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Student stabbed man in eye with Louboutin stiletto so hard he had to pull it out

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Manchester Crown Court heard Mr Lloyd, from Blackley,  approached Omar’s friend outside the Mercure Hotel in Piccadilly Gardens on October 18 2014. He offered the woman a crisp, but she knocked them out of his hand, so he attempted to pour them over her head. The court heard Omar reacted by rushing to her friend’s aid and struck Mr Lloyd in the eye with the designer shoe. Prosecuting, Jonathan Savage, said: ‘He was then struck a single blow to the left eye with an object. Manchester Crown Court Shadiya Omar who was convicted of an attack with a high heel at a bar in Manchester, she received a suspended jail sentence at court ‘His next reaction was feeling that he has been hit in the eye and feeling a long object in front of his left eye, he had to pull it out.’ Police arrived to the scene and Omar was arrested in a room at the Mercure Hotel where her boyfriend had been staying. Mr Lloyd was treated at Manchester Royal Infirma...

Bags containing £800,000 of crack cocaine and heroin found dumped next to police van

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Drugs worth £800,000 were dumped next to a police van. Four people have been arrested after officers found the drugs when they returned to their vehicle after making routine enquiries at a house in Rochdale Officers were making enquiries at a house on Clement Royds Street, Rochdale. When they returned to their vehicle, two large bags, containing more than £800,000 worth of cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin had been left next to it. A further search of the house resulted in more class A drugs being found recovered plus £53,000 in cash. Two men aged 26 and 60 and two women aged 25 and 60 have been arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs and remain in police custody for questioning. Detective Inspector Andrew Butterworth, of Rochdale division, said: “This was an excellent result and an example of how police are determined to come out on top when it comes to drugs within the community. “Thanks to the hard work of our officer...