A paedophile who abused a young girl has been found guilty of a string of sexual offences.
David Howie, now 52, carried out both physical assaults on his young victim and incited her to engage in sexual activity online. The abuse took place between 2016 and 2020 in the Blackburn and Scarborough areas when the girl was aged between nine and 12. Howie, of Bridlington, Humberside, was convicted today at Preston Crown […]
Three men who seriously assaulted and kidnapped an innocent man, wrongly believing he was an Albanian drug dealer, have been jailed
* Faisal Fareed, 23, Faizaan Fareed, 26, and Nicholas Shaw, 45 (pictured, left to right), were sentenced to a total of 27 years at Preston Crown Court on Monday (October 24) after they kidnapped a man in Darwen last year. On June 13, 2021, the victim, a man in his 40s, had returned home from […]
A burglar who stole curtains and a footwarmer, before being arrested following a six-hour rooftop siege, has been jailed
Tyler McPherson, 26, of St Andrew’s Road South, St Annes, was sentenced to five years and six months in prison at Preston Crown Court on Friday (October 21) after pleading guilty to offences including burglary, vehicle interference, public nuisance and possession of a bladed article. McPherson was arrested by police following an investigation into a […]
A man who murdered his elderly mother in Burnley has been sentenced to life in prison
Mumtaz Ahmed, 44, of Prairie Crescent, Burnley, was jailed at Preston Crown Court following the death of Inayat Begum, 85. Police were called by the Ambulance Service around 3.30am on April 24, 2022, to a report a woman had been found with head injuries at an address on Prairie Crescent. The woman, later identified […]
A man who murdered his elderly mother in Burnley has been sentenced to life in prison
Mumtaz Ahmed, 44, of Prairie Crescent, Burnley, was jailed at Preston Crown Court following the death of Inayat Begum, 85. Police were called by the Ambulance Service around 3.30am on April 24, 2022, to a report a woman had been found with head injuries at an address on Prairie Crescent. The woman, later identified […]
A man who cut a gas pipe to sell for scrap, resulting in a blast that killed a two-year-old boy, has been sentenced to prison.
In May 2021, Darren Greenham used an angle grinder to cut the pipe at his home on Mallowdale Avenue in Heysham, Lancashire. George Hinds, whose family lived next door, was killed in the subsequent explosion. Greenham was sentenced to 15 years in prison at Preston Crown Court after pleading guilty to manslaughter, damaging a gas […]
A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter following a gas explosion at a house in Heysham in which a toddler died
Following a gas explosion at a house in Heysham that killed a toddler, a man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. At around 2.40 a.m. on May 16, 2021, we were called to reports of an explosion on Mallowdale Avenue. When emergency services arrived, they discovered two houses had collapsed, with serious damage to a third. […]
A Barrow woman was sentenced after admitting to a number of charges related to the allegation of fabricating or inducing illness in a child under her direct care
Elizabeth Faragher, 43, of Albert Street, Barrow, appeared in Preston Crown Court on April 25, 2022, and pleaded guilty to five counts of administering a poison or noxious substance with intent and one count of cruelty to a person under the age of 16. She was sentenced to five years and ten months in […]
A Barrow woman was sentenced after admitting to a number of charges related to the allegation of fabricating or inducing illness in a chi…
Elizabeth Faragher, 43, of Albert Street, Barrow, appeared in Preston Crown Court on April 25, 2022, and pleaded guilty to five counts of administering a poison or noxious substance with intent and one count of cruelty to a person under the age of 16. She was sentenced to five years and ten months in […]
A man has today been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering his parents
Lee Tipping was told that he must serve a minimum of 27 years before being eligible to appear before the Parole Board, which will decide whether or not he should be released. Tipping was found guilty of the murders of Tricia Livesey and Anthony Tipping in their Higher Walton home in the early hours […]
A 26-year-old man charged with murder in the death of a seven-week-old baby boy who died from a head injury has appeared in court
Oliver Mailey, 26, was charged with murder and appeared this morning at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court. He was remanded in custody and is scheduled to appear in Preston Crown Court on Thursday for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
A Rochdale investigation into a vengeful conspiracy resulted in the imprisonment of ten gang members
Members of the same gang were sentenced to 131 years in prison today at Preston Crown Court.Harry Oni of Mythorn Walk, Manchester, was sentenced to 21 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to murder at an earlier hearing; Jeffery Ojo of Newick Walk, Manchester, 21 years; Gideon Kalumda of William Lister Close, […]
Police investigating the murder of Lee Dawson in Preston have charged two more people
Stuart Brown, 36, of Dawson Walk, Preston, has been charged with murder, and Kerry-Ann Metcalfe, 38, of the same street, has been charged with assisting an offender. Both are scheduled to appear in Preston Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning (Thursday) A 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender yesterday evening (Tuesday) has been […]
Police investigating the murder of Lee Dawson in Preston have charged two more people – (ID 527766)
Stuart Brown, 36, of Dawson Walk, Preston, has been charged with murder, and Kerry-Ann Metcalfe, 38, of the same street, has been charged with assisting an offender. Both are scheduled to appear in Preston Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning (Thursday) A 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender yesterday evening (Tuesday) has been […]
Police investigating the murder of Lee Dawson in Preston have charged two more people
Stuart Brown, 36, of Dawson Walk, Preston, has been charged with murder, and Kerry-Ann Metcalfe, 38, of the same street, has been charged with assisting an offender. Both are scheduled to appear in Preston Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning (Thursday) A 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender yesterday evening (Tuesday) has been […]
Police investigating the murder of Lee Dawson in Preston have charged two more people
Stuart Brown, 36, of Dawson Walk, Preston, has been charged with murder, and Kerry-Ann Metcalfe, 38, of the same street, has been charged with assisting an offender. Both are scheduled to appear in Preston Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning (Thursday) A 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender yesterday evening (Tuesday) has been […]
Three more people were arrested this evening by Preston police in connection with the death of Lee Dawson
A woman, 38, and a man, 23, were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, and a man, 36, was arrested on suspicion of murder. They are still being held at this time. The Ambulance Service called us around 3 a.m. on Friday (June 17) after 42-year-old Lee Dawson was discovered with stab wounds […]
A man from Blackburn has been jailed after attempting to groom girls he thought were 13 and 14 years old and asking them to send him expl…
A man from Blackburn was sentenced after attempting to groom girls he thought were 13 and 14 years old and asking them to send him explicit images of themselves. Despite knowing the girls’ ages, Suleman Mahmood, 28, continued to send them sexually explicit messages. Mahmood had been communicating with decoys from the Online Child Abuse […]
