A man has been charged with criminal damage after the Manchester Arena memorial was vandalised.
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A 'devious' drug addict who savagely murdered her own mother was just one of the offenders jailed in our region in the last week.
The teenage killers of Bolton schoolboy Reece Tansey were also put behind bars.
Prison terms were also handed to five members of an international multi-million pound 'chop shop' organised crime gang, a road rage idiot who left a man blind in one eye and a thug who robbed £2,000 worth of casino winnings from a man in the street.
Jail sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week 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 seven days.
A judge said it was "deeply depressing" that a man was headbutted and robbed of £2,000 in broad daylight in the city centre - and no one attempted to help.
CCTV captured the moment Abdiqani Jama attacked the 44-year-old and stole his casino winnings in Manchester city centre.
Footage shows Jama, 29, grappling with the victim in the middle of the road for several minutes as bystanders watch on and a Metrolink tram passes by.
The victim had won big while gambling in various casinos throughout the evening and into the early hours, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Jama, of Jetson Street, Manchester, was also gambling but had not been so successful when he encountered the victim in one of the venues.
As he was leaving to go home at around 6am, Jama followed the victim and put his arm around him before grappling with him.
While the victim was on the ground, Jama reached into his pocket and took the cash.
The victim was left with severe swelling which caused his left eye to close following the attack in May, last year.
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