
As he handed himself in to a Manchester police station, one-eyed killer Dale Cregan told them: “You were hounding my family so I took it out on yous. I’m wanted by the police and I’ve just done two coppers.”
The local drug dealer had spent weeks successfully evading capture as police hunted him over the gun and grenade murders of father and son David and Mark Short, whom he had killed in a row between feuding families in east Manchester.