Two work colleagues sat in a Range Rover, stuck in rush hour traffic on one of Manchester's busiest highways. An otherwise uneventful commute soon turned into a journey they would never forget. Loud banging had started to ring out from a car nearby.
The two friends couldn't hear what was being said, but it was clear an argument had broke out. The banging was so loud, at first one of them thought it was a gunshot. But this was no car crash, or road rage attack.
Instead, what they were witnessing was the start of the latest chapter in Manchester's shocking knife crime epidemic. Just minutes later a 16-year-old boy, a nephew of an England footballer, was murdered after a high speed chase.
