A serial burglar and an obsessive stalker were among those jailed in our region
A former award-winning chef who harassed his former partner and led police on a 29 mile high-speed chase was one of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week.
Jail sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases.Dad's double life running £40m crime gang exposed A dad-of-two who led a double life as a ‘lynchpin’ of a £40 million drugs conspiracy has been jailed for 23 years. Bolton businessman Irtiza Bashir used Encrochat to concoct elaborate plans to smuggle huge quantities of cocaine and cannabis from Holland to the North West.
Deputy Circuit Judge Elliot Knopf said that the quantities of drugs involved in the conspiracy “pass all comprehension” as he jailed Bashir for 23 years. Sohail Ali, 37, of Revidge Road, Blackburn, has also pleaded guilty to being involved in the conspiracy and will be sentenced on October 21. He grabbed hold of her by the hair and pushed her onto a coffee table, before grabbing her again and headbutting her in the face. He then chillingly told her: 'I don't care if you don't want to have sex, you're going to do it anyway', Mr White said.
Mark Friend, defending, said his client admitted what he had done 'through a genuine prism of remorse'. Read was handed a four-year jail term by Recorder Hudson. A total of eight stores were affected, all of which have been left having to deal with the financial consequences. Fleming admitted eight offences of burglary, an offence of theft and possession of class A drugs.
Lambert pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and jailed for 32 months. Prosecuting, Simon Barratt said the couple entered into a relationship in October last year. Things started to deteriorate, with Lambert becoming 'aggressive and violent'. 'Obsessive' stalker travelled 4,000 miles to confront ex after she dumped him then held her cousin hostage An American stalker dumped by his girlfriend after subjecting her to 'horrific' online abuse travelled almost 4,000 miles to confront her - before holding her cousin hostage for hours while armed with a hammer.
Best took a train to Birmingham after booking a flight to New York but missed the flight by 40 minutes. With GMP's Critical Wanted Unit searching for him, he got on a ferry from Holyhead in North Wales. Best admitted stalking his ex-partner between January and April, false imprisonment, attempted false imprisonment, and possession of an offensive weapon before being sentenced to seven years for those offences on Friday . He will serve two-thirds of his seven year sentence in jail, before the Parole Board decide whether it is safe to release him.
During a work trip, she changed the locks on her flat, and after returning home Wallace turned up five minutes later, leading her to think he had been watching her. She later installed a Ring doorbell as she became ‘scared’, and on April 1 she discovered that Spyware had been uploaded to her phone.
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