Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders
A cold-blooded killer who murdered his housemate then dismembered his body is among those to be locked up this week in Greater Manchester.
Marcin Majerkiewicz then placed Stuart Everett’s remains into bags for life, before depositing them in wooded areas across Greater Manchester. A huge murder investigation was launched after a member of the public discovered remains in Kersal Dale, Salford.
Also locked up this week was a prison officer who formed an inappropriate relationship with a career criminal, and a rapist who was caught out by a baby monitor.
Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders. And Manchester Evening News reporters are on hand to cover the most serious cases.
Laura Taylor
A ‘vulnerable’ mother sobbed as a judge jailed her for keeping a gun and ‘bagging up’ cocaine and heroin for her ‘drug-dealing boyfriend’.
Troubled Laura Taylor, 26, got into a relationship with a man named in court as Jason Nunes who was said to be a leading figure in a gang supplying class A drugs on a ‘significant scale’.
The gang ‘used’ college students and ‘vulnerable’ adults as part of a plot to supply heroin and cocaine, prosecutor Helen Longworth told Minshull Street Crown Court. Among them was Taylor who would ‘bag up’ drugs at her home in Salford which was also used to store a gun, the court was told.
Taylor claimed her mental health deteriorated following an incident which left her son with life-changing injuries and her life spiralled ‘out of control’ as she consumed drink and drugs and got involved in the supply operation, the court heard.
Paul Treble, mitigating for Taylor, said his client had started a relationship with ‘the main conspirator’ with whom she consumed drugs. She admitted ‘bagging drugs for him but it was under instruction’, the court heard.
Taylor, of no fixed abode, had been laughing and joking with her family and friends in the public gallery and with her co-defendants through much of the hearing. However, she sobbed in the dock as the judge jailed her for two years and ten months after she had earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a firearm without a certificate and two counts of conspiracy to supply class A drugs (heroin and cocaine).
Read the full story here: The tears of a ‘vulnerable’ drug-dealing mum who kept a shotgun for cocaine and heroin gang
Jayden O’Donnell
A ‘danger’ driver rammed a police car twice after a 100mph pursuit – then ran off and hid under a bed.
Police said Jayden O’Donnell’s ‘reckless’ driving risked the lives of others – and ‘things could have been much worse’ had there been a collision.
O’Donnell, 23, who was disqualified from driving at the time, was spotted by police in a grey-coloured, damaged Mazda on Moston Lane, north Manchester, at around 10.50pm on October 26 last year. He was driving away from a pub at the time.
Police said O’Donnell saw the police car and tried to drive away, reaching speeds of more than 60 mph along Moston Lane. A pursuit was then initiated. Officers pursued O’Donnell during which he went the wrong-way around a roundabout and exceeded 80mph.
“Little more than a minute later, a further patrol nearby spotted the car going through red lights on Rochdale Road in Harpurhey, at which point they joined in on the pursuit,” a GMP spokesperson said. “This saw the vehicle reach upwards of 100mph in a 30mph zone, driving recklessly through the streets and overtaking road users on the opposite carriageway.”
O’Donnell, of Pilgrim’s Way, Salford, stopped to twice reverse into the officers’ vehicles. Thankfully there were no injuries.
He eventually stopped the Mazda, got out and ran up an alleyway, with officers chasing him. O’Donnell was seen to go into a nearby house, where he was promptly found hiding under a bed and arrested.
O’Donnell pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, possession of a bladed article, driving whilst disqualified and having no insurance. He was jailed by a judge at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday for 18 months.
Read the full story here: ‘Danger’ driver rammed police in 100mph pursuit – then hid under a bed
Connor Pennell
A thug who ignored a restraining order was caught on a baby monitor raping a woman he abused.
Connor Pennell was already subject to a protection from harassment order having previously been charged with battery and strangulation against his victim.
But it didn’t stop the 27-year-old abusing the woman, from Wigan, as he threatened to release intimate images of her if she spoke out about his crimes.
Pennell, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, was found to have continued his abuse for a number of months until his victim bravely came forward to police in July 2024.
Pennell, of Vines Cross Way, Skelmersdale, was found guilty of breaching his restraining order, rape, non-fatal strangulation and three counts of voyeurism at Bolton Crown Court. He was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison.
Read the full story here: The vile creep caught out by a baby monitor
Adam Hussey
A man who made derogatory comments about his girlfriend, pressured her for money and became abusive if she went out with friends began harassing her after she left him.
After they separated, Adam Hussey, 25, turned up outside a hospital she was attending for an appointment and didn’t leave until the early hours.
Then after repeatedly calling her, he turned up at her door causing her to leave all the lights off and remain silent until she thought he left.
When she went to eventually leave the house he approached her after he’d been hiding around the corner and fought with her as she tried to get into a taxi. She was able to leave after neighbours intervened.
Hussey, of Newton Heath, was jailed after admitting engaging in controlling behaviour and harassment.
Read the full story here: First he made her feel ‘worthless’, then started turning up at her door
Niamh Lloyd and Lee Makin
A prison officer has been locked up following an illicit relationship with a career criminal behind bars. Niamh Lloyd met Lee Makin while she was working as a prison officer at Forest Bank jail in Salford.
He was serving a six-year sentence for burglary. Manchester Crown Court was told the pair became close after Lloyd, 22, was allegedly sexually assaulted at the prison.
Her lawyer said Makin, 40, was ‘the only person who did show her any empathy or any kind of support’. Their relationship continued after Makin was later transferred to HMP Berwyn in Wrexham.
The pair were regularly in touch by phone, engaging in sexual conversations, as well as in letters addressed to ‘Big Lee’. At one point, she told Makin she was with him ‘for the thrill’, adding: “I don’t like doing what I’m told.”
During their chats, Lloyd, who previously worked as a civilian assistant for Greater Manchester Police, also identified a prisoner at category B jail Forest Bank as a paedophile and disclosed ‘operational information’ to Makin about the prison.
Lloyd, who also runs a beauty business, burnt documents in a bid to destroy evidence after being arrested. She was said to have been ‘cocky and arrogant’ in her police interview. On Wednesday (March 26), Lloyd and Makin were both jailed for a year.
Read the full story here: ‘The thrill’: Cocky prison officer’s loved up emails to inmate ‘Big Lee’ before illicit affair exposed
Marcin Majerkiewicz
A killer who murdered and then dismembered his housemate before dumping his body parts across Greater Manchester will serve at least 34 years behind bars.
Stuart Everett, 67, was brutally killed in his own home in Salford by Marcin Majerkiewicz, who repeatedly hit him over the head with a weapon. Majerkiewicz, 42, then used a hacksaw to cut up Stuart’s body in his bedroom at the house they both lived in on Worsley Road, Winton.
He then put body parts in bags for life, before walking or taking the bus to dump them in wooded areas across Salford and north Manchester. Majerkiewicz was arrested about a month after he was believed to have killed Stuart. Police, who had been scouring CCTV footage, recognised the suspect getting on a bus and pounced.
Majerkiewicz was seen on CCTV near to five locations where Stuart’s remains were discovered, during searches at Kersal Dale in Salford, Linnyshaw Colliery Woods and Blackleach Country Park in Walkden, land off Chesterfield Close in Winton and Boggart Hole Clough in Blackley.
Trial judge Mr Justice Cavanagh handed Majerkiewicz a life sentence, and ordered him to serve a minimum term of 34 years. Majerkiewicz was found guilty of murder by a jury last week.
The judge told the killer, who showed no emotion as sentence was passed: “On at least one of the trips you went for a meal in a fast food restaurant immediately after dropping off some body parts. You acted in an almost unbelievably cold-blooded and macabre way, and showed complete disrespect and contempt for your friend’s remains.
“This denied dignity to Stuart Everett even in death, and greatly increased the pain suffered by Stuart Everett’s family when the murder came to light.” The murder investigation began on April 4 after a member of the public discovered human remains wrapped in cling film in a graffiti stained bunker within Kersal Dale.
A huge search operation began, lasting for four months.
Read the full story here: Murderer who acted in ‘almost unbelievably cold-blooded and macabre way’ jailed for at least 34 years