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A man spent eight days in a coma after a 16-year-old driving his mum's car ploughed into the taxi he was riding home in. Michael Hanrahan had taken the keys to his mother's white Mercedes A200 while she slept.

A convicted sex offender was snared by 'paedophile hunters' just weeks after walking free from court. Adam Ali, 36, struck up sick chats and sent porn links to what he believed was a 12-year-old girl, just three months after narrowly avoiding jail for almost identical offences.

A drunken dad stripped off his shirt and viciously attacked a 15-old boy who tried to stop him stealing a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey from a convenience store.

Manchester Evening News.The terrified victim, who remains unnamed, thought he was going to die during the brutal attack, which saw him stripped naked, tied up, slashed with knives and taped up around his ears, eyes and mouth.Mishull Street Crown Court heard that it was all for the sake of £20, which the victim did not have on him.After what started out as an of smoking and listening to music, Mark Hart turned on the victim, demanding £20 whilst holding a bullet and realistic-looking toy gun to his face.He then took a knife, Raymond took a hammer, and both attacked him.Prosecutor Justin Hayhoe said: "Hart held the knife close to his face, Raymond picked up the hammer, and they demanded £20 from him.“He said he was attacked with the knife and

hereThey were both at the party on November 23 last year, and Lord was driving so didn't drink alcohol at the event.Lord offered to give him a lift home, and when they arrived he invited him into his home and they started drinking vodka together.The victim said he had no recollection of what happened after 10pm that night.His wife later found Lord in the bath, and her husband in the living room with swollen eyes, and blood coming from his nose.She told Lord to leave.At first the victim refused to go to hospital, but an ambulance was called later that day, prosecutor Justin Hayhoe said.He ended up spending 19 days on a high dependency unit after suffering bleeding on the brain, as well as collapsed lungs and several rib fractures.He spent a

Minshull Street Crown Court heard.Then, in July this year, he was spotted lifting men's and women's fragrances from Boots in Salford, before he was arrested and interviewed.In the interview he admitted stealing the cash, sunglasses and perfumes to pay off drug debts.Davies, of Oldham, pleaded guilty to theft at an earlier hearing.

A man who had sex with a schoolgirl has been spared jail after a judge was convinced he would lead a 'law-abiding life'.

hereMinshull Street Crown Court heard that Thornton had spent 18 months in prison on remand almost a decade earlier, awaiting sentence for his offences against the other two girls.He later received a three year community order.Now a judge said he felt able to spare Thornton jail as the case represented an 'exceptional set of circumstances'.The judge also heard Thornton has since turned his life around and rehabilitated himself.Prosecutors told how the 13-year-old girl had accepted a friend request on Facebook from Thornton.He told her she was 'beautiful'.It would have been 'abundantly clear' to Thornton that she was a child, prosecutor Justin Hayhoe said.She told him she was 13, and she had photos of herself on her Facebook profile.Thornton