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Police didn't have 'single piece of evidence' to support woman's claims she'd been groomed by Asian gang

Eleanor Williams falsely accused a number of men of rape and told police she was trafficked and beaten by an Asian gang

Manchester Evening News

Woman was locked up and chained to abusive partner who held her hostage for five years

Michael Cooper, 50 fitted bars to the windows and forced his partner to sleep in the loft as his prisoner before she eventually escaped in June 2020 after five years.

Daily Record

Woman was locked up and chained to partner who kept her prisoner for five years

Michael Cooper, 50, from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, kept his partner prisoner for five years where she was locked up at night and chained to him, a court has been told

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Far-right extremists discussed underground base in Lake District, court hears

Kurt McGowan, of Workington, Cumbria, was jailed for seven years at Preston Crown Court.

The Independent UK

Man's shock after reading 'love letters' from teen who accused him of sex trafficking

Mohammed Ramzan criticised authorities for not spotting the 'gaping holes' in Eleanor Williams' story earlier and said his family has been through 'unimaginable trauma'

Daily Mirror

Screaming children barricaded themselves in bedroom as thug strangled their mum

Darren Wilson was jailed for 15 months after kicking down his ex-girlfriend's front door and strangling her as her kids screamed, before the family locked themselves in a bedroom

Daily Mirror

Woman found guilty of lying about being a victim of 'Asian grooming gang'

Eleanor Williams published pictures of her injuries and an account of being groomed, trafficked and beaten

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Woman who made grooming gang claims convicted of perverting course of justice

Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court.

The Independent UK

Rapist used hidden camera to take intimate photos of woman before selling them online

Kriss Sawyer, 31, sold the footage for up to £800

Manchester Evening News

Estate agent warned woman stalker had booked viewing of her home

Ian Heed also repeatedly drove down her road and tried to view her old house

Liverpool Echo

Man from Manchester caught out on M6 with boot stashed full of drugs

Hughes was found to have played a significant role in a drug-trafficking operation between Manchester and south Cumbria

Manchester Evening News

Pensioner attacked neighbour with saw after row over burning sofa

John Mitchell was burning a sofa in his back garden and set upon his neighbour

Liverpool Echo

Vile rapist assaulted sleeping woman twice then told colleague 'she made me do it'

A Judge told Ashley Iddon he was considered a danger to women in the future

Manchester Evening News

Medical records of alleged grooming gang victim do not match claims, court hears

Medical records of a woman who claimed she was the victim of a grooming gang do not match allegations she was beaten, stabbed and given a “backstreet abortion”, a court has heard.Preston Crown Court heard Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, made the claims to her boyfriend in a message, in…

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Daily Record

Man admits killing girlfriend by striking her 12 times with an axe

Andrew Burnfield denied killing former partner Katie Kenyon for months, but changed his plea to guilty three days into the murder trial on Wednesday.

Liverpool Echo

Haunting warning from murder victim's family after mum was lured to her own grave

"Every Christmas, birthday and holiday will be scarred by Katie's absence"

The Independent UK

Murderer returned to forest to show police where mother-of-two’s body buried

Andrew Burfield, 51, was jailed for life at Preston Crown Court on Thursday for the murder of Katie Kenyon.

Daily Mirror

Moment killer boyfriend collapses as police escort him to spot where he buried ex

Dressed in a full white protective suit and blue face mask with his hands clasped together in handcuffs, Andrew Burfield is taken back to the place where he buried Katie Kenyon

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Evil killer took ex for last meal at McDonald's before murdering her with axe in forest

Katie Kenyon, 33, had been excited about starting a "new chapter" with ex-boyfriend Andrew Burfield, 51, but hours later he'd murdered her with an axe in the woods

Daily Mirror

Axe killer jailed for 32 years for murder of mum-of-two he buried in forest

Andrew Burfield, 51, changed his plea yesterday to admit to the murder of ex-girlfriend Katie Kenyon, 33, who he killed with an axe before burying her body in a shallow grave

Manchester Evening News

Two gangsters blasted in terrifying street shootout for £220,000 cannabis farm

The group have been jailed for more than 80 years together.

Manchester Evening News

Trial of two men accusing of murdering Salford University student Aya Hachem collapses

Sohayl Suleman, 38, and Junior Lewis Otway, 42, were facing charges of murder and attempted murder following the botched assassination attempt of garage owner Pacha Khan in May 2020

Manchester Evening News

'Yardie Derek': What happened to the crack dealer who killed Desmond Noonan

Crack dealer Derek McDuffus dreamed of becoming a chef, but when gang lord Dessie Noonan knocked on his door one night in 2005, he became a murderer

Manchester Evening News

Angry drunk put petrol bomb under pub landlord's car as revenge for being thrown out

Alan Magnan placed a plastic bottle with a flaming rag under a Range Rover owned by the licensee

Manchester Evening News

Thug who strangled terrified partner and said he 'might kill her' spared jail

Mark Slater was spared jail

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