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| Dale Cregan admits father and son murders in Manchester | Dale Cregan admits father and son murders in Manchester |
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| Police killer Dale Cregan has admitted the murders of a father and son in Greater Manchester. | Police killer Dale Cregan has admitted the murders of a father and son in Greater Manchester. |
| Mark Short, 23, was shot in a pub in Droylsden in May 2012. His father David, 46, was killed in a gun and grenade attack in Clayton last August. | |
| Cregan, 29, changed his plea on both counts to guilty at Preston Crown Court earlier. | Cregan, 29, changed his plea on both counts to guilty at Preston Crown Court earlier. |
| He admitted the murders of Greater Manchester Police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes in February. | He admitted the murders of Greater Manchester Police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes in February. |
| The trial heard how David Short was fatally injured when Dale Cregan and Anthony Wilkinson attacked him at his home on 10 August. | |
| In April, Wilkinson, 38, also changed his plea to guilty over the murder of David Short. | |
| Mark Short was killed at The Cotton Tree pub on 25 May. | |
| Earlier in the trial, the jury heard that Cregan lured PCs Bone and Hughes to a house in Mottram before shooting them repeatedly and then throwing a grenade. |