This is the shocking moment a gangster’s moll battered a woman with a hammer in a love triangle street brawl just days before helping a group of thugs torture and kill her drug-dealing ex-husband.

Brutal Coleen Campbell launched into the savage daylight attack against Niamh Wasik in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester on June 29, 2022.

The onslaught took place days before Campbell’s ex-husband, Thomas Campbell, was tortured to death by three men, acting on information she provided.

Drug dealer Thomas was ambushed as he unlocked his front door in Mossley, Greater Manchester, on July 2, 2022. 

He had been followed after a tracker was placed on his van while he was picking up his daughter from school. 

He was stabbed, punched and stamped on before boiling water was poured on his buttocks. Neighbours found his body in the hallway naked except for his socks.

Coleen was later exposed after a séance in which she revealed graphic details about Thomas’s injuries that would have only been known by his killers. 

Campbell was caged for 13 years for her role in Thomas’s death. Two men were also convicted over the attack, while a third accused of murder is due to go on trial later this year. 

On Monday, Coleen was hauled before the courts again following her involvement in a separate attack involving two other women, Hannah Derbyshire, 27, and Chloe Bamford, 30, and Simon Bowden, 38.

Derbyshire was said to be in a love triangle with Ms Wasik and James Heaney, who was dating both women, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Coleen Campbell launched into the savage daylight attack in Ashton-under-Lyne on June 29, 2022 – days before helping gangsters to find and torture her husband Thomas to death

Campbell’s ex-husband Thomas (pictured) was tortured to death days after she took part in the love triangle attack 

Coleen was caught on a CCTV camera plotting the attack against her ex-husband at her home

Pictured is Campbell and another woman as they batter Niamh Wasik in Ashton-under-Lyne on June 29, 2022

Prosecutors said the love triangle was the reason for the attack. Campbell, who appeared via video link from HMP Drake Hall in Staffordshire, was not part of the triangle. 

Campbell was armed with a hammer while Bamford wielded a rolling pin. Bowden had a 2ft long drill bit on him at the time of the attack. 

Prosecutor Danielle Gilmour told how Campbell was driving a VW Tiguan with the three other defendants in the car, on June 29, 2022 before ambushing Ms Wasik at the junction of Rutland Street and Granville Street in Ashton-under-Lyne.

The four then got out and launched into a frenzied assault on the victim, which was caught on CCTV.

Derbyshire leapt out the car and began ‘raining down blows and kicks’ on the victim,’ the court heard, while Bowden – armed with a ‘two foot long drill bit’ – pulled a balaclava down over his face.

Campbell, wearing all black and armed with a hammer, hit the victim ‘multiple times’ before dragging the woman to the ground where she was kicked by Campbell and her two female accomplices.

The brutal battering lasted about 90 seconds before Campbell and the three other attackers fled the scene in the Tiguan, with a rock being hurled at the vehicle’s windshield as it sped away.

Campbell allegedly stole the victim’s handbag, which was found in her home when police raided it, the court heard.

Campbell, wearing all black and armed with a hammer, hit the victim ‘multiple times’ before dragging the woman to the ground where she was kicked by Campbell and her accomplices

Thomas and Coleen Campbell pose during a holiday photo. Thomas died in July 2022

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Campbell and her three accomplices all ‘lied or made no comment’ when questioned by police, a judge said.

Bamford claimed she had been acting in self-defence, while Bowden said he had been in Manchester city centre at the time. It is not known whether the victim suffered any injuries, as she refused to co-operate with police. 

The attack took place just days before Campbell helped gangsters murder her ex-husband. 

Coleen and Thomas initially became notorious over a string extravagant trips abroad funded by their family-run cocaine trafficking racket. The couple who married in 2011 were eventually detained in a police operation in 2018 which culminated in them admitting concealing criminal property.

Coleen was given a suspended sentence but Thomas served two years jail and after his release from jail the couple split up acrimoniously in 2021 when he started an affair with another woman.

Initially Coleen sent messages to friends saying: ‘Best thing this man did was sh*g my baggy mate 12 months ago. Roll on new beginnings.’

She later got caught up in the sinister plot after the unnamed mistress’ ex-boyfriend also learnt of the romance and decided to rob Thomas of cash, drugs and valuables in a revenge raid on his home. 

Campbell later implicated herself in the ‘barbaric killing’ by sharing graphic details about his injuries during a bizarre séance.

The former Matalan store assistant visited a clairvoyant four days after Thomas was tortured to death. 

At the spiritual meeting, she claimed Thomas was summoned by the clairvoyant and said he gave intimate details about both the killing and his injuries as she listened in.

She relayed them to the victim’s suspicious mother, Lynn Campbell, who alerted police to the bizarre conversation.

At the time of the séance, little information had previously been made public by police about the fatal assault – but Colleen fell under suspicion as only the killers could have known the details about Thomas’ fatal wounds.

Coleen Campbell was jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of manslaughter. Her ex-husband Thomas Campbell (pictured together outside court in 2019) was ambushed and murdered in July 2022

 Thomas Campbell (left) suffered 61 separate injuries after being stabbed, punched, stamped on and even had boiling water poured on his buttocks

Lynn Campbell (above), told police how Coleen shared intimate details of her son’s injuries and information on his attackers after claiming to have been visited by her ex-partner during an encounter with a clairvoyant days after the attack

She was later arrested and jailed for 13 years for her part in the murder plot.  

During her latest court appearance on Monday for the attack on Ms Wasik, Campbell and her three co-accused all pleaded guilty to violent disorder. Campbell also admitted theft.

Defending Campbell, Bob Elias said she appeared an ‘amiable, bright and pleasant woman’.

Constance Halliwell for Bowden said the father had a young son who was just starting high school and that he was determined to ‘keep himself on the straight and narrow’,

The court heard the defendant had been recalled to prison on a life licence since August 2022, which he received as part of an indeterminate sentence for public protection for robbery.

Beautician Bamford had no previous convictions and was completing a university degree, her lawyer Umar Shahzad, told the court.

While John Richards, who represented Derbyshire, said his client – a catering assistant at a pub – also had no previous convictions and insisted she was ‘thoroughly ashamed’ of her actions which were a ‘one off’.

Campbell is pictured outside Manchester Crown Court during an earlier hearing on a different matter in 2019

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Sentencing, Recorder Michael Blakey said: ‘On June 29, 2022, the four of you went in a car, clearly a planned adventure, to a place, Granville Street in Ashton-under-Lyne, where the victim in this case was assaulted.

‘The motive behind this appears to be the relationship that there was between you, Hannah Derbyshire, and somebody called James Heaney.

‘The victim was involved in a relationship with him also. The four of you went in the car, three of you armed, Ms Campbell with a hammer, you Hannah Derbyshire didn’t arm yourself, and you Ms Bamford with a rolling pin. Mr Bowden you had a two foot long drill bit in your possession.

‘It must have been a very frightening and scary situation which arose, and no doubt put people who were watching what was going on in fear themselves.’

He told Campbell: ‘You armed yourself with a hammer, you in fact used the hammer on the victim in this case. I have read information which suggests you while you have been in custody have developed insight, that you have attended courses and are doing all you possibly can to reform yourself. That is to be commended.’

Campbell and Bowden, both of no fixed address, were sentenced to 18 months in prison each. 

Derbyshire, of Clayton, and Bamford, of Openshaw, were both handed suspended prison sentences.