27/01/2017 North West Tonight

A violent paedophile concealed one of his young victims in a makeshift

hidey hole at his home in Greater Manchester.

The hiding place, behind a kitchen fridge,

was so effective it was missed by police even though they visited

But Michael Dunn has now been convicted

of raping and abusing four girls over a number of years in the 1990s.

Greater Manchester Police are looking into whether they

Our chief reporter, Dave Guest, has the story.

This is a Michael Dunn, a controlling, angry,

Over a number of years, he raped and abused young girls.

He groomed them, sometimes making them

totally dependent on him, before abusing them.

This individual is clearly extremely dangerous, controlling,

This is where he kept one of his young victims,

a secret compartment hiden behind the fridge at the house

where he lived in Greater Manchester during the early 1990s.

The current owners have only lived there a relatively

short time and they did not know Michael Dunn,

They certainly had no idea what he had been doing

In fact, the first time they knew any of it was when the police

arrived six months ago and asked if they could take some

But by then, of course, the kitchen layout had changed greatly.

Dunn had moved around a lot over the years.

Justice finally caught up with him in the Tees Valley Redcar.

A jury on Teesside convicted him on ten counts of rape,

plus others of false imprisonment and indecent assault.

Those charges related to for victims and spanned many years.

The court had been told about Dunn's hidey-hole at the house

Dunn would use a bag of rubbish and a panel to

conceal the hole where the girl was being kept and it was a ruse

that worked because he successfully concealed

her from the police when they

visited the property on a number of occasions.

It's really important that the police do look at this and

do look at what was happening at the time.

What systems and processes did they have in place in terms

of tracking down concerns, investigations and whether

there was anything that could have been done differently.

Greater Manchester Police say they are looking into the issues

Police on Merseyside have launched a murder inquiry after a father

The killer had lain in wait for Tommy Baker close

to a gym in Liverpool, before carrying out what officers

was known to them, but as yet they don't know why he was murdered.

Two men have been jailed after causing the death by dangerous

Aleena Kauser, from Rawtenstall, was on her way

when a car mounted the pavement and struck her.

Drivers Adil Manir and Mohsen Saddique were racing at speeds of up

They were each jailed for four years.

More than 20 job centres are set to close across the North West.

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced the closures,

including offices in Manchester, Preston and Liverpool.

Some will merge with larger centres, while others will be moved

The owner of a farm where illegal waste has been dumped for a number

of years is facing prosection to end what the local authority

Pendle Council says the farm has repearedly ignored

The authority is now leading action involving a number of authorities

to tackle what it calls a long standing problem.

But the farmer at the centre of row says any action

is a "disgrace" and says he's a victim of flytippers.

The views are of mounds and mounds of illegal waste.

This is what hikers, or anyone else visiting

The farmer here, John Leslie Allison, agreed to speak to me

to offer his explanation for this mess.

All what's left, other people have dumped and it seems I have to clean

it up when it is somebody else who has put it there.

I put my caravan across the road so they couldn't get up and they've

dumped it in other field gateways and all over.

Simply not true say Pendle Council, who have told us they have

prosecuted a number of builders who have paid

The authority is coordinating joint action after a number of separate

interventions by several agencies have failed.

People are coming and treating this hillside like it

is a great big rubbish tip and it is simply not acceptable.

So we have come to the view at Pendle Council level,

it has got to be got a grip on, it has to be stopped.

Are you telling me you're not making any out of this?

I am not making money out of this stuff, no.

This fire is also one of six that have taken place at the farm

According to the Environment Agency, illegal waste sites can

cause severe damage to the environment and undercut

It is now planning to take enforcement action.

When do you say you will clear up this mess?

When it becomes spring and it's better weather.

Although he wants to clear up the mess on his own terms, time may

The owners of financially troubled Morecambe have agreed

to sell their controlling interest to the Italian-American

If he gets clearance from the Football League,

the current board of directors will resign to allow

Staff and players weren't paid today but Mr Cala told

BBC Radio Lancashire's Tim Padfield that wages and other debts

When I am the owner 100%, I will pay everyone.

Until I am not the owner, I am not obliged to do anything.

Do you have the money to make it work?

Especially when you need money by yesterday.

Here you need money by yesterday, you do

You need to come up here with money and

That does it from me. What will the weekend weather be like for the

Chinese new year? Here is the forecast. The past couple of days

have been very cold indeed. It is not going to be as cold this weekend

but it will be fairly cloudy, Markey and we will see rain on Saturday and

Sunday. The first band of rain to push through tonight. Very light

winds but again some chance of low cloud and fog and a mild night

compared to the last nights. Those of two or three Celsius and more

tomorrow morning. Chinese New Year tomorrow is going to start of cloudy

and Markey. We will see rain on and off throughout the morning. It is

not going to feel quite as cold. Hopefully drying out by early

evening. Top temperature tomorrow of evening. Top temperature tomorrow of

seven Celsius. It will feel better. Tomorrow night is dry and clear

skies. More rain on the way on Sunday. The outlook for Monday,

Good evening. Not many would argue that January hasn't been dry, but

today, many of us had our first significant rain for some time,

because the transition is on from cold, Continental dry air to milder

Atlantic air, but the transition is a slow one. So we have had ice

today, and freezing fog, in northern England. We had a little sunshine as

well in Norfolk, but we still have the cold air around and about in the

north. All this rain you can see, which is giving is a wet day in some

areas, 10-15 millimetres of rain has fallen, as it comes north there

could be some winter it issues. Snow already falling over Scotland,

possibly over northern England, possibly some sleet over lower areas

and fog. Not particularly nice, and some icy conditions to contend with

late in the night across Northern Ireland, as the rain clears away.

Again, a word of warning there could be some ice around in the morning if

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