Rows over 'disrespect', senseless threats of violence, and pictures posing with weapons.
Manchester's courts are well accustomed to cases where defendants have behaved like gangsters on the streets of Manchester - and have ended up in the dock because of it.
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Here, the M.E.N looks back at some of the lawless offenders whose underworld fantasies created problems for police and the public - and ended in a criminal record.
'This is our estate'
A cocky lad boasted ‘this is our estate’ to a PSCO who was looking for an elderly vulnerable and high-risk missing person.
Sonny Lennon, 22, was out with four other men in a park in Trafford when they were approached by a police officer and the community support officer.
After the officer asked the lads about the missing person they were met with abuse.
Lennon, of Bowdon, told them to ‘f*** off’ before threatening: “This is our estate, you get terrored everyday”.
He then told the PCSO she looked ‘over 70’, warned her to ‘get off the estate’ and stated ‘you’re not even a fed - just a PCSO’.
The woman was left ‘intimidated’ and ‘insulted’, the court heard.
Lennon pleaded guilty to one offence of using threatening words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
He was fined £100 and ordered to pay £85 court costs and £34 victim surcharge.
Speaking from the dock at a hearing in July, Lennon said his behaviour was ‘unacceptable’ and he ‘didn’t think in the moment that it was a problem’.
A rampage at Manchester Fort
A gang of three louts went on the rampage in JD Sports, causing families to take refuge and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.
The three young men brandished batons, and used mannequins and shop furniture to attack a group of men in front of customers, including small children.
Cain Gordon, 20, Levi Murray, 19, and another man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, carried out the attack at the store in Cheetham Hill at 5pm on April 17, this year.
In CCTV footage played to the court, Murray, of Salford, swung a baton directly towards a man in the store, before turning his attention to another man who defended himself by upending a rack of clothes over him.
The video showed the third defendant appearing to throw a bottle of water on two other men, before one of the victims picked up a long furniture pole which he brandished at Murray.
Gordon was then seen to throw the furniture rack and pick up and throw a mannequin, with the third man pulling the arm of a mannequin to use as a club.
It's not known what the fight was about - but it started after the group walked past the shop, saw the other group inside, and launched the attack.
Murray was sentenced to 20 months custody for affray, 12 months for criminal damage and 12 months for having an offensive weapon to be served concurrently.
Gordon, of Crumpsall, was jailed for 22-and-a-half months and was made the subject of a criminal behaviour order banning him from going to the Manchester Fort retail park, or associating with the third defendant for three years.
The third defendant was handed a 26 month community order and 30 hours Rehabilitation activity requirements , 180 hours unpaid work and a criminal behaviour order of two years.
'Fake gangster'
Mason Clemans threatened a shop worker after being asked to comply with social distancing measures.
The 18-year-old entered the shop on Bolton Road and picked up a carton of orange juice before going to the till.
When asked to comply with the store’s rules on social distancing, he threw the carton to the floor and launched a foul mouthed rant at the shop worker.
“I’m going to stab you. I’m going to get your till," he told the woman.
“Who are you f****** talking to, you piece of sh**. I will come round there and stab you.”
He was persuaded to leave by friends and kicked a display over on the way out.
Before leaving, he lifted up his top to reveal a knife in his trousers.
The worker who Clemans threatened said it was the most frightening incident she'd experienced in 14 years of working in shops, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Sentencing, Judge Anthony Cross QC told Clemans: "That piece of sh** you referred to was a lady who had worked there for 14 years.
"Probably not earning much, if anything above the minimum wage.
"When challenged, you lifted your shirt like that sort of fake gangster way, to show you were carrying a knife."
Clemans, of Bank Lane, Salford, pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article, affray and criminal damage and was jailed for 12 months in July last year.
'He was talking s*** about me'
Otis Johnson was on an alcohol and cocaine-fuelled binge when he thought he heard a stranger 'talking sh**' about him.
The 24-year-old walked up to the man and punched him to the back of the head, rendering him unconscious.
The man needed a six-hour operation to insert metal plates into his jaw following the attack last summer.
Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Johnson had been enjoying a night out with three friends when he stumbled across Mr Walkden in the early hours of July 18 this year.
The group were waiting to buy items from the Shell garage in Bury New Road, Prestwich, prosecutor James Preece told the court.
The victim was also with friends having enjoyed a night out at a bar and they were also waiting to buy alcohol from the garage.
Mr Preece said there was ‘little interaction’ between the two groups, who were strangers, save from one advising the other that they couldn’t go into the shop at that time – around 3.30am.
The prosecutor said Johnson then raised his arms and was heard to say “someone was talking s*** about us”.
Mr Preece said Johnson told police that he had been intoxicated by cocaine and alcohol and stated that he had not slept for days.
He claimed that one of the women in the other group had been saying something about him, and so went to assault the victim.
Jailing Johnson for two years and six months in October, the sentencing judge described the attack as 'one of the most senseless, gratuitous acts of violence I have ever witnessed in all my years as a circuit judge'.
'Pretend gangster'
Kie Connor filmed himself posing with guns and a machete whilst wearing a black balaclava - and told police he was pretending to be a gangster.
The 19-year-old was seen in a video played to a court posing with weapons - including pointing a handgun and pulling the trigger.
Following a search of a house he shared with his sister, officers found cannabis and codeine in the kitchen, Manchester Crown Court heard.
A further search of the shed in the back garden revealed a ‘gun cleaning kit’, as well as a bum bag containing a Grand Power self loading pistol and ammunition.
A month later Connor was involved in a high speed police pursuit, in which he was driving a stolen BMW on false registration plates.
After he was forced to come to a stop, he ran and discarded a machete.
The next day, police executed a search warrant at a woman's house, where Connor had previously stayed, and discovered a shotgun concealed in the garden.
Appearing over videolink earlier this month, Connor was jailed for five-and-a-half years after admitting possession of a prohibited firearm; possession of an offensive weapon; dangerous driving; possession of a firearm; possession of ammunition and possession of drugs.
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