{"id":295620,"date":"2025-07-27T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295620\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:22:11","slug":"man-with-links-to-liverpool-is-wanted-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295620\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with links to Liverpool is wanted by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives appealed for information about his whereabouts two years ago<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_JS285487514.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Rimmer is wanted by police\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Robert Rimmer is wanted by police(Image: Humberside Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police are searching for a man who once stabbed a former <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/barclays-premier-league\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> player in the VIP lounge of a Manchester bar. Robert Rimmer, 37, is wanted by Humberside Police for drug offences in the Hull area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 37-year-old, originally from the Ashton-Under-Lyne area of Manchester, has links to Liverpool, Cheshire, Hull and Blackpool. He also has links to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Detectives appealed for information <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/man-who-stabbed-former-premier-27939949\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">about his whereabouts two years ago<\/a> in connection with an ongoing drugs investigation. They have now renewed their appeal, with a spokesman saying: &#8220;Detectives are renewing their appeal to locate wanted man 39-year-old Robert Rimmer, can you help?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Officers are keen to locate him as he is wanted for drug offences in our area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Rimmer was previously jailed in 2013 for repeatedly stabbing former Manchester United player Ronnie Wallwork in a VIP lounge in a bar in Manchester city centre, reports <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulldailymail.co.uk\/news\/hull-east-yorkshire-news\/police-still-searching-man-who-8842124\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Hull Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Judge at Manchester Crown Court called it an &#8216;extreme eruption of violence&#8217; and claimed Rimmer could have killed Mr Wallwork when he attacked him with a fish knife. He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Anyone who has seen Rimmer, or has any further information that may help detectives locate him, is asked to contact Humberside Police on non-emergency number 101 quoting crime reference number 23*146253. 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