Locked Up in February: GBH driver, terror sympathiser and the dad of Brianna Ghey's murderer

An intoxicated teenager who mowed down a husband and wife after they told him he shouldn't be driving is amongst those who have been locked up this month in Greater Manchester.

Also starting terms behind bars are a terrorist sympathiser who glorified the killer of MP Jo Cox by calling him a 'hero', a paedophile who repeatedly raped a girl and the dad of Brianna Ghey murderer Eddie Ratcliffe who was unmasked as a sex offender.

They also include a skint American musician who was caught with 30 kilos of weed at Manchester Airport and the 'Marigold Burglar'.

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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 'clearly intoxicated' teenage thug mowed down a husband and wife moments after they told him he shouldn't be driving. Joshua Bunn ploughed into Connor and Claire Winters in a car park in Royton, Oldham.

A court heard it was a 'miracle' Mrs Winters wasn't seriously injured or even killed after the impact of the crash knocked her through a small gap in a wall, instead of being pinned against it. Remarkably both victims escaped with just minor injuries that didn't require hospital treatment.

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard the 'terrifying' attack took place just after midnight on September 19, 2020, after the couple had been out for a meal. As they returned to their car so Mrs Winters could change her shoes for the walk home they saw Bunn, then 19, 'staggering' across the car park off Radcliffe Street.

After seeing the 'clearly intoxicated' Bunn, then 19, get behind the wheel of a car, Mr Winters approached the teenager and told