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Category: GMP Appeals

Police appeal to trace two absconded prisoners with links to the Manchester area

Police are appealing for information to trace two men from Liverpool who have both absconded from Kirkham prison. Gerard Bailey, 43, from Merseyside, went missing from...

Missing from home – Harvey Collins

Police are growing increasingly concerned about the whereabouts of a missing man from north Manchester. 22-year-old Harvey Collins was reported missing from North...

Appeal as 78-year-old pedestrian Joseph Hurst killed in Bolton

Police are appealing for witnesses after an elderly man was killed in a trafffic accident in Bolton. At around 8pm on Wednesday 1 April a Skoda Fabia was driving along...

Man arrested after Manchester to Stockport train sexual touching appeal

A 28-year-old man, from Stockport, has been arrested following a British Transport Police appeal into a report of sexual touching on a train between Manchester...

No sign of Swinton ‘stab victim’ as man arrested for aggravated burglary

A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary after reports of a domestic assault on Moorside Road in Swinton. Police were called to the...

Passerby finds shotgun on Salford river bank

Picture by Dawne Sheldrick-Keating A shotgun was found by a dog walker on a river bank in Salford. The weapon was discovered at around 2pm on Tuesday 31 March in a...

Police fear public could be caught up in violent Salford gang war

  Latest: Police fear public could be caught up in violent Salford gang war By Tom Rodgers Greater Manchester Police’s chief officer for Salford, Chief...

Police link Wigan shooting with Salford grenade attack

Officers investigating a shooting in Wigan believe it is linked to a grenade attack on a house in Salford. Shortly before 5.20pm on Monday 30 March, police were called...

Smoker attacks and threatens to rape man on bus

A man was threatened with rape and then viciously assaulted on a bus simply for asking his attacker to stop smoking. The 34-year-old man was threatened and attacked on...

Next of kin appeal after death of Arthur Cottam, 77

Police are appealing for help in tracing the relatives of a man from Salford. Arthur Cottam, 77, of Peel Green Road, Eccles, was sadly found dead at his home on Saturday...