Texts outed stolen BMW driver as drug dealer after police pulled him over
Ryan Ratcliffe tried to escape from police in Warrington after they suspected he was driving with cloned reg plates
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Drug dealer Ryan Ratcliffe (Image: cheshire police)
A man spotted driving a stolen BMW tried to run from police before later checks of his phone revealed he was a drug dealer.
Ryan Ratcliffe was behind the wheel of the car when a check showed it could have a cloned number plate, prompting officers to instruct him to pull over.
The 24-year-old tried to run off, on Manchester Road in Woolston, Warrington, but he was quickly caught and arrested.
ALL Keith Walker wanted was to see Father Christmas at Busbys so, aged just five, he took himself off and caught a bus to the department store. By the time he’d walked all the way home to Baildon, his frantic parents had joined a police search for him. “I didn’t know I was a missing child - I just wanted to see Santa,” smiled Keith, who remembers his adventure in December, 1953 “as if it was yesterday.” Despite being a five-year-old on his own, Keith managed to catch a bus from Baildon Bridge to Busbys on Manningham Lane, where he queued up to see Santa. Afterwards he walked several miles home.