Merseyside Police

Wife Of Leading Businessman Found Frozen To Death In Car

PA | Posted 30.03.2013 | UK

The wife of a prominent businessman was found frozen to death in the back of a car, post mortem examination results have revealed. The body of Nico...

Wife Of Urban Splash Property Developer Found Dead In Car

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 28.01.2013 | UK

The wife of a prominent businessman has been found dead in a car. Nicole Falkingham, whose husband Jonathan Falkingham is the chief executive of pr...

I Pay Your Wages!

Tony Schumacher | Posted 25.11.2012 | UK Comedy
Tony Schumacher

Many years ago, in a past life, long before I was a stand up comedian and a writer, I was a Policeman. Don't ask me how it happened (the police thing, not the stand up and writing thing (although come to think of it, I don't know how that happened either)), it just did.

'Gang Warfare' Behind Merseyside Shooting That Put Four Teenagers In Hospital

PA | Posted 05.08.2012 | UK

Four teenagers injured in a shooting may be the victims of gang warfare, police said tonight. Three 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old were injured in ...

Police Probe As Four Teenagers Hospitalised After Merseyside Shooting

PA | Posted 05.08.2012 | UK

Four teenagers are recovering in hospital after being shot in the same incident in Merseyside late last night. Three 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old...

Boy Arrested Over 15-Year-Old's Drug Death After Birthday Party

PA | Posted 03.06.2012 | UK

Police investigating the suspected drug death of a 15-year-old girl in Liverpool have made an arrest. Rose Farley fell ill at a birthday party on F...

Police Launch Inquiry After Bones Found On Embankment

PA | Posted 18.05.2012 | UK

Police investigating the discovery of a woman's remains found near to a railway line have launched a murder inquiry. A dog walker found human bones...

Hillsborough Disaster Blamed On 'Drunk Fans' Leaked Files Reveal

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.03.2012 | UK Politics

Margaret Thatcher was told that a Merseyside Police officer blamed "drunken Liverpool fans" for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, according to leaked fi...

Merseyside Man In Court Over Fatal Stabbing Of Motorist

PA | Posted 29.01.2012 | UK

A man will appear in court on Monday charged over the fatal stabbing of a motorist in broad daylight. Steven Branscombe, 42, of Boswell Street, Bir...

Scoundrel Police Officer Sacked For Trawling Computer System For Women

PA | Posted 14.03.2012 | UK

A "disgraceful" police officer has been sacked for trawling the police computer system to gather information about women he wanted to have a relations...

Lodger Appears In Court Over Southport Double Murder

PA | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

A lodger has appeared in court charged with the murders of his landlady and her mother. The strangled bodies of Angela Holgate, 54, and 75-year-old...

Police Confirm Southport Landlady And Mother Died Of Asphyxiation

PA | Posted 04.02.2012 | UK

A landlady and her mother both died from asphyxiation, police have confirmed. Avon lady Angela Holgate, 54, and her 75-year-old mother Alice Huyto...

Mother Of Murdered Girl's Anguish As IPCC Rules Killer 'Slipped Away'

PA | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The mother of a 17-year-old who was murdered by a convicted rapist after he befriended her on Facebook said it was "heartbreaking...

Man Has Nose, Ears, Lips Bitten Off In Nightclub Attack

Press Association | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A man had his nose, ears and lip bitten off during a "sickening" attack outside a nightclub, police have said. The 31-year ...

Elite Police Officers Suspended For 'Inappropriate Behaviour'

Sky News | Posted 04.10.2011 | UK

Eight members of a police force's elite gun crime unit have been suspended for "inappropriate behaviour". The officers, part of Merseyside Police...