'End feud' call after PC deaths Manchester police killings: Call to end 'family feud'

20 September 2012 Last updated at 14:37 GMT

 'End feud' call after PC deaths

Police investigating the deaths of two officers in Greater Manchester call for an end to a feud between criminal families.
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    20 September 2012 Last updated at 13:15 GMT

    Manchester police killings: Call to end 'family feud'

    PC Fiona Bone (left) and PC Nicola Hughes PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes were killed a gun and grenade attack on Tuesday morning

    Police officers killed

    Police investigating the deaths of two officers in Greater Manchester have called for an end to a feud between "criminal families".
    Asst Ch Con Garry Shewan said the deaths of PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes had been a "watershed moment".
    He said: "Tuesday's events simply make us spur on to higher and greater efforts."
    PCs Bone and Hughes suffered fatal injuries in a gun and grenade attack in Mottram, Tameside, on Tuesday morning.
    Dale Cregan, 29, was arrested by police on suspicion of their murders.
    Mr Cregan was also arrested on suspicion of the murders of Mark Short in May and David Short in August.
    Police have been given until Friday morning to question Mr Cregan in relation to all four deaths.
    Mr Shewan said that while he wouldn't portray the shootings as "gang warfare", events over the last six months "show how we need to investigate the role that that feud took in determining the outcomes that we have seen".
    Asst Chief Con Garry Shewan: 'At least one facebook account had been set up with derogatory comments'
    He said: "This is a feud between two criminal families and that feud is being investigated as part of the investigation into the shocking events of Tuesday.
    "I would say the strong message that GMP has been using for the past six months has been: Enough is enough, this has to end."
    Mr Shewan added that the force had issued threat-to-life warnings - notices given to people under threat of being murdered or seriously injured sometimes called "Osman warnings" - to a large number of individuals as a result of the officers' deaths.
    Earlier, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper laid more flowers alongside dozens of other bouquets at a makeshift shrine close to the scene of the double killing.

    Osman warnings

    • Osman warnings are issued by the police to people whose lives they believe are at risk.
    • Named after a 1998 European Court of Human Rights case which ruled that the police have a duty to warn people whose lives are in danger, even if they are known criminals.
    • Ruling followed high-profile 1988 case in which a teacher shot and wounded his student Ahmet Osman, and killed the boy's father. Metropolitan Police had known of the risk but not informed the family.
    • Hundreds of Osman warnings are issued every year. Details of how many warnings are issued are not readily available. However, in 2010, the Met issued 352 warnings.

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    After meeting residents in a community centre on the Hattersley estate, the Labour MP said: "I think obviously they have been very shocked and frightened by what has happened but I think the strong feeling everyone has now is that they want justice to be done for the officers who have been killed.
    "And everybody I think believes the criminal investigation by Greater Manchester Police is the priority now, to get to the bottom of this."
    Meanwhile, a 22-year-old man has been arrested after a Facebook page was set up lauding Mr Cregan as a "legend".
    The man, from Netherley, Merseyside, is being questioned over a "tribute" which went online within hours of the deaths of PC Hughes, 23, and PC Bone, 32.
    Mr Cregan was arrested when he walked into Hyde police station a short time after the shooting in Mottram.
    He had been on bail following the shooting of Mark Short, 23, at the Cotton Tree pub in Droylsden, on 25 May and was the subject of a huge manhunt after the murder of David Short, 46, Mr Short's father.
    Drama postponed On 10 August, David Short was killed at his home in Folkestone Road East, Clayton, after describing his son's killers as cowards. He was found dead after an explosion was heard.
    The BBC has shelved the final episode of drama Good Cop following the deaths of the police officers.
    The episode, due to be screened on Thursday, features a violent attack on a female police officer.
    "In light of news events, BBC One has postponed the final episode of Good Cop, due to transmit at 9pm tonight," the BBC said, in a statement.

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