Woman at centre of murder and rape probe once killed a man by pushing him under a tram at Manchester Victoria

A woman whose death triggered a rape and murder inquiry was once jailed for manslaughter after pushing a man under a tram at Manchester Victoria station.

Charrissa Brown, 36, was taken to hospital on Wednesday from a flat in Gorse Bank, Bury, but sadly died.

Police launched an investigation and arrested three men - aged 32, 52, and 61 - on suspicion of murder and rape.

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The men were arrested at properties on Gorse Bank and Rutland Drive and remain in custody.

A post-mortem carried out Ms Brown's body was inconclusive. Evidence of possible drug misuse was found in the Gorse Bank property which police are pursuing as a line of inquiry.

In 2017 Ms Brown, who also went by the name Wellington-Brown, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. There is no connection between the two investigations, the Manchester Evening News understands.

Manchester Crown Court was told in 2017 that Ms Brown, then 31, killed Philip Carter during a violent outburst on the platform at Manchester Victoria station.

Mr Carter, 30, who did not know his attacker, lost his balance and fell through a gap between the platform and a tram after she pushed him with ‘very excessive force’.

The tram pulled away a short time later and he was fatally injured.

After, Brown-Wellington was heard to say: “I didn’t mean it. He got in my face. We were just play fighting.”

The incident happened in June 2017 as Wellington-Brown was waiting with her partner to catch a tram back home to Chadderton.

Brown-Wellington had a personality disorder which causes ‘impulsive violence’, was drunk and had taken ecstasy earlier that night, the court was told.

She was also declared a