Predator, party killers and unlucky dealer amongst those jailed in Greater Manchester this week

Two men who brutally murdered a 20-year-old at Manchester’s Caribbean Carnival have been jailed for life in Greater Manchester this week.

Also locked up this week was a drug dealer whose own words came back to haunt him, a sex offender who broke into a woman’s home and attempted to rape her, as well as a predator who carried out heinous historic offences against young girls.

Jail terms are handed down to the worst offenders each week at our region's courts. And Manchester Evening Newsreporters are on hand to cover the most serious cases.

The mother of a 20-year-old brutally murdered as violence erupted after Manchester's Caribbean Carnival said she will be forever haunted by her son's death. Javell Morgan was stabbed to death in Moss Side last summer, when two groups of young men from Huddersfield clashed in the street, one side armed with guns, the other with knives.

Javell was not armed but was chased down and repeatedly stabbed by Jacob Doughty, 22, and Deontay Crosfield. Manchester Crown Court heard that Doughty inflicted the fatal blow with a fearsome 'samurai sword'.

"This case involved a very serious disturbance in what should have been a joyful occasion in Moss Side," Judge Suzanne Goddard KC said. "No sentence that I can pass on you can possibly atone for the pain that you have caused," she told the defendants.

Both men were handed life sentences. Doughty must serve a minimum of 21 years, and Crosfield 20 years, before they can be considered for release.

A dad embroiled himself in 'very large scale' cocaine dealing after being seduced by the prospect of 'easy money'. Kurt Jervis described the murky world he descended into as 'proper serious and organised crime'.

He worked as a courier for Stockport based drugs