Three men guilty of shooting a seven year old boy and his mum in Salford
Three men have been found guilty of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a 7-year-old boy and his mum were shot in Salford.
Carne Thomasson, Christopher Hall, and Aldaire Warmington have been found not guilty of a count of conspiracy to murder.
It was a botched gangland hit that left a seven-year-old boy and his mother shot down on their doorstep.
Christian Hickey Jr and his mother, Jayne, were blasted in the legs after they answered the door to their house in Winton, Salford, in October 2015.
They were both left with serious injuries.
The attack was a revenge mission for the execution'' of SalfordMr Big'' Paul Massey three months earlier - also gunned down on his doorstep.
Carne Thomasson, 28, Christopher Hall, 49, and Aldaire Warmington, 32, were each cleared of a count of conspiracy to murder but convicted of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
John Thomasson, 49, was cleared of both conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.
James Coward, 22, Dominic Walton, 26, and Lincoln Warmington, 32, were each convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by getting rid of the stolen Audi S3 car used in the attack.
Two other men, John Kent, 54, and Jacob Harrison, 26, were convicted of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent for involvement in an earlier shooting of a rival by the same gang.
Kent's daughter in the public gallery burst into tears as the jury foreman delivered the verdicts following nine hours and 36 minutes of deliberations.
All nine will be sentenced by trial judge Mr Justice Popplewell at a date yet to be fixed.