They include a former football prodigy, a murderer and a series of drugs rackets
From a former football prodigy to a convicted killer, they are among the 46 individuals who are starting lengthy terms behind bars this month.
Ratcliffe pleaded guilty to two counts of exposure and one count of taking an indecent image of a child, and was then sentenced.Alaa Atiah A speeding university student killed a teenage cyclist after finishing a late night study session at the library. Alaa Attiah, 24, mowed down 19-year-old Cameron Pearman on the Princess Parkway after driving at about twice the speed limit in his Jaguar XF.
It led police to secret payments from an auction house for stolen items. The investigation began in November 2022 following a series of burglaries in Poynton and Disley, close to the border with Stockport.Officers from Cheshire Police's Macclesfield CID trawled CCTV and carried out forensic enquiries. At around 5am on Sunday, January 15, they were alerted to a 'suspicious man' in the Coppice Road area of Poynton.
Jordan O'Reilly A disqualified driver who was being chased by police smashed into a funfair and left a woman seriously injured. Jordan O'Reilly, 21, was attempting to evade police last October after failing to stop for officers on patrol. The 21-year-old, of Croal Avenue, Platt Bridge, has now been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance, perverting the course of justice and failing to provide a specimen at Bolton Crown Court.The Manchester drugs empire that has come crashing down A prisoner ran a drugs empire from behind bars - while he spent 23 hours a day in his cell during the Covid lockdown.
Jebrill Mukhtar, Omar Alkhweldi, Hayday Naheem and Saif Majid dealt on the streets. Manchester Crown Court heard Safeer Ali used a phone from his cell, frequently calling and messaging the other men - and other dealers - during the Covid pandemic.Read the full story here. Connell killed dad-of-three Mr Patience in a rage, after he had stopped giving him money. Mr Patience's body was only discovered about two days after he was thought to have been killed, after Connell was seen breaking into his victim's home and leaving with his pet dog.
Arif was paid £2,000, and his flights and accommodation during his stay in south east Asia were also covered. He refused to name who else had been involved in the scheme. They found nine empty bottles of Captain Morgan’s rum in his room. After leaving the hotel, on the A6 Buxton Road, 29-year-old Ferguson was seen staggering into his white BMW 1 Series before driving away.
Rabea, a total stranger, approached her before he ‘shoved’ his hand up her skirt and forcefully groped her. After the ‘shocking’ attack, Rabea allegedly said he ‘could do what he wants’ and that he can ‘touch who he wants’. He was found out following the law enforcement hacking of the EncroChat network, a shady communications system used by criminals who believed it allowed them to offend with impunity. But Conteh, from Whitefield, Bury, was among the latest to be prosecuted as a result of his own messages.
Andrew Stephens, 41, was one of nine men handed jail terms totalling more than 100 years on Thursday after their roles in a massive £53 million nationwide cocaine supply plot - described in court as an 'Amazon-style' dealing network - were laid bare following a drug seizure in the Lake District. Prosecuting, Satpal Roth said Fr Firth was asleep at the presbytery of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, on Kingsway, when the crooks struck after 11pm last August 29. Ms Roth described how two of the men 'circled' the car before approaching the presbytery.
Stashing it nearby, they came across the operator as he was moving a cash box worth £35,000 from his van to the Nationwide Building Society in the town centre. They threatened to stab him if he didn’t hand over the box.Smith, of Belfield Road, and McAllister, of Mentmore Road, were both jailed for two years and ten months for offences of robbery and burglary.
Then a teenager, he warned of the 'carnage' he would commit in a chilling video recorded from his bedroom, was motivated by a hatred for the government and planned to kill 50 or more people in a 'bombing campaign'. Craig Hookham, of Medlock Way in Whitefield, Bury tricked more than 50 people across the globe into believing they were purchasing concert tickets for artists, including Adele and Justin Timberlake, and seats at a number of football and rugby matches at venues all over the country. Only 45 of his victims were able to be traced, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Ali, of Waldrons Moor, Birmingham, was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court. He had previously been found guilty of attempted rape. On September 8 2022, officers conducted simultaneous warrants in Harpurhey and Bolton where a large-scale drug operation was discovered being ran from a garage. Their associates Mohammed Nivyaan Maskeen, Eugen-Dan Preda, Rebin Khoshnaw and Ali Alawadie have also been jailed with the OCG's six members receiving a combined total of 37 years behind bars.Mostafa Al-Saleh A 'highly intelligent' law student who beat up his wife in a university library, threatened to throw acid in her face, and vowed to kill their unborn child has been jailed.
Led by his older brother Jonathan Cassidy, 50, alongside his business partner Nasar Ahmed, 51, the racket transported up to 356 kilos of the class A drug, with an estimated street value of £26 million, in hidden modified vehicles. Once the cocaine landed in the UK, Jamie Cassidy distributed it across the country through a network of trusted couriers.
Police were scrambled to the scene and Farrington, who was a registered firearms holder, was arrested. The shotgun was seized and during a search of his house, a further shotgun and several cartridges were found. Creedy was jailed for manslaughter in 2013 after he and four others attempted to rob Simon Brass, 40, before pushing him into a canal in Manchester in June 2012. He's now been jailed for life.Jacob Richards A teen gunman burst into a shop and opened fire as ‘gang rivalry’ spilled out into the streets of Stockport. Jacob Richards, then just 15, fired a gun three times in a shop in Cheadle Hulme, before shooting at a passing delivery driver who happened to witness his escape. No-one was hurt.
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