A MAN has been charged with conspiracy to murder by police investigating the 2001 gangland killing of a drug dealer.

James Thomas Jones, 29, of Sonning Walk, Cheetham Hill, was arrested on Wednesday and will appear at Stockport Magistrates Court on Saturday.

Five men were jailed for their part in the killing of Paul Reilly, 31, who was shot in front of his family in Cheadle Hulme.

Rival dealer Andrew Synott and four other men were given life sentences.