A man involved in the knifepoint robbery of a 12-year-old child and three thugs who brutally tortured two men were just some of the people jailed in our region so far this month.
Other criminals put behind bars include a man convicted of raping the same vulnerable woman three times and a convicted rapist who dragged a lone woman into some bushes while she waited for the bus.
A drug addict who was forced to become a Manchester gang's 'servant' after they threatened his daughter and a man whose dog left a woman's lip hanging off when it attacked her were also locked up.
Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases each week. Here are some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester since the start of
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