Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Two gunmen who shot a 'gentle giant' dead on his doorstep and a man who murdered two sex workers more than 20 years apart were just some of the notorious criminals locked up in the UK this month.
The police officer who killed ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson and a multi-million-pound fraudster at the head of a large-scale international drugs conspiracy were also put behind bars in June.
Other offenders jailed include siblings who force-fed kebab to a sleeping man causing him to choke to death, a businessman who bombarded MPs with a string of 'vile' emails including death threats and a carer who forged the will of a wealthy landowner before starving him
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