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A dad has been spared jail after setting two vans alight close to their owner's properties after a drinks binge. Andrew Abbott drank a 'prodigious' amount of alcohol on the evening of April 22 last year before setting the vehicles on fire in a 'spontaneous' and 'ludicrous' hour.

Two men have been jailed for exploiting vulnerable 16-year-olds to deal crack cocaine and heroin more than 100 miles away. The ex-girlfriend of one of the dealers who ferried a boy to and from Greater Manchester avoided jail by the 'skin of her teeth'.

A drunken sex pest who asked a stranger for a kiss before groping her committed the 'disgusting' crime just days after being released from jail. Andrew Sawdyke, who was previously locked up after following a terrified schoolgirl, has been caged again after he pestered a woman leaving work in Manchester city centre before sexually assaulting her.

A thug, who stabbed his neighbour after an argument about loud music 'escalated', has been jailed.

jailed for nine months after filming himself having sex with his dog before sending the video on Facebook Messenger.Dean Beer struck up a "sickening" conversation on the social media platform in which he was encouraged to record himself sexually abusing his pet before sending it on.However, the disturbing footage was uncovered when the police went to the 56-year-old's home after receiving information from the National Crime Agency about the uploading of an indecent image. Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard his phone also contained two inaccessible category C photos of young girls aged between 13 and 15 and extreme pornographic images of women having penetrative sexual activity with dogs and a horse.

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