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The Latest Breaking News from Manchester Crown Court

Smiling cocaine boss thought he was 'undetectable'

A photograph of Leon Atkinson on a phone seized by police led to his downfall

Liverpool Echo

'ShaggyFarmer' moved dirty money out of Liverpool for major drug boss

Police discovered £200k in an Asda bag for life when they searched Abdul Ghafar's BMW

Liverpool Echo

Disgusting pervert who has changed their name to Rachel jailed

Fenton pleaded guilty to 21 child sex offences at Manchester Crown Court

Manchester Evening News

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Drug dealer who bought cocaine stolen from Liverpool 'firm' had letters from Dale Cregan

Leon Atkinson bought drugs stolen from a stash house during a violent raid

Liverpool Echo

How smiling beer photo helped snare cocaine crime boss who thought he was 'undetectable'

'We estimate Atkinson has been head of an organised crime group for the last ten years'

Manchester Evening News

Liverpool stash house raid led police to Dale Cregan associate

Exclusive: The story of how the theft of a massive coke haul from a Liverpool home led police to a man linked to Dale Cregan

Liverpool Echo

The crimes committed in Piccadilly Gardens which shocked Manchester

The busy city centre hub has become a magnet for crime

Manchester Evening News

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'Crazy' thug punched heavily pregnant girlfriend after urging her to jump out of window

Ionut-sorin Matei, 35, launched the 'abhorrent attack' when she was seven months pregnant with their child

Manchester Evening News

Football agent cleared of assaulting drinker in Altrincham village pub toilets

James Featherstone, 51, and his co-defendant Benjamin Cowgill, 41, were both acquitted following a trial at Manchester Crown Court

Manchester Evening News

Callous fraudster ordered to pay back just £1 after conning friends, colleagues and ex-partner out of £113k

Matthew Normyle, 41, invited seven people to invest in his fake boiler business - and left them massively out of pocket

Manchester Evening News

A laughing perv, a burgling mum and a man who sleeps with an axe... these are the faces of Manchester's newest prison inmates

The criminals handed prison sentences in April

Manchester Evening News

Liverpool man's role in £1m cocaine heist shocks the underworld

Kirkdale man was at the centre of plot which has had profound consequences for organised crime on Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

Baby-faced ASBO yobs now big-time drug dealers... but are marked men for life

Lifetime trouble-maker brothers Craig and Jason Cox, who were slapped with ASBOs aged 12 and 15, now face prison for a brutal heist.

Daily Record

"If he carries on I’ll blow his head off": Man caught messaging dealer about ‘b’, ‘snotty’ and ‘blue cheese’

Christopher McNamara, 33, was handed a suspended jail term

Manchester Evening News

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Daily Record

'Hard man' thug killed loving dad who accidentally stepped on his foot in nightclub

Robert Owen Greenhalgh, 31, lashed out at Robert Smethurst, who was out celebrating his birthday, several hours after his foot was accidentally stepped on.

Daily Record

Vile thug 'threatened to have partner raped' during horrendous campaign of abuse

Lucas Roberts met his victim online when they were both teenagers and quickly became violent and controlling towards her.

Manchester Evening News

A gym boss turned gangster, a 19-year-old posting ultra-right hate online and an ex-darts champion now disgraced... the criminals hauled before our courts this week

A round-up of some of the criminals who appeared in court over the past week

Daily Mirror

Gym manager became drug dealer after losing his job during Covid lockdown

Nabeel Issawi worked as a gym manager but lost his job during the first lockdown. He then turned to drug dealing and was jailed for 13 years for supplying more than 60 kilos of cocaine

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Lucy Letby: Nurse accused of murdering eight babies ‘in year-long killing spree’ appears in court

Healthcare worker, 31, from Hereford, expected to stand trial later this year after denying charges

Liverpool Echo

Nurse accused of killing eight babies appears in court

Lucy Letby is set to stand trial later this year

Daily Mirror

Man hid dark secret - and partner had no idea until police told her after abuse ordeal

Ashley Geraghty was jailed at Manchester Crown Court in connection with domestic abuse against his former girlfriend, who is the mother of his son

Manchester Evening News

'Yes, I've done it again': Shameless criminals caught out by their sick boasts

The MEN investigates those who made their feelings clear about their crimes

Manchester Evening News

Faces of criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week

These are some of the criminals put behind bars in Manchester last week

Manchester Evening News

Drug dealer driving like a maniac caught on camera during FIVE MINUTE high-speed police chase

Zach Trott was jailed for two years and four months

Manchester Evening News

Man, 24, admits £10,000 vandalism of Manchester Arena bombing memorial

Anwar Hosseni, of Salford, has pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to the 'Glade of Light' memorial in Manchester city centre on February 9

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