37 Greater Manchester drug dealers locked up and off our streets for selling heroin, cocaine and crystal meth

Drugs cause misery and wreck lives, while dealers profit from the vile industry. Judges regularly hand dealers long prison sentences, reflecting how seriously these crimes are taken by the courts.

And the Manchester Evening News is regularly there to report on these shocking cases. Here are some of the recent cases where dealers were taken off the streets.

This vile cuckooing gang terrorised addicts in Rochdale and even used children to deal drugs. Nine dealers were locked up for their roles in drugs conspiracies.

The gang, known as the '706' and the 'Portuguese Mafia', deliberately targeted addicts before taking over their homes and using them as a base for their crimes, peddling cocaine, heroin and cannabis. As part of the investigation three children were removed from the area for their own safety, and a further five were 'safeguarded' using other methods.

Four adults were relocated for their protection. Bekhtullah Abasi, 24, Samuel Djassi, 24, Rafael Ernesto, 20, Mohammed Latif, 49, Karan Singh, 29, Manuel Vanduno, 21, Glen Kabambe, 24, Pascal Lupaka, 20, and Pacheli Ndele, 24, were all locked up.

Djassi, of Stavordale, Rochdale; Latif, of Tweedale Street, Rochdale; Abasi, of St John's Drive, Rochdale; Kabambe, of Longridge Drive, Rochdale; and Ndele, of Berwick Street, Rochdale; were convicted of conspiring to supply cocaine. Djassi, Vanduno, of Mount Street, Rochdale; Singh, of Ings Avenue, Rochdale; Ernesto, of no fixed address; and Kabambe were convicted of conspiring to supply cannabis.

Latif, Abasi and Ndele pleaded guilty to the same offence. Djassi was convicted of being concerned in the supply of heroin, and Ernesto and Lupaka, of Walk Mill Close, Rochdale, were convicted of a further count of conspiring