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Issue 1115
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28th May 2020
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£10,000 reward to help solve young mothers murder
Community Helpline Update Sheffield City Council has redeployed staff from Sheffield Libraries and Lifelong Learning Services to talk to those feeling lonely during isolation on the Community Support helpline. Parking Services staff have been packing food from Moor Markets ready to deliver emergency food parcels. Our Community Helpline has been operating for over a month now responding to those in need. To date we have taken: • More than 7000 calls in to the Community Helpline. • Issued over 600 emergency food parcels.
A son has pleaded for help to solve his mother's 1997 murder, as a £10,000 reward is offered.
• Helped over 900 households with personal shopping.
Patricia Grainger, 25, was strangled, stabbed and sexually assaulted near her home in Parson Cross, Sheffield, in August that year.
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• Helped over 500 households requesting help to collect essential medication.
Her body was dumped in a brook in nearby woodland and her killer has never been found.
TWO MEN CHARGED WITH MURDER Two men have been remanded in custody charged with the murder of a man who died following a fight in Sheffield.
Her son, Danny Grainger, said: "Someone out there knows what happened to Pat. No more secrets."
Victim Paul Crossley, aged 53, was found with a fatal head injury, in Longley Hall Way last Friday.
Her family has put up £5,000, matched by Crimestoppers, for a reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or people responsible for Mrs Grainger's murder. Ms Grainger was living with her son and her parents when she was murdered and dumped at Hartley Brook Dike, near houses on Deerlands Avenue on the Parson Cross estate. Mr Grainger urged anyone with information to contact Crimestoppers.
Sean Holt, aged 43 and Richard Ferrie, aged 44, both of Longley Hall Way, Sheffield, appeared before the city's magistrates' court. APPEAL: Young Mother Patricia Grainger, 25 was found murdered IN 1997
The two men are due to appear before the city's crown court next Tuesday. Mr Crossley, 53, was taken to hospital for treatment but died on Tuesday morning. Investigations are continuing into his death. Witnesses of the fight, which happened between 21:00 and 22:00 BST on Friday 15 May, is urged to contact police.
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