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A South Yorkshire Police spokesperson told The Star this evening (Monday, December 11, 2023): "We were called to Meadowsweet Close in Darnall, Sheffield, at 1pm on Sunday 10 December to reports that a man had attacked another man and threatened him with a large knife

Armed cops sent to suburb after report of attack & threats with knife

Cladding covers half of the front of the six-storey Marriott hotel and there is scaffolding at one end.

Construction of huge Marriott hotel halted and staff laid off

Sentencing 22-year-old defendant, Abdullah Ishaq (pictured), the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, said of the incident: “The backdrop to this offending is plainly drug dealing. Your basis of plea is that you had a long-standing drug problem. You were under pressure from a drug dealer to participate in what you thought was a robbery.

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