He was shot in the face but recovered from his life-threatening injuries and just seven months later took part in a sickening attack on two car park attendants at the Grosvenor casino in the Strangeways area of Manchester.
The attack in the foyer by Totton and three others left one 18-year-old casino employee with a double fracture of his jaw and another, aged 49, with severe bruising and a bite mark to his ear.
Both victims worked in the car park and had come into the foyer to help eject Totton and his friends after they were asked to leave the casino for misbehaving.
Totton, 27, was jailed for a total of 4½-years after admitting assault, unlawful wounding as well as dangerous driving following another incident where, because he was already banned from the roads, he sped off from police in his Saab 93 convertible and reached speeds of 80mph before crashing into bollards and fleeing on foot.
After seeing CCTV footage of the incident at the Grosvenor casino, Judge Anthony Hammond told the four men: "Quite frankly it was a disgraceful incident and one which nobody can feel anything other than shame about.
"Your arrogant behaviour afterwards as you left having attacked these two men, leaving them not insensible but clearly struggling, can be seen with violent kicks, punches and cowardly punches from behind. Over-all it was a most disgraceful episode which would make any sentencer angry."
Assassination attempt
Totton suffered serious injuries in the assassination attempt at the Brass Handles pub on Salford's Langworthy estate last year but survived. He refused to talk to detectives or even file a complaint after that attack. Aaron Travers, 27, was also hit, jumping up and taking two bullets meant for Totton.
Two hired Moss Side hitmen had burst into the pub and sprayed shots around the vault in a bid to kill Totton in a £10,000 hit believed to have been ordered by one of his rivals, Bobby Spiers.
But the hitmen, Richard Austin, 19, and Carlton Alveranga, 20, bungled the operation and were overpowered before being shot dead with their own guns.
A different trial heard how Spiers had humiliated Totton by pretending not to know him when asked by doormen outside a Manchester nightclub if they should allow him in and the prank led to the pair becoming deadly rivals.
When Totton started drinking in Spiers' local, the Brass Handles, Spiers decided he had to act and contacted the Moss Side hitmen to carry out an killing rather than be seen to attack one of Salford's own.
Spiers, who was at Old Trafford watching a Manchester United game at the time, fled the country after the hit failed and has not been seen since.
A police source told the M.E.N: "Totton must have thought he was invincible and untouchable. He believes is he a major player but we caught up with him in the end. A very dangerous man is off the streets."
The court heard Totton, of Rosamond Drive, Trinity, had 14 previous criminal convictions, including for violence. Also sentenced for the incident at the Grosvenor were Wesley Harte, Lee Salmon and Ryan Fletcher.
Harte, 25, of Lower Broughton Road, Lower Broughton, was jailed for 18 months after admitting violent disorder.
Salmon, 27, of Murray Street, Salford, was jailed for 12 months suspended for two years after he admitted assault. He was also ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work.
Fletcher, 21, of no fixed address, was jailed for a total of three years after admitting assault, unlawful wounding and a separate charge of supplying cocaine.
Detective Constable Tom Willis, of Grey Mare Lane CID, said: "This was an appalling attack on two car park attendants who were only trying to do their jobs.
"These men were asked to leave after misbehaving and frightening other staff and customers, but refused to go. "They started to circle the first attendant and it can been seen from the CCTV footage that the defendants started to display a real pack mentality.
"Both victims were then viciously attacked. They showed no mercy as they repeatedly punched and kicked them and it was a miracle that they weren't more seriously injured."
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its a shame the judge never gave them 14 1/2 years . for there behavier,
seems they got a light sententence for the crimes ,
maybe some on the inside will give them just deserts .
Mickey mouse gangsters - just like that other lot, the Noonans.
Bunch of jokers playing hardmen and what pathetic reasons to start a feud.
What scruffy looking thugs, I would not allow them in a club dressed like that. All that bravado when together not so hot on their own.I sure hope they get a thumping good time inside, we will see the difference. Just bully boys
Typical so-called tough guys figting in packs. They have no place in decent society. It's about time the Isle of Man was evacuated and scum like this permantly moved in, then they can do loads of 'my gangs bigger then your gang' stuff between themselves and leave decent people alone. And one has to hide and pay ten grand to kill the other. Wasn't he 'hard enough' to seek out an apology?
Sentences again laughable. He'll be out in 2 years whereupon he'll start where he left off. I feel sorry for the police - what's the point just a game to these clowns at the taxpayers and victims expense
Time after time the public feel justice has not been seen to be done. The Sentence is a joke. The Police must despair. How much has it cost the tax payer to process this cowardly Bully from the start of the investigation until the point where the judge hands out a couple of years, 3 at best spent playing games and watching TV, and being provided 3 meals a day at our expense?? No deterrent whatsoever
What a sad, pathetic story involving sad, inadequate people. How do people 'grow up' to become so maladjusted? No doubt his parents are upstanding members of the community too.
When he's done his time (less remission, no doubt) what will he do? Turn to good works? No, he will return to the mean streets of Salford, a hero, to carry on more illegality and mayhem. Gaol alone doesn't work for brainless thugs like this. They should be caged, with hard labour, an inadequte diet and wretched conditions, and birched live on local TV every month. When they are standing crying because their bottoms hurt, perhaps their aura of toughness will melt away and they will be seen by the other idiots for what they really are.
The thing with so called hard men (THUGS AND BULLIES TO YOU AND ME) Is that there is always someone BIGGER, I personally hope he gets a similar fate without his minders in prison, the bullet should have got him in the Pub. Get the streets clear of these toy town GANGSTERS. The Police know who they are.
Trash, should be executed.
"Aaron Travers, 27, was also hit, jumping up and taking two bullets meant for Totton."
Idiot
Although it does remind me of the film "The Bodyguard", I wonder if he also carried a scared and confused Totton out of the pub infront of shocked and now quite frankly traumatised for life pub goers until the ambulance and police turned up.
The sentence is still not long enough...4 and a half years means he will be out in 2. At least 15 years would mean he was off our streets for 7-8 years. Sentencing is still too lenient.
These criminals will be made welcome by the thugs already inside and think that they are hero's there small minds think like that , they will be walking the streets of Manchester in the near future and this will happen again and again the only solution is longer sentances throw the keys away and let them rot.
You would have thought that this person would have learned his lesson after surviving a shooting, or should this expectation be reserved for civilised people? The sentence is totally inadequate, as he is obviously a long-term danger to society. I agree with the previous poster who feels sorry for the police. Anybody seen the file 'The Star Chamber'?
Judges and prison officials should be sent to Mississippi or Alabama to learn how to treat these lowlife halfwits.
When will the people of the UK demand the protection from this vermin that they deserve and pay for.
Some ask why don't the police round them up if they know who they are? well here is the answer,why bother when the judge sends them to a holiday camp for a couple of years.
Evil scum without a shadow of a doubt. Pity they can't be put away for at least 15 years very hard labour and fed on a diet of dry bread and water.
Can i come back to live in Manchester please
I'm not surprised you want to come back, Macker!
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Prison and constantly looking over your shoulder. Probably the life these thugs deserve. Just a shame they hurt innocents along the way.
His victims can take comfort - somehow I dont think he'll end up happy and fulfilled.
all these so called salford gangsters, hardmen ,( which they are not) only seem to be hard whaen they are in a pack,
they wouldent last 5 minutes in a war on the front line
Shame that he didnt get longer, we are too soft in this country, the likes of him, his brother and his band of merry men should be locked up for good.
And for those sentancing him, he was just as bad at 11 as he is now, nothing has changed apart from his use of steroids probably.