'Shooting, stabbing, drugs' in the 'wild west' area near Greater Manchester where crime is 'daily life'

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Residents in an area near Greater Manchester say serious crime has become a part of daily life. Fartown, around a half a mile to the north of Huddersfield town centre, and just half an hour away from both Oldham and Rochdale, has seen a number of violent incidents over the past half a decade or so.

In 2020 there was the gangland execution of Jamal Nedd on Ripon Avenue, which followed a turf war between drug dealing gangs who were prepared to use guns to enforce their rule of the streets.

Then in 2022, schoolboy Khayri Mclean, 15, was stabbed to death outside his school in Fartown by two teenagers, one of whom later admitted being part of F-block - or the Fartown Boys gang. READ MORE: Inside the cheap supermarket where Mancs can get £30 worth of groceries for £4 And in July this year two men were jailed for stabbing a man to death in a random attack in 2022 and hiding his body in the cellar of a house in Bradford Road, Fartown.

In all three cases, the perpetrators were rounded up by police and sent to prison by the courts, Yorkshire Live reports. The most recent violence happened on Wasp Nest Road, a residential street, on October 29 just before 9am when a man was shot in an incident being treated by police as attempted murder.