A knifeman who caused terror in the city centre as he randomly stabbed homeless people has been handed a 23 year sentence.
Kieran McLoughlin, 32, slashed four men to the face, and another to the back while in full view of a busy Metrolink stop, during a 10 minute spree across Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street.
The senseless stabbings caused panic, with fears that the seemingly random knife attacks could have been a terrorist attack.