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Eight criminals who faced justice last week

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days

Liverpool Echo

Disturbing violent attacks on elderly and disabled have roots in evil heroin trade

The years long addictions of Renee Weaver and Stephen Earle created multiple victims

Liverpool Echo

Dealers joked about getting complaints from mums of kids they employed to sell drugs

In messages recovered from Encrochat, the three men also discussed setting up a drugs line during the coronavirus lockdown because they were 'skint'

Manchester Evening News

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Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil's brother died of a heroin overdose in Leeds bed and breakfast

Freddy Civil, the younger brother of Blake, had absconded from hospital

Leeds Live

'Irish Mikey Line' dealer supplied crack cocaine and heroin

The Dovecot based dealer helped the supply of drugs in Rhyl and Colwyn Bay

Liverpool Echo

Love Is Blind and ‘heroin chic’ proves bodies as trends has always existed

Love Is Blind’s Zanab Jaffrey called out her former fiancé Cole Barnett for making comments about her body. Social media immediately attacked her for it. Meredith Clark writes how the online response to Love Is Blind, and a recent New York Post headline, represent a retaliation against the body positivity…

The Independent UK

Renfrewshire drug dealer caught red-handed with heroin in motor gets prison term

Police swooped in the Glen Street area of Paisley where Class A substances and money was discovered.

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Amy Winehouse's ex Blake Civil-Fielder suffers loss as little brother dies from overdose

The little brother of Blake Civil- Fielder, who was married to singer Amy Winehouse for two years, had been planning to open a barbershop with his mum before he died from a drugs overdose, an inquest has heard

Daily Mirror

Repeat offender with 27 convictions jailed for drug dealing

Michael Coney was found with 20 wraps of heroin and 32 wraps of crack cocaine

Liverpool Echo

'Godfather' used £500k crash pay out to wage gang war

After a crash left Julian Bell paralysed he used the compensation to avenge his brother's murder

Liverpool Echo

Gangster 'godfather' used £500,000 compensation to wage crime warfare on UK's streets

Julian Bell was awarded £500,000 in compensation after fracturing his spine in a motorbike accident. He used some of the money to buy a home and a car, and the rest to create a gang in Manchester

Daily Mirror

The term ‘heroin chic’ needs to die – even if skinny-worship rages on

The aesthetic may be back, but the phrase has dark roots. Industry veterans warn we shouldn’t revert to 90s beauty standards

The Guardian - US

12 criminals taken off the streets last week

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days

Liverpool Echo

How the Longsight Crew's 'godfather' used £500,000 compensation to wage gang war

A boyhood motorbike accident left Julian Bell paralysed from the waist down - he used the huge pay-out to avenge his brother's murder and start a bloody turf war, the M.E.N's Damon Wilkinson looks back

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Liverpool Echo

Brown box deliveries tipped off police to huge £7m heroin plot

Two men were handed substantial prison sentences after playing a 'significant role' in the conspiracy

Daily Record

Cocaine and heroin haul sees cops seize £300,000 of drugs and cash as man arrested

Police Scotland uncovered the massive drugs haul at a property in Edinburgh's Haymarket.

Liverpool Echo

'Mothvodka' and 'Unawaregiraffe' ran major EncroChat drug gang

Key players were found to be using handles "Mothvodka" and "Unawaregiraffe"

Evening Standard

I’m A Celebrity’s Seann Walsh reveals the deep impact growing up with a heroin-addict dad has had on his life

The comedian has made great strides to turn his life around after being caught up in a Strictly kissing scandal in 2018

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Liverpool Echo

Heroin dealer caught with drug wraps and cash lurking in woods

Jay Patton, 22, was found with a stash of heroin, crack and cash after being stopped by a plain clothes police officer.

The Independent UK

‘Tranq dope’ — fentanyl mixed with xylazine animal sedative — present in deaths in 39 states

The sedative does not show up on routine toxicology reports

Liverpool Echo

Trusted taxi driver was unmasked as EncroChat user 'StrawSmith'

Joseph Ellis used his job to cover his hidden life as EncroChat user "StrawSmith"

Daily Record

Carer caught with 6kg of heroin in boot of Audi after turning to life of crime

Claire Dooley, 43, was roped into carrying drugs and dirty cash to pay off her former partner's debt.

Liverpool Echo

Suspects named over drugs operation after vehicle followed to Liverpool

They have been charged with conspiracy to supply heroin

Liverpool Echo

Carer caught with 6kg of heroin in the boot of her car

Claire Dooley transported illicit substances and dirty cash in her Audi in order to pay off ex's cannabis debt

Wales Online

'Young girls want to look like porn Barbie; thin catwalk models are the least of their worries'

Reports that 'heroin chic' is back in fashion are causing outrage but Jane Kenyon, who works with school girls, says it's just the 'tip of the iceberg'

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