'Sadistic' knifeman, gunman and a US drugs mule among those jailed in Greater Manchester this week

A ‘sadistic’ knifeman who stabbed a stranger as he walked home from work is among those jailed in Greater Manchester this week.

Also locked up was a gunman who shot at a car containing an innocent father and his 10-year-old daughter - and a US drugs mule caught with over 30 kilos of cannabis.

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

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An innocent father spoke out after his car was shot at in broad daylight as a feud spilled onto the streets in Oldham. The man was driving home with his 10-year-old daughter when Daniel Whelan blasted his Peugeot.

Whelan was aiming for a Ford Focus that was behind the Peugeot, but missed. Thankfully, neither the father nor his young daughter were injured and he didn’t even notice his car had been fired at until later, when he found a bullet in his boot.

Whelan, 32, and his younger brother Alex Whelan, 26, had gone on trial charged with attempted murder. They were both cleared of the offence, though Daniel Whelan accepted firing the semi-automatic gun. On Friday, January 19, he was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for 12 years.

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A man used his house as a 'makeshift lab' where over 38,000 ecstasy tablets were uncovered to 'likely be sold at the Parklife Festival'.

Jian Huang, 44, was arrested after officers attended a concern for welfare call at a house on Arran Street, in Moston, on April 19 last year. The report had come in anonymously to police regarding an 'argument', with a woman and children heard shouting from inside.

Greater Manchester Police said Huang was acting 'extremely evasive' when asked questions