Vile woman with twisted obsession among those jailed in Greater Manchester this week

This week a man was jailed after a sub machine gun was linked to a GMP investigation into firearms as was a thug who went to Rochdale "looking to punch someone's head". A man and a woman who shared a twisted obsession are also starting long sentences.

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

Here are those who were jailed in Greater Manchester's courts this week.

Michael Feeley, 47, was locked up for seven years by a judge at a sentencing hearing at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday. Police said he pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of possession of a firearm in relation to two Skorpion guns.

GMP said that in 2020, police in West Yorkshire located a sub-machine gun and ammunition hidden under a pillow in a bed at an address in Beeston, Leeds. Another man was subsequently arrested, charged and jailed for possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of ammunition.

But GMP said after the weapon and ammo were forensically examined, DNA results matched the gun to Feeley. A forensic scientist said it was a billion times more likely the major DNA contributor was Feeley than that of an unknown individual

GMP said that at the time, detectives were unaware that once secretive Encrochat messages would later link Feeley to their large-scale operation into firearms trafficking. A spokesman said when the connection was made, police were able to 'build a case' against Feeley, from Cramlington, Northumberland.

GMP said once encrypted messages were obtained, they established the firearm police had recovered in Leeds had been sold by an organised crime group who were under investigation at the time as part of the force's Operation