Officers in Oldham have seen a spike in burglary offences in the Chadderton, Hollinwood and the Garden Suburbs areas where the police believe a group of young teenagers are committing burglaries in the early hours of the morning

Officers are looking to identify the four men in the image as they may be able to assist with enquiries. The incidents were reported to have been from Tuesday 13 December to Tuesday 20 December. Detective Sergeant Matt Ashead of GMP’s Oldham CID said: “We are asking the public to be switched on regarding their […]
Officers in Oldham have seen a spike in burglary offences in the Chadderton, Hollinwood and the Garden Suburbs areas where the police bel…

Officers are looking to identify the four men in the image as they may be able to assist with enquiries. The incidents were reported to have been from Tuesday 13 December to Tuesday 20 December. Detective Sergeant Matt Ashead of GMP’s Oldham CID said: “We are asking the public to be switched on regarding their […]
A former Greater Manchester Police officer has been sentenced after admitting possessing an indecent video of children

Lee Ashcroft (pleaded guilty to making an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, at Liverpool Crown Court today (19 December 2022). Ashcroft was given a 30-day rehabilitation order and a 10-year sexual harm prevention order, and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for […]
Police are appealing to the public for further information after another parcel was stolen in Ancoats

At around 1,30pm on Saturday 10 December 2022, a man was reported to have stolen a parcel from the foyer of a residential building on Ludgate Hill in the Ancoats area of Manchester. Greater Manchester Police are now appealing to the public with any information that could help investigators identify this man pictured below. Officers […]
A retired lollipop lady, 87, died on a road she had worked for decades to make safer

A van struck and killed a former lollipop lady on a road she had campaigned to make safer for local schoolchildren. Irene Allen, 87, was killed in a car accident on Walmersley Road in Bury last Wednesday (December 6). She died five days later at Salford Royal Hospital. Ms Allen, Bury’s first lollipop […]
Detectives from Greater Manchester Police CSE Unit in the Serious Crime Division yesterday arrested a man, 35, from Reddish Road, Reddish, in connection with the rape of a girl under the age of 16 and in relation to administering a substance with the intention to injure and aggrieve

Another man, aged 39, of no fixed abode, handed himself in later on in the day, and was arrested under suspicion of Section 18 assault and rape of a child aged between 13 and 15-years-old – all offences which are believed to have taken place in around 2007. Operation Green Jacket was launched in 2017, […]
Detectives from Greater Manchester Police CSE Unit in the Serious Crime Division yesterday arrested a man, 35, from Reddish Road, Reddish…

Another man, aged 39, of no fixed abode, handed himself in later on in the day, and was arrested under suspicion of Section 18 assault and rape of a child aged between 13 and 15-years-old – all offences which are believed to have taken place in around 2007. Operation Green Jacket was launched in 2017, […]
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at the City of London Police is urging Christmas shoppers against buying bargain designer beauty products, after it seized an estimated £60,000 worth of fake perfume, which officers believe may contain harmful chemicals

While fake perfume can look almost identical to its genuine counterparts, laboratory tests of samples previously seized by PIPCU have shown that it can contain poisonous chemicals, including cyanide and even human urine. Fake cosmetics such as eyeliner, mascara, lip gloss and foundation have also been found to contain toxic levels of chemicals and harmful […]
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at the City of London Police is urging Christmas shoppers against buying bargain desi…

While fake perfume can look almost identical to its genuine counterparts, laboratory tests of samples previously seized by PIPCU have shown that it can contain poisonous chemicals, including cyanide and even human urine. Fake cosmetics such as eyeliner, mascara, lip gloss and foundation have also been found to contain toxic levels of chemicals and harmful […]
Detectives in Salford are appealing for information after jewellery and gold bars were stolen during a burglary

The incident occurred at around 4.45pm on 22 November 2022 The female victim and her young son were at home at Eastmoor, Ellenbrook, when three masked men forced their way in to their house. They eventually made off in the family’s BMW with an iPhone, as well as a safe containing cash, high-value jewellery and […]
A Salford career criminal receives 13 years in prison for conspiracy to supply class A drugs and firearms offences

Arron Corkovic of Dixon Avenue in Salford, appeared at Manchester Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday 13 December 2022) to be sentenced for his involvement in serious crime – including the supply of heroin, firearms and ammunition. Corkovic, who had previously been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment due to his role in a violent robbery at a […]
A man has been arrested as part of an investigation being led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, and supported by Counter Terrorism …

The 47-year-old man was arrested at an address in Wigan on the morning of Tuesday, 13 December, as part of a pre-planned operation assisted by colleagues from Greater Manchester Police. He was arrested on suspicion of disseminating terrorist publications, under Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He was detained under PACE and taken to […]
A man has been arrested as part of an investigation being led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, and supported by Counter Terrorism Policing North West

The 47-year-old man was arrested at an address in Wigan on the morning of Tuesday, 13 December, as part of a pre-planned operation assisted by colleagues from Greater Manchester Police. He was arrested on suspicion of disseminating terrorist publications, under Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He was detained under PACE and taken to […]
Two Manchester men, who lured and robbed a man in Hulme under the pretence of selling an electric bike, are jailed for over five years

Keenan Hilditch of Wardsend Walk, Hulme and Jayden O’Donnell of Ladywell Point, Pilgrims Way, in Salford, appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Friday, 9 December 2022. Hilditch, already on a suspended sentence for robbery, pleaded guilty at his first hearing for robbery, Section 20 assault and possession of a bladed article. He received four years […]
Police are appealing to the public for further information after a number of parcels were stolen from a residential building in Green Qua…

At around 7.40pm on Monday 5 December 2022, officers received a report of a number of parcels being stolen from an apartment complex in the Green Quarter in Manchester City Centre. GMP are appealing to the public with any information that could help the identify this man pictured. If you have seen this man, live […]
Police are appealing to the public for further information after a number of parcels were stolen from a residential building in Green Quarter

At around 7.40pm on Monday 5 December 2022, officers received a report of a number of parcels being stolen from an apartment complex in the Green Quarter in Manchester City Centre. GMP are appealing to the public with any information that could help the identify this man pictured. If you have seen this man, live […]
A final member of an organised crime group has been jailed for 10 years after customers were robbed and threatened with weapons

Imran Ali from Oldham was jailed for 10 years at Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday 6 December. The other three members of the group were sentenced in July 2021 after pleading guilty to their offences. Mohammed Farid of Lorne Street, Oldham, was jailed for 20 years after being convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery. […]
An organised crime group supplying class A drugs in Beswick and Manchester city centre has been jailed

Anthony McKenna, of Rigeway Street in Miles Platting, would supply Jamie Lee Collins, of Purslow Close in Beswick, with substantial amounts of crack cocaine and heroin to run his drug empire. Collins, 34, recruited Michelle McIntyre and Paul McMullen to advertise and supply the drugs which he then reaped the rewards of. McKenna, 23, would […]