Top stories from the Manchester Evening News today include mum's horrific 999 calls as ambulance arrived 'after she died,' the housing estate where homeowners are being threatened with a £42 a day fine, and the drugs gang caught plotting to rob and torture elderly rich men.
Here are the best read stories from Manchester today (November 12).
Mum's horrific 999 calls as ambulance arrived 'after she died'
A beloved mother-of-two died after waiting ‘almost an hour’ for an ambulance to arrive, having been ‘struggling to breathe’ and heard screaming ‘help me, I’m dying, I can't breathe’ in heart-wrenching 999 call recordings.
Bina Patel, 56, from Tameside, already had ‘no pulse’ by the time paramedics got to her home, says her devastated son, who called for an ambulance ‘seven times’ as her condition deteriorated.
Distraught Ashkay, who sat with his mum as she took her final breaths, desperately trying to save her, blames North West Ambulance Service’(NWAS) for her death.
In the weeks following the tragedy, he is demanding answers, saying ‘my mum suffocated for almost an hour' and that her life 'could have been saved'.
It comes as new figures revealed patients suffering heart attacks and strokes are waiting for more than an hour for an ambulance amid crippling NHS pressure.
Read the full story here.
The grinning teen who repeatedly stabbed vulnerable dad
Pictured for the first time - these are the faces of three callous teenagers who repeatedly stabbed a vulnerable dad by the side of a canal, then filmed police searching for his body.
To Liam Bailey, 19, Harry Maher, 16, and Liam O'Brien, 17, Scott Anderton was a stranger.
Regardless, they knifed him 35 times before throwing him into the water while he was still alive.
As he desperately clung to life and the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, they continued their sickening assault.
Jailing the trio, Judge Alan Conrad said the 'scale and savagery' of their attack 'almost defies belief'.
Scott Anderton's body was recovered from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in Leigh, on the morning of March 25.
Liam Bailey, 19, admitted murdering Mr Anderton before the trial began at Manchester Crown Court.
Two under-18s had denied their roles in Mr Anderton's killing, before one was found guilty of murder and one manslaughter.
Their identities previously had to be kept anonymous due to legal restrictions, but these were lifted by Judge Alan Conrad QC today (November 12), following an application made by the Manchester Evening News .
Read the full story here.
The housing estate where homeowners are being threatened with £42 a DAY fines
Homeowners on an estate in Bury have been threatened with a £42 per day fine for painting their front doors a different colour.
Six households on the Hampstead Drive estate in Whitefield have been told they have two weeks to change their doors back to the original style or face penalties, which could add up to more than £15,000 over a year.
One household on the estate has repainted their door sky blue, while others have fitted new doors in a different style.
Hampstead Drive resident Frank Borson says he received an email from the property management company which looks after the estate about a fortnight ago after changing his front door from the original white to a dark green.
The email reads: "The colours of front doors across site should remain as originally installed (white) to keep uniformity across the development.
"The green door would constitute a breach of the TP1 Transfer Document as this would be considered to be causing a nuisance."
Mr Borson was given a deadline of November 17 to carry out the work or face a £42 per day 'administration charge'.
The 79-year-old retired IT salesman who has lived in his four bed townhouse for the last 18 years, said there was 'no way' he was repainting his door.
Read the full story here.
This is the 'lovely guy' who died alongside BBC actor in horror smash
This is the 'lovely' man who was killed alongside a BBC actor in a horror crash in Oldham.
Karl Young, 34, was the driver of a Mazda 3 which came off the carriageway and hit a tree in the Delph area at around 8.40pm on Wednesday (November 10) night.
Emergency services and police were called to Huddersfield Road where they found Mr Young, along with 21-year-old passenger Reiss Jarvis, critically injured.
Both men tragically lost their lives in the smash.
Tributes have poured in for Mr Young and Mr Jarvis, who are both understood to have worked at The Grill at No.20 restaurant in Oldham Town Centre.
Mr Jarvis also worked as an actor and starred in shows for the BBC.
Both men proved to be popular with the restaurant's customers, with many describing the pair as 'kind' and 'lovely' lads.
Floral tributes were placed at the scene of the tragedy yesterday.
Read the full story here.
Drugs gang caught plotting to rob and torture rich elderly man
A sinister drugs gang who discussed cutting an elderly man's ear off or holding an iron to his chest as part of a £500,000 robbery plot have been jailed.
Gary Betts, 57, Gerard Boyle, 57, and brothers John and Chris Sammon, aged 32 and 35, were part of a Manchester-based Organised Crime Group (OCG) that had known each other 'for many years', a court heard.
The gang took over a recycling business called South Manchester Plastics on Gorton Road in Openshaw and used it as a front for criminality, Manchester Crown Court was told.
During April and May last year, they began buying and selling kilos of cocaine in an operation that extended across the country.
The Mancs were being supplied by Wayne Simmonds, a 'professional drug dealer' from west London, and among their clients was William Skillen, a Midlands drug dealer, the court heard.
Unbeknown to them, the two portacabins at the premises in Openshaw were being bugged by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Over the course of several weeks, the NCA team watched and secretly recorded the defendants arranging deals, weighing out cocaine, making payments and splitting the profits.
Read the full story here.
Pal who fatally stabbed Yousef Makki tells inquest: "Yousef was not any sort of gangster"
A former public schoolboy who fatally stabbed Yousef Makki described the row the pair had moments before the fatal clash at an inquest.
Joshua Molnar denied he had tried to paint an unfavourable picture of Yousef at his 2019 trial 'to save your own skin' and insisted: "Yousef was not any sort of gangster - he did not deserve to die."
Yousef, a 17-year-old bursary student at the elite Manchester Grammar School from Burnage, died after being stabbed in the heart by friend Mr Molnar in Hale Barns, Trafford, on March 2, 2019.
Mr Molnar, also 17 at the time but now 20, from a wealthy family in Hale, was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter following a trial at Manchester Crown Court, telling the jury he had acted in self-defence.
After their friend Adam Chowdhary, also a Manchester Grammar pupil, had arranged a small cannabis deal, the three went to a country lane near Manchester Airport to collect the drugs but Mr Molnar was beaten by two associates of the alleged dealer and had his £1,000 Starling bike thrown over a hedge.
Mr Molnar said he blamed Chowdhary, who had cycled away from the confrontation, and later took Chowdhary's £300 jacket as 'compensation' until the bike was returned.
He said that while he was annoyed with Chowdhary, from a wealthy Hale Barns family, he had not been upset with Yousef, who had tried to find his bike, and just wanted to get home as the fight had left him 'dazed'.
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How much are sausages, beer and gluhwein at Manchester Christmas Markets 2021?
The sausages are sizzling and the wine is mulling as Manchester Christmas Markets make their big return after a year away due to coronavirus restrictions.
But the sights, sounds and smells of the festive markets will be bringing to life Manchester city centre's streets now until the new year.
And of course if you're planning a day out to the markets it's good to know the prices of food and drink.
There a wealth of stalls across all seven of the main Christmas Markets areas serving up hot food and drink, with the return of gluhwein, bratwurst and strudel on the traditional German market stalls, while there's the return of a host of Manchester's favourite food and drink sellers too.
So here we've rounded up the prices you can expect to pay for your sausage, gluhwein and beer, as well as other popular items.
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