hired to turn himself in claiming to be one in order to help the police meet their arrest quota without disrupting the Shelby's operations. He also sends assassins to shoot Tommy at a horse auction, but he and his brothers manage to kill them.
As a last resort, Sabini meets Alfie Solomons and offers to allow his bookmakers to attend Epsom in return for allying with Sabini against the Shelbys. Alfie agrees on condition of an apology from Sabini for making antisemitic remarks and murders one of the Shelby's men before framing Arthur Shelby while Sabini enlists the help of corrupt police to re-take the Eden Club from the Shelbys. However, Sabini now believes the Shelbys defeated and refuses to honour his agreement with Alfie, barring his bookmakers from Epsom once again. In revenge, Alfie teams up with Tommy again and the two of them send thugs to Epsom to beat up Sabini's bookmakers, drive them off the betting track and burn their gambling licences, leaving them unable to operate and allowing Tommy and Alfie to move in and take over Sabini's betting operation.
Season Four[]
Sabini agrees to help Luca Changretta, leader of the New York Italians, in his vendetta against the Shelbys. As a fellow Italian mob boss, Sabini provides Changretta with vehicles and safe houses to aid him in bringing his men into the country and taking over the Shelby's operations in Birmingham. Sabini also plants two Italian chefs in Tommy's household with the goal of assassinating him on Christmas Day. However, Tommy becomes suspicious and discovers the assassin's ties to Sabini, killing one of them and sending the other back to London to warn Sabini to stay out of the vendetta on pain of death.
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The Shelbys Peaky Blinders Birmingham Police force Irish Republican Army Changretta Crime Family The Economic League The British Union of Fascists Others | ||