This press release was originally published on 17 July 2023

A 39-year-old man has been jailed for 18 years for raping a woman in her own home whilst awaiting trial for child sexual abuse offences.

Michael Levy, from Bamber Bridge, contacted the woman on Facebook in November 2022 and after exchanging messages they met up in January 2023.

A 38-year-old woman has been found guilty of murdering her five-year-old son at their home in Oldham in 2021.

At 6.15 pm on New Year's Eve 2021, Claire Scanlon left her house on Elm Road in Oldham, ran to her uncle's house opposite and told them that her son, Dylan, was not breathing or moving.

Members of her family went over to her house and found Dylan lifeless in a double bed in the main bedroom of the house with numerous bruises on his face and body.