Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A mother who killed her daughter after the girl’s cries interrupted sex and a man who murdered his love rival and left his body in a burning car were just two of the notorious criminals locked up in the UK this month.
Also in August, seven men were put behind bars for the murder of a law student who was mistakenly gunned down in a botched drive-by shooting, while a teenage mother was locked up for leaving her toddler daughter to starve to death while she partied.
Other offenders jailed include a bodybuilder famous for appearing in Gladiators and a former kids television presenter. These are some of the shocking court cases that were widely reported in
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