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Wrong place, wrong time - the tragic chain linking three young men's killings
13.02.2022 - 22:56 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The families of Halton McCollin, Louis Brathwaite and Giuseppe Gregory were each robbed of a much loved son by gun crime on the streets of Manchester. The killings were linked, and 14 years, two of those families - Halton's and Louis's - still haven't seen anyone brought to justice. As police make a new appeal for information,the Manchester Evening News looks at the tragic connections between three senseless deaths.
In a bloody 14 month period on the streets of Manchester, three young men were murdered by gunmen.
A tragic chain links each of the killings.
Each victim was not the intended target. Each victim was shot in error - simply because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
All of them lost their lives to a tit-for-tat cycle of violence involving two of the country's most notorious gangs - The Gooch and the Doddington.
Halton McCollin, 20, a popular amateur footballer who worked for an insurance company, was shot dead in a takeaway on the A56, near Old Trafford stadium, in January 2008.
Ten days later, in a reprisal attack, Louis Brathwaite, 16, who hadn't long left Chorlton High School, was shot dead as he played fruit machines at a south Manchester betting shop.
Then, in May 2009, teenage partygoer Giuseppe Gregory was killed outside the Robin Hood pub, in Stretford.
Three young lives lost to the gun - and, near a decade-and-a-half on, the men who took two of them have still not been brought to justice.
All of them were caught in the crossfire of a long-running war - a street war which began in Thatcher's Britain.
In the mid-1980s, against a backdrop of post-industrial decline, systemic racism, and high inner city unemployment, rival groups of drug dealers began operating in south Manchester.
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