'This kid's f***** now - he's a dead man': The messages that busted bloodthirsty wannabe gangsters' revenge-fuelled murder plot
04.02.2022 - 23:31
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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.
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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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Over the next few days in April 2020, a manhunt was launched. But it wasn't the police who were leading it.
"Me n J got shot," Moore said in one such message.
The day before, on April 3, 2020, Moore had been blasted in the arm, and Waring to the back in Kersal
The gunman shot at them as they drove at him.
The pair had been 'cutting thru his estate', Waring later reported on EncroChat - a highly secretive and encrypted network used by criminals recently hacked by police.
"He was there with thing in him we only had blade – drove at him n he just shot car 2 – 3 times," the message continued.
What sparked this explosion of