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Foul-mouthed mum threatened to torch terrified neighbours after dousing them in petrol at a barbecue
Gemma Wood, 38, went berserk at a garden party and then attacked a peace-maker with a kitchen knife
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Rachel Wood has been jailed (Image: GMP)
A drunken mum threatened to torch terrified neighbours after dousing them with petrol at a barbecue and then attacked a peace-maker with a kitchen knife.
Gemma Wood, 38, went berserk during a garden party to celebrate a neighbour s new baby.
When police were called, they found Wood had pinned down another resident she was attacking with a six-inch knife. She s dead, sozzled Wood told officers, although her victim survived.
29 Jan 2021, 12:34
CHEERS…Raise a toast to the good folk at Hive Land & Planning, who fulfilled an urge to give something back to the troubled hospitality industry with some pro bono work. Hive achieved retrospective planning permission for the temporary retention of a marquee in the beer garden at the popular Thomas Egerton pub in Bolton. Once the restrictions are lifted, this will provide much-needed additional covered space that will allow more people to be seated while adhering to social distancing rules. Nice one.
Convicted conman Adam Routledge
BORDER PATROL… Manoeuvres by the combined Trading Standards troops of Cheshire, Halton and Manchester tracked a conman builder who oversaw a dodgy basement conversion in Didsbury using fake insurance and building regulation notices and costing the resident £60,000, Manchester City Council said this week. Further crimes in Northwich and Runcorn were reported before Adam Routledge, 36, of Stenhills Crescent, Runcorn, was caught and
A CONMAN builder scammed elderly customers out of thousands of pounds for fraudulent and substandard home improvement work. Adam Routledge, of Stenhills Crescent in Runcorn, appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to an offence of fraud committed in Manchester. The 36-year-old also had two similar offences of fraud committed in Cheshire taken into consideration before being handed a prison sentence. Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Trading Standards team joined forces with Halton Trading Standards to investigate complaints about the defendant from vulnerable residents in Runcorn and Northwich. They later joined up with Manchester Trading Standards colleagues who were already taking a case against him for similar offences.
Murder trial told of bloody south Manchester gang feud grown out of Gooch and Doddington gangs
Abdul Hafidah, 19, was stabbed to death in Moss Side in 2016 and last year Mohamoud Mohamed, 17, suffered the same fate - both were said to have been members of the Rusholme Crips gang involved in a feud with the rival AO gang
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