Brandon Moore desperately tried to destroy an EncroChat phone, which he'd been using to plot his revenge. He grabbed it and repeatedly smashed it on the counter at a police station.
But it didn't matter. Detectives already had the damning messages secured, stored digitally. READ MORE : The posing 'ruthless gangster'...and the AK47 picture which helped lock him up for 25 years What those messages revealed was a determined scheme to wreak revenge, after Moore and his friend Jordan Waring had both been shot.
So determined were the pair to hit back, that the 'wannabe gangsters' discharged themselves from hospital hours after being seriously hurt.
Fearing they'd be recalled to prison if they hung around at Salford Royal, the pair sought the help of a gangster with high level criminal connections.
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