Thug told 'go to the big man' after threatening to shoot target's sister and her children carries out horror attack

Two men have been jailed following a 'revenge' shooting attack on a family home amid a feud between rival groups.

CCTV recovered by police showed Levi Cull, 28, open fire with a long-barrelled gun through the open door of a home in Bolton in March last year, blasting pellets into the feet of a man inside the home, prosecutor Rachel Cooper told Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court.

The pair had been 'conflict' with another group. The feud ended with Levi Cull blasting a man with a shotgun from a car, shooting through the front door of a home where children were present. Now Cull and his accomplice Jenson McNally, 23, have been jailed for their part in the attack.

David Toal, defending Cull, said the bust-up had now ended following 'contact between both factions'. He insisted there was 'no longer any ill-feeling' between the rival groups. His client had been working as a 'mentor' to other inmates while awaiting sentence, said the barrister.

Father-of-two McNally, said by probation workers to have entrenched 'pro-criminal attitudes', had only a 'limited' history of violence and was working to encourage more 'pro-social attitudes', according to his barrister Richard Vardon, who said the shotgun injuries inflicted were 'not particularly serious'. He said his client had been 'as much sinned against as sinning'.

Judge Bernadette Baxter said the defendants had been 'in conflict' with, and had been searching for, a man on March 21 last year 'for reasons that are unclear'.

At 9am that day, Cull threatened to go to the home of the man's sister to shoot her and her children. When the threat was reported to police, Cull messaged the sister via Facebook, calling her a 'grass'. The woman told Cull to go to 'the big man',