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Good evening. Welcome to a special edition of North West tonight with | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
Roger Johnson and Annabel Tiffin. A cold-blooded and ruthless killer | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
who showed no hint of remorse. Dale Cregan will die in prison for | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
murdering PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes in an act of premeditated | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
savagery. The murders of all four victims, Mark Short, David Short, | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
police customers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were nothing short of | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
executions, planned, premeditated and cold-blooded. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
Tonight, for the first time, we can reveal the full story. So Creggan | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
plotted for years to Mark Durkan the Shorts and ambush the police | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
officers. It was a deliberate trap. Police released the 999 call made by | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Cregan and responded to by the two the Droylsden in her dying moments. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
I stayed with her and told her everything was going to be all | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
right. -- who comforted Nicola Hughes in her dying moments. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
speaking for the first time, their families speak about living with | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
their loss. He has taken my daughter from me. I cannot forgive him for | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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that and that is nothing I can do He is a cold-blooded and ruthless | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
killer. A man who acted with premeditated savagery when he killed | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
two unarmed policewomen. Today, the families of PCs Fiona Bone and | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Nicola Hughes wept in court as Dale Cregan was told he will spend the | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
rest of his life in prison. Cregan initially denied what he had done. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
But as his four-month trial progressed, he began to change his | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
story. First he admitted he had killed PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Bone. Then weeks later, he confessed to the murders of father and son | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
David and Mark Short. Today, others who helped him with the Short | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
murders were convicted by the jury. Tonight, in this special edition of | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
North West Tonight, we can tell you the full story for the first time. | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
Let us join our Chief Reporter Dave Guest outside Preston Crown Court. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
This has been a long and harrowing trial for many involved, but it has | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
to be said, Dale Cregan had the air of a man with no gear macro in the | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
world. He went back in to hear his sentence. -- with no clear in the | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
world. He was laughing and joking as he waited. As the sentence was | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
given, he said he had observed that Cregan and many in the dock showed | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
no sign of remorse, people driven by self-interest. He said a conviction | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
for murder in Everton a attracted a life sentence, but life men live | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
only in exceptional circumstances. Those in the dog today conducted of | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
the murders of Mark Short and David Short were told they would serve | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
minimum sentences of between 30-35 years, but Cregan received the whole | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
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life Taro, so he will never leave prison. He has a long history of | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
violence going back to his teens, losing one night during a bar room | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
brawl in Thailand. This time last year, few had heard of his name. But | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
it was a name that was to become infamous across the land. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Hyde Police Station, September 18th 2012. Britain's most wanted fugitive | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
is handing himself in. Dale Cregan tells stunned officer, I am wanted | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
by the police and I have just done two coppers. The two coppers were | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
police constables Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes. They were lying dead | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
in the garden of this house just a few miles away in Mottram. Cregan | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
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referred to the police operator as the words, I will be waiting. And he | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
was, armed with a Glock pistol and grenade. He had chosen the house for | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
the clear view it offered of anyone arriving in the cul-de-sac. And so, | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
as the officers approached the house, Cregan opened fire. They did | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
not stand a chance. Fiona tried to use her Taser. But it was no use. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Nicola was shot repeatedly as she lay on the ground. Cregan fired 30 | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
shots in as many seconds. His parting act was to lob a grenade at | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the officers. Fiona and Nicola were beat bobbies answering a routine | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
call. They were not armed. I just heard several banks, shots, then a | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
massive bang at the end. I shared a woman crying out in pain. It was | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
scary. So scary in fact that this woman asked us not to reveal her | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
identity. Others who witnessed what happened here that day still cannot | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
believe what they saw. To think that I was next-door cleaning the windows | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
when he was still inside, written's most wanted. You do not expect it. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
It was like something out of Hollywood. People running around | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
panicking, in shock, and the one lady that said to me, I think he has | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
done it, meaning the grenade. dropped the empty pistol and headed | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
straight to Hyde Police Station just a few minutes' drive away. He was to | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
tell police they had been hassling his family so he had done the same | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
to theirs. The police knew they had the culprit. At a news conference, | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the Chief Constable made it plain he believed Cregan was the killer. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
has deliberately done this. An act of absolutely cold-blooded murder. | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
But these comments, and the resulting headlines, drew criticism | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
from the judiciary who reminded everyone a suspect is innocent until | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
proven guilty. Indeed, having told police he had killed their | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
colleagues, Cregan then told the jury he hadn't. So the case was | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
under way. Cregan's daily trip to Preston Crown Court was enveloped in | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
the tightest of security. The convoy became a routine site for commuters | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
on the M61. The court itself a fortress with armed police on duty | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
inside and out. For the families of the fallen officers, there was the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
trauma of listening to the harrowing details of their final hours. -- | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
final moments. Then, one day four of his trial, Cregan surprised | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
everyone. He admitted killing the two police officers. But although he | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
had admitted to the atrocity in Abbey Gardens, the story was far | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
from over. Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone were not his first victims. | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Cregan had killed before. Because, of course, she had already | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
murdered father and son David and Mark Short. The judge said this | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
afternoon that the crime of murder ends one life, but ruining many | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
more, and some of those whose lives had been ruined by Cregan's crimes | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
give their reaction outside court. Our lives have been shattered and | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
will never be the same again. To have a child taken away in such a | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
cruel and meaningless way is the worst thing any parent can imagine. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
No sentence served by the people murdered can ever be long enough to | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
deflect the pain and suffering caused by their loss. I miss David | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
and Mark so much, my heart aches for them every waking hour. The murders | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
of all four victims, Mark Short, David Short, police officers Fiona | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Bone and Nicola Hughes were nothing short of executions, land, | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
premeditated and cold-blooded. of course, that trail of executions | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
eventually led to the court here in Preston. But the chill of death | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
actually began in the Greater Manchester town of Droylsden just | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
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over a year ago. Yes, Dale Cregan's first victim was | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Mark Short. Killed here at the Cotton Tree pub in Droylsden last | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
May. CCTV captured the gunmen running into the pub. Seven shots | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
were fired. Mark Short, an amateur boxer with a history of criminal | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
violence, died. Three other people were hurt. Dale Cregan, of course, | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the man with the gun. But Luke Livesey and Damian Gorman also | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
played a part in the murder. Cregan and some of his co-accused lay low | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
in Thailand. Flying business class and living in five-star luxury. On | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
their return to Manchester in June, they were arrested. But the police | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
released them on bail pending further enquiries. By early August, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
Cregan had disappeared again. This time to Bowness in the Lake District | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
with his family. Then, on August 10th, Cregan resurfaced to kill | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
again. His next victim was David Short, Mark Short's father. Cregan, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Anthony Wilkinson and Jermaine Ward murdered him in his own home in | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
Clayton. He was chased through the house and shot many times. Cregan | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
then threw a grenade on him. A short while later, Cregan launched a | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
grenade at another house before going on the run. Mohammed Imran Ali | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
organised a hideout in Yorkshire. And despite a �50,000 reward offered | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
for his capture, Cregan was not found for more than a month. Until | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
the day he made a 999 call and lured police officers Fiona Bone and | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
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One man who comforted PC Nicola Hughes as she lay dying has told | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
North West Tonight what he saw will live with him forever. Still | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
traumatised by what happened, he asked us to conceal his identity. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
But he agreed to speak exclusively to the BBC and described to us the | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
events of that terrible September morning. All of a sudden, I cared | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
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some bangs -- heard some bangs. I thought it was fireworks, then went | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
outside and saw a neighbour jumping over a fence, then someone shouting | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
that they had been shot. My neighbours started calling the | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
police, I saw Nicola and Fiona. Fiona was under the window, not | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
moving or anything, just lying under the window. But I could see that | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
Nicola was near the gate and she was breathing. So I just went and sat | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
with her. I do not know what else was going on. I just stayed with her | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
and told her everything was going to be all right. You do not want to do, | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
because there is nothing you can do. But I just got, she is not much | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
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older than my daughter, what gets me the most is I was with Nicola. And | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Fiona was under the window with no wonder for her. I do not know | :11:58. | :12:08. | |
whether she was dead. I know now that she was, but... I didn't at the | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
time, but I couldn't go to her. It is still in your head that you did | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
nothing. But you do get told you did what you could, and there was | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
nothing you could have done. It doesn't really matter, does it? They | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
are still gone. 32-year-old PC Fiona Bone had been a | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
police officer for five years. She grew up in Port St Mary on the Isle | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
of Man. Before work on the morning of her death, she had been sorting | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
out invitations for her civil partnership. Nicola Hughes was 23. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Growing up in the village of Diggle in Saddleworth, she dreamed of | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
joining the police. She had served with them for three years when she | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
was killed on duty. More than 50,000 people, most of whom had never met | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
the two police officers, signed books of condolence. Both online and | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
in police stations and churches. And many were alongside hundreds of | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
police officers paying their respects at the women's funerals | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
when Manchester stood still to remember its loss. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Clearly, this is one of the darkest days in the history of Greater | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
Manchester Police. A week ago today, the world was deprived of two | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
beautiful human beings. The police service lost two rising stars. The | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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community lost two dedicated servants. CHURCH BELL TOLLS. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Regardless of whether they knew her, everyone feels the same, feeling | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
proud today. A life cut short by the forces of lethal at such a young | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
age. -- forces of evil. Nicola and Fiona were police | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
officers. But they were also daughters. Tonight, their families | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
remember the day they died and the loved ones that they lost. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Nicola had a really wicked sense of humour. She always saw the fun side | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
of life. She was determined to join the police and that is what she did. | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
She wanted to make a difference. Yes, and ultimately, I think she | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
has. She was a lovely, bubbly person. It is hard to imagine she | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
has gone. We first saw it on the one o'clock news that two people had | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
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been injured, I think it was, in mortar -- Mottram. We were thinking | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
of giving Fiona ring, then there was a knock on the door. I was driving | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
home from work, then had a call from a DCI jus wanted to speak to me. He | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
was waiting, and he said he was outside the house, and that is when | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
you start to realise something is seriously wrong. We are getting used | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
to it, because of the nature of the death and the trial, the prolonged | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
drawnout agony of it all. We are hoping, now it is finished, we can | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
begin to recover. The outpouring of public grief, that has helped us to | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
know we are not on our own. Yes.But in terms of dealing with it in | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
private, having that kind of private time, I think that is yet to come. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
As a parent, you are in that expectation that your children will | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
be there for when you die. deliberately decide, I am going to | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
kill a policeman today, because I do not like them, it seems unreal. It | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
is a level of callousness and no empathy with anybody. It is beyond, | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
really, my comprehension. He has taken my daughter from me. I cannot | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
for give him from that -- for that. And there is nothing I can do about | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
it either. I do not think you can even give it justice of how proud | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
you are of Nicola for what ever she did, even now, for what ever she is | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
still doing now. All of the things she did, she made me proud. I really | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
miss her every day. The reflections of Fiona Bone and | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Nicola Hughes's families. We will have more on the conclusion of the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Dale Cregan murder trial in a moment. | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
Other news from the North West now. The government has said the widow | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
and son of Middleton soldier Lee Rigby, murdered in Woolwich last | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
month, will receive money from the state. There had been concern his | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
family would not receive their full allowance as he was not killed on | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
active duty. But the Leader of the Commons told MPs that they would be | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
provided for. Drugs worth more than �2 million | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
have been seized at Manchester Airport. On Friday, 35 kilos of | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
heroin was found in luggage arriving from Pakistan. It is believed to be | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
the single biggest discovery of its kind at the airport. The previous | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
day, a large amount of cocaine was discovered on a flight from the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
Dominican Republic. Two men have been charged. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
The trust that runs Wythenshawe Hospital says publishing performance | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
tables for its consultants will improve patient choice. Critics say | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
it is impossible to devise a ratings system for such a complex job. But | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
the hospital says it will drive up standards. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has taken a 25% stake in Cuadrilla's | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
shale gas exploration in Lancashire. It says it is important to develop | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
affordable domestic gas resources. Cuadrilla says it is being seen as a | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
major boost to their plans to resume fracking in the county. | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
And four new buildings in the North West have been given national awards | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Chetham's School of | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Music in Manchester, St Silas Primary School in Blackburn, | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Manchester Metropolitan Business School and Marks & Spencer at | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Cheshire Oaks in Ellesmere Port have all been recognised for their modern | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
design. Back now to our main story this | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
evening. The conclusion of the Dale Cregan murder trial in Preston | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
today. Cregan had been on the run for five weeks when he killed police | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
constables Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes. By then, he was British | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
police's number one target. Forces all across the UK were looking for | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
him. But was enough done to find him? Were the police tactics right? | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
And should more have been done to protect officers on the street? | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Questions Chief Reporter Dave Guest put to the Chief Constable of | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
Greater Manchester Police. Obviously, we have agonised about | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
this and the impact of the case and the deaths of Fiona and Nicola have | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
been greater, perhaps because we were desperately searching for | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
Cregan and other people in the weeks leading up to that. That was | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
consuming as 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the number one priority | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
for British policing. We used every tactic we could lawfully, so it was | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
hugely frustrating that, having gone into that, we do not think there was | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
anything more we could have done. There was a group of people | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
protecting him. Certain techniques he used. And clearly, particularly, | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
he went to an address he knew was not on our system that we would not | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
know about weird he lured Fiona and Nicola to their deaths. When he was | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
arrested, he said, you are harming my family, so I have taken it out on | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
you. Were you harming his family? think it was his perverted sense of | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
justice. We were carrying out enquiries to people Cregan new and | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
his associates to find out where he was. That included visiting his | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
family. We were concerned about the poor -- about the risk he proposed. | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
We were prepared to use any lawful means to find him. There would be no | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
change of tactics? Absolutely not. It is twisted logic to kill two | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
police officers because we were carrying out enquiries. It was of | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
concern to us that, if he came across police officers, or someone | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
tried to arrest him, he would absolutely have been prepared to | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
shoot. That was very much part of planning, why we had so many armed | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
officers patrolling the area and surrounding areas, but we had to | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
continue normal day-to-day policing. And in our former | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
policing, we could not am every single police officer in Greater | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
Manchester. We could not am every single police officer. And he | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
exploited that. -- we could not arm. Sir Peter Fahy speaking to Dave | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Guest. Cregan was a man with a reputation in Tameside. A drug | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
dealer who people knew not to cross. But few could imagine he would be | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
capable of murder, and four murders altogether. Cregan had a deep rooted | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
hatred of the Short family. That hatred was to spill over into the | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
community with terrible consequences. Abbie Jones has been | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
looking at how Cregan became a killer. | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Dale Cregan had hated the Short family since he was a boy. As a | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
child, he fought younger members who came from Clayton to his Droylsden | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
patch. But it was David Short he loathed the most. And when that | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
hatred reached boiling point, ordinary people got caught in the | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
crossfire. I was told I had to close the gym because of a bomb threat. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Joe Pennington runs a boxing gym in Clayton where the Shorts used to | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
train. After their murders, with Cregan on the run, he was told it | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
could be a target. Shocked us. The bomb threat. It happened around the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
corner, so we knew it was real and closed the gym. Those who knew | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Cregan, or his reputation, says he ran things in Tameside. And he was | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
willing to use violence to get his own way. He was fascinated by knives | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
and boasted of earning up to �20,000 per week dealing drugs. We have | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
spoken to one man too afraid to appear on camera. He says people | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
knew not to go to the police. people, their reputation always | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
travels before them. He was ruthless and people were scared of him. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Ruthless and obsessed with killing David Short. He told a psychiatrist | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
he had fantasised about killing him for five years. But it was his son, | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Mark, he murdered first at this Droylsden pub. He had drunk ten | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
bottles of beer and taken cocaine. Then, fearing retaliation, he killed | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
David Short. He said later that night he had the best sleep of his | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
life. Cregan used military grenades for the first time in a murder on | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
the UK mainland. On a residential road. In broad daylight. They were | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
to become his calling card. A stash of the weapons, believed to be his, | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
were found hidden in an Oldham storm drain during his trial. He was to | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
use them again against PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes when his | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
anger turns towards the police. many injuries, we do not know what | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
damage would be done. It is a worrying trend of police use | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
grenades. Police say tensions are still high in this area of | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Manchester and a large number of people are still on their threats to | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
life register, which means they have been given warnings their lives are | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
in danger. David Short was issued with three threats to life warnings | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
before he died. Greater Manchester Police gave out 130 in total last | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
year. And 130 in 2011. More than the Metropolitan Police issued in both | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
years. Police have been quick to clamp down on criminal behaviour in | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
Tameside since last year's brutal killings. A warning that local | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
rivalries must never again lead to such terrible tragedy. | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
It was indeed a terrible tragedy. Let us join Abbie now in Mottram, | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
where the two police officers were murdered. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
Just how that long-running bad blood between criminal figures living some | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
ten miles away from here could result in the deaths of two police | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
officers is dumping this community is still juggling to come to terms | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
with and understand. We still do not fully know why Cregan set his deadly | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
trap here, and probably never will. The police believe he wanted to | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
ensure he became some kind of folk hero. But police living here, the | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
officers' families and their colleagues are determined not to | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
remember Cregan. But the two brave policewomen who died here serving | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
their community. Thank you very much indeed. BBC Radio Manchester will | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
have a special documentary In The Line of Duty at 9am tomorrow | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
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morning. Now for a look at the Still some act of cloud out there. | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
Tomorrow is not that dissimilar to today. More rain and the wind will | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
continue to be strong. This was the line the rain to today, by about | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
three o'clock, most places seeing the back of it. And some sunshine | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
appearing. But still some showers waiting in their C. Some of those | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
will fall apart. -- waiting in the Irish tea. Hopefully most of us will | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
be dry through the night. Many places becoming clear for a short | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
while. Temperatures could be as low as six or seven degrees with that | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
clear weather in the sunshine -- in the countryside. But the cloud rolls | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
back in in the early hours. Nine or 11 degrees possible. The sun is up | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
tomorrow morning very early, but you will not see it because the line is | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
weather -- the line of weather pushes in, becoming more organised | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
and heavy rain for a good portion of the morning, articulate in the | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
north, but not exclusively so. It gets much more showery in the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
afternoon, then drying up for most places for a short while. The wind | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
going back to the south, with temperatures up to 18 degrees, but | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
the next line of rain is on its way, it is never dry for very long. | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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Dale Cregan will die in prison. He has no chance of release. Punished | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
for the murders of four people. One family lost a father and son. Caught | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
up in a long-running feud. But it is the killing of two policewomen last | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
September which will long resonate. Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, two | :27:33. | :27:36. |