05:00, 2 MAY 2021
These criminals were all jailed in April
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Perverts, a killer and a knife-point robber are among the criminals who have been jailed in and around Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire in the last month.
With the Easter bank holiday and spring weather April always brings joy to many but for some of the region s criminals it has meant the start of a spell behind bars.
Locked up in April: Criminals jailed in Greater Manchester last month
Some of the criminal cases covered by MEN reporters over the last month
19:24, 1 MAY 2021
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Some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester in April 2021
A vodka-fuelled rapist who subjected a child to grave sexual abuse and four people who hunted down a doting dad and murdered him were just some of the criminals locked up in the region in April.
Greater Manchester courts gave out hefty prison sentences for all manner of crimes last month.
Other offenders put behind bars include a road rage thug who left a man for dead and a paedophile who asked his victim s mum not to tell police he sexually assaulted her child.
Locked Up: Our round up of criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this week
These are some of the criminals put behind bars in our region over the last week
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More criminals have been locked up this week as court cases conclude across Greater Manchester.
Those put behind bars over the past seven days include a man who set fire to his girlfriend s pub leaving her homeless, and a teenager who attacked a man with a hammer leaving him blind.
Middlesbrough store targeted by Asda nappy gang which stole haul of £160,000 goods in national spree
The Romanian gang swiped items including thousands of nappies stolen in raids on 81 stores across the country
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image captionThe gang primarily targeted Asda in their crime spree
Six men who stole more than £160,000 worth of items from supermarkets, by setting off alarms to distract security guards, have been jailed.
The gang, based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, mainly targeted Asda stores for high-value items including perfume, alcohol, cosmetics and thousands of nappies.
They committed 81 separate offences across the UK to avoid being caught, Cheshire Police said.
The men were each jailed for 42 months.
Nicolae Ilie, 37, Alin Mihai, 28, Florin Costea, 52, Stefan Florin, 31, Marius Meirosu, 25, and Gabriel Mocanu, 36, who were originally from Romania, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal at Chester Crown Court.