Thieving administrator, GMP copper and live stream paedophile amongst those jailed last week in Greater Manchester

A paedophile who sent more than £20,000 to the Philippines to set up live streams of child abuse is amongst those who have been jailed in Greater Manchester last week.

Also locked up this week was a thieving administrator who stole nearly a quarter of a million pounds from the company he worked for, and a GMP police officer who left a boy in a 'vegetative state' after crashing into him.

Prison sentences are handed down to the worst offenders each week at our region's courts. And Manchester Evening Newsreporters are on the press bench, day-in-day-out, to cover the most serious cases.

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A police officer who caused a teenage boy to be left in a 'vegetative' state after crashing into him while responding to an emergency has been jailed. PC Sarah De Meulemeester, 26, drove at speeds of up to 61mph on 30mph roads in wet conditions through Stockport on Boxing Day 2020.

Liverpool Crown Court heard how De Meulemeester, who was not authorised by Greater Manchester Police to travel at excess speeds, was also going the wrong way around a traffic island. It followed a 'grade one' emergency when officers were told a suspect was carrying a knife.

De Meulemeester crashed into then-15-year-old pedestrian Khia Whitehead on Garners Lane in Adswood, leaving him paralysed and with catastrophic brain injuries. At a sentencing in Liverpool today (May 19), the court heard emotional impact statements from members of Khia's family.

His mum told the court Khia was treated at the Manchester Royal Infirmary for nine months and was ‘initially in a permanent vegetative state with little awareness of the world around him’. She said her son is now 'like a newborn baby' and requires