The bloody cycle of gangland revenge that led to Lee Amos' death behind bars in a Staffordshire prison
It was, said a police chief, an 'exceptional' weekend for gun crime. Two people killed and four left injured in four shootings across Greater Manchester.
There was an altercation inside and several shots were fired from a handgun while both men were standing at the entrance. Stephen was killed by a single shot to the chest, while his friend survived, despite being seriously injured. The suspects fled in a stolen Mitsubishi Space Star hatchback, taken from Heaton Moor in Stockport.Stephen was a celebrated DJ, making his name in Manchester's Havana Bar and The World club in Warrington.
A year before Stephen's murder in 2001, Lee and Joyce were caught when armed police, acting on an anonymous tip that a hostage was being held, raided a house in Moss Side. They didn't find any hostages, but they did find six members of the Gooch gang, including Joyce and Lee Amos, and a stash of weapons including a Skorpion machine gun. Joyce was jailed for nine years and Amos was also locked up.
Tyrone Gilbert was the second young man his family had lost to gun violence. His brother, Marcus Greenidge, had been gunned down in a row between rival gangs the Longsight Crew and the Pitt Bull Crew seven years earlier. The trial judge said the case reflected the "chilling reality of the lifestyle of the young in south Manchester".
The Longsight Crew had been set up in the 1990s by Julian Bell in memory of his brother Orville, who had been gunned down at the wheel of his car aged just 17, by members of the Gooch gang. In March 2004 Bell was jailed for 20 years at Manchester Crown Court for conspiracy to supply heroin and conspiracy to possess firearms. He was in jail when Lee Amos and Colin Joyce got out of prison with a determination to rekindle old rivalries.
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