Crime

19th January 2021 | By Emily Mcintyre

“I often hold my keys like a knife in my hands and put my phone in my bra,” says  20-year-old psychology student Efa Ashman. Efa is...

8th January 2021 | By George Crafer

A man who carried out a brutal knife attack on two elderly women has today been jailed. Jayden Hayes, 24, was sentenced to life in...

29th October 2020 | By Matthew Kay

Four men were arrested and a large amount of cannabis was seized in the Strangeways area of Manchester as police attempt to tackle drug abuse during...

5th October 2020 | By Hayley Grice

Volunteers from Failsworth are pulling together to help tackle crime in their local community. Local resident Paul Wadsworth saw that there had been a surge of...

24th February 2020 | By Anish Vij

Jamie Grundy worked at Manchester United as a coach in the ’90s and links football to his interest in the criminal justice system.  His first book, 90...

21st February 2020 | By Kamila Sebestova

Statistics from Greater Manchester Police show that burglaries in Withington rose by 27% last year.  The south Manchester suburb is popular with students and has been undergoing development...

15th January 2020 | By Imogen Campion

A panel of professionals came together at Man Met last night to discuss the controversial use of stop and search by the police. Statistics suggest...

16th October 2019 | By Megan Marsden

Security at Manchester Airport have released CCTV images of two men who stole baggage from a storage room in Terminal 1 during a burlgary on...

3rd August 2019 | By [email protected]

As a two-week firearms amnesty comes to an end,  hauls of arms handed in anonymously are being handled by police officers across Greater Manchester. In an...

13th December 2018 | By H.Austin

Having their house broken into is a student’s worst nightmare, and not being able to get the justice they deserve is just as bad.  Every...

13th December 2018 | By Jordan White

Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester and has a population of around 136,000. 14,500 of those inhabitants are members of the ‘SK8’ Facebook...

13th December 2018 | By Jordan White

In light of the Change 4 Cheadle Youth campaign going live earlier this year. We seeked to find a similar story in which we could...

13th December 2018 | By Jordan White

Two local girls have expressed their anger as both their cars have been broken into in two separate incidents.  Courtney Cunningham and Hannah Adshead of...

12th December 2018 | By Jordan White

Royston Able was attacked by a young man in the early hours of Saturday morning in Cheadle village last month and blames a lack of...

22nd November 2018 | By Jordan White

Change for Cheadle Youth is a campaign raised to combat the levels of crime and anti social behaviour around the SK8 area of Greater Manchester...

11th November 2018 | By Andrew Wong

  Residents in a student street woke up to find every house on their road daubed with a penis graffiti on their front door. Students...

9th October 2018 | By Mia Abeyawardene

The Northern Quota took to the streets to find out what Manchester residents consider to be their favourite and least favourite parts of the city....

16th January 2018 | By [email protected]

A 30-year-old man from Burnage has been jailed five years for attempted robbery of two Didsbury bars. Taurean Edwards burst into The Botanist bar on...

16th January 2018 | By Sanaa Reddy

A 24-year-old man who sexually assaulted a woman in her 90s has been jailed for six years. The elderley woman, who suffers from dementia, was left with...

12th January 2018 | By Sanaa Reddy

Victorian England is known for its brutal and violent history, crime was prevalent and even worse is the punishment for these crimes from hangings to...