Police cordoned off a street in Manchester city centre on Sunday afternoon (August 13) after reports of a stabbing. Emergency services descended on Oldham Street, near the Northern Quarter, at around 4pm.
26.07.2023 - 10:48 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A hit-and-run driver was able to dodge police for four months - despite visiting one of his victims in hospital.
Levi Lowther fled the scene after smashing a rented Volkswagen people carrier into a tree on Didsbury Road in Stockport, a court heard. The 26-year-old managed to evade police despite making 'many trips' to the bedside of his new girlfriend who was injured in the smash.
Lowther's partner suffered a badly fractured leg and had to learn to walk again. Two other women were left injured in the crash, with one suffering a fractured spine and ribs, plus internal haemorrhaging and extensive liver damage.
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None of the three women were wearing seatbelts at the time of the impact and all had been inhaling 'hippy crack' nitrous oxide cannisters to loud music in the moments before the crash, the court was told. Officers linked the wrecked VW Sharan with Lowther's father within 24 hours of the accident but he was not tracked down until the following April after police issued his picture in a public appeal.
It emerged he first visited his girlfriend on the night of the accident. Whilst not giving a statement to police, she chronicled her fightback to full health on Facebook and TikTok.
At Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Judge Angela Nield questioned why police had not arrested Lowther earlier. She told him: "The utter stupidity of your driving on the night in question has had a serious and wide-ranging impact on your friends and loved ones.
"You failed to stop after what was a catastrophic collision, which was the conclusion of your appalling level of driving. The collision involved the deployment of every single emergency service
Police cordoned off a street in Manchester city centre on Sunday afternoon (August 13) after reports of a stabbing. Emergency services descended on Oldham Street, near the Northern Quarter, at around 4pm.
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