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A man told a judge to "shut up" and called him a "b***end as he was ordered to leave court.

The foul mouthed outburst came as members of an organised crime group in Merseyside were jailed for nearly 50 years, having stashed a Skorpion submachine which was used to shoot a woman in the leg was discovered in an Under Armour rucksack.

Scott Howard and Anthony Nelson, who led what was described as a "Rice Lane drug dealing fraternity", employed Liam Duffy and Terry Riley as "lieutenants" in their "Wong" and "Won Chin" heroin and cocaine supply chains.

The DNA of drug users Gary Bell and Stephen Moore was meanwhile found on the firearm. The "head of the branch" was linked to a second gun which was found fitted with a silencer in woodland alongside a petrol cannister, reports th

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