The teenager who gunned down a boy in the street, and the dad who helped him go into hiding

Violence on the streets of Stretford 'has to stop' a judge said as she jailed a young man over a 'revenge shooting' which left a teenager in intensive care.

In full view of terrified mothers and children,. Ethan Deas, 18, blasted the 17 year-old in Langdale Road with a shotgun. The 'horrific' scene came 18 months after 16 year-old Kennie Carter was stabbed to death in the area.

The victim of the shooting, who can't be named for legal reasons, was 'present at the time Kennie Carter had been stabbed' the court was told. The shooting, on August 10 last year, was described as a 'revenge attack'.

Today (December 20), Deas was jailed alongside his dad, 37 year-old Richard Williams, who moved the gun and helped his son go into hiding from police.

Deas was eventually arrested at a Salford apartment block having jumped from a balcony. Two other men, Jayden McKenzie, 20, and Decarrius Metz-Lawrence, 18, and four youths, two boys aged 16 and two aged 17, have also been sentenced for their roles in the events surrounding the shooting

"On January 22, 2022, Kennie Carter was murdered. He was only a young man. One would have hoped this would turned people against violence. Unfortunately, the reverse seems to have occurred" Judge Elizabeth Nicholls told Manchester Crown Court.

She said it was 'not without irony' that many of the pre-sentence reports prepared on the defendants "speak of trauma you have suffered because of violence you have witnessed".

She added: "You are now the ones responsible for such violence. And you are the ones responsible for inflicting trauma on others" she said. "This has to stop."

Violence erupted on August 10 last year. The court was told how the victim of the shooting had 'the misfortune' to walk past a