A serial woman beater who hit his girlfriend over the head with a vodka bottle and a man who raped a teenager while his wife was attending Sunday church service were just two of the offenders jailed in our region over the last week.
A 'despicable' carer who stole almost £25,000 from a terminally ill woman she was supposed to be looking after was also put behind bars.
A member of an armed gang who smashed his way into a house as a five-year-old child hid in the bathroom and a drug dealer who blasted a love rival in the leg with a shotgun before his mum helped him clean up the evidence were also handed prison terms.
Prison sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover
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