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Two men have today been found guilty of murder and two others of manslaughter after carrying out a revenge attack following a drugs dispute in April this year.
Daniel Cunningham, 33, from Blackpool, along with Lee Clarke, 33, and David Bond, 33, from Merseyside, attacked John Hutchinson, 44, at…
A man has been jailed for life with a 16-year minimum term after murdering a stranger who admired his car.
At 5.30pm on 25 June 2022 Paul Atherton, 38, attacked 22-year-old Ryan Harvey and his friend on Central Drive in Blackpool.
Mr Harvey and his friends had been on a day trip with…
A man from Morecambe admitted threatening and racially abusing a woman through social media over a five-month period.
John Cowen, 29, posted numerous threatening and racist comments on social media, directed at a woman and her company.
The posts caused fear and outrage and were totally…
Five men have been jailed for child sex offences in Rochdale over a four-year period.
Between 2002 and 2006 Mohammed Ghani, 38, Insar Hussain, 38, Jahn Shahid Ghani, 50, Martin Rhodes, 39, and Ali Razza Hussain Kazmi, 35, abused and sexually exploited two teenage girls.
They were all…
A man has been convicted of murdering his four-month-old son in Cumbria.
Dallas Marc Kelly died on 19 October 2021 from a traumatic head injury.
Reece Kelly, 31, from Workington, Cumbria, denied any involvement in the death of his baby.
He changed his story on the day of trial and pleaded…
This press release was updated on 13 December 2023
A man who shouted racist abuse at fellow passengers on a bus in Manchester has been jailed.
Darren Cuthbertson, 47, admitted shouting racist abuse, linked to the events in the Middle East, whilst he was on a bus travelling from…
Two men have been found guilty following the rape of a woman in Manchester city centre in May 2021.
Brian Jalo, 25, from Salford, and Juan Quinones, 24, from Rochdale, raped a woman in an alleyway near Piccadilly Gardens on 16 May 2021.
During the evening of 15 May, Jalo and Quinones…
A Manchester man has been sentenced for ramming police vehicles and attacking police officers with a hammer and an axe in Timperley and Wythenshawe in June this year.
At 11.50pm on 7 June 2023 Theadro Douglas, 32 from Manchester, drove his white van into a police vehicle on Mainwood Road,…
A nurse has been found guilty of unlawfully sedating patients on a hospital stroke unit.
Catherine Hudson, 54, has been convicted of three offences of ill-treatment in relation to vulnerable patients on a hospital stroke unit.
She needlessly drugged patients at Blackpool Victoria…
A dangerous predator has been found guilty of attempted rape and ABH after violently attacking two women.
Mohammed Hussain, 26, attacked the women in Cheetham Hill, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of 10 August 2022.
Shortly after 3am, Hussain approached the first woman on the street,…
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Media protocol
To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
