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Gang members miss court date after coronavirus outbreak at HMP Forest Bank

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previously reported how cases had been detected at HMP Hindley, Strangeways and HMP Forest Bank. The outbreaks have resulted in hearings being delayed at Manchester Crown Court as defendants could not be produced from prison.Two gang members have become the latest to have court appearances delayed due to the outbreak at Forest Bank, the Liverpool Echo reports.The men were due to be sentenced this week for their role in a drugs gang that supplied cocaine on the streets of Kirkby in Merseyside.The ringleaders of the gang - brothers Terence and Anthony Nash - were jailed for a combined total of 39 and a half years.Terence, 35, of James Holt Avenue, was handed a 24-year sentence for conspiracy to supply cocaine and a series of firearms offences.

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