Good evening, these are the latest ECHO headlines on Monday, September 12.
Three cars written off after Switch Island multi car crash
Three cars were written off and multiple people hurt following a crash at Switch Island.
Merseyside Police rushed to the M58 at Switch Island at around 2pm on Monday, September 12, following reports of a multiple car crash. Once at the scene officers found three vehicles, a BMW Z4, Audi Q5 and a Vauxhall Mokka, had crashed into each other and were blocking multiple lanes of traffic.
Officers from the North West Motorway Policing group closed three lanes of traffic on the M57 towards Broom's Cross Road, three lanes of Dunningsbridge Road eastbound towards Maghull and the M58. Traffic was queuing back and causing traffic chaos at the busy junction.
Heartbreak as 'much loved' primary school headteacher dies after short illness
Tributes have poured in for "much loved" headteacher Catherine Morris.
Mrs Morris was the headteacher at Holy Rosary Catholic Primary School in Aintree before she is believed to have died from a "short illness". Last week the school issued a message to parents and carers of children who attend the school to deliver the heartbreaking news.
The message said: "As you know, Mrs Morris has been off school unwell. It is with great shock that we share the devastating news that she passed away peacefully this afternoon, after a short illness. As you can imagine, our whole school family are heartbroken.
Skip hire owner was at 'top of the tree' of Class A drug trade
A man from Wirral has been jailed after he was found to have sourced, purchased and sold large amounts of Class A drugs to prominent local drug dealers.
Dean Anderson, 46, of Tudorville Road, Bebington was sentenced to 14 years and four months at Cheshire Crown Court earlier this month after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and cannabis. Anderson was described in court as being at the "top of the tree" of the drug trade, supplying large amounts of class A and B drugs to other criminals.
On Friday, September 2, the court heard how Anderson used Encrochat and had sourced, purchased and sold roughly 30kg of cannabis, 20kg of heroin and 20kg of high quality cocaine between April 3 and June 2 2020. Anderson ran his large-scale business through the Encrochat codenames "tendayer" and "famoussquid," and sold large quantities of drugs locally, and throughout the UK, as far as Scotland.
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