Dale Cregan

It started with a bottle thrown in a pub, and ended in the deaths of four people, father and son David and Mark Short, and police officers, Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes.

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Sources for the episode
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18217129
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/fiona-bone-nicola-hughes-cregan-7522487
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/fiona-bone-nicola-hughes-memorial-18404106
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/fiona-bone-nicola-hughes-memorial-18404106
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/crime/5-years-police-constables-nicola-hughes-and-fiona-bone-were-killed-dale-cregan-1081655
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/the-cost-of-dutymy-hero-my-daughter/
https://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/139/main-news/122196/tributes-paid-to-pcs-nicola-hughes-and-fiona-bone-six-years-after-their-murders
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/08/dale-cregan-trial-final-moments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-19637980
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dont-you-dare-tell-shes-11193159
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dale-cregan-nicola-hughes-bone-11163246

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1704448/officer-haunted-after-finding-bodies-of-colleagues-murdered-by-dale-cregan-is-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide/

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2013-06-13/dale-cregan-trial-ends

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204991/Dale-Cregan-arrest-Witness-saw-gunman-kill-PCs-Fiona-Bone-32-Nicola-Hughes-23.html

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/pc-nicola-hughes-died-doing-3335350
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