A police investigation has been launched after pictures were taken inside a court during the sentencing of Dale Cregan's nephew. The images show barristers sitting in a courtroom as Oscar Cregan made an appearance by videolink at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, the Manchester Evening News understands.
Some hearings are now televised, but taking photographs or making videos in court can lead to a charge of contempt of court.
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police confirmed a complaint had been made on January 19 and an investigation was 'active'. A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said it was not currently involved in the matter.
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Oscar Cregan, 20, who called himself 'bad man' helped set up a cocaine trafficking racket in his neighbourhood after returning to the UK following a stint in hiding in Spain with his family.
He was arrested during a stop and search in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester in March last year and was found in possession of two Nokia 'burner' phones used to peddle drugs.
The data from both of these phones was downloaded, showing hundreds of messages regarding the supply of cocaine, heroin and cannabis.
These ‘blast’ messages advertised the sale of drugs to a large number of contacts on various times and dates and were, in essence, county lines drugs lines - one being operated in Morecambe and the other in High Peak. Both were run from his address at the time in Manchester.
Whilst being detained he was caught scratching the words 'f**k Greater Manchester Police' and 'Oscar Cregan is a bad man' on a door in the exercise yard at Forest Bank prison in Salford. It emerged he had also stolen a £5,000 Rolex watch from a pawnbroker in Plymouth.
At Minshull Street Crown Court Oscar - the youngest son of Dale Cregan's sister Kelly - blamed his crimes on living under the shadow of his uncle, now 39, who is currently serving four whole life sentences for the gun and grenade murders of PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes plus a father and son during a murderous rampage in 2012.
A judge said there were 'people in similar circumstances who live law-abiding lives' and sentenced Oscar to three years in a Young Offender Institute for being concerned in the supply of cannabis, crack cocaine and heroin, theft of the Rolex in Plymouth and criminal damage in Forest Bank.
Oscar Cregan was a child when Dale was jailed in 2013 for killing Fiona, 32, and Nicola, 23, and also father and son gangland rivals David, 46, and Mark Short, 23.
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