A sex fiend who laughed at the teenager he assaulted as she recounted her horrific ordeal in court and a gang who set up a 'drugs factory' - and sparked a mass evacuation in Stretford - all among the people jailed in Greater Manchester this month. Our reporters were in court as scores of criminals were sent to prison during April, including a cocaine addled bodybuilder who killed a dad with the force 'of a heavyweight boxer' in an unprovoked nightclub attack.
Meanwhile, a repeat-offender paedophile who used his Xbox to find indecent images of young children - and a serial domestic abuser who falsely imprisoned and beat a pregnant woman - were also locked up.
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