Patrick Edrich
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Horror at nursery as woman puts 'lives of 22 kids at risk' in terrifying scenes (opens the original)
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A woman ploughed her car through a nursery playground fence leaving a two-year-old boy trapped under the wheel. Jayne James had pulled her grey Omoda people carrier into the car park of Sunny Days Nursery on Vale Road, Ellesmere Port, on June 16 during the morning school drop-off. But the vehicle hurtled forward at speed, smashing through a wooden fence that separated the car park from the nursery playground. Cheshire Police said 22 children, aged between two and three, were in the playground at
Her partner's a killer, her brother's a criminal; then cops began looking at her (opens the original)
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The partner of a convicted killer has been taken to court after police turned their attention to her. Tess Vaughan is the long-standing partner of Timmy Donovan, who was previously convicted of the manslaughter of newly-wed PC Neil Doyle. Donovan, 41, is now serving more than 14 years for supplying dozens of kilos of class A drugs and laundering over £10m in illicit money. During a National Crime Agency's (NCA) probe into his drug enterprise, investigators focused on Vaughan after spotting diffe
Former Brookside star who conned would-be Manchester models arrested in Spain (opens the original)
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A shamed former Brookside actor who was wanted by police after being convicted of a £13.6 million fraud that conned would-be models in cities including Manchester has been arrested in Spain. Philip Foster, 51, who played manipulative villain Christian Wright in the Channel 4 soap during the 1990s, was held by the Guardia Civil in Torrevieja, on the Costa Blanca. Foster has been living in the south of Spain for at least 15 years while brazenly ripping off thousands of people and pocketing over £1
'I'm getting stabbed. Help me. Please, I am getting stabbed' (opens the original)
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A mum who repeatedly stabbed a vulnerable man after thinking she had been "set up" has been handed a life sentence. Kayleigh Smart stabbed 34-year-old Liam Collier nearly a dozen times then tried to pin the blame on her former partner. She carried out the attack during a schizophrenic episode after exchanging '"flirty" messages with the victim on Facebook, a court heard. The pair then spoke on a lengthy video call before Mr Collier paid for his killer's taxi fare to his flat on Sherlock Avenue i
Mum of woman, 22, who died after Gorton nurse failed her says 'learn from this' (opens the original)
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The mum of a "caring, bright" young woman who died after being neglected by a Gorton mental health nurse says she was "taken away by a system that let her down". Amy Barber, 22, had a history of complex mental health, including self-harm. She was on a specialist NHS psychiatric care ward in Merseyside where she should have been checked on every five minutes. But a court heard how mental health nurse Laurence Tchapong, 54, failed to perform an observation for almost 25 minutes. By the time one of
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