All news by author: Patrick Edrich

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Woman realised 'Bumble Swindler tried it on' with her when she saw the papers
Sarah, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, shared how she had engaged in repeated conversations with serial romance fraudster Cieran McNamara between 2019 and 2021.
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Elle Edwards murderer Connor Chapman to appear before the Court of Appeal
"Wholly innocent" Elle, 26, was on a night out with her sister and friends when she was killed by a hail of bullets outside the Lighthouse pub, Wallasey, on Christmas Eve 2022
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Drug kingpins 'Big Man' and 'Scouse Phil' flooded entire city with Class A drugs
A gang of drug dealers who hailed from the Merseyside area worked with connections in Plymouth to deliver the Class As to the city using couriers who would travel to the Devon port
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McDonald's worker with 'gorgeous soul' and 'best smile' dies after night out
Loughlan Nicholas Brown's mother received a worrying phone call from her son's boyfriend alerting her to a text message that warned that the 22-year-old may take his own life
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Mum collapsed at wheel with son in car - wakes up three weeks later in hospital
Shelly Gill had no memory of the accident in December last year and woke up three weeks later in hospital after having a subarachnoid haemorrhage at the wheel
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Mystery death of mum, 31, who was 'completely normal' just before sudden death
Mum-of-three Sarah Stephens died within minutes of an ambulance arriving. Her bereaved father Paul explained he had called the ambulance only as a precaution, with "everything seeming normal"
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Moment suspects flee after arson attack when fireball erupts outside home
A house on a gated road in Liverpool was firebombed by three suspects in the early hours of Friday morning with Merseyside Police labelling the act 'totally reckless'
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Mum's surprise at total she falsely claimed in benefits when kids went into care
Mum Danielle Muirhead, 32, from Walton, Liverpool, scammed over £36,000 in Universal Credit, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit after her two youngest children went into care in March 2018
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Cruel sticker left on mum's car window after she visited B&M with her children
The mum said she feels 'targeted' after a vile sticker was left on her car window after she visited B&M store with her children
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Woman's boyfriend 'was once friends with man who arranged her murder'
Ashley Dale, a 28-year-old council worker, was shot in the abdomen with a Skorpion sub-machine gun on August 21 last year in her Leinster Road home
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Footage captures moment firework explodes in moving car seriously injuring two
Two men suffered serious injuries to their face and hands after a firework exploded inside a moving car in Kirkby, Merseyside, and Merseyside Police were called
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Horror as discarded firework blows man's fingers off during display clean-up
WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: A man was cleaning up after a firework display in Aigburth, Liverpool, when he picked up a discarded firework and it exploded in his hand
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Inside 'worst place to walk in the UK' where people feel unsafe in the dark
The Merseyside location covers both affluent and deprived areas of the city and pedestrians have to contend with 'dingy' underpasses and drug paraphernalia strewn on the ground
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Family man's 'secret life' quickly unravelled after simply walking into a bar
Kai Birkett, a 23-year-old self-employed joiner, was arrested by a police officer shortly after trying to enter the Reef Bar in Warrington, Cheshire on March 13 last year
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Girl, 4, asks one heartbreaking question after mum collapsed at airport and died
Mum-of-three Melissa Kinsella suffered a cardiac arrest while on holiday in Turkey in May and was then pronounced dead only hours after landing back home in Merseyside
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Ryanair flight forced turn around after early morning 'drunken mid-air fight'
It was claimed that a passenger on the Portugal-bound flight from Manchester Airport was 'slapped hard' across the face by someone they were travelling with due to their behavior towards another passenger
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'I turned up for Ryanair flight early and was refused due to my wheelchair'
Ian St John, who has been paralysed for seven years due to spinal cancer, said he was due to fly from Cork Airport in Ireland to Liverpool but was refused access to his flight
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Carer stole £5,000 from vulnerable patients with dementia she was looking after
Carer Faye Collins has been jailed after she stole £4,360 using a dementia patient's bank card, whilst already suspended for stealing money from another vulnerable woman
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Boy, 19, stabbed to death in town had 'zest for life', heartbroken family say
Matthew Daulby, 19, "gave love so generously" and "had zest for life", said his family in a tribute after he was named by Lancashire Police as the victim of a stabbing in Ormskirk
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Hunt for masked gunman as grandad, 58, executed 'in case of mistaken identity'
The dad of four and granddad of eight also suffered gunshot wounds to the back when the balaclava-clad gunmen burst into the business at around 6pm. He died of his injuries five hours later leaving his devastated widow behind
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EasyJet marches 19 off flight as passengers mutter 'I want to get home'
The easyJet flight, from Lanzarote's Arrecife Airport to John Lennon Airport, was due to take off at 9.45pm on Wednesday, July 5, but did not leave the Spanish airport until nearly 11.30pm
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Dad tries to storm ex's home before staging roof protest and demanding McDonalds
Paul Rutledge, from Widnes, Cheshire, also hurled tiles at police officers while shouting his demands for cigarettes and McDonald's in an "extraordinary" standoff with police
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Smuggler tried to sneak 14,000 cigarettes through airport in suitcase
Michael Legros was returning from a holiday in Bali with his partner Heidi Mullis and their young children when he was stopped by Border Force officers at Manchester Airport
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Terrified mum and kids sleep in living room to escape rats invading their home
Becky Flattery, from Huyton, Liverpool, has told of how she now sleeps in the living room of her flat with her two children due to the "noises in the ceiling" coming from rats
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Missing mum's burnt body found in fire pit as cops make fresh appeal
Paula Hounslea, 37, went missing from her home in West Derby, Liverpool, in 2009 and her burnt body was found three years later in a fire pit on a disused railway line
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