A MAN from Swinton has appeared in court charged with the murder of a young father in Salford.

Paul Higginson, 23, of Sevenoaks Drive, and Stuart Grainger of Thanet Close, Salford, both deny the murder of Derek Ianson.

A jury at Manchester Crown Court heard that Mr Ianson died after two masked men -- one armed with a sub-machine gun and the other with a handgun -- opened fire.

The two men fled in a car stolen in a burglary the previous month from premises in Salford.

A total of 26 nine millimetre cartridge cases were found at the scene and all came from the same weapon -- a 9mm sub-machine gun.

The trial continues.