Deadly decade

August, 2002, Richard Barker fatally shot in the chest

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Three dead after 13 shootings in 10 years

Oldham has been rocked by 13 shootings in a decade, and three have been fatal.

Timothy MacPherson was found dying in the kitchen of a house in Acre Lane, Derker, in July, 2004. He was shot in the abdomen

His drug-related death led Oldham police to seek a European arrest warrant to bring one of his killers from Germany to stand trial.

In August, 2003, Richard Barker was fatally shot in the chest at the West Indian Association Club in Horsedge Street, Oldham.

Yesterday’s fatal shooting of 21-year-old Junaid Khan in Block Lane, Chadderton, was one of a series of gun crimes carried out in the Oldham area.

It was March this year when another victim was hit in the buttocks in Bolton Street, Glodwick, as he got out of a car

In December last year, a 39-year-old man was gunned down in a drive by shooting in South Hill Street, Glodwick, and taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

And in April, 2008, a man was blasted in Edward Street, Werneth, and treated for gunshots wounds in his buttock. A drive-by gunman hit a passenger in a car in the neck in Orme Street, off Park Road, Oldham, in September, 2007, injuring two others.

In May, 2007, a Clarksfield father of three was found lying on the pavement in Lees Road after being shot. He was later discharged from hospital.

And in December the same year Savoy Street, Glodwick and Yorkdale, Clarksfield, were sealed off after shots were fired at houses and cars.

Innocent bystander Susan Royale was left paralysed after she was hit outside Smokies nightclub in February, 2002, when four shots were fired.

And a man was shot in the legs in front of his seven-year-old son in Limeside in January, 2002, as his partner looked on.

In September, 2001, a gunman opened fire in the Royal Oak pub in Failsworth, and five people were injured, one seriously.


Another day — and two more victims of gun crime

GREATER Manchester Police are appealing or witnesses after two more shootings took place this morning.

A man, with gunshot wounds to his hand, walked into Blackburn Hospital, although police were unable to supply any more details.

In the second incident, just before 1am, police were called to Yorkshire Street in Rochdale after a man was shot in the leg.

He is now recovering in hospital and his injuries are not thought to be life- threatening.

Part of Yorkshire Street has since been closed to deal with the incident.

Police are making urgent inquiries into the circumstances of this incident.

Anyone with information is asked to call them on 0161-856 4646 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800-555 111.