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| Dale Cregan: Alleged accomplices accused of helping PC killer | Dale Cregan: Alleged accomplices accused of helping PC killer |
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| Two men have been charged with helping police killer Dale Cregan while he was on the run. | |
| Jack Willbye, 57, of Chapel Street, Herne Bay, and Samuel Willbye, 28, of Hannet Road, Manchester, are accused of conspiring to assist an offender. | Jack Willbye, 57, of Chapel Street, Herne Bay, and Samuel Willbye, 28, of Hannet Road, Manchester, are accused of conspiring to assist an offender. |
| They have been remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 25 September. | They have been remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 25 September. |
| A 41-year-old London man has also been arrested in the Costa Del Sol in Spain on suspicion of assisting an offender. | A 41-year-old London man has also been arrested in the Costa Del Sol in Spain on suspicion of assisting an offender. |
| Extradition proceedings have started, in order to bring the suspect back to the UK. | |
| Police manhunt | |
| Cregan's killing spree began on 26 May 2012 when he was one of a group which shot amateur boxer Mark Short dead in The Cotton Tree Inn, Droylesden. | |
| Just over two weeks later he was detained at Manchester Airport, questioned by police and then bailed. | |
| A police manhunt for him began after Mr Short's father David was killed in a gun and grenade attack at his home in Clayton, Manchester. | |
| Cregan brought his time on the run himself, after luring PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone to their deaths at a house in Mottram, Greater Manchester in another gun and grenade attack, following a hoax 999 call on 18 September. | |
| Thirty-five minutes later he handed himself in at Hyde Police Station. | |
| Cregan was jailed for life at Preston Crown Court in June for all four murders. |