'A remorseless' teenager who brutally murdered a dad-to-be in the street and a perverted primary school deputy headteacher and her rapist boyfriend were just some of the offenders jailed in our region over the last week - just in time for Christmas.
A drugged-up thug who subjected a brave mum to two years of hell inside his flat will also be eating Christmas dinner behind bars.
An ex-firefighter who plied two women with alcohol and drugs before raping them and members of a country lines gang who flooded the streets of Wigan with heroin and crack cocaine were also handed jail terms for their crimes.
Prison sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious
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