All news by author: Esther Halligan
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Drug dealing granny was 'barely able to form sentence' as police raided her home
Grandmother Joanne McKie, 44, was "barely able to form a sentence" and was "heavily intoxicated" when police raided her home in a drug bust and found class A drugs
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Roofer jailed after pretending to use toilet to steal £8k from elderly couple
Isaac Lowe, 36, from Stockton, admitted to burglary before he broke down in tears after the court heard how he ruthlessly stole money from a pensioner couple inside their home
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Balaclava killer who bludgeoned and killed friend and his fiancée locked up
Andrea Cardinale attacked Antonino Calabro and Fransesca Di Dio with a sledgehammer and knife, killing both of them days before Christmas in what a judge said was a 'manifestation' of his paranoid schizophrenia
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Woman denies procuring and using poison to abort her child during Covid pandemic
Bethany Cox, from Stockton-on-Tees, pleaded not guilty to two charges of "child destruction" and "procure own miscarriage by poison" at court and was given bail
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Scary texts shows gang bragging about importing £1m of drugs into seaside town
This gang of drug dealers brought £1 million of cocaine and cannabis into the country and then boasted about the act in chilling text messages, which were read in court
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Mum says she still loves son who became one of UK's most notorious drugs lords
Susan Moorby says she prays for drug lord son Jon Moorby every day but admits he ran his multi-million pound operation through fear and even threatened to kill his whole family over money
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'My son's a drug lord - he's threatened to kill me but I still love him'
Susan Moorby, whose 51-year-old son Jon Moorby is appealing against his 29 year sentence, said the seeds for his crimes were sown when he was a schoolboy.
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