Teen firebombed home of mum and girl after being drawn into £2m gang war

A teenager firebombed the home of a mum and her daughter after getting caught up in a £2m drugs war between rival gangs in Manchester and Fleetwood.

Christopher Harrison, 19, owed money to a Manchester drugs gang and agreed to take out revenge on Fylde coast dealers they believe had stolen their drugs. Between October and December 2021, he visited the region on three separate occasions to carry out orders for the Manchester gang.

On October 20, he and another man, Jacob Humphries, went to an address in Cleveleys and lay in wait for the occupant. When he arrived, the men set upon him, with Harrison spraying liquid in his face and using a machete in the attack. The man thought he was being sprayed with acid, but Preston Crown Court heard it was not a noxious substance.

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However the man suffered four stab wounds to his neck and torso, a fractured vertebra and a punctured lung. Harrison, of Moss House Lane, Worsley, pleaded guilty to GBH with intent, LancsLive reports.

The victim said as a result of the attack he is in constant pain and has had to wind down his business as a builder. He said: "What happened that night has not only affected me, it has affected my family, my friends and my business."

On November 11, 2021, Harrison returned to the Cleveleys and targeted a house where the Manchester gang believed a member of the Fleetwood gang lived. However at the time of the attack, a mother was home alone at the address with her four-year-old child. Jon Close, prosecuting, said the woman was "oblivious to what had gone on before or was about to happen".

The woman was in the kitchen and her young child was playing near the front door when she heard a bang