Greater Manchester Police has applied to keep secret the name of a 'covert' officer involved in a police pursuit which ended in two deaths. Officers were pursuing a stolen BMW on cloned plates being driven by Brandon Pryde, 18, as it went the wrong way on the M60 - it hit a red Vauxhall being driven by David Faulkner, 66.
Mr Pryde, a labourer from Wythenshawe, and Mr Faulkner, died at the scene. The incident followed a police pursuit through south Manchester which ended in a crash on a stretch of the M60 close to junction 27 in Stockport on May 27 last year.
Inquests into both deaths will be held in July. At pre-inquest hearings held at Stockport Coroners' Court today (Thursday) it emerged that GMP has applied to the coroner for an anonymity order for one of the officers involved, referred to in court only as D9.
