A drug dealer was caught after sending packages of cannabis to the UK from America. Matthew Johns, 42, flew out to New York for a month-long trip. While there, he packaged drugs and sent parcels across the Atlantic to various addresses. Police tracked Johns down after lifting fingerprints. They then …
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T he widower of a Post Office worker jailed after being convicted of theft has lost a Court of Appeal fight. Ian O’Donnell wanted to posthumously clear the name of his wife Joanne, who died seven years ago aged 64. Three appeal judges recently considered the case of Mrs O’Donnell, …
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A busy road was closed for hours after a man threw bricks from a building during a stand off with police. Lewis Harrop, 27, who suffers with mental health problems, climbed onto scaffolding on a building on Oldham Road, near the Royal Mail sorting office close to the city centre. …
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A new police operation which is preventing hundreds of deadly knives reaching the streets of Manchester is ‘a start’, according to the family of Yousef Makki – but they fear it won’t go far enough as young online buyers aren’t being prosecuted. Yousef, 17, a talented Manchester Grammar School pupil …
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