The brazen shooting of a man standing outside a pub with his friends in Wythenshawe is the latest example of spiralling gun crime in Greater Manchester.

Our timeline shows it is the latest of at least 30 shootings - three of them fatal - in the last 14 months, most of them in Salford.

A police crackdown on gang and gun crime in south Manchester dubbed XCalibre - which included the jailing of key mobsters - almost wiped out gun incidents in places like Old Trafford, Moss Side and Longsight although tensions between the rival Gooch and Doddington outfits and various spin-offs continued.

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Now shooting incidents appear to be on the rise, particularly in Salford.

Three young men have been shot dead, others have been injured and a string of properties have been damaged in apparent ‘warning’ attacks.

Following the latest shooting of a 29-year-old man outside the Mountain Ash pub in Woodhouse Park - where a masked gunman walked up to the target and blasted him in the leg at close quarters - the MEN has drawn up a timeline of all the incidents since May, 2014.

Over the years...

The spree started on May 2 last year when shots were fired into a stationary car in Coronation Street, Pendlebury.