None of the couples to appear before Manchester courts this year would have imagined their relationship would lead them to the dock.
But these partners, husbands and wives all committed crimes which, in different ways, shocked Manchester Evening News readers.
Their cases vary greatly in seriousness. But they run the scale of criminal behaviour - from yobbish behaviour in the street, to money laundering, drug crime, sex crime, and manslaughter.
A couple filmed themselves abusing young children and had sickening conversations on WhatsApp about child abuse. Keeli Burlingham and Peter Taylor, both 33, from Dukinfield, abused five children.
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