Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A security guard who stabbed nine cats to death in Brighton and a teenager who sexually abused children at the nursery where he worked were just two of the notorious criminals locked up in the UK this month.
A mum who killed her three-year-old daughter by 'showing off' in an unroadworthy car, a pair of 'cold-blooded' killers who stabbed two men in the street and a man who killed his two-week-old baby daughter 45 years ago and were also put behind bars in July.
Other offenders jailed include a neo-Nazi student who led an extreme right-wing group and a jewel thief who stole seven diamonds worth more than £4 million by swapping them for pebbles.
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