A thug has been jailed for his part in the gunpoint kidnap and torture of a professional poker player. Isaac Hodges was part of a hooded gang of four men who snatched their victim from a street in Salford.
Two office removal men stole laptops from the BBC’s old headquarters during the corporation’s move to MediaCity.
John Savage, 42, and Kenneth McMahon, 36, stole the computers while they were helping clear out the BBC’s former headquarters in Oxford Road.
A pub landlord who beat a regular senseless because he didn’t drink up quickly enough was told by a judge: ‘You could have killed him.”
David Keane, 39, thumped George Harris in the face before stamping on his head in the closing time row at the Huntsman Inn, Rusholme.
Michael Constantine, 26, also kicked the father of the 10-month-old boy in the face during what a judge described as an ‘appalling incident’.
Magistrates court heard Constantine terrorised the couple as they took their baby, who has a chronic lung condition, for treatment.
A woman who blinded a police officer with pepper spray after being kicked out of a rock concert for smoking has been jailed.
Magdalena Rzucidlo, 24,and her elder brother Grzegorz Rzucidlo had to be flown back from Poland after skipping bail and going on the run after the attack in Manchester.
A rioter who left the scene of a £20,000 jewellery raid empty-handed has been jailed for two and a half years.
Leandro Santosdesasaevasconcelos was part of a mob of 20 that descended on Alfred E Mutter, at Thomas Street in the Northern Quarter, as looters smashed stores across the city centre.
A homeless drug addict who risked death by taking cable from a 130ft electricity pylon has been jailed for three years. Desmond Brady, 43, was part of a gang that tried to steal wire carrying a lethal 275,000 volts.
John Clarke was so enraged with the businessman after a bust-up that he threatened him with the weapon. The air rifle, which was not loaded at the time, was so convincing that the man was in genuine fear for his life, a court heard.
The incident happened after a row between the two men over power tools stolen from a van in Eccles.
Barrister David Friesner, 46, took £72,500 from 9 St John Street Chambers, in Manchester, as he suffered 'financial carnage' after his sideline property business was hit by the credit crunch of 2008.
Daniel Lee, 21, was crossing Plymouth Grove in Longsight, when he was hit by a VW Golf driven by Kamran Khan.
A jury heard how Khan, 24, had been playing a reckless game of chase with his pal Shamin Uddin, 25, who was driving an Audi when the accident happened in the early hours of January 30 last year.
The MEN is naming and shaming criminals convicted of serious offences during February.
We will be publishing an online gallery of offenders who have been convicted and jailed at courts around Greater Manchester throughout the month.
The bogus cop, wearing a dark t-shirt and body armour, struck at a house on Banbury Mews in Salford. He told the victim, 24, that he had a warrant and was allowed in.
A postmistress turned detective to clear her name after a crooked worker stole thousands of pounds and let her take the blame.
Mum-of-four Shazbat Begum was suspended after £6,000 went missing from the accounts of the Westwood Park Post Office in Eccles.
Andrew Dale, 36, aimed a ‘disgraceful’ slur at Glen Johnson from the stands as the player took a throw-in at the Etihad Stadium.
The comment referred to Johnson’s teammate Luis Suarez – the Uruguayan forward at the centre of the race-row involving United’s Patrice Evra.
The crooks forced the window off its hinges after scaling the side of the house on Ripon Avenue, Whitefield, between 7pm and 9.30pm on February 2.
They stole a 100-year-old bracelet, a yellow gold solitaire engagement ring, with one diamond in 'dated' square setting, and a yellow gold eternity ring set with diamonds.