A drugs importing gang kingpin is among those who have been locked up this week in Greater Manchester. Dean Hussain appeared to be running a legitimate, growing business in the trade of vintage clothing.
In reality, Hussain was the ‘controlling mind’ behind a massive smuggling gang that imported at least 675kg of cannabis into the UK. He was locked up this week alongside his lieutenant Prince Oyewo and right-hand man Elliot McBurnie.
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Also behind bars this week is Mouhamadou Fall who brutally stabbed his dad and a stranger to death whilst in the throes of a mental health crisis.
Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are on hand to cover the biggest cases.
Here is a roundup of the cases heard before our region’s court this week:
Abdul El-Kamh and Isaiah Foster
Two masked thugs broke into a woman’s home and subjected her to a horrific attack whilst filming it on their mobile phone. The victim was just about to leave for work as a night cleaner on Feb 6 this year, when Isaiah Foster and Abdul El-Kamh, both 21, repeatedly banged on the front door demanding drugs and money.
They then moved to the back of the house where they smashed the kitchen window and climbed inside whilst armed with a claw hammer. Inside the house in Moston, they began damaging various items before moving upstairs. The woman had shut herself into her bedroom before they kicked down the door, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Her daughter and her niece had been locked in the bathroom by the woman moments before and were helpless as they heard the woman ‘screaming’ and ‘in pain’. Her daughter said: “We were shouting ‘Mama’, we were both panicked and did not know what was going on.”
El-Kamh, of Devon Road, Tyldesley, was jailed for 6 years. Foster, of Salisbury Street, Moss Side, was jailed for eight years with an extended licence of two years. Both previously pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and possession of an offensive weapon.
Read the full story here: They kicked down her door and as her children screamed ‘mama’ filmed their vile attack on a mobile phone
Dean Hussain, Prince Genesis Oyewo and Elliot McBurnie
On the face of it, Dean Hussain was running a legitimate, growing business. The owner of multiple companies involved in the importation of vintage clothing from the United States, the 26-year-old appeared to have a bright future.
In reality, Hussain was the ‘controlling mind’ behind a massive smuggling gang that imported at least 675kg of cannabis into the UK. Numerous fake companies – set up using stolen or fake identities – placed orders with outfits in California.
Concealed within huge shipments of clothing was masses of Cali weed, a powerful strain of the drug. Minshull Street Crown Court heard that between December 2022 and January 2024, 28 shipments came into the country.
Five were intercepted by Border Force officials, who found nearly 130kg of cannabis said to have been worth £902,210 at wholesale price and £3.7m at street prices.
“On the basis that the remaining 23 shipments contained a similar amount of cannabis, the total value of the cannabis imported in the 28 shipments was up to £5.3m if sold in wholesale bulk quantities, and up to £19.3m if sold at street level,” prosecutor Adam Birkby said.
Read the full story here: 28 shipments came in from the US – there wasn’t just vintage clothing inside
Mouhamadou Fall
A double killer who knifed his father before stabbing a stranger in a spree of ‘savage’ violence has been handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 14 years.
Mouhamadou Fall was made the subject of a hospital order as a judge passed sentence in the case on Wednesday (May 13). A jury, having deliberated for 11 hours, found him guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility earlier this year.
The 24-year-old, who killed his dad Sidy Fall and cyclist Norman Scott, has been readmitted to Ashworth High Secure Hospital. He will stay there for as long as treatment is necessary, before being transferred to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence. The Parole Board will determine if it is safe to release him once his minimum term has passed.
Read the full story here: Double killer who left his dad and stranger dead in horrific attacks discovers his fate
Benjamin Wilson
Benjamin Wilson, 35, has been locked up for ten-and-a-half years after being found guilty of raping an intoxicated woman he met in Manchester city centre. The victim had become separated from her friends during a night out, and feared her drink had been spiked during the evening, Greater Manchester Police said.
Wilson found her alone near a takeaway in what the force described as an ‘extremely vulnerable and intoxicated’ state. They said that Wilson ‘took advantage of the situation’ and guided her to a taxi before ‘repeatedly raping’ her at a flat in the city, in June 2022.
Read the full story here: Fresh from the shower wearing only a towel, the moment a rapist faced justice
Tristan Chapman
Two drug mules were caught on the same flight carrying 36 kilos of cannabis between them.
Tristan Chapman, 30, and Jhamack Taghdiri, 36, landed in Manchester Airport at around 6am on return from Bangkok, Thailand, via Doha on January 12 this year.
The strangers, both from Wales, were stopped by Border Force officials as they attempted to go through customs. Carrying a suitcase each, both items were examined and found to contain 18 kilos of cannabis each, concealed within numerous vacuum sealed packages.
Chapman, of St. Andrews Close, Pontrhydyrun, Cwmbran, Torfaen, was jailed for two years following activation of the suspended sentence.
Read the full story here: Both had debts, both made the same stupid decision
Dean Clarke
The mother of a teenage girl abused by a paedophile says her daughter ‘cannot trust anyone’ anymore. Dean Clarke, from Salford, messaged the schoolgirl through an online video and messaging platform.
Greater Manchester Police said Clarke was reported to officers by the girl’s mother when she was 13 and he was 21. The mum discovered Clarke’s messages on a laptop.
Some of the messages implied they had had a sexual relationship as they also talked about pregnancy tests, GMP said. In a powerful statement read out in court yesterday (May 14), the victim’s mum described the toll Clarke’s actions had taken on her daughter – leaving her unable to attend school and struggling to eat or sleep.
At Manchester Crown Court yesterday (May 14), Clarke, 25, of Cannon Hussey Court, Salford, was sentenced to five years in prison. He has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and is subject to a sexual harm prevention order. Clarke has also been issued with a restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim.
Read the full story here: Paedophile left young victim ‘completely changed’ after harrowing abuse
Terri Cook
A twisted teaching assistant abused her position of trust to groom a vulnerable boy. Suspicions were raised around Terri Cook, from Bury, when a member of the public reported seeing her out with the child, who was of primary school-age.
Greater Manchester Police launched an investigation, which uncovered how she had been grooming the boy and manipulating him into engaging in a sexual relationship. Officers discovered numerous messages on her phone which showed she had been inciting sexual communications with the boy.
Cook, 38, was also found to have indecent images of the child. Police uncovered how Cook had bought the boy expensive items, including jewellery and clothing, over a nine-month period that she committed her crimes.
Cook pleaded guilty to eight charges of sexual offences. She was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison at Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday (May 14).
Read the full story here: Teaching assistant’s horrific sexual abuse of young boy uncovered after she’s spotted in street
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