A driver was arrested after a dramatic police chase through Bolton last night.
07.11.2023 - 16:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A couple dragged their friend’s dead body ‘face down through the mud’ before dumping it by a primary school. Robert Halliwell, 48, and Melanie Bullen, 53, had been taking drugs alongside Kerry Newman when they woke up to find she had died.
They both ‘bundled’ her into Halliwell’s car, drove half a mile away and dragged her body to an alleyway by Ashfield Valley Primary School and the Sandbrook Retail Park in Rochdale. She was discovered face down, partially clothed, by members of the public on New Barn Lane, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
Following a post mortem, 40-year-old Kerry Newman's cause of death was said to be aspiration pneumonia due to drug toxicity. Police are no longer treating her death as suspicious.
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Halliwell and Bullen both accepted perverting the course of justice and claimed that they ‘panicked’ when they found that Kerry had died. Today, November 7, both were jailed for two years, of which they will they will serve half their in prison and the other half on licence.
As the case concluded, a member of Kerry’s family could be heard shouting: “A year for a life?!”
Prosecuting, Nicholas Clarke said that after recovering various CCTV footage, it enabled them to identify the pair and trace them back to Halliwell’s flat.
In the early hours of July 17 this year, they were captured leaving Halliwell’s flat on Freehold, Rochdale. The footage showed them driving in his car, which was registered to the same address, and arriving near to Ashfield Valley Primary School and the Sandbrook Retail Park, before leaving
A driver was arrested after a dramatic police chase through Bolton last night.
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