A murderer and a hatchet-wielding thug who raided Morrisons are among those jailed this week
December is well underway and while the countdown to Christmas is officially on, these criminals will be spending the holiday behind bars.
Prison sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases.Hatchet-wielding thug threatened Morrisons staff and raided stores A hatchet-wielding thug was caught on camera threatening staff as he raided Morrisons in a spree of armed robberies across Rochdale. Sean Zaffer Traynor, 34, robbed a number of supermarkets between November and December 2021, leaving the staff involved 'extremely shaken up'.
"You runni low on that yet rkid?": Members of Manc gang who were 'cleaning up' are now behind bars Members of an organised crime group have been jailed for peddling crack cocaine and heroin on the streets of Beswick and Manchester city centre. Collins was told he would serve five years and six months in jail. McMullen was sentenced to two years and five months and McIntyre to three years, four months.
Mr Da Silva was left bleeding out on the street before he died in hospital just hours later. Cardoso was arrested the next day, but provided no comment in his police interview. At trial, he claimed he had post traumatic stress disorder from the previous fight, and claimed he had ‘no memory’ of killing Mr Da Silva.
Greater Manchester Police identified Murphy as the head of the group, with Turner in charge of storing the drugs and Farrell being the courier. They were discovered after sending messages to each other using the ‘Encrochat’ system - a sophisticated encrypted messaging service used in an attempt to evade police detection.
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