A ‘successful businessman’, a knifeman and a pair of masked robbers amongst those locked up in Greater Manchester this week

A ‘successful businessman’ with a watch worth £250,000 is amongst those who have been jailed in Greater Manchester this week. Craig McKenzie, who was once acquitted of murder, was involved in a vast drugs plot worth more than £2 million, and has now been jailed for over 20 years.

Also before Manchester’s courts this week was knifeman Stephen Owusu who stabbed his housemate over 30 times. He was handed an indefinite hospital order.

Cameron Robinson and David Tierney are also starting lengthy jail terms after robbing a house in Wythenshawe at knifepoint and leaving the victim ‘absolutely terrified’ and pleading with them about her baby who slept upstairs.

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Prison terms are handed out to the most serious offenders. And Manchester Evening News reporters are on hand to cover such cases.

A rapist held a gun to his victim's head and threatened to 'smoke' him if he dared to report his horrendous ordeal. Ashley Cleary abducted the man and repeatedly raped him in the street, before forcing him into his home where he raped him again.

Before fleeing, remorseless Cleary, 39, put a gun to the man's head and told him: "If you tell anyone, I'll smoke you." His DNA was found on the man's underwear and when police went to arrest him, Cleary was discovered hiding in a loft, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Now Cleary, a dad from Salford, has been jailed for 21 years after being found guilty of a catalogue of crimes, including rape and kidnap. Prosecutors told how the victim knew Cleary as he was a regular customer at his place of work.

Cleary, of no fixed address, denied