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21/10/25

A major drug trafficker who paid his daughter's private school fees with envelopes of cash left at reception has been jailed for nearly 19 years.

Gregory Bell, 43, made millions as a leading supplier of Class A drugs. Police discovered he owned 34 properties—mostly in east Manchester—along with two villas in Spain, while living in a £2,200-a-month rented apartment in Prestbury, Cheshire.

26/09/25

A young boy was left paralysed and his two siblings seriously injured after their mother allowed her drug dealer to drive them home.

Shayna Bowman, 29, accepted a lift from Rhys Farry, 30, following a football tournament, despite knowing he had been drinking and using cocaine. During the journey on the A537 near Chelford, Farry ran a red light, clipped another car, and crashed into a tree.

28/08/25

Paul Gallagher, the elder brother of Liam and Noel Gallagher, has appeared in court facing multiple sex offence charges, including rape.

Gallagher, 59, is also accused of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, three counts of sexual assault, three counts of intentional strangulation, coercive and controlling behaviour, and two counts of making threats to kill. The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 2022 and 2024.

30/07/25

The estate of Richard Scott, a multimillionaire who died aged 81 in 2018, is at the centre of a fierce legal dispute. Scott, who fathered 19 children and amassed his fortune running the UK's second-largest car boot sale from his vast Cheshire farm—once the set for ITV's Car Boot Challenge—left behind a fortune officially valued at £7 million, though it may be worth up to £43 million based on private offers.

19/06/25

A fraudulent psychiatrist has been ordered to repay more than £400,000 to the NHS or serve an additional two and a half years in prison. Zholia Alemi, 62, was sentenced to seven years in jail in February 2023 after being found guilty of multiple fraud offences.

Alemi falsely claimed she had qualified as a doctor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. However, a jury at Manchester Crown Court concluded she had forged both the medical degree certificate and a letter of verification, which she used to gain registration with the General Medical Council in 1995.