Dale Cregan changes plea to admit murders of two police officers The judge told the jury of seven men and five women: "You have now heard Mr Cregan admit his guilt on those two charges. If you cast your mind back to the very start of the case, you will remember that I indictated to you that you would be asked to record separate verdicts on each defendant to each charge they face. Mr Cregan's admission of guilt to those two charges does not change the position of any other defendant. You will also remember that all the defendants were put in your charge and only the jury have the power to return verdicts. The clerk of the court then instructed the jury to formally record guilty verdicts on the direction of the judge to the two murder charges. The foreman stood to reply "guilty" as the clerk asked: "How do you find the defendant, guilty or not guilty?" Cregan was on the run from the police when he gunned down the two officers in a cul-de-sac in Hattersley, Greater Manchester. Last week the jury heard how he fired a total of 32 bullets at them during a carefully planned ambush which lasted just 31 seconds. Cregan continued firing at the officers when they were on the ground and only stopped when his Glock handgun, which had been fitted with an extended magazine, to carry extra ammunition, was empty. PC Bone was shot eight times as she desperately discharged her Taser weapon, while her colleague 23-year-old Nicola Hughes was also hit eight times. The court heard how Cregan coolly stood over the officer as she lay on the ground and fired three bullets into the back and side of her head. Before fleeing the scene in a stolen car Cregan, who had been on the run from police for three months, left what the prosecution described as his "calling card," by throwing a hand grenade at the two stricken officers. It exploded causing further injuries to PC Hughes, but the court heard she was already dead by that point. Cregan then drove directly to Hyde Police station where he calmly told the officer at the front desk: "I'm wanted by the police and I've just done two coppers." He later told officers: "Sorry about those two that have been killed, I wish it was men." Cregan is also standing trial for the murders of father and son David and Mark Short who were shot dead in separate attacks in May and August last year. He also faces four charges of attempted murder and one charge of causing an explosion. He has denied all those charges. He is standing trial alongside nine of his alleged associates who are accused of a range of offences including murder, attempted murder, firearms offences and assisting an offender. None of his associates were charged in connection with the murders of the two police officers.