Karen Matthews is said to be 'over the moon' her co-conspirator Mick Donovan is dead.
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The attacks were carried out with a degree of coordination that 'bordered on military precision'. The aim was 'to do as much damage as possible in the shortest possible time'.
On the night of April 17, 1994, a spate of terrifying petrol bomb attacks was launched in Stockport. In just four hours one school was burnt to the ground and five others were badly damaged. A florists, two cars and two education centres were also torched.
At the height of the blitz 200 firefighters were tackling 12 separate blazes. Remarkably no-one was hurt.
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The morning after, one fire chief told the Manchester Evening News: "It looks like an orchestrated conspiracy to do large-scale damage." But the man police strongly suspected of being behind the 'terror blitz' was nowhere to be seen.
In fact Chris Little was on holiday in the Canary Islands. But chances are that was little more than a convenient cover story.
The sadistic gangster, dubbed the Devil Dog Mobster because he was said to terrorise anyone who crossed him with his ferocious pack of rottweilers and mastiffs, was thought to have orchestrated the whole thing.
It was said to have been show of strength to scare off rival gangs and show the police who really ran the town. "Chris Little loomed over Stockport like a storm cloud," the journalist Peter Walsh wrote in Gang War, his account of organised crime in Greater Manchester.
"Few men in recent history have so successfully cowed local people or displayed such arrogance. Little burned down public buildings to show his power, organised marches to antagonise the police, intimidated magistrates, journalists and crime
Karen Matthews is said to be 'over the moon' her co-conspirator Mick Donovan is dead.
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