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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

The wrecked caravan beneath a human waste pipe where a £20-a-day counterfeit street spotter may have lived

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.

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