Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A jealous husband who strangled his wife to death before chopping up her body and a babysitter who inflicted fatal injuries on a 21-month-old girl were just two of the notorious criminals locked up in the UK this month.
Other offenders jailed include six men and a teenager involved in the killing of a teenage boy in Wales, a former footballer locked up for rape and a man who killed his friend when he drove off with him trapped underneath his van.
A black market pharmacist, an arms dealer who kept weapons in his daughter's bedroom and a married teacher who slept with a teenager were also put behind bars in March.
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