We're around halfway through the month now and our region's courts have been busy. Plenty of prison sentences have been handed out and people have been locked up for all manner of criminal offences with the M.E.N.
reporters there to cover the most serious. There was the man who has been jailed after subjecting a reveller to a terrifying kidnap and robbery ordeal after a night out in the Gay Village .
Then there was the brother of four children killed in the Walkden arson attack who was jailed after being found with a makeshift shotgun - his lawyer said he had faced 'exceptional tragedy'.
There was also the woman jailed for importing and selling ill puppies...she even left a dead dog in a cage. Here is a run-down of the criminals jailed over
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