"If we think policing alone will solve it we are mistaken": The disturbing new cycle of violence in which people are being stabbed in the buttocks

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Elmfield Street is deep in the heart of Cheetham Hill.

Two rows of red-brick terraces make up its thirty homes. Corner shops are sprinkled in surrounding roads. It lies a mile from the glitz of Manchester city centre.

In the autumn of 2019 it was the location for a gangland ruck which would be a catalyst for a gun war. On October 14th two rival groups clashed in the street, armed with machetes.

Six days later a car windscreen was blasted by a gunman in Oakfield Street, nearby. Then, on November 15, two men were shot in the legs in a drive-by shooting on Cheetham Hill Road.