The knife-obsessed teen, serial conman and gangster's girlfriend... all locked up in Greater Manchester this week

A teenager with an 'obsession' for weapons who posted a video of a terrifying combat knife on Snapchat after almost killing a boy was just one of the offenders jailed in our region last week.

Prison terms were also handed to two thugs who landed punches on two men and left one fearing he would be thrown into a canal.

A gangster's girlfriend who transported six deadly guns to another criminal gang at the height of lockdown and a serial conman who stole cars and vans worth almost £50,000 were also put behind bars.

Jail sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases.

Here are some of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester last week

A man who was banned from a Greater Manchester homeless shelter has been jailed after hurling racist and homophobic comments and threatening staff. Greater Manchester Police says Joe Wharton had already been barred from The Town House, in Ashton-under-Lyne, when he returned to the Burlington Street building on Tuesday evening (June 14).

When he was asked to leave the site, the 26-year-old soon turned abusive - using slurs and threatening to injure a staff member by stamping on his head. Wharton, of no fixed abode, appeared at Tameside Magistrates Court charged with racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress, and intention to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

He pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to six weeks in prison.

A serial conman who taunted his victims by admitting 'I'm a grafter' after stealing cars and vans worth almost £50,000 is back behind bars. Mason Crozier tricked several people into letting him drive away in the vehicles they were selling by pretending