Hired gunman caught on CCTV firing at homes

Man paid £1,000 to carry out shootings is jailed for 18 years

- BY ANDREW BARDSLEY

SHOCKING footage captures the moment a hired gunman fires at homes amid a bitter gangland feud.

Kieran Morgan, 30, was caught on camera wielding a sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun opening fire in broad daylight and in the early hours in another appalling attack.

He also fired a shotgun in a busy takeaway in a third shooting committed within the space of a few weeks.

Zaki Shazad, 22, was the 'organiser' of the attacks, but was operating on behalf of unknown more senior underworld figures, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

A judge said the shootings had 'all the hallmarks of a dispute between serious organised criminals.

Miraculously, no one was hurt in any of the incidents, which happened in March and April 2023.

Now Morgan has been sentenced to 18 years in jail, and Shazad to 16 years in prison.

The first shooting happened on March 12 on Doric Avenue in Heald Green, Stockport.

Morgan, with another man, was wearing a mask and dark clothing when he approached and fired a shotgun at the house.

He then threw a homemade explosive device towards the property, but it bounced off a wall before Morgan picked it up and threw it at a higher trajectory where it 'went off like a firework.

Greater Manchester Police said that forensic testing later the device contained hydrochloric acid.

Morgan then fled the scene in a Mercedes.