A man from Bury was sentenced to four years in prison after being caught with £150,000 in crack and heroin
Daniaal Ghafoor had the class A drugs on his Market Street property.The 29-year-old was employed by the County Lines network and used a mobile phone to send multiple messages advertising the sale of crack cocaine and heroin to addicts.Greater Manchester Police’s dedicated County Lines Team launched a covert investigation dubbed Operation Jig to determine who […]
A drug dealer has been jailed for nine years after being caught in dangerous pursuit before firearm was uncovered
Ahad Hussain of West Street, Rochdale was sentenced to nine years for possession of a firearm, possession with intent to supply and dangerous driving at Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday 6 January 2023. This was following an arrest back in mid-October 2022 (Tuesday 11th) at around 11am following a police pursuit on Tweedale Street […]
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. […]
A registered sex offender has been jailed for a second time after breaching his sexual harm prevention order.
Christopher Kelly 56 of Cranbook Street, Radcliffe was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday 28 October 2022 to 2 years in prison after pleading guilty to breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and using the internet to contact girls under the age of 18.Christopher Kelly was arrested in September following multiple online […]
Mason Greenwood of Manchester United has been released on bail after being charged with attempted rape.
The 21-year-old was also charged with assault and engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour on multiple occasions. He was arrested in January amid allegations stemming from online images and videos. Following a private hearing at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, the footballer from Bowdon in Greater Manchester will be released from custody. After appearing in […]
Following an investigation into non-recent sex offences in Rochdale, two men have been charged
Rochdale resident Ajaz Ahmed has been charged with the following offences:Rape x4Aiding/abetting rape x2 Penetration assault x2Having sexual relations with a child x6Create an obscene imageAssault resulting in ABHExtreme pornography possessionOn 9 June 2022, he appeared at Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court and was granted bail to appear at Minshull Street Crown Court on 14 […]
A man and woman have been jailed for 14 years for child sexual exploitation offences against a teenage girl in Tameside
Dominika Weremczuk, 25, of no fixed abode, and Mark Houseman, 31, of West Avenue, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, were both sentenced on Friday at Minshull Street Crown Court after being found guilty of child sexual exploitation offences. The victim first met Weremczuk when she was 13 and began a sexual relationship, during which Weremczuk gave the […]
A man from Denton has been jailed for child sex offences
Thomas Cooper of Tame Street, Denton, was yesterday sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to 3 years and 9 months imprisonment, as well as being subject to a 10 year sexual harm prevention order and his name on the sex offender register for life, after pleading guilty to: 2x counts of an offender […]
A drugs gang from Trafford involved in the possession of a stash of lethal guns and grenades in the Stretford area have been sentenced to a combined total of over 42 years in jail.
Detectives from the Serious and Organised Crime Group (SOCG) and the Trafford district were able to bring the woman and three men to justice following a comprehensive investigation. After a hearing at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court on Monday 25 April Nathan Morgan 37, Brian Day 50, Gareth Curtis 45, and Sarah Tervet 43, […]
A drugs gang from Trafford involved in the possession of a stash of lethal guns and grenades in the Stretford area have been sentenced to…
Detectives from the Serious and Organised Crime Group (SOCG) and the Trafford district were able to bring the woman and three men to justice following a comprehensive investigation. After a hearing at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court on Monday 25 April Nathan Morgan 37, Brian Day 50, Gareth Curtis 45, and Sarah Tervet 43, […]
A gunman and his two associates have been jailed after Manchester detectives uncovered footage of a drive-by shooting captured on CCTV that saw an innocent man’s car damaged in the crossfire.
The incident in the Harpurhey area of the city in broad daylight in the middle of January 2021 saw two cars driving in tandem at speed onto Briscoe Lane, where a man can be seen leaning out of the backseat window firing a gun at the car he and two other men were chasing. Enquiries […]
A gunman and his two associates have been jailed after Manchester detectives uncovered footage of a drive-by shooting captured on CCTV th…
The incident in the Harpurhey area of the city in broad daylight in the middle of January 2021 saw two cars driving in tandem at speed onto Briscoe Lane, where a man can be seen leaning out of the backseat window firing a gun at the car he and two other men were chasing. Enquiries […]
Trafford man jailed following ‘sustained and deplorable campaign of domestic abuse
Philip Daly, of Beechlands Avenue, Altrincham, appeared at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court this afternoon (Thursday 10 March 2022), where he was jailed for 18 years with a further five years to be spent on license. Daly was found guilty of the following offences at trial in October 2021: The offences all relate […]
An organised crime group who were found to be in possession of guns that were converted to become lethal weapons have been jailed for a t…
The group, spearheaded by Nathan Godfrey of Barnsley were found to be in possession of Retay firearms – blank firing firearms converted into live-firing lethal guns – with members of the group travelling from across the country to transfer the guns. Just before 16.30 on 27 January 2020, the group made a 150-mile trip from […]
An organised crime group who were found to be in possession of guns that were converted to become lethal weapons have been jailed for a total of 98 years
The group, spearheaded by Nathan Godfrey of Barnsley were found to be in possession of Retay firearms – blank firing firearms converted into live-firing lethal guns – with members of the group travelling from across the country to transfer the guns. Just before 16.30 on 27 January 2020, the group made a 150-mile trip from […]
A man who raped two teenage girls before subjecting one to nearly two decades of abuse has been jailed
Mohammed Saleem of Cannon Street, Rochdale has been jailed at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court for 33 years following a six-week trial in which he was found guilty of 31 offences including: • Six counts of indecent assault against a 14-year-old female • Rape of a 14-year-old female • Three counts of rape of a […]
A woman who slit the throat of a seven-year-old girl as she played in a park has lost an appeal against her sentence.
Emily Jones was killed in Queen’s Park, Bolton, on 22 March 2020. Eltiona Skana, 31, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to serve a minimum of 10 years and eight months. She challenged both the sentence and the minimum term but Court of Appeal judges rejected her appeal. Skana admitted […]
A convicted sexual predator has been jailed for a second time
Cameron Smith, appeared at Minshull Street Crown Court on Thursday 8 December 2021, where he was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to the following offences: Attempting to sexually communicate with a child. Attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act. Attempting to incite a child into sexual activity. Breach of a […]
