Tagged thug Ryan Florence, 17, said he made the sick gun gesture to impress gang pals who were watching.
The yob in a gang called Benchill Mad Dogs struck when Mr Cameron was visiting a crime-ridden council estate in Manchester to speak out on youth gun crime.
Mr Cameron famously defended young offenders last year — but was derided for adopting a “hug a hoodie” approach.
Jobless Ryan told The Sun: “I raised my hand and fingers in the shape of a gun — it’s what we call a ‘click bang’ around here. I was doing it for a laugh and a buzz.
“I thought it would be fun to showboat for the lads so I went up behind him and made like I was pulling the trigger.
Staying though with the gun crime theme,the Telegraph reports
Eight-year-olds 'mind' guns for gangsters
Peter Herbert, a London barrister, told a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority that the problem of young children and guns was "significantly worse" than even the darkest picture painted by the media.
As a member of the Operation Trident Independent Advisory Group that works with Scotland Yard to tackle gun crime in the black community, Mr Herbert said he had heard from police of primary school age children carrying weapons.
"The anecdotal evidence is that very young children are already being drawn into running drugs and holding weapons for older people," he said.
This came on the same day that the government held a gun summit,
Gang members face longer in jail to halt rise of urban child soldier reports the Times.
Membership of a gang could add extra years to jail terms for violent knife and gun crime, under a review of policies to tackle the growth of firearms on the streets.
John Reid, the Home Secretary, announced the plans after hearing that younger teenagers were now using guns and that Britain was in danger of producing a generation of urban “child soldiers”. The stark warnings from police about the trend towards younger people turning to firearms to settle trivial disputes came at a gun-crime summit at 10 Downing Street yesterday.
It leads though with
Fears grow over Iran reporting that
Tony Blair has declared himself at odds with hawks in the US Administration by saying publicly for the first time that it would be wrong to take military action against Iran. The Prime Minister’s comments came hours before the UN’s nuclear watchdog raised the stakes in the West’s showdown with Tehran.
The International Atomic Energy Agency concluded that Iran had expanded its nuclear programme, defying UN demands for it to be suspended. Hundreds of uranium-spinning centrifuges in an underground hall are expected to be increased to thousands by May when Iran moves to “industrial-scale production”. Senior British government sources have told The Times that they fear President Bush will seek to “settle the Iranian question through military means” next year, before the end of his second term if he concludes that diplomacy has failed. “He will not want to leave it unresolved for his successor,” said one.
But there are deep fissures within the US Administration. Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary, who has previously called for direct talks with Tehran, is said to be totally opposed to military action.
World goes nuclear on Iran
Reports the Sun,
IRAN was last night condemned worldwide after ignoring orders to halt its nuclear bomb programme.
Tony Blair will now team up with the US, China, Russia and EU heads to bring in tough United Nations sanctions.
But the PM ruled out airstrikes saying: “I can’t think that it would be right to take military action against Iran.”
The Independent meanwhile reports
Pressure mounts on Blair for inquiry into mistakes in Iraq
Heavyweight demands for a wide-ranging investigation came in a five-hour debate in the House of Lords led by the former foreign secretary Lord Hurd of Westwell, who won the backing of several other former cabinet ministers.
Allies of Gordon Brown admit there will be growing pressure on him to announce an immediate inquiry if, as expected, he succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister this summer. He faces an agonising dilemma over whether to call one. On the one hand, the move might help him to draw a line under an affair in which Mr Blair was undoubtedly the leading player. On the other, Mr Brown, whatever his private reservations, backed Mr Blair and said during the 2005 general election he would not have acted differently. An inquiry would also keep Iraq in the spotlight, and risk overshadowing Mr Brown's attempt to unveil a fresh domestic agenda.
The Guardian reports that
Extra British troops to combat Taliban push
The defence secretary, Des Browne, is expected to announce on Monday a fresh deployment of more than 1,000 extra troops and equipment to Afghanistan to combat an expected spring offensive by the Taliban .
The increase in forces was reported to the cabinet yesterday amid what was described as a heavy discussion about the situation in the country and the efforts needed to shore up the government in Kabul. The new military push is expected to cost the Treasury £250m.
The Telegraph's lead shows more problems for Gordon Brown
Brown losing touch on economy, say voters
Gordon Brown is losing his reputation for economic competence and failing to convince voters he would make a better prime minister than David Cameron, a Daily Telegraph-YouGov poll shows today.
When voters were asked which party was likely to run the economy well, 30 per cent said the Conservatives and 27 per cent Labour.
At the 2005 election, Labour had a commanding 22-point lead, with 49 per cent regarding them as economically competent compared to 27 per cent for the Tories.
While the regular survey of voting intentions gives the Conservatives a five-point lead over Labour, this jumps to nine points when voters are asked whether they would prefer a Cameron or a Brown-led government.
The Independent's front page reflects its continuing champoining of the consumer this week today declaring
Consumers' revolt: Power to the people
The paper lists areas where the consumer is fighting back including banks,utilities,roda pricing and supermarkets.
The Guardian meanwhile takes a differing lead announcing that
Move to close down Serious Fraud Office
Ministers have begun working on proposals to disband the Serious Fraud Office, merging operations with other agencies, the Guardian has learned. The plan comes three months after relations between the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, and SFO director Robert Wardle reached an all-time low over the latter's two-year investigation into kickback allegations linked to a BAE Systems contract with Saudi Arabia.
According to well-placed sources, one of the proposals favoured by the attorney general is partially merging the SFO within the much larger Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which was launched last year and characterised as an FBI-style organisation. The remaining SFO lawyers would join the Crown Prosecution Service.
The Mail leads with the news that
Superbugs kill 5,400 patients in one year
Deaths from hospital superbugs have soared to record levels.
Latest figures show Clostridium difficile and MRSA between them were involved in 5,436 deaths in a single year.
Experts fear the statistics are just the tip of an iceberg and say many infections go unrecorded.
The Telegraph also featuring the story highly
Death toll from 'superbugs' is soaring
Critics last night said that Government waiting time targets, "savage" bed cuts and a continued failure to deal with hospital hygiene were behind the steep rises.
Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said: "Healthcare acquired infections are a patient's main fear. Our worry is that these figures will continue to rise as other priorities take precedence. Only two weeks ago the Government promised to make infection control one of its top priorities. Yet its own announcement to further reduce waiting times by 'round the clock operations' will inevitably harm these efforts."
The Mirror continues to focus on the problems at Channel 4,its front page saying
RICHARD AND JUDY FURIOUS AT C4 PHONE SCAM
CHANNEL 4 admitted yesterday the Richard and Judy phone scam hit at least the last two series of the show.
The cost of repaying cheated viewers could reach £700,000.
As the scandal mounted, Richard Madeley declared: "I'm f***ing furious and so is Judy. We're livid."
Their show's popular You Say We Pay phone quiz charged viewers £1 to call after potential players had already been picked.
Yesterday Richard hit the roof over the phone line rip-off that has jinxed the Richard and Judy show.
Speaking after the Mirror exclusively revealed the scam could have been running for four years, and shaking his first in fury, he declared: "I've just read your story.
"The word 'f***ing' isn't permissible on TV but I feel f***ing furious about this and so does Judy. We're livid about it.
According to the Express,
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ROAM STREETS
POLICE have been told to direct illegal immigrants to the nearest asylum centre – and then let them go.The revelation came as officers in North Wales gave a map to five suspects and told them to go to a centre in Liverpool, without any guarantees they would show up.The Home Office guidance tells police what to do when suspected or known illegal immigrants claim asylum after they are caught.Officials admitted they have no idea how many have been told to make their own way to centres or how many even turn up.It is the latest farce involving Home Secretary John Reid and comes after the Daily Express revealed immigration officers have also been told to let most illegals go because there is no room to detain them.
And where would thensame paper be without a weather story
Britain told: It's time to prepare for drought
THE first drought warning of the year has been issued – weeks after most hosepipe bans were lifted.Independent long-range forecasters said millions living in drought-stricken parts of the country could expect the return of water restrictions from June.They said the month would see dry and hot weather with temperatures well above average – raising the prospect of a “long hot summer”.At the same time, the Environment Agency has warned that water supplies could be threatened if the rest of the winter and spring are dry. It urged consumers to use water wisely.
According to the Mirror finally
I'M RARIN' TO GO
PRINCE Harry was keen to get on with the job last night after defence chiefs confirmed he will fight on the front line in Iraq.
As the Mirror exclusively revealed on Saturday, Harry, 22, will be deployed on a six-month tour of duty with the Blues and Royals.
One aide said he was "obviously apprehensive, but eager to get on with it".
And Clarence House said of the prince, known as Cornet Wales: "Harry is keen to serve alongside his men. And he also wants to do his duty."
Harry is now itching to do the job he was trained to do - lead his men into action
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