Four teenagers have been jailed after an attack on a 17 year old in Oldham
The 17-year-old males appeared before Manchester Crown Court on Monday where they were each sentenced to 12 months in a youth detention centre, followed by a strict programme managed by the youth offending team on release. The teenagers were sentenced after pleading guilty to the attack of a 17 year old in an alleyway just […]
A man and woman have been jailed for a total of 11 years following a Class A drugs bust in Rochdale
Rashid Hussain of Glen Morag Gardens, Rochdale and his partner Szenm Asghar of Brierly Street, Bury, appeared before Manchester Crown Court, where they were sent to prison following a lengthy GMP investigation. They were sentenced for the following offences: Rashid Hussain received 7 years, 6 months in prison after being found guilty of 1 count […]
A Hindley man has been jailed for over seven years for the kidnap and sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl
Michael Owen of Bridgewater Street in Hindley, was today jailed for seven years and six months at Manchester Crown Court, for the kidnap and assault of a 16-year-old girl. The court heard how Owen, who had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing, had seen the intoxicated teenager outside a nightclub in Leigh at 05.00 on […]
A Lancashire Police Officer has been charged with attempted murder
James Riley, 27, a serving Lancashire police officer, has been charged with attempted murder. At approximately 11.30pm on Thursday 10 November 2022, police were called to a report of a concern for the welfare of a woman at a hotel on Brook Street, Manchester. Emergency services attended and the woman was taken to hospital, where […]
A man wanted by the National Crime Agency for eight years has admitted his part in a large-scale international drug trafficking plot
Michael Paul Moogan, 36, from Croxteth, Liverpool, went on the run in October 2013 after a raid on a cafe suspected of being a front for meetings between drug traffickers and cartels. The Café de Ketel in Rotterdam was a business not open to the public. It could only be entered via a security […]
Two serial offenders jailed for a total of eight and half years – (ID 532609)
Declan Flynn of Moorfield Avenue, Denton, and Ryan McCormack of no fixed abode, were both jailed on Friday (28 October 2022) at Manchester Crown Court for four-and-a-half years and four years respectively.They were charged with a number of offences, including: two counts of robbery (including the theft of a motor vehicle), burglary dwelling with a […]
Two serial offenders jailed for a total of eight and half years
Declan Flynn of Moorfield Avenue, Denton, and Ryan McCormack of no fixed abode, were both jailed on Friday (28 October 2022) at Manchester Crown Court for four-and-a-half years and four years respectively.They were charged with a number of offences, including: two counts of robbery (including the theft of a motor vehicle), burglary dwelling with a […]
Two serial offenders jailed for a total of eight and half years
Declan Flynn of Moorfield Avenue, Denton, and Ryan McCormack of no fixed abode, were both jailed on Friday (28 October 2022) at Manchester Crown Court for four-and-a-half years and four years respectively.They were charged with a number of offences, including: two counts of robbery (including the theft of a motor vehicle), burglary dwelling with a […]
Lucy Letby’s trial heard that she was repeatedly instructed not to enter a room where the parents of a baby she is accused of murdering w…
At the Countess of Chester Hospital, the nurse is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten more. Ms Letby, 32, has denied all 22 counts. A senior nurse who worked at the hospital’s neonatal section at the time testified at Manchester Crown Court. She was a shift leader on the night a […]
Lucy Letby’s trial heard that she was repeatedly instructed not to enter a room where the parents of a baby she is accused of murdering were in mourning
At the Countess of Chester Hospital, the nurse is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten more. Ms Letby, 32, has denied all 22 counts. A senior nurse who worked at the hospital’s neonatal section at the time testified at Manchester Crown Court. She was a shift leader on the night a […]
Nurse Lucy Letby told one of her colleagues that it was “all a bit much” after the death of a second baby she is alleged to have murdered.
Following the death of a second baby, nurse Lucy Letby told one of her colleagues that it was “all a bit much.” The 32-year-old is accused of murdering the premature baby, known as Child C, just days after killing Child A and attempting to murder Child B in 2015. She is on trial at Manchester […]
A court heard that a nurse accused of murdering babies told a colleague that taking a child to a mortuary in front of his crying father was “the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
Ms Letby was charged in 2015 and 2016 with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten others at Countess of Chester Hospital. The jury heard on Tuesday that she texted a colleague about the death of her first alleged victim in June 2015. Ms Letby, 32, has denied all 22 charges. She was accused […]
A court heard that a nurse accused of murdering babies told a colleague that taking a child to a mortuary in front of his crying father w…
Ms Letby was charged in 2015 and 2016 with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten others at Countess of Chester Hospital. The jury heard on Tuesday that she texted a colleague about the death of her first alleged victim in June 2015. Ms Letby, 32, has denied all 22 charges. She was accused […]
Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood will spend more than a month on remand after a district judge elected not to grant him bail at Manchester Magistrates’ Court
The 21-year-old appeared in court on Monday 17 October charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault. All three charges relate to the same complainant. Members of the Manchester United player’s family were in the public gallery as he appeared in a grey sweatshirt and grey jogging bottoms. Greenwood confirmed his name, date […]
Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood will spend more than a month on remand after a district judge elected not to grant him bail at Manche…
The 21-year-old appeared in court on Monday 17 October charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault. All three charges relate to the same complainant. Members of the Manchester United player’s family were in the public gallery as he appeared in a grey sweatshirt and grey jogging bottoms. Greenwood confirmed his name, date […]
A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten more is being held accountable for failings at her hospital, a court has heard.
Ben Myers KC, defending Lucy Letby, said she was a “dedicated nurse” who “in no way” intended to harm the babies she was caring for. Instead, he told Manchester Crown Court it was a “theory of guilt based firmly on coincidence,” with premature babies collapsing when she wasn’t on duty. The nurse used a ‘effective’ […]
A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten more is being held accountable for failings at her hospital, a cou…
Ben Myers KC, defending Lucy Letby, said she was a “dedicated nurse” who “in no way” intended to harm the babies she was caring for. Instead, he told Manchester Crown Court it was a “theory of guilt based firmly on coincidence,” with premature babies collapsing when she wasn’t on duty. The nurse used a ‘effective’ […]
A nurse on a neonatal unit attempted to kill a premature baby girl four times before succeeding – and then sent the grieving parents a sympathy card, a court heard
The baby was one of seven that Lucy Letby is accused of killing while working in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. The 32-year-old is also accused of attempting to murder ten other babies between June 2015 and 2016. She denies all of the charges levelled against her. The death of the […]
