Just after 9.30pm on Sunday, July 23 last year, two gunmen opened fire on a home in Cheetham Hill as an innocent family cowered inside.
Miraculously no one was injured. Around seven months earlier a Lexus IS200 being driven by Jason Varccianna on Barlow Moor Road in Chorlton was stopped by police.
Hidden under the passenger seat in a plastic bag was a black handgun. In March 2022 police raided the plush city centre flat of drug dealer Mike Kabeya.
Inside cops found high-purity cocaine, business cards which read 'delivery anywhere 24/7’, and two automatic handguns. The three incidents were not connected, except for one vital detail.
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