A mum putting her rubbish out was told 'snitches get stitches' after a confrontation with couple who were 'chilling' near her home. Ryan Burton, who was armed with a knife, was smoking with an unknown woman in an alleyway near the mum's house in Rusholme.
Burton, 48, a former security supervisor, shouted abuse at her as she moved to a nearby shop. After coming back out, she again saw the pair in the alleyway off Carlton Avenue.
The woman told the mum 'snitches get stitches' while Burton brandished the knife. The mum called her son for help. Before he arrived, she bravely decided to follow Burton after seeing he had a knife.
