Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A female prison officer helped a dangerous robber escape from jail after falling in love with him behind bars.
Erica Whittingham waited in her car outside HMP Sudbury before driving Michael Seddon away, after he left a decoy in his cell to trick guards.
For the next six months, Whittingham remained in contact with her lover, meeting him in hotels around England - including Manchester - and buying him gifts, including clothes, while he was on the run.
Whittingham said that she had fallen in love with the violent robber, who had been part of a gang that tied up and battered an elderly farmer.
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