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Gang war on the wards: How Gooch gang and Longsight Crew clashed in hospital

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It was the day Manchester's biggest hospital was 'turned into a battleground'. As two of the city's most notorious gangs clashed, medics and patients 'fled for their lives'.

Young hoodlums from Gooch Gang and the Longsight Crew chased through corridors on mountain bikes, pulled guns on each other and used hospital trolleys as battering rams, as the underworld war which terrorised the city spilled over into the 'sanctuary' of Manchester Royal Infirmary.

And it all started over an accidental encounter. READ MORE: 'Enough is enough': The pub truce that brought a halt to the Gooch, Doddington and Cheetham Hill gang war The enmity between the two gangs stemmed from the 2002 murder of Stephen Amos, who was shot dead outside Bexx Bar in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Stephen, 25, was the brother of Gooch gang head honcho Lee Amos. He believed that the Longsight Crew, a splinter group from the Doddington gang, the arch rivals of the Gooch, were responsible for the killing.

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