A gym boss turned gangster, a 19-year-old posting ultra-right hate online and an ex-darts champion now disgraced... the criminals hauled before our courts this week

A factory worker who brutally murdered his former wife while his children slept in the next room. A 19-year-old who posted extreme right-wing and racist material online and made 'vile' indecent photographs of a child.

A serial burglar who targeted takeaways and an opticians in Rochdale. A gym boss who took on a 'leading role' in a drugs gang.

These are just some of the criminals who appeared in court in and around Greater Manchester this week...

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A serial burglar from Rochdale targeted the town’s business in order to steal money. Now, Mohammed Rameez, of Ann Street, Rochdale, has been jailed for 28 months.

The 29-year-old carried out six burglaries from December 21, 2021, and January 22, 2022. Rameez broke into four takeaways and stole money, and then raided an opticians and a cleaning supplies store on Oldham Road.

He was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on April 11. GMP announced last year it would attend every reported burglary under Operation Castle as part of the Government's Beating Crime Plan.

A gym boss who lost his job in lockdown descended into crime and took on a 'leading role' in organised drugs gang. Nabeel Issawi worked as a gym manager, but the coronavirus restrictions meant that they were shut for months at the height of the pandemic.

He was left 'stranded' with no ability to earn and was 'foolishly' tempted into serious crime, Manchester Crown Court heard. A law enforcement hack of the secretive and highly encrypted EncroChat network revealed that Issawi, 33, then became involved in dealing huge amounts of drugs.

Issawi was linked to the supply of more than 60 kilos of cocaine, between April and June in 2020 at