How the Lancashire cotton town that was once a cradle of the Industrial Revolution is now terrorised by machete drug gangs

At the end of a timeworn street just north of Rochdale town centre sits a row of red-brick terraced houses, of which all but one appear indistinguishable.

The exception bears a cluster of hi-tech security cameras that wouldn’t look out of place in a bank, for instance, or a police station. And for good reason.

What happened in this two-up, two-down was shocking but sadly typical of the feud then raging between rival organised crime groups (OCGs) that blighted this Greater Manchester town, a once proud textiles powerhouse.

Last week, a court heard that at around 11.40pm on May 22, 2021, two masked

This post was originally published on this site

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.