Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter He is the ruthless leader of a gang which carried out 29 robberies in six months across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
And despite being taken down by armed cops a decade ago as he and and an accomplice tried to raid a jeweller's armed with a hammer and a samurai sword, he never reformed.
Michael Burke from Winchester Road, Stretford, was given a life sentence yesterday after his team of violent thieves went on a spree in 2019. READ MORE: She sleeps with a knife and has a panic room...
her family's life was destroyed by a machete-wielding gang The 40-year-old must serve a minimum of 15 years and three months.
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