Salford Man Jailed for Gunpoint Standoff

0:00On March 10th, a man from Solford named Jay Conway just got sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for pulling a loaded pistol on police officers, and a member of the public while he was fleeing arrest. Last week on March 6th, 2026, at Manchester Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to charges including possessing a firearm without a license, having it with intent to endanger life, assaulting an emergency worker, and dealing class A and class B drugs. The trouble started back on May 20th, 2025, when plane clothes officers spotted him riding an e-bike while wearing a balaclava in, Albert Park. He took off, waving what turned out to be a real loaded gun, then pointed it again at pursuing cops and a bystander on great clothes street before, dropping it and running. Officers showed real courage chasing him down that day, and a quick investigation using CCTV, and his dropped phone led armed teams to arrest him, the. Every next day in Wally Range, police are stressing that guns don't belong on our streets,

1:02praising the bravery involved, and urging anyone who knows about illegal firearms to come, forward since everyone taking off the streets could save a life.