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. 

charged with three felonies in connection with the shooting death of a teen on Myrtle Avenue. John Saway, 25, and Santa Ana resident Sarith Yin, 22

charged with three felonies in connection with the shooting death of a teen on Myrtle Avenue. John Saway, 25, and Santa Ana resident Sarith Yin, 22, on Tuesday joined four others facing similar charges.Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 16, was shot in the upper back early Jan. 10 during a party at an apartment on Myrtle Avenue in Tustin. Friends pulled him into the apartment, where police found him dead two hours later.
Saway and Yin are charged with murder, street terrorism and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.They are charged with sentencing enhancements for a gang member discharging a firearm causing death, criminal street gang activity and murder committed for a street gang purpose. Yin pleaded guilty in January 2008 to attempted burglary of a commercial building and street terrorism, and was sentenced to 16 months in state prison and restitution. Saway in January 2007 pleaded guilty to receiving a stolen vehicle while having a prior felony conviction, evading a peace officer and reckless driving and possession of a firearm by a felon.
In the same case, Yin pleaded guilty to criminal street gang possession of burglary instruments or tools. Both men were sentenced to one year in state prison, according to court records.
In March 2005, Saway pleaded guilty to stealing a vehicle, buying or receiving a stolen vehicle or equipment, and evading a peace officer and reckless driving, according to court records. He was sentenced to two years in state prison, 210 days in jail, restitution and three years' probation. In December 2003, he pleaded guilty to unlawful taking of a vehicle and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia. Yin also had a court history including guilty pleas to unlawful taking of a vehicle and buying or receiving stolen equipment in November 2005 and attempted burglary of a business and street terrorism from July 2006.
Saway and Yin were found by detectives inside a vehicle in Long Beach, police said, and were wanted by their parole officers. Ravy Nhem, 20; Pablo Kachirisky, 21; Steven Kao, 21; and David Escobar, 20, also have been charged with felonies for murder and street terrorism, with sentencing enhancements making them eligible for the death penalty, according to Lt. Tom Tarpley of the Tustin Police Department.The men are being held without bail. The enhancements are murder committed for a criminal street gang, criminal street gang activity and a gang member discharging a firearm causing death, Tarpley said.
Karrina Hernandez, 21, of Tustin, is charged with being an accessory to murder, police said.