Manchester police call for end to crime family feud after officers’ deaths

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Manchester police call for end to crime family feud after officers’ deaths

Assistant chief constable denies city is in middle of gangland war, but says shootings were a watershed momentPolice have called on two feuding crime families in east Manchester to end the dispute that allegedly led to two police officers being shot dead in Tameside earlier this week. Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, died while responding to a report of a burglary at Abbey Gardens, on the Hattersley estate in Mottram, on Tuesday morning.