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It’s been almost a year to the day since the announcement that Manchester’s Wild West, Counterfeit Street, was set to be bulldozed.
Though shoppers who venture onto Bury New Road for a fake designer handbag or a cheap pair of trainers likely have no idea of the misery linked to the warren of shutter-fronted shops, the area has been a hive of criminal activity, carried out with virtual impunity, for decades.
It has been linked to drug dealing, forced prostitution, slave-labour and firearms. Last year, chief constable Stephen Watson said he was not prepared to have a ‘criminally hostile’ area in his force patch.
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