A laughing perv, a burgling mum and a man who sleeps with an axe... these are the faces of Manchester's newest prison inmates

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A sex fiend who laughed at the teenager he assaulted as she recounted her horrific ordeal in court and a gang who set up a 'drugs factory' - and sparked a mass evacuation in Stretford - all among the people jailed in Greater Manchester this month. Our reporters were in court as scores of criminals were sent to prison during April, including a cocaine addled bodybuilder who killed a dad with the force 'of a heavyweight boxer' in an unprovoked nightclub attack.

Meanwhile, a repeat-offender paedophile who used his Xbox to find indecent images of young children - and a serial domestic abuser who falsely imprisoned and beat a pregnant woman - were also locked up.

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A remorseless sex pest who 'laughed' at a teenage girl as she bravely recounted how she'd been sexually assaulted by him in Piccadilly Gardens has been locked up. Delovan Najeeb, aka Najeed, assaulted the 16-year-old girl while she was out with friends last summer.

After following her through the busy city centre square, 38-year-old Najeeb approached her and sexually assaulted her. The brave victim was forced to give evidence twice as Najeeb went to trial and then appealed the guilty verdict.

The teenager laid bare the harrowing impact of having to be questioned twice about her ordeal. Manchester Crown Court heard that he a previous conviction for an offence with 'almost identical circumstances'.

A judge tore into Najeeb for launching an appeal with 'no merit', and branded him a 'blight on the city centre'. During the decade he has been in the UK, Judge Alan Conrad QC said Najeeb had contributed 'nothing constructive or of any use'. Najeeb, who both the