This is the moment a teenager was tracked down by police in a dramatic high-speed pursuit before being found with drugs and guns.
Kie Connor was jailed for five-and-a-half years and banned from driving for 33 months at Manchester Crown Court yesterday (December 1).
The 19-year-old, from Eccles, had been seen posing with handguns and pulling the trigger in videos shared on the Snapchat social media platform.
Police searched his home and found cannabis and codeine in the kitchen, a 'gun cleaning kit' in the garden shed and a bum bag containing a Grand Power self-loading pistol and ammunition.
One month later, Connor was involved in a reckless high-speed police pursuit, driving a stolen BMW on false registration plates.
In footage shared by Greater Manchester Police today, Connor can be seen driving through red lights and on the pavement, around a bus stop.
Video footage from above shows Connor making off on foot after the car is stopped, as he tried to escape officers.
Prosecuting, Andrew MacKintosh told the court: "On August 8 at around 8.30pm, officers were on patrol in an unmarked police car when a BMW drove past them on Eccles Old Road.
“A police pursuit ensued for around 10 minutes, the BMW reached speeds of 50 miles per hour, went through red lights, drove onto the pavement and caused other vehicles to take evasive action.”
After stopping, Connor ran from the scene and threw a large machete and the keys to the BMW before he was arrested.
The next day, police executed a search warrant at Aimee Patterson’s house - where Connor had previously stayed - and discovered a shotgun concealed in the garden.
The 24-year-old would later tell police in a prepared statement that she did not give permission for the gun to be there.
Connor pleaded guilty to the 10 offences he was charged with, including dangerous driving, handling stolen goods, possessing an offensive weapon, possessing a shotgun without certificate, possessing a section 5 firearm and possession of class B drugs.
Connor, of Barton Lane, was jailed for five-and-a-half years and banned from driving for 33 months.
Patterson, of Gratrix Avenue, pleaded guilty to possession of a shotgun.
She was handed a 12-month community order, three-month electronically-monitored curfew between 8pm and 7am, and 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
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