A violent thug has been locked up for 12 years for subjecting vulnerable people to a series of terrifying robberies across Wythenshawe.
Daniel Kavanagh, 31, attacked two victims, stabbing one man in the thigh and throwing a female pensioner to the ground, in a bid to steal their belongings.
Kavanagh and his accomplice, Letitia Kavanagh, 29, first targeted a house on Maismore Road in February this year.
The 63-year-old male victim, known to Letitia, opened the front door and allowed her to use his bathroom.
As he did so, Daniel Kavanagh let himself in and grabbed the man by the neck, squeezing his wind pipe, before stabbing him to the thigh with an unknown object.
The pair left the house with a small amount of cash, an iPhone, and three watches including a Rolex and a Cartier watch worth £1,500.
In a second attack, Kavanagh targeted a 79 year-old woman as she left a shop in the Burnsall Walk area on Friday, 22 March.
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Kavanagh followed the pensioner out of the shop before grabbing her from behind and pulling her backwards.
During the scuffle, he managed to grab hold of her purse which contained a bank card and £30 in cash which Kavanagh used to buy £80 worth of alcohol.
He was later identified and caught by police from CCTV footage from inside the shop.
Daniel Kavanagh, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 12 years at Manchester Crown Court after he was convicted of two counts of robbery following a trial.
Letitia Kavanagh, also NFA, was jailed for five years and nine months after admitting one count of robbery.
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A post on GMP Wythenshawe's Facebook page, said: "Daniel Kavanagh has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, and Letitia Kavanagh to five years and nine months in prison for the following offences.
"The first being robbery against a vulnerable male in his home address - whereby Letitia and Daniel Kavanagh burst into the flat robbing the occupant knowing him to be vulnerable and stabbing him in the process.
"The second in March this year, Daniel Kavanagh robbed a 79 year-old female by dragging her to the floor after leaving the shops, robbing her and then using her cards later."
