High in the stands: cocaine’s influence on football disorder
Cocaine and low-level public disorder are becoming increasingly prevalent in English football as the country returns to post-Covid normality, according
Heroin, crack and stacks of cash seized as eight arrested in Oldham police raid
A stash of heroin and crack cocaine – worth up to £7,000 – and a significant amount of cash has been uncovered in an early morning raid in Oldham.
Life on the outside: Manchester ex-prisoners scheme up for national award
A Manchester-based ex-offenders scheme Gate Buddies has been shortlisted for a national award celebrating its high success rate in rehabilitating former prisoners.
Jailed: Smuggler, 64, who swallowed 300g of cocaine to get it into Manchester Airport
A 64-year-old drugs smuggler, who risked his life swallowing 300g of cocaine, is handed a four-year jail sentence after being detained at Manchester Airport.
Moston drug dealer jailed after cocaine found stashed in his UNDERWEAR
A drug dealer who used his elderly mum’s car to deal cocaine around Manchester has been jailed after the substance was found stuffed in his underwear.
GMP bust alleged armed Albanian drug cartel ‘peddling cocaine in Manchester’
An Albanian drug cartel, supplying and selling cocaine in the city centre, has been smashed in a series of Greater Manchester Police dawn raids.
Jailed: Oldham womanising brute who ‘enjoyed’ taser and stabbed mistress to death
A womanising brute from Oldham, who stabbed his secret mistress to death after he amassed a string of lovers behind his wife’s back, is facing life in jail.
Kebab with a kick: Customers seen sniffing cocaine off Manchester takeaway tables
Class-A drug abuse occurred in a city-centre takeaway during the early hours of this morning, to the shock of party-goer witnesses.
Drug-fuelled Oldham killer ‘enjoyed’ being tasered after stabbing partner, court hears
A drug-fuelled killer who was shot with a Taser gun by police minutes after he stabbed his girlfriend in her Oldham home said, ‘I enjoyed that. You need more volts’, a court heard today.
Ecstasy and MDMA dealers are ‘heinous blot on our civilisation’, claims coroner in WHP drug death inquest
Dealers of party drugs were condemned as a ‘heinous blot on our civilisation’ by a coroner at an inquest today after a Warehouse Project reveller died of Ecstasy poisoning during a lad’s weekend.
Moston pensioner, 73, denies smuggling 2.5kilos of cocaine in suitcase through Heathrow
A 73-year-old Moston man denies smuggling two and a half kilos of cocaine into the country through Heathrow Airport