On Monday night, chefs, restaurateurs and food critics descended on the Midland Hotel in Manchester for the prestigious Michelin guide ceremony for Britain and Ireland. Despite being on hosting duties, the city walked away empty handed.
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This is the shocking moment gunman Daniel Whelan blasted a stranger’s car in broad daylight. The innocent man was driving home with his 10-year-old daughter when Whelan, 32, blasted his Peugeot.
Whelan was aiming for a Ford Focus that was behind the Peugeot, but missed. Thankfully, neither the father nor his young daughter were injured and he didn’t even notice his car had been fired at until later, when he found a bullet in his boot.
Brothers Daniel Whelan and Alex Whelan, 26, had both been robbed minutes before by a gang of men who accused Daniel Whelan of being a 'grass', Manchester Crown Court heard. Prosecutors alleged that they went after those responsible to ‘seek revenge’, but jurors cleared them both of attempted murder.
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Daniel Whelan accepted firing the semi-automatic gun and was jailed at Manchester Crown Court last week for 12 years.
In a video shared with the Manchester Evening News, a silver Ford Focus can be seen driving along Horsedge Street in Oldham moments before revving can be heard in the opposite direction.
Then a silver BMW X3 stops suddenly on the opposite side of the road. Daniel Whelan jumps out of the passenger side and shoots the 9mm calibre handgun. Shouts can be heard before the BMW, driven by Alex Whelan, speeds off.
The court previously heard that on July 5 last year, at around 7.30pm, Daniel Whelan was seen on CCTV on Great Gable Close, in Oldham, near the family home, speaking with the occupants of a VW Golf, before Alex Whelan pulled up in the same car park in a BMW X3.
An unknown male got out of the back of the Golf before punching Daniel Whelan to the face and robbing him of a white carrier bag, which contained
On Monday night, chefs, restaurateurs and food critics descended on the Midland Hotel in Manchester for the prestigious Michelin guide ceremony for Britain and Ireland. Despite being on hosting duties, the city walked away empty handed.
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