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28.06.2023 - 09:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Three gangsters who bought a gun and intended to use it against a rival in the criminal underworld have had their sentences increased.
Jacob Smith, 22, Craig Walker, 40, and Ian Wharmby, 30, have had their sentences overturned by the Court of Appeal after being reviewed under the Unduly Lenient Sentencing scheme. The trio were initially jailed at Manchester Crown Court in March after Smith tried to get hold of the Glock pistol to avenge an attack on a family friend.
Smith had initially asked Walker if he could get the 'thing', the court heard, before Wharmby was then contacted with a view to handing over the Glock. However, this never came to be because police seized the firearm.
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The weapon had previously been used in two gangland shootings where Aaron Gray, 26, opened fire at a taxi office in Eccles before shooting at a house in Whitefield two months later. He was jailed for 14-years in March.
No-one was hurt in either incident but a judge said they'd been carried out to send a 'powerful message'. Police said the crimes came after 'petty disputes' between rival criminals, and that gangsters were 'terrorising' innocent members of the public caught up in their feuds.
The gun was seized at Wharmby's home in Radcliffe in April 2020. The gun was wrapped in a sock and housed in an Asda carrier bag.
During the search officers also found mobile devices that linked the gun to the three gang members. They used the EncroChat system in an attempt to hide their criminality.
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In March Smith, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail
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