The seven-hour siege only came to an end when the 'tornado team', an elite riot squad charged with keeping Britain's unruly prisoners at bay, stormed the chapel.
Eighteen stun grenades were pushed through the shattered windows, before the rioting teenagers were finally brought under control.
When the dust settled the chapel was in ruins and £40,000 damage had been caused, but the six young rioters were under arrest.
All had one thing in common - they were from Manchester. They included Desmond Noonan Jnr, the then 19-year-old son of Manchester crime boss Damien Noonan, who had died in a motorbike crash in the Caribbean two years earlier, and nephew of murdered gangster Desmond Noonan.
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