The man shot dead in Urmston had been a notorious member of Manchester’s Gooch Gang.

Andre Marshall, 29, was found with gun shot wounds on his torso and leg lying next to a car on Wednesday morning.

He was jailed in May 2008 for seven years after he and a second man, Antonio Wint, used a sub machine gun to threaten Suliman Suliman in a Moss Side gym.

The pair, both leading members of The Gooch, attacked him in the weights room of Moss Side Leisure Centre in July 2007.

Wint was given an indeterminate sentence for the public protection after he pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and assault.

Marshall pleaded guilty to the same offence.

Manchester Crown Court heard Mr Suliman had been involved in a dispute with Marshall while the pair were being held at Forest Bank prison, Salford, and it continued in Moss Side Leisure Centre.

Marshall wore a mask and Wint carried a loaded machine gun, which he cocked as if to fire in front of the terrified victim, the court was told.

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Although the weapon was not fired, Mr Suliman was smashed in the face with the weapon during the attack.

Neither defendant knew police were already in the leisure centre giving a presentation to members of the community.

Staff told the officers but meanwhile Wint and Suliman had escaped in a Subaru Impreza, which cops knew belonged to Marshall.

Detectives went to addresses associated with the pair and they found the car parked on the drive of a house on Wyverne Road, Whalley Range, with another car parked in front.

Cops chased the pair when they fled through the back garden. Marshall was arrested nearby but Wint continued to run, jumping over a wall and climbing onto the roof of an outbuilding where he tried to hide the gun which was inside a plastic bag.

He was ordered to put down the gun and was arrested. Police seized a .32 Scorpion machine pistol manufactured in eastern Europe. It was loaded with seven bullets and tests later showed it could be fired accidentally.

Sentencing the pair, Judge Anthony Gee QC said: “Long sentences are necessary to deter other men from committing such offences and it’s necessary for this court to do what can be done to remove firearms from the streets.

“The firearm in this particular instance is particularly dangerous, small, compact and capable of firing many rounds in seconds to devastating effect in the hands of criminals such as yourselves.”