A 'big cat' has been spotted in a Cheshire village, close to the Greater Manchester border.
01.03.2022 - 10:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A hit and run driver who moved down a boy of 12, a vile bully who terrorised his ex in front of her screaming children and the Arena bomb plotter are among the people from Greater Manchester who have been jailed this week.
Our reporters were in court as scores of criminals were sent to prison during February, including a drug addict son who subjected his mum to a 20-year campaign of terror and the thug who stabbed his victim in the face.
Below are some of those who were sent down for their crimes.
A drug dealer’s girlfriend recruited her mother, father and brother to his gang after an arrest threatened her lifestyle, a court heard.
Jonathan Walsh, 33, headed the network which trafficked amphetamine and cannabis from the region to the East Midlands.
While serving a previous 14-year sentence for armed robbery, he met Jodie Bowie on Facebook. When Walsh got out, he moved in with Bowie in Failsworth, from where he headed up a drugs operation.
She conspired with him in it - and it provided her with luxuries way beyond what she could have afforded working as a carer for the elderly.
Designer clothes, expensive jewellery, high-powered cars and cosmetic surgery appointments were funded by the ‘sophisticated’ drugs supply line.
When one of Walsh's couriers - Bowie's uncle, Joseph Grey - was arrested, Bowie was so determined to keep things going she enlisted her mum, dad, and brother to help with moving the cash generated by the racket.
Now the family has been sentenced in a Manchester Crown Court case which heard that Jodie Bowie was 'fearless when it came to spending money'.
Jonathan Walsh, of Warwick Road, Failsworth, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply drugs and money laundering and was later found guilty of conspiracy to
A 'big cat' has been spotted in a Cheshire village, close to the Greater Manchester border.
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