Woman jailed after repeated racist tirade at police officer

direct to your inboxStudents angered by the increased police presence on campus in Fallowfield have begun following officers and acting as 'legal observers', the M.E.N can reveal.

Here are some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester in the past week. A vile paedophile groomed young boys he found during online video gaming sessions. Steven Flynn, of Albion Drive, Aspull, Wigan, was sentenced to six years imprisonment at Bolton Crown Court this week.

direct to your inboxA young man has avoided jail after he led police on a dangerous chase through the streets of Manchester city centre before crashing into an oncoming car.Mustafa Iqbal, 22, drove at speeds of more than 60mph, veered on to the opposite side of the carriageway, and drove through a number of red lights during the pursuit.The chase only ended when Iqbal's car became wedged between an oncoming vehicle and parked cars on a residential street in Old Trafford.Manchester Crown Court

here"We all had one common purpose, which was to help everybody in there as best we could," he said.He told the public inquiry on Thursday: "I don’t know if it was just a personal frustration but going into an incident such as that, seeing the casualties and the type of injuries that the casualties had...certainly I felt the best people in that situation would have been medical experts, paramedics."I don't know the time frame, but it felt like a while before any paramedics were in the City

Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletterA Cheshire man who murdered his girlfriend’s son while she was at the hairdressers has been jailed for life.Jonathan Simpson, 25, will serve a minimum of 19 years in jail after being found guilty of the murder of 22-month-old Jacob Marshall.Liverpool Crown Court heard how the toddler suffered a “catalogue of injuries” on his body as well as a fatal head injury.Jacob was found seriously injured at his

criminal offences over the past week, with M.E.N. reporters there to cover the most serious cases.

Bolton on Saturday.Officers arrested Carla Couperthwaite, of Halliwell Road, to 'prevent a breach of the peace', according to Greater Manchester Police's Bolton neighbourhood team.But as she was being arrested, the woman 'began spitting at officers', says the force.After the incident, police say the woman was then 'racially abusive' towards another police officer exercising their duty.She has now been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence and the assault of an emergency

Manchester Magistrates' court following the incident.

Oldham this evening.

court cases our reporters have covered in February 2021.

direct to your inboxThe Government's failure to vaccinate police against Covid-19 as a priority has been described as a 'damaging betrayal'. The view, from National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, John Apter, was supported by Greater Manchester Police Federation chairman Stuart Berry.

direct to your inboxA 17-year-old boy is being questioned by police investigating racist graffiti scrawled on the George Floyd mural in Manchester's Northern Quarter, it's been revealed.The teenager was held by officers after a chase early on Friday morning, Greater Manchester Police said.Police were called at 5.25am to a report of criminal damage at Stevenson Square.The boy was subsequently arrested on suspicion of racially-aggravated criminal damage, GMP confirmed.He remained in custody for

Love Island’s Molly-Mae Hague has spoken about buying a house with boyfriend Tommy Fury, while telling her 5.2 million followers she recently pulled out after putting an offer in. The loved-up pair have been dating since 2019 after meeting in the Love Island villa and currently live in a stylish Manchester pad.

in Salford and surrounding areas.  The incidents happened between August and October 2019.Police say he entered the homes of several lone women before tying their hands and feet together.He would then threaten them and go on to ransack their homes.No one was injured but the incidents left the victims traumatised.He was today sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to nine years in jail after pleading guilty to 10 counts of burglary, two counts of robbery, five counts of theft and two

direct to your inboxPolice have detained a number of men after they attempted to carry out a robbery directly in front of officers. Officers from GMP on patrol spotted the offenders conducting a robbery in Chorlton on Thursday night.

straight to your inbox every day for freePaul Scholes and Owen Hargreaves are in agreement that Mason Greenwood is the best finisher at Manchester United. The teenage forward signed a new contract at Old Trafford earlier this week and started in United's Europa League game against Real Sociedad on Thursday evening.

Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletterA pensioner who strangled his wife to death after he 'snapped' days into the first UK lockdown has been jailed.Anthony Williams, 70, told police he “literally choked the living daylights” out of his wife of 46 years on the morning of March 28 last year at their home in south Wales.Williams was cleared of murder following a trial in which a psychologist argued his anxiety “was heightened” because of lockdown,

direct to your inboxA convicted terrorist recruiter has denied helping Salman Abedi carry out the Manchester Arena attack from prison and claimed his mental state is 'too fragile' to give evidence to the public inquiry into the atrocity.Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, is said to have used an 'illicit' mobile to attempt to call Abedi while he was in prison in early 2017 a few months before attack which claimed 22 lives and injured hundreds more.Abedi also visited him in prison, once in February 2015