Thinking the texts came from her own brother, Mrs Sinclair wired a total of £75 to an account – not realising it belonged to Christopher Sawyers, 35, who with his girlfriend Kirsty Edmondson, 23, had just murdered former history teacher Chapman with a lethal dose of heroin, it was alleged.

Kirsty Edmondson, 23, and 35-year old Christopher Sawyers lived with the body of Kenneth Chapman for up to a week, it was said.

A friend of one of Lee Rigby killer is due for sentencing at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of terrorism offences.

Arnold Pickering, 44, from Chadderton, Greater Manchester, did not return to HMP Kennett in Merseyside after leaving the open prison at 9.30 on Saturday morning.

Ahmed al-Khatib, 34, said he had visions of the demonic creature known as the ‘Jinn’ since he was 16 and had even undergone an exorcism carried out by an Imam.

Craig Wilcox, 28, had vanished in January after telling friends that he was living in fear of ‘some lads’ who were ‘after him’

The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission is facing calls to resign after allowing a far-right extremist group to use tragic Middleton soldier Lee Rigby in a slogan.

Craig Wilcox’s body was found in Dove Stone Reservoir in February, seven weeks after he went missing

A Wythenshawe gunman who shot a man dead in broad daylight with a sawn-off shotgun has been sentenced to life in jail after being convicted for the second time.

Police officers have raised an estimated £100,000 for charity with a 250-mile running challenge in memory of murdered Greater Manchester Police PC Nicola Hughes.

Inquest hearing into the deaths of Tracy Jones and two of her children after an arson attack by David Potts.