A Manchester gang have been jailed following a terrifying street shootout over the control of a cannabis farm. The quiet residential street was awoken in the early hours of February 4 last year by gunshots and cars ramming into each other as a rival gang tried to steal the Manchester gang's £220,000 cannabis grow.
In the street battle two men were shot and one suffered a serious head injury. Weapons, including sticks and saws were used, as well as the guns in the brawl, and two serious injuries caused by a machete to the Burnley gang.
A car was later found burned out in an effort by the Manchester gang to hide evidence of the attack and one car was left so badly damaged that it could not be driven away from the scene. Police were alerted when two of the Burnley men were treated in hospital for their injuries, one a gunshot wound to the leg, and a joint police investigation was launched between Lancashire Constabulary and Greater Manchester Police to hunt those involved - Operation Callaway.
