A new police drive to smash Cheetham Hill's notorious counterfeit trade has uncovered a dilapidated caravan covered in human faeces where an officer believes gangs could have housed a £20-a-day 'spotter'.
The caravan was found behind a gated compound. It was crudely connected to an electricity supply and it was parked under a human waste pipe.
Gob-smacked officers watched in horror as someone flushed the toilet in the adjacent building and waste poured onto the roof of the caravan, which was covered in faeces.