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Half a million pounds. It was a hell of a lot of money.

And it was sitting in the bank account of Julian Bell. The 18-year-old had been awarded the cash in compensation after being left paralysed from the waist down when he fell off the back of a motorbike six years earlier.

He could have used the small fortune to build a new life for himself away from the guns, drugs and violence that were threatening the tear apart his childhood home of Longsight . But Bell had a different plan in mind.

In 1996 Bell's younger brother Orville was shot twice in the neck as he sat at the wheel of his Honda CRX on Linnet Close, Longsight. The mountain bike-riding Gooch Gang gunman then snatched his blood-splattered gold chain before feeing.

The 17-year-old survived for four days on

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