Manchester is home to the biggest NHS trust in the country, employing more than 28,000 people in the region. Today, the mammoth organisation's new leader is starting - a former nurse who worked at three Greater Manchester hospitals.
14.03.2023 - 23:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man from Manchester found guilty of facilitating people smuggling is a wanted fugitive, police have revealed.
Hemin Ali Salih, 37, was part of an organised crime group smuggling migrants into the UK in the back of a HGV through Portsmouth port, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed. Five of the gang's members, including him, have now been convicted in court.
The NCA said Salih, of Bryson Walk in Gorton, absconded before the start of a trial, but was convicted in his absence on Tuesday of facilitating illegal immigration. Police confirmed a warrant has been issued for his arrest and he is due to be sentenced with others next month.
A second man from Manchester, Jamal Walid Saied, has also been convicted. Saied, 38, of Brightstone Walk, Longsight, was found guilty by a jury of the same offence and will face sentence on April 20 with Salih. He was remanded in custody today ahead of the sentencing hearing. Two other men admitted charges they faced.
The NCA said Salih and Saied - both said to be members of the OCG - were identified through mobile phone evidence and found to be in the Chichester area on March 11, 2019.
In the early hours of that day, the NCA said its officers watched as members of the group drove a VW Touran people carrier to rendezvous with a lorry driven by Romanian national Marinel Danut Palage, 31, at an industrial estate in the Runcton area of West Sussex.
The truck had arrived in Portsmouth on a ferry from Caen in northern France the previous evening, and was carrying a legitimate load of spinach from Spain. But, said the NCA, it was also carrying at least three people who had been brought to the UK illegally.
After meeting up with the lorry the VW drove away, only to stop in a layby on the
Manchester is home to the biggest NHS trust in the country, employing more than 28,000 people in the region. Today, the mammoth organisation's new leader is starting - a former nurse who worked at three Greater Manchester hospitals.
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