All news on the topic: Greater Manchester Police

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Woman loses £20k to romance scammer she met playing online Scrabble
A woman, aged 83, from Oldham, fell for a fraudster posing as a 60-year-old American millionaire widower who conned her out of £20,000 in a romance scam, police said
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Boys, 12 to 14, accused of rape and sex assault of girls in Morrisons car park
Four young boys aged 12 to 14 were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of rape in Rochdale, greater Manchester and now face fresh allegations of sexual assault against a second girl
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Boys – one as young as 12 – arrested after reports of rape by Morrisons car park
Greater Manchester Police are supporting the victim of a rape, said to have happened near a Morrisons car park in the Rochdale area yesterday evening
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Murderer who killed total stranger at the age of 17 now on the run from police
Eden Lomax, 27, was just a teenager when he killed a complete stranger with one punch just moments after he told him he'd had suicidal thoughts. He is now wanted on recall to prison
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Boy, 17, dies after being 'hit in the head' in workplace accident as 2 arrested
Workers in Bury, Greater Manchester, said they had been informed someone "had been hit on the head" and police officers investigating the tragedy have made two arrests
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Constance Marten's lover demands mayo and crisps as he's asked if baby is dead
Newly released police footage shows Mark Gordon demanding mayonnaise for his chicken as he and partner Constance Marten are arrested by police over the death of their infant daughter
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Paedo cheer coach used sport as 'hunting ground' to groom girls on Snapchat
Twisted Tom Walsh abused girls for years using his position as a cheerleading coach in Liverpool and Manchester as a 'hunting ground' while also grooming a victim over Snapchat
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Gunman executed 'Good Samaritan' who tried to help man shot dead at party
The mystery shooter blasted Cheriff Tall, 21, in the head and moments later did the same to Abayomi 'Junior' Ajose, 36, as he came to help - but three-and-a-half years on the killer remains at large.
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Nan on mobility scooter killed after being hit by HGV at pedestrian crossing
Brenda Rostron, 63, died after being struck by an HGV while using a pedestrian crossing on her mobility scooter on Thursday - with her heartbroken family paying tribute
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Mobility scooter rider dies after being struck by HGV on pedestrian crossing
A 63-year-old woman has died after being hit by an HGV as she rode a mobility scooter on a pedestrian crossing in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, on Thursday afternoon
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Police issue urgent appeal to find missing boy, 16, last seen this morning
Greater Manchester Police have issued an urgent appeal for missing teenager Tyler, 16, who was last seen walking along a road in Blackley, north Manchester, on Wednesday morning
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Paedophile hunters slammed after 'arresting' innocent man in Asda supermarket
Vigilantes wrongly picked out their suspect during an operation at Asda to hunt out a man who had been messaging teenage girls in a sexualised way
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Constance Marten tot's tragic final moments before body was left in Lidl bag
Jurors in the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have been shown CCTV footage of the couple's tragic baby daughter Victoria before her body was left in a Lidl bag
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Constance Marten's baby seen on CCTV for first time before tragically dying
Parents Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are both on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the manslaughter by neglect of baby Victoria, who was found in a Lidl bag in a disused shed after they went on the run
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Dad 'heartbroken' after late son's mementos stolen from airport car park
Mark Holden, 50, has how he has been left "heartbroken" after cushions made from his late son Jacob's t-shirts were stolen from his car which was left at Manchester Airport
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Horrifying moment gunman shoots stranger's car with innocent father and daughter
CCTV released by the CPS shows the moment gunman Daniel Whelan shot at a gang in 'revenge' for a robbery in Oldham, Greater Manchester, instead hitting a car carrying a dad and his daughter
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Joiner stabbed in beer garden attack 'would have died if he wasn't bodybuilder'
Anthony Scarff, 50, was stabbed in the neck by a group of four men, who were reportedly in their 20s, while celebrating New Year at The Blue Bell pub in Shaw, Oldham
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Rochdale grooming gang victim who fell pregnant makes urgent demand to top cop
"I warned Sir Peter Fahy in writing about the scale of the problem. I told him we were neglecting these children... but I was fobbed off. He has always just provided empty words. He needs to be held accountable”
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'Vulnerable' boy, 14, who ran away from grandparents' house found dead in river
Luke Howe, 14, who had learning difficulties, ran away from his grandparents' home on Thursday night and police have now confirmed that they have found his body in a river in Hale, Greater Manchester
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Female tram passenger bitten by older woman who 'wouldn't stop elbowing her'
Greater Manchester Police are looking for a woman in her 50s who sat next to an unnamed 26-year-old on a tram and began "elbowing and kicking her aggressively" before she bit her hand
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Grooming gangs using vapes to lure children as they offer e-cigarettes for sex
Tory MP Peter Gibson claimed children are being exploited 'as mules to fetch and carry the illegal products' and 'as agents by selling the vapes to their friends'
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Rochdale report on aborted foetus in freezer, fatal injection and caged girl
The damning 173-page report in Greater Manchester Police and other authorities' failed handling of Rochdale grooming gangs' abuse of young girls was released today
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Sick Rochdale grooming gang members who subjected young girls to serial abuse
Nine men of Pakistani and Afghan backgrounds were jailed as part of the Rochdale grooming scandal in 2012 - but further investigations resulted in the convictions of 42
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Girls were 'left at mercy' of paedophile grooming gangs due to police failings
A damning 173-page review sets out multiple failed investigations by Greater Manchester Police and apparent local authority indifference to the plight of hundreds of youngsters
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Disgraced cop jailed for lying smiles after making shameless bid to keep his job
Raja Yousaf was jailed for four months after admitting he lied in order to swerve a traffic offence. He has now been sacked by Greater Manchester Police after a misconduct hearing