This is the horrifying and brutal reality of Greater Manchester’s gangland warfare. “Some… lad’s just took my mate’s hand off with an axe,” a panicked 999 caller tells the operator. “His hand is nearly off.” When the control room asks him to go over to his pal, his reply is equally chilling: “I can’t.
There’s 20 lads there. We’ve just had trouble with these lads, so they turned up in cars and got an axe out.” READ MORE: Police make second arrest in Moss Side murder investigation READ MORE: G et today's top stories here. Even more chilling is confirmation from police that this attack began as a simple road rage incident — and the victim was a tree surgeon working nearby trying to keep order in the chaos.
The clip is from the opening for new BBC documentary The Detectives: Taking Down An OCG, which returns to TV screens tonight (October 30).
It shines a light on how drug gangs operate — including bribing witnesses, grooming children, and using extreme levels of violence to assert their authority on an estate.
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