Douglas John Ward, 25, was the street-fighting ringleader who plotted for a shotgun to be fired into a Guisborough home

Douglas John Ward, 25, was the street-fighting ringleader who plotted for a shotgun to be fired into a Guisborough home, a court heard.
He was the prime mover directing a gang in a Bank Holiday weekend revenge hunt, then the shooting on Allison Street on May 4 last year.
While a mystery gunman pulled the trigger, Ward was on bail - months after he was caught with a kilo of heroin in a cross-country supply trip.
He and his underlings, co-ordinator and book-keeper Darren Empson and footsoldier dealer Daniel Storey, are serving long sentences for drug dealing.
Thought by police to be one of the most feared drug pushers in the region, Ward now faces even more time in prison for the Guisborough shooting.
Empson and Storey too face the prospect of more time inside for being part of the gang search in the weekend before the Bank Holiday gunfire.
Storey pleaded guilty to violent disorder while Empson was convicted by a jury, though he was cleared of involvement in the shooting itself.
Their case can be fully reported today after the end of the firearm trial on Friday.
Last October, a group of six Teesside men were jailed for a total of nearly 35 years after admitting conspiring to supply Class A drugs.
Guisborough kingpins Ward, of Wilson Street, and Stephen Petch, of Dunsdale, were each jailed for seven-and-a-half years.