A man has been detained under the Mental Health Act after a police car was attacked at Oldham station on Tuesday evening, a person is thought to have died following a serious three car smash in Hulme and an inquest has heard that a Bolton mum killed herself and her two daughters with a drug overdose fearing they lived in a “corrupt world”.
Here are the top stories from our website today, December 6.
Man detained under Mental Health Act after police car attacked at Oldham station
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A man arrested in the grounds of Oldham Police Station has been detained under the Mental Health Act.
The 31-year-old had previously been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
Shortly before 10pm on Tuesday, January 4, an officer about to go on patrol in his police car saw a man who had entered the station car park.
The man reportedly ran at the vehicle and attack it while making threats to the officers inside.
Officers tasered and detained a 31-year-old man who was initially taken to custody on suspicion of criminal damage, assault of a police officer, and being found on enclosed premises.
He was subsequently rearrested the following day under the Terrorism Act by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing North West.
The incident has not been declared as terrorism.
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Pedestrian believed to be dead following three car smash in Hulme
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A pedestrian has died following three car smash in Hulme, the Manchester Evening News understands.
Emergency services were scrambled to Chorlton Road at around 6pm this evening, January 6.
A large cordon was put up between Bold Street and Marple Street with a huge police presence also on the scene.
Other cordons were in place on many of the adjoining side roads, including Mackworth Street and Bankwell Street.
Cars were being diverted away from the scene by traffic officers.
It is understood the person who died was a pedestrian and was not driving any of the vehicles involved.
Two of the cars were visibly damaged within the cordon, both with their hazard lights on.
A third vehicle, a large Mercedes people carrier, was also damaged and was positioned at the edge of the cordon.
It is not known what has happened to the drivers of the vehicles involved.
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Mum, 27, killed two daughters before taking her own life fearing they lived in a ‘corrupt world’
A Bolton mum killed herself and her two daughters with a drug overdose fearing they lived in a “corrupt world”, an inquest heard.
Tiffany Stevens was found dead alongside one-year-old Darcey Stevens and three-year-old Casey-Lea Taylor at their home in Little Lever in 2019.
All three were discovered surrounded by discarded syringes and empty pill packets.
Alarm bells started to ring when no one was able to contact Tiffany for a week.
Her concerned brother and former partner visited her terraced home on Arthur Street on January 21.
When they knocked and got no reply, they decided to break in through the back door.
What they discovered inside was a disturbing scene.
Tiffany was lying on a mattress on her living room floor. Beside her, underneath a duvet, was the body of little Casey-Lea.
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Controlling boyfriend slapped with ‘booze ban tag’ after terrifying attack on ex-girlfriend – he can’t drink alcohol for three months
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A jealous brute has been banned from drinking alcohol for 90 days after attacking his ex-girlfriend in a booze-fuelled rage.
Daniel Watson, 33, bit his ex-partner’s fingers until they bled during a row at her home, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
He then pushed the victim, who suffers from brittle bone disease, to the floor – causing bruising to her arm.
Watson was slapped with a high-tech ankle tag that detects whether he’s been drinking alcohol by monitoring his sweat.
The court heard Watson had been drinking when he took her phone and questioned her over messages from an ex-partner.
As the woman tried to take her phone back from him, Watson launched the terrifying attack, prosecutor, Alison Heyworth told the court.
“The pair had been in a relationship for two years by November 2020,” she said.
“It had become argumentative and became controlling and he (Watson) would use cocaine.
“There had been call outs to the police on two previous occasions but she didn’t support the prosecution of the defendant.”
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‘It’s devastating’ – Manchester pizza institution Croma shuts its flagship restaurant after 22 years in city centre
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Manchester pizza institution Croma has been forced to shut its city centre flagship restaurant in the wake of the pandemic.
The closure will make 28 staff-members redundant.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, co-founder Andrew Bullock said: “We had hoped to see our way through. It’s devastating.
“But as an independent, we simply don’t have the clout with landlords, or the balance sheet that large companies have.”
The chain only celebrated its 21st anniversary last November with a party at the venue that has now sadly been shuttered.
It was the first of the chain’s four restaurants to open, back in 2000, on Clarence Street tucked behind Albert Square.
Bullock said that the low footfall in the city centre over Christmas, including the Christmas Markets being absent from the square this year plus increasing numbers of office staff now working from home due to the pandemic all contributed to the site becoming financially inviable.
“We looked ahead of us, and we just couldn’t do it,” he went on.
“We just couldn’t cover the costs, and we couldn’t see a financial future. You don’t need to be an accountant to see that there weren’t the number of people coming in on a Friday evening or a Tuesday lunchtime.”
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