Killer drivers, a predator cop and a child snatcher amongst those locked up this week in Greater Manchester

A number of killer drivers have been locked up this week in Greater Manchester including two boy racers and a drink-driver.

Also starting a lengthy sentence behind bars this week is a predator GMP detective who repeatedly raped a teenage girl, and a man who swiped a three-year-old boy from Aldi whilst his mum’s back was turned - fortunately he was saved by his older brother.

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Prison terms are handed out to the most serious offenders each week. And Manchester Evening News reporters are on the press bench each day to cover these cases.

A burglar who broke into homes in leafy Wilmslow and stole property worth thousands of pounds has been jailed.

Lee Jones - who also fraudulently used a bank card he swiped in one break-in - was locked up for more than four years and 11 months after he admitted a series of charges, police said. Jones, 46, of Waterside in Marple, Stockport, carried out two burglaries in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in April this year.

He was sentenced by a judge at Chester Crown Court on Friday after previously pleading guilty to two counts of burglary and three counts of fraud by false representation.

A BMW driver who killed a father-of-three while over the legal drink-drive limit has been jailed for seven years. Daniel Masiulis, who a court heard on Tuesday was convicted in 2016 of failing to provide a specimen for analysis after suspected drink-driving, showed no emotion as he was led away from the dock to begin his sentence.

Masiulis, 38, a HGV driver by trade, was found guilty in July after trial of causing the death of Clive Pinnock by careless driving while over the drink-drive limit on Hyde Road in Gorton on April 8, 2020. He denied the