All news by author: Amy Walker

Ahmed Alsharan was stabbed in the heart and pushed into a canal in Manchester city centre after a group came up to him while he sat drinking a takeaway coffee by a canal last summer

Fiona McCusker-Rae, 52, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, is seriously ill in a Turkish hospital and while her family are desperate to get her home they say she is being held "hostage" over medical bills

Kate Roughley was found guilty of the manslaughter of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan, who died after being placed face down on a bean bag Tiny Toes Nursery in Stockport, Greater Manchester

Nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan had taken her first unaided steps and started babbling "dada" in the weekend just days before she was killed by nursery worker Kate Roughley

Manchester Crown Court heard Ms Joynes, 30, was already suspended from her teaching job following accusations she slept with a teen when she allegedly took the virginity of a second youngster, later becoming pregnant by him

Teacher Rebecca Joynes, 30, who denies six counts of sexual activity with a child, wept as she told a jury that her baby was taken away "24 hours after being born" following sex with a pupil

Rebecca Joynes, 30, became pregnant after allegedly sleeping with a 16-year-old, while already on bail and suspended from her teaching job after she was accused of sleeping with another boy, 15

Rebecca Joynes, 30, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court where she is accused of sexual activity with two teenage pupils while she was a teacher at a Greater Manchester school

Shaun Freeman, from Hulme, Manchester, denies that he was an "insider" providing information to a gang in a kidnap and torture plot where the victim was tasered and burned

Anwar, from Trafford, told jurors that prior to the incident, on July 13 last year, he met two friends and was travelling to the Curry Mile on Wilmslow Road

Peter Pitt, 52, pleaded guilty to an alternate offence of manslaughter on February 23 in relation to her death. At a hearing today, March 21, at Manchester Crown Court, it was confirmed that Pitt will be sentenced on May 24. He was remanded into custody until the sentencing hearing.

Kesley Hughes' actions saw the pilot consider diverting the plane before landing at Manchester Airport, where the 32 year old mum was arrested

Christopher Thomson, 43, and his newlywed wife were travelling to Santorini when staff spotted vape smoke coming from his seat prior to take off from Manchester Airport

Jessica Chance, 37, was set to board a flight to Rhodes from Manchester Airport after downing several vodkas when other passengers complained, with the police arriving shortly after

Benjamin Gallon, 37, was told he could only board the Manchester-bound Ryanair flight if he had not drunk any alcohol, but proceeded to swig vodka from a plastic bottle until he became aggressive and abusive

Masie Lomax-Newton, two, along with her one-year-old brother accompanied her mum Emma Lomax-Newton, 30, and gran Cindy Molyneux, 52, to Crab Fold Farm on November 8 2021, but tragically drowned in a pond after being left unattended for 30 minutes

Ryan White and Damian White stormed in Warren Burns' home, sending his partner and child fleeing in terror, before they savagely beat the dad and left him to die of his injuries three days later

Devious Karl Zierold, 56, who stole over £250,000 from his dementia-suffering mum, lived a life of luxury after handing the lion's share on to a potential business partner

Ryanair passenger Daniel Day was on the flight bound for Tenerife when it had to be stopped on the Manchester Airport runway to have him forcibly removed

Robert McCabe admitted to adding laxatives to his sister's milk during a bitter sibling row over house inheritance, which a judge called "inexcusable, juvenile behaviour"

Lancashire Police have said the incident on Barnoldswick is being treated as a potential hate crime and efforts are ongoing to identify the individual responsible

Andrew Park, 30, had broken into the house, in Bowdon, whilst the family of five were on holiday

Alex Rodda, 15, was murdered by Matthew Mason who was sentenced to life behind bars after beating the schoolboy to death in a 'violent, repetitive assault with a blunt weapon'

James Johnson, who denies murder, allegedly put David Toulson in a "deliberate and dangerous chokehold" at a flat in Salford, Greater Manchester on June 25 last year

Dex, a five-year-old Mastiff-cross, was snapped by a customer at The Plough, in Stockport, standing up to relieve himself at the urinal - sparking "amazement and hilarity"