Greater Manchester's courts dealt with dozens of serious cases in November.

Here is our rogues’ gallery of criminals who were sentenced to a spell behind bars last month.

Mike Samwell's killers were jailed

Ryan Gibbons and Raymond Davies

A burglar was handed a life sentence and told he must serve a minimum of 27 years for twice running over an ex-Royal Navy officer as his wife watched in horror.

Ryan Gibbons, 29, reversed over Mike Samwell then drove over him a second time as the former serviceman tried to stop his £36,000 Audi S3 sports car being stolen.

Gibbons gave no reaction but there were gasps from his family in the public gallery and one said "You're joking", before his father shouted "Love you, son" as he was taken down to the cells at Manchester Crown Court.

Passing sentence Mr Justice William Davis told Gibbons: "He was killed in front of [his wife's] eyes and died as she was holding his hand on the driveway of his own home.

"You are a dangerous young man, you are a regular burglar, and on this occasion, to get what you wanted, you quite ruthlessly killed a man."

Accomplice Raymond Davies, 21, of Castlefield Walk, Chorlton, who drove Gibbons to the address to steal the car and was convicted of manslaughter, was jailed for eight years.

A woman who glassed her girlfriend's mum in the face during a drunken karaoke brawl

Stacey Greenhalgh

A woman attacked her girlfriend’s mum with a wine glass during a drunken family row at a pub karaoke night.

Stacey Greenhalgh, 31, picked up the container and smashed it over the head of Elaine McGee after an argument over childcare.

Greenhalgh was in a relationship with McGee’s daughter Keeleigh and was herself a mum-of-two.

But she launched a furious attack on her lover’s mother - yelling ‘you don’t f***ing care about my boys’ as she swung the glass at her victim’s head and torso.

The nursing assistant needed four stitches for her wounds.

At Minshull Street Crown Court , Greenhalgh, from Gorton , sobbed as she was jailed for 20 months after admitting wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Keeleigh, a chef at a children’s hospital screamed and wept in the public gallery shouting ‘them babies’ and ‘she’s a f***ing liar’.

The Manchester drugs gang jailed for a plot to flood a seaside town with cocaine

Seven members of a Manchester drugs gang who plotted to flood a seaside town with cocaine have been jailed.

The men plotted to move into the coastal resort of Scarborough, north Yorkshire, with significant quantities of the Class A drug from across the Pennines.

But they've now been imprisoned for a total of 50 years - after police finally tracked down the gang.

Five were caged earlier this year and two others who went on the run were finally brought to justice following a huge manhunt conducted by police forces across the north.

After the final member of the gang was brought to justice, Detective Sergeant Ryan Chapman, who led the investigation for North Yorkshire Police, said: “Drugs absolutely ruin communities and wreck the lives of the most vulnerable people in them. The individuals in this case don’t care about that, but we do. And I’m delighted that we’ve been able to make a positive difference through our investigation.”

A man who repeatedly stamped on his girlfriend's head after taking LSD

Samuel Farley

A teenage fashion student almost died after her boyfriend repeatedly stamped on her head during a drug-fuelled attack after a night out.

Samuel Farley, 21, left his girlfriend Esther Garrity with severe brain injuries after inflicting a minimum of 27 blows on her as they walked home from a night out in Middlesbrough.

Teesside Crown Court heard how Manchester Metropolitan University student Miss Garrity lost teeth, and suffered a badly broken jaw and severe brain swelling.

A paramedic who attended the scene said her injuries were the worst he'd seen anyone survive.

The court heard that Farley, of Melbourne Close, Marton, Middlesbrough, had taken cocaine, ketamine and LSD before the attack, and was a regular drug user.

The assault, which Farley claimed was a "psychotic episode" which he didn't remember, left Miss Garrity with life-changing brain injuries.

He was jailed for 12 years and six months after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm.

A man who plied a teen with vodka and cannabis before sexually exploiting her

Nadeem Hussain

A man who plied a teenage girl with vodka and cannabis before sexually exploiting her ‘for his own perverse pleasure’ has been locked up.

Nadeem Hussain groomed the girl, aged under 16, over Facebook before luring her to an off-licence in Ashton.

There he bought a bottle of vodka, before then taking the young victim back to his flat.

Once there, the pair then began smoking cannabis and listened to music, before he poured several shots for her.

He then had sex with her several times and took indecent photos of her.

Hussain, 20, of Burlington Street, Ashton was sentenced to four years and six months in prison at Minshull Street Crown Court.

He was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual activity with a child and three counts of making indecent images of a child at a previous hearing.

A murderer's cousin who tried to intimidate witnesses on Snapchat

Harddar Hussain

The teenage cousin of a convicted murderer tried to intimidate witnesses in the killer’s trial by calling them ‘angin grasses’ on Snapchat.

Warehouse worker Harddar Hussain, 19, was jailed for 12 months after sending a social media post a week before Adam Akhtar went on trial for murdering have-a-go hero Wesley Lennon.

Akhtar, 19, was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 18 years for fatally stabbing Mr Lennon, 26, who had intervened in a drunken fight between two of Akhtar’s friends in Eccles in August 2016.

Manchester Crown Court heard how Hussain had come into possession of the prosecution’s opening speech, a document which is read out to the jury at the start of a trial, telling them about the nature of the case.

He posted a picture of the document, containing the names of two prosecution witnesses, with the caption ‘angin grasses’.

Sending him down for a year, Recorder Andrew Loveridge said the posting of the image showed ‘emotional immaturity’ and an aspect of ‘bravado to curry favour within the criminal community’.

Hussain, of Lewis Street, Eccles, was convicted after trial of two counts of attempting to intimidate a witness.

Adam Akhtar, of Somerset Road, Eccles, was found guilty of murder in March this year, following a trial. The court heard how he fatally stabbed Wesley Lennon after a fight broke out between two groups on Cambrai Street in Winton, in August 2016.

A pensioner caught in £1.6m tax scam who claimed he was a spy

Raymond Thomas

A pensioner being investigated for a £1.6m tax scam claimed the reason he had no paperwork was because he was a spy and warned that he was going ‘to complain to the Prime Minister’.

Raymond Thomas, 71, lived a ‘lavish lifestyle’ with his wife Susan Weston and bought property abroad with the proceeds of the VAT scam.

Using a company working in the air traffic control industry he was previously director of to engineer the scam, he told investigators he had dealings with the US Secret Service and that paperwork had to be ‘destroyed at their request’.

He later claimed that he produced key components for military drones and said he would complain to the Prime Minister, claiming he worked ‘fiercely and patriotically in the protection of the citizens of this country and others’.

As part of their investigation, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) contacted the Secret Service who confirmed they had never heard of Thomas.

The fraudulent pensioner has now been jailed for four years and eight months for masterminding the VAT scam, while Weston, from Salford, received a suspended sentence for her part in the scheme.

A driver who mowed down a cyclist while high on drink and drugs

Ajay Singh

Dad-of-one Ajay Singh, 26, has been jailed for eight years after killing 24-year-old florist Vicky Myres in Trafford .

He had taken cocaine and cannabis before getting behind the wheel, and had a half empty bottle of wine in his hand, Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Singh was travelling at up to 60mph - twice the speed limit - when he crashed into the back of Ms Myres while she was out with her partner’s mother for their usual Sunday morning ride.

During the collision his registration plate fell off, which allowed the police to quickly trace him to his flat where he had returned.

The vehicle was travelling at about 60mph in a 30mph zone when Singh crashed into Ms Myers.

She was killed instantly, and suffered 66 different external injuries.

Singh, a claims advisor, earlier admitted causing Ms Myers’ death by dangerous driving, failing to stop following a collision and failing to report a collision.

He has previous convictions for violence and driving offences, was also banned from driving for 10 years and must take an extended retest. He also admitted failing to stop and failing to report an accident.

A mum who told a stranger to ‘get the f*** out of my face’ then pushed him under a tram

Charissa Brown-Wellington

A mum who drunkenly told a stranger to ‘get the f*** out of my face’ then pushed him under a tram - crushing him to death - was jailed for five years.

Charissa Brown-Wellington, 31, killed Philip Carter during a violent outburst on the platform at Manchester Victoria station.

Senior officers described her as ‘a ticking time bomb’ before the attack, adding: “He suffered a brutal death all because she lost her temper.”

Mr Carter, 30, who didn't know his attacker, lost his balance and fell through a gap between the platform and a tram after she pushed him with ‘very excessive force’.

The tram pulled away a short time later and he was fatally injured.

Brown-Wellington, who has a personality disorder which causes ‘impulsive violence’, was drunk and had taken ecstasy earlier that night, the court was told.

She was sentenced to five years in prison after admitting manslaughter.

The burglar who got caught after leaving his booze at the scene of a break-in

Robert Roy Moore

A burglar was caught after leaving his DNA on a vodka bottle at the scene of a break-in.

Robert Roy Moore, 34, was hauled into court after he raided a house and stole from two off licences in Heywood - all on the same night.

Moore broke into a home on Aspinall Street in January and stole two bottles of spirits, and a bottle that was used to collect loose change on January 12.

Earlier in the evening he had stolen two four-packs of Stella Artois from the KG Ahmed off licence in the town, as well as a bottle of Smirnoff Vodka and 20 Sterling Superking cigarettes from Connells off licence.

Moore, of Spar Crescent, Little Hulton, Salford , admitted theft, burglary and receiving stolen goods when he appeared at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court on Monday.

He was sentenced to a total of three years.

The thug who embedded a meat cleaver in his victim's head

Anthony Thompson

Anthony Thompson, 28, was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years after pleading guilty to attempting to murder Cameron Sharp and possessing a six-inch meat cleaver.

A judge said it was ‘pure chance’ Mr Sharp had not been killed in the attack in Bury .

Manchester Crown Court heard that former bus driver Thompson was involved in a dispute with Mr Sharp, who is now in a relationship with his former partner Nicola Crossley.

The court heard that on September 2, at about 6am Thompson drove to his former girlfriend’s home in Radcliffe , in the hope of finding Mr Sharp.

After spotting him, Thompson pulled over and ran towards him, shouting ‘I’m going to kill you. You are a f***** dead man’ while armed with a meat cleaver.

Thompson caught up and grabbed him, and hit Mr Sharp three or four times in the body with the cleaver as the victim tried to defend himself.

The blade became ‘embedded’ in Mr Sharp’s head, and he ‘levered it out’ himself, prosecutor Andrew Mackintosh said.

Thompson, of Plodder Lane, Farnworth, Bolton, will serve half of his sentence in prison before being considered for parole.

The teenage drug dealers caught trafficking 'dum-dum' bullets through the streets of Manchester

Rakeem Zakaria and Nabeel Ishtaq

Deadly 'dum-dum' bullets were trafficked through the streets by teenage gangland ‘foot soldiers’.

A cache of the ammunition - which expand on impact to maximise injury - were found by police in an car which was abandoned after a pursuit in south Manchester.

Rakeem Zakaria, 19, was delivering 36 0.22 calibre bullets when the speed of the Volvo he was in raised police suspicion.

The car was dumped in Levenshulme and Zakaria and another man, Nabeel Ishtaq, 18, fled the officers chasing them.

But the pair left behind two black bags which linked them to organised crime - and have led to both being locked up in young offenders institutions.

Inside the car, Zakaria’s fingerprints were found on a black bag containing the ammunition - which is of a type which has been banned in international warfare for nearly 120 years. Meanwhile Ishtaq’s fingerprints were found on another bag containing 43g of heroin, worth £4300.

Officers conducted a search of the surrounding area, and another bag was found containing eleven wraps of high-purity heroin and eleven wraps of crack cocaine, with a total value of about £300.

Zakaria, of Stanhope Street, Levenshulme , who was training to be a gas engineer, was sent to young offenders’ for three years, after admitting possession with intent to supply heroin, being concerned in the supply of cannabis and possessing prohibited ammunition.

Ishtaq, of Merlewood Avenue, was locked up for two-and-a-half years after he admitted possession with intent to supply heroin and cocaine.

The paedophile who was caught when he ended up sharing a jail cell with his victim 30 years later

Gary Mottershead

Gary Mottershead got away with raping and molesting a young boy in the 1980s for three decades.

But in 2015 after the 50-year old was detained on suspicion of assaulting his wife and remanded in custody and in an astonishing twist of fate was held in the same cell where his victim was locked up for burglary.

The victim - who cannot be named - didn’t recognise his cellmate at first but gradually began to realise he was the paedophile who abused him between 1981 and 1983 and told a prison guard.

The assaults occurred when Mottershead was just 15 and had been asked to babysit the victim, whilst his parents went out for the evening. He would ply the boy with cider before coercing him into sexual encounters saying it was their ‘little secret’ and would usher his sister to her bedroom so that he and the boy could be alone.

Tormented by his childhood experience, the boy, who came from a ‘respectable’ family turned to a life of alcohol, drugs and organised crime.

At Minshull Street Crown Court , Manchester, Mottershead, of Sale , was jailed for six years after he was convicted by a jury of one count of rape and six counts of sexual assault on a male under the age of 13, he denied wrongdoing.

The man who threw paint stripper over prison staff cars at Strangeways

Elliott Cummings

Windows were smashed and paint stripper was thrown over cars belonging to Strangeways staff, causing more than £11,000 damage, a court heard.

Elliott Cummings, one of three hooded men who carried out what a judge described as a ‘targeted’ attack on prison employees, was jailed for 20 months.

Manchester Crown Court heard that the three men first arrived at HMP Manchester at night on October 11 in a stolen Ford Focus, which was being driven by Cummings.

Three men got out and started smashing car windows with a hammer and throwing paint stripper over the vehicles. The cars were owned by staff including prison officers and a nurse.

A Volkswagen Passat sustained £4,800 worth of damage due to windows being smashed and paint begin thrown over it, and a Mazda also sustained £4,600 worth of damage.

Four other cars, a Mazda, a Ford Focus, a Fiat Punto and a Ford Fiesta were also affected, totalling more than £11,000.

Cummings, of Mull Avenue, Longsight , pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal damage, handling stolen goods and driving without insurance.

The Thai Boxing coach who secretly filmed himself having sex with a schoolgirl

Peter Feeley

A Thai Boxing coach who secretly filmed himself having sex with a schoolgirl at his gym was jailed.

Peter Feeley, 56, nicknamed ‘Mr Touchy-Feeley’, was a ‘respected’ coach based at the Spartan Muay Thai gym in Middleton - but he went on to develop a relationship with a youngster.

The court heard that the pair would refer to each other as ‘husband and wife’, sending each other gifts and sharing explicit photos.

The girl then went missing one night, and couldn't be contacted, prompting a frantic search by her parents and the police.

She was found the following morning and told them she'd run away and had been roaming the streets.

But she had in fact been with Feeley who had ‘forced her to tell lies’ about where she’d actually been, the court heard.

She eventually told police they had sex three times in the gym, and once at his house on the night she went missing, Alexander Menary, prosecuting at Minshull Street Crown Court said.

Feeley, of Spring Gardens, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault, abduction, and four counts of sexual activity with a child at earlier hearings.

He was sentenced to a total of six years behind bars, of which he will likely serve half and the rest on licence.

The attacker who brutally attacked a pensioner in a pub

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A violent attacker who set upon a pensioner at a pub darts match, leaving his face fractured in 16 places, is now behind bars.

Shocking CCTV footage shows how victim George Pike, 69, was brutally set upon by a player at the Union Inn, Reddish, Stockport, and punched 13 times then kicked while he was on the floor.

Attacker Steven Clarke, 54, of Catterick Road, Didsbury, was jailed for 15 months at Minshull Street Crown Court having admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.

The court heard that there had been an earlier verbal exchange between the two men that Clarke had ‘clearly escalated’.

Judge Recorder Rowena Goode told the court: “You went over to him and threw a punch and this was then followed very rapidly by a series of many more punches and one kick.”

The burglars who rammed a police car during a high-speed getaway bid

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Two burglars who rammed a police car during a high-speed getaway bid were jailed.

Dramatic footage from the pursuit was released after the convictions of Marcus Cameron and Liam Harbour.

The dashcam shows the crooks’ getaway car, a dark green Ford Mondeo, reaching speeds of 60mph as it weaves through residential streets and crosses roundabouts in Bury .

At one stage, the GMP vehicle rips off the Mondeo’s door as the vehicles collide.

A fire extinguisher was set off inside to deter the officers in pursuit and a claw hammer was also thrown at the GMP car.

Cameron, 28, and Harbour, 31, had burgled the Maze Convenience Store on Brandlesholme Road, Bury, in the early hours of October 17, causing damage worth £5,000.

Cameron, of Tonge Moor, Bolton, pleaded guilty to burglary, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and having no insurance. He was jailed for two years and eight months.

Harbour, from Breightmet, Bolton, admitted burglary and was locked up for 16 months.

The hit-and-run driver who mowed down a paramedic but left a bottle of whiskey and his driving licence behind

John Burns

A carjacker crashed into a cyclist and left him for dead while fleeing from police.

John Burns, 30, robbed a woman of her car at a petrol station and led police on a high-speed pursuit, swerving across lanes and driving on the wrong side of the road at up to 50mph.

The car, a VW Polo, rounded a bend and smashed into Jack Talbot, 25, a paramedic and a keen competitive cyclist.

The collision snapped Mr Talbot’s bike in half and sent the cyclist 30ft into the air.

Mr Talbot, who spent 13 days in a coma, suffered a catalogue of life-threatening injuries, including a brain injury, fractured spine, and a broken shoulder and ribs.

Police found the car abandoned after the crash in July in Ulverston, Cumbria. Inside officers found a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey - and Burns’ driving licence.

Burns, of Sycamore Drive in Radcliffe, near Bury, pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to offences including theft and causing serious injury by dangerous driving. He was jailed for nine and a half years and disqualified from driving for eight years, nine months

The man who treated his gravely-ill dogs with human medication instead of taking them to the vets

Peter Robinson, 46, had three dogs and two cats but when boxer Ivy and bull mastiff Molly became seriously ill he didn't take them to the vet. Instead he gave them human medication.

Molly had a severe skin condition yet father-of-one Robinson treated it with his daughter's eczema cream whilst Ivy was left barely able to walk after her cancer was treated with household paracetamol after he lost his job as a Yodel delivery driver.

RSPCA officers rescued the severely emaciated animals after Robinson’s daughter claimed she had seen Ivy kicked in the stomach and dragged her outside into the back garden after she soiled the kitchen floor.

But the intervention in March was too late for Ivy who was left in so much pain from a cancerous tumour on her spleen, she had to be put to sleep.

Molly recovered from her ordeal and is currently in the care of the RSPCA.

Robinson, of Oldham was jailed for 14 months for animal cruelty offences and being in breach of a suspended jail term imposed for dangerous driving after a hearing at Minshull Street Crown Court.

The shopkeeper who raped a woman who'd asked him for help

Swapnil Kulat

A shopkeeper raped and beat a woman who went into an off licence to charge her mobile phone after her battery died.

The woman had popped into the G+T off licence on Wilmslow Road in Withington to ask if she could charge her phone behind the counter.

But Swapnil Kulat, 30, who was working in the shop alone, suddenly closed the shop locking the victim and another woman inside.

Kulat was jailed for seven-and-a-half years after the ‘vicious’ and ‘terrifying’ attack which lasted several hours.

Both women begged him to let them leave, and he did eventually let the second woman go, but told his victim she must stay.

And once the pair were alone he produced a large silver knife, ‘jabbing it towards her’ and threatening to kill her.

He then began to physically attack her, punching and kicking her and hitting her all over her body with a walking stick, which was eventually found in three pieces covered in blood.

He later ordered her to come and lie down with him in the back of the shop where he raped her.

The teenage knifeman who stabbed a Boozy Busters worker in the neck for a bottle of rum

Myles Moore

A teenage knifeman left a shop worker with 'appalling' lifelong injuries after stabbing him in the neck as he tried to run off with a bottle of rum.

Myles Moore, 18, was jailed for nine years after producing the knife in a moment of ‘panic’, in the Boozy Busters off-licence in Old Trafford .

Minshull Street Crown Court heard that at about 2.20am on Sunday, July 2, Moore entered the shop, in Upper Chorlton Road, and picked up a bottle of rum which he put on the counter.

When the shopkeeper turned around, Moore put the bottle in a carrier bag and tried to leave, the court heard.

A ‘melee’ broke out, with one shop worker detaining him entirely ‘lawfully’, according to a judge, while the two others ran over to help.

Moore, of Rusholme , was seen to reach into a small bag he had around his neck, and produce a Stanley knife.

A shop worker was seriously injured after being stabbed in the neck, at the junction with his spinal cord.

He immediately collapsed and noticed a loss of feeling in his left side, losing the use of his left arm and leg.

Moore then ran off, making threats and saying ‘I will stab you all’ while he made his getaway.

After handing himself in to the police, Moore, of Birchfields Road, Rusholme, later pleaded guilty to causing GBH with intent to resist arrest, two counts of section 20 wounding, possessing a bladed article, and theft.

The disgraced TV weatherman who told his victim 'pretend I'm your girlfriend' as he sexually assaulted him

Fred Talbot in police custody

Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been given extra jail time for indecent assault - which the victim believed was 'his fault' for wearing a dress.

Talbot, 67, told a man ‘just close your eyes and pretend I’m your girlfriend’ after he woke up to find him indecently assaulting him.

He then tried to block the man from leaving and bit him in the neck - leaving a lovebite, a Minshull Street Crown Court sentencing hearing was told.

The victim kept his silence for years.

Talbot is serving nine years in prison for a string of sex assaults, including against former pupils of his at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys in the 1970s.

Now he's been jailed for another eight months for the attack on the man at his home in 1980, which came after Talbot invited him to a fancy dress party at his home.

The depraved postman who repeatedly sexually assaulted a schoolgirl

Alec Heaps

A postman who repeatedly sexually assaulted a child was jailed for five years.

Alec Heaps, 53, from Stockport , was found guilty by a jury of subjecting his schoolgirl victim to years of abuse.

Charged with five offences of sexual assault of a child under 13 and one of sexual assault of a child, Heaps has protested his innocence throughout - forcing his victim to endure the ordeal of a trial.

But Heaps, of High Lane, was sentenced on Monday after a jury unanimously found him guilty.

Judge Recorder Paul Reid QC sent Heaps down for five years and ordered he be placed on the sexual offenders’ register.

The teenage knifeman who repeatedly stabbed a stranger with a 'Rambo' blade

John Harley
John Harley

A teenager threatened to cut a stranger’s throat with a near 10 inch ‘Rambo’ knife before stabbing him repeatedly during an ‘unprovoked’ and ‘vicious’ attack.

John Jo Harley, 19, has been sent to prison for eight years after pouncing on his 48-year-old male victim on Belmont Bridge in Heaton Norris, Stockport at about midnight.

Manchester Crown Court heard that Harley had purchased the knife, which a judge said wouldn’t be out of place on a TV survival programme, for £29.99 over the counter at a shop in Rhyl, north east Wales, where he was at the time.

He'd travelled back to Stockport and launched the attack on his victim, a father with a young family who a judge said was simply ‘going about his lawful business’.

Prosecuting, Julian Goode said Harley initially put the knife to the man’s neck, and threatened to slit his throat.

But he then stabbed him ‘straight through’ the leg and in his chest with the blade, about 20cm to 25cm long, puncturing his lung and losing a significant amount of blood.

Harley, of Mendip Close, Heaton Norris, pleaded guilty to one count of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and possession of a knife.

Judge Martin Rudland sentenced him to eight years, awarding credit for a guilty plea and taking his age into account.

The man who sold the 'worst quality' kitchens for Vance Miller

Steven Ford

A businessman who sold poor quality kitchens on behalf of Vance Miller even after his Maple Mill base was searched by Trading Standards was jailed.

Steven Ford, 28, is the latest defendant connected to the operation from the Oldham mill to be sent down and was handed a 40-week jail term.

Ford ran S&F Home Solutions from an address in Rochdale between October 2014 and February 2015, after a search warrant was executed by Trading Standards at Maple Mill in March 2013.

Manchester Crown Court heard that one duped customer spent £1,400 on a kitchen from S&F and was told that it would be ‘like Howdens in quality, only cheaper’.

The builder who she employed separately to install the units described them as the ‘worst quality kitchen he had ever fitted’.

Ford, of Whitworth Road, Rochdale, was arrested and later pleaded guilty before he was due to go on trial alongside Dobson and Eddlestone.

He admitted three offences contrary to consumer protection law and was jailed on Tuesday, November 28.

The dangerous rapist caught out after his victim bravely spoke out to Childline

Vinh Van Vu

A paedophile was brought to justice and jailed for 20 years after his victim contacted Childline.

The young girl, who was abused from the age of seven, was raped and molested by Vinh Van Vu over a five-year period. In despair, she confided in counsellors through Childline’s internet chat service.

The support she received gave her to courage to contact police. And now Vinh Van Vu from north Manchester, has been locked up for 20 years after being found guilty of multiple counts of sexual assault and rape.

The 32-year-old, of Tweedle Hill Road in Blackley , was sentenced following a two day trial at Woolwich Crown Court.