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 convicted paedophile who sexually assaulted a young girl in her parents' house, and a brazen thief who walked out of B&Q with a washing machine.
Meanwhile the killers of Michelle Pearson and her children have been ordered to spend more time behind bars following a second trial.
Prison sentences are still being handed out despite the coronavirus lockdown and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases.
Here are some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester in the past week.
Young dad travelling in stolen car which crashed killing teenager
A young dad who had been travelling in a stolen car which crashed after being pursued by police in Stockport was jailed.
Ryce Mendoza, 20, was in the passenger seat of a Toyota Yaris which was being driven by Kyle Hudson as the pair fled the scene of a burglary in Handforth, Cheshire.
Hudson suffered a serious head injury after the car, which was driven at 'excessive speed' crashed into the wall of a property in Bramhall in November last year.
The 16-year-old was taken to hospital where he sadly died a short time later.
Manchester Minshull Street Crown court heard that in the early hours of November 13 last year, Hudson and Mendoza attempted to burgle a three-bedroom house in the Handforth area.
Prosecutor, Myles Wilson, told the court that the homeowner had been working on his computer downstairs whilst his wife and five-year-old child slept upstairs.
When the pair tried to enter through a window, the homeowner received a warning notification on his phone.
He ran outside shouting and the pair fled the scene, before making their way to the home of an 80-year-old woman and her daughter.
The court heard that the men were able to steal the keys to the woman's Toyota Yaris and the car was driven away.
Mr Wilson told the court that officers from Cheshire Police, who had been responding to the attempted burglary, spotted the car being driven by Kyle Hudson and began to pursue it.
The car collided with the wall of a residential street in Bramhall, Stockport, and both men were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Mendoza's barrister, Chudi Grant, told the court his client, who has a young daughter, had a troubled childhood and had been living in homeless shelters at the time of the offence.
Mendoza, of Catherine Street, Stockport, was sentenced to 30 months in a youth offender institution after admitting burglary, attempted burglary and aggravated vehicle taking.
Convicted paedophile who sexually assaulted young girl as he did building work on parent's house
A convicted paedophile who was banned from being alone with children sexually assaulted a young girl as he carried out work on her parent's house.
Raymond Conner, 64, was ordered by a court not to come into unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 16 after he was jailed for sexually assaulting a girl in 2009.
But some time after being released from a five and a half year prison sentence, Minshull Street Crown Court heard how he had been employed to carry out building work on the home of a family who had a young daughter.
Prosecutor Julian Goode told the court that Conner, who had been given his own key, sexually assaulted the girl on numerous occasions whilst her parents were out of the house.
The court heard that he would touch her breast and thigh area, call her names like 'sexy bum' and would grab her foot and attempt to put it in his mouth when her family wasn't at home.
The victim felt she couldn't tell her family as she was scared they'd think she was overreacting, the court heard.
Conner's crimes were only brought to light when the victim informed a friend at school that he had been calling her names and touching her inappropriately.
The court heard that the girls' friend informed a teacher, and the girl's parents and the police were subsequently notified.
Conner, of Norwood Road, Manchester, had previously been jailed for a number of sexual assaults on a girl and for causing a child to watch sexual acts and his most recent offences meant that he was in breach of this court order.
He was jailed for four years after admitting five offences of sexual assault on a child under the age of 16 and breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Conner was also handed a restraining order banning him from contacting the victim or her family, and will be made subject to another indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
He will spend half of his sentence in prison before being released on licence.
Brazen thief who walked out of B&Q with washing machine
A brazen thief walked out of B&Q with a washing machine and power tools in tow.
Jamie OBrien, 32, was spotted by a security guard wheeling the £435 appliance out of the front door on a flatbed trolley in March this year.
A week later he was again spotted walking out with six power tools, valued at £600 each, Manchester Magistrates Court heard.
On the third occasion, a week later on April 18, he was seen wandering around the store with a trolley before the security guard approached him.
OBrien, of Bolton, got ‘loud and aggressive’ but due to the number of people in the store, they let him leave.
Police attended and arrested OBrien outside the shop located at Fort Shopping Centre in Cheetham Hill.
The court heard that he has 19 convictions for 30 offences, including, most recently, for counterfeit currency.
Mitigating, Andrew Marsh said: “He has a long standing drug debt and was told he needed to pay it off, and so he took the opportunity of taking high value goods.
“He loaded them onto the trolley, walked out of the door, loaded them into his van and took them opportunistically in order to pay off the debt.
“He was amazed how easily he was able to do that."
OBrien, of Viking Street, pleaded guilty to two offences of theft and was jailed for 10 weeks and ordered to pay £128 victim surcharge.
Heroin and crack cocaine dealer arrested in stop and search
A heroin and crack cocaine dealer was jailed for more than five years after being arrested in a stop and search.
Christopher Bridger would travel from his home in Oldham to Cheshire to sell class A drugs, police said.
The 26-year-old was arrested after officers spotted him acting suspiciously in an area of Macclesfield that was well known to drug addicts.
On March 15, police saw him 'conversing with known drug dealers' then saw a 'coming together of hands', so conducted a stop and search.
Bridger was found with a small quantity of cannabis, £765 in cash and two mobile phones.
He was arrested and police found that he had a drugs debt and was dealing heroin and crack cocaine.
He was charged with two counts of being concerned in the supply of the class A drugs, possession of class B drug cannabis and possession of criminal property.
Bridger, of Copster Hill Road in Oldham, pleaded guilty to all of the charges and was jailed for five and a half years.
He was also ordered to pay a £190 victim surcharge.
Remorseless killers who will spend additional time in jail
Two remorseless killers will serve more time in prison after being found guilty of murder for a second time.
Zak Bolland, 26, and David Worrall, 29, have had around three years added to their life sentences after being convicted of Michelle Pearson's murder in a petrol bomb attack at her Salford home.
Four of Michelle's children also died in the blaze at their Walkden house - 15-year-old Demi; eight-year-old Brandon; seven-year-old Lacie; and Lia, three.
Bolland and Worrall were found guilty of the murders of the children at a trial in 2018, and received life sentences and were ordered to serve a minimum of 40 and 37 years respectively.
They were then found guilty of Michelle's murder at a second trial and their barristers argued they should not have their minimum terms increased.
But the judge, Mrs Justice McGowan, said the previous sentences did not reflect the mental and physical suffering Michelle endured in hospital, where she remained from the fire in December 2017 until her death about 20 months later.
"The loss of a life must be marked," the judge said.
She again handed them life sentences, to serve a minimum of 40 and 37 years respectively.
The judge said both sentences would start from the day of the sentencing (Wednesday), meaning the period from when they were previously sentenced, in May 2018, until now, would not count towards their minimum terms.
Courtney Brierley, 23, Bolland's former girlfriend, was found guilty of manslaughter at the first trial after she 'encouraged and assisted' the pair.
She then admitted the same offence before the second trial.
Brierley was originally sentenced to 21 years, of which she would have to serve half.
She has now been sentenced to 12 years. Under new laws passed since the first sentencing, she now has to serve two-thirds of that sentence.
It is thought that she will have to serve about eight months additional time in custody.
Men jailed for drug offences after police find £130,000-worth of weed
Around £130,000-worth of weed was found in a car stopped by cops in Salford.
Officers spotted a suspicious looking white Ford Focus on Langworthy Road on February 7 last year, Manchester Crown Court heard.
After stopping the car outside a house on Southgarth Road, Spencer Candland, 36, got out.
Police found several vacuum-sealed bags of cannabis, weighing 13kg in total. It is estimated the street value of the drugs was roughly £130,000.
The house Candland was visiting belonged to Tony Partington, 30.
His home was searched by police, who then found a further 2kg of cannabis.
Candland, of Langworthy Road, and Partington were both arrested, interviewed and charged with possession with intent to supply class B drugs.
After pleading guilty, both men have now been jailed for two years and four months.
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