APOLOGY LETTER

Clockwise from top left: Kyle Lees, Nathan Richardson, Megan Stafford and Amy Squires, Leighton Browne, Chris Deegan, Fred Talbot, Gary Pedley, John Beaumont, Stephen John, Lesley Culley

Here is our round-up of those jailed in Manchester in June.

Hit-and-run driver who killed young cousins

A hit and run driver who killed cousins as they crossed a road in Oldham was jailed for four years.

Gabor Hegedus, 38, ploughed into Zaneta Krokova, 11, and Helena Kotlorova, 12, as they crossed Ashton Road, in Oldham, on New Year's Eve.

Helena, a pupil at Collective Spirit School in Oldham , died at the scene while Zaneta, who attended Oasis Academy, lost her fight for life two days later in hospital.

On June 29, Hegedus, who was living in Oldham but originally from Hungary, was jailed for four years at Minshull Street Crown Court after he had earlier pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving, failing to stop after a collision, failing to report a collision, driving without a licence and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The police investigation found he had been driving at no less than 40mph although he did brake just before the impact when his Peugot 807 was said to be doing less than 29mph.

Mum who killed husband with kitchen knife

A mum who killed her husband with a kitchen knife sobbed as she was jailed for six years.

Lesley Culley, 58, put her head in her hands and wept as she was sentenced for the manslaughter of Anthony Culley, 56.

The kiiling was just days before their 30th anniversary and at their home on Unsworth Way, Oldham, when an argument escalated after Mr Culley called her a 'lazy bitch' for not making a bed.

She took a kitchen knife and plunged it into her husband's chest, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Mrs Culley had a long history of mental health difficulties and psychiatric reports that described a 'loss of control' before the incident.

Judge Mansell found that she was suffering a 'manic episode' at the time of the attack, after a history of mental health problems and a life of 'unimaginable tragedy'.

He said her mental health had 'impacted significantly' on the sentence.

Mrs Culley earlier admitted manslaughter and was jailed for six years.

Bookkeeper secretly gave herself a £9k payrise

A crooked bookkeeper at Keith Dyson Solicitors fleeced a family firm for over a decade – and then tried to get the company shut down to conceal her deception.

Kelsey Hardman, 33, secretly awarded herself a £9k a year pay rise within weeks of starting at Keith Dyson Solicitors in Manchester city centre .

By disguising monthly debits as company expenditure, she was able to milk bosses and colleagues of £95,000.

Her boss, company founder Keith Dyson, became terminally ill with a rare degenerative disorder in 2011 and spent his dying years worrying about the future of the company, unaware that trusted employee Hardman, who was duping him with false financial statements, was the source of its cashflow problem.

Now Hardman, 33, of Foley Gardens, Heywood, has been jailed for 27 months after admitting theft at Manchester Crown Court.

The paedophile who got his schoolgirl victim pregnant

A paedophile who got his schoolgirl victim pregnant was jailed for eight years.

Police discovered the harrowing case while they were investigating Stephen John for child-abuse image offences.

The 29-year-old pervert first met his victim online when she was 12, and by the time she was 15 had persuaded her to meet him in Manchester .

He then abused her at his family home, causing her to become pregnant. Then, while she was pregnant, John boasted to her of having committed a sex crime against a very young child.

Sentencing at Manchester Crown Court, Judge Tony Cross QC said that in those conversations with the victim he had displayed his 'true intent'.

The judge added of the victim: "That child suffered a miscarriage at a home, as a result of your unprotected sex."

John, of Marshfield Street, Longsight , was jailed after admitting a string of sex crimes including distributing and making indecent images of children. He first came to the attention of police in August 2014, after sharing indecent videos of very young children with other perverts online.

Dealer hid £1.5m drug haul in freezer

A drug dealer was jailed after police found amphetamine and cannabis worth more than half a million pounds hidden alongside frozen chips, pizza and ready meals in freezers at his home.

Michael Mylott, 46, of Astley Close in Shaw, Oldham , pleaded guilty to possessing drugs with intent to supply and was jailed for three years.

Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard that officers were forced to call in a fleet of vans so they could move the huge freezers from his home and preserve the drugs as evidence.

One image of the haul released by police shows bags of drugs stashed among frozen chips, a pizza and a chicken curry with rice meal for one.

Two women jailed after brutally torturing pensioner

Two women broke into an elderly man's house and brutally tortured him for four hours as they drank his booze.

Megan Stafford and Amy Squires kicked, stabbed and tried to suffocate their terrified 78-year-old victim with a plastic bag during a nightmare ordeal.

After breaking into the home of the 78-year-old man in the Hurst area of Ashton-under-Lyne in the early hours of October 30 last year, they knocked him unconscious with a metal ornament. The pair eventually fell into a booze-induced sleep. This allowed their victim to escape by crawling out of the house and raising the alarm.

Police who raced to the home found both women still fast asleep on the victim's couch.

Stafford, 28, of Dean Street, and Squires, 27, of Coronation Street, both of Ashton-under-Lyne, were each handed 13-and-a-half year jail sentences after admitting attempted murder.

Dangerous driver smashed into three cars

A dangerous driver smashed into three cars after a high-speed police chase through Ashton-under-Lyne.

Leighton Browne was spotted driving the silver Golf in Hurst Green with no insurance.

A patrol car signalled for him to pull over, but Browne ignored it and sped off at speed into a residential area.

Police gave chase, reaching speeds of 70mph, and he eventually stopped on Kings Road after crashing head on into a Mercedes which was being driven by an elderly man.

The Mercedes was written off and the driver was injured.

Browne, of Craven Street in Oldham, was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court to three years and six months behind bars after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving without a licence and possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.

'Sex monster' injected teens in genitals

A former trainee church minister who injected teenagers in the genitals for his own 'twisted' gratification was jailed.

John Beaumont, 58, was handed 13-and-a-half years in prison for the sexual abuse, which happened after he convinced his three victims that they may have suffered radiation poisoning following the Chernobyl disaster.

Beaumont, a former minister in Scotland, of Byron Road, Greenmount, Bury, told his victims that he was medically trained and had been instructed by the military to carry out medical examinations on them to test for radiation poisoning.

His offending, which happened more than 20 years ago, caught up with him after the now-adult victims made statements to police.

The judge described Beaumont as a 'sexual monster' whose abuse took a 'similar and sinister form'.

Best man 'went berserk' at wedding reception

The best man at a wedding went berserk leaving a guest with life-changing injuries.

Hours after making a speech for the happy couple at the Midland Hotel's Derby Suite, Chris Deegan, 29, was under arrest, along with his 27-year-old partner, Jodie Hardy.

Fuelled by booze and cocaine, Deegan first subjected a 38-year-old male guest to a frenzied unprovoked attack – punching him, straddling him, biting his ear and hitting him, even after he was unconscious.

Jodie Hardy grabbed a woman trying to separate the pair by the hair and dragged her across the room for four metres – with such force the victim feared her hair would be torn out at the scalp.

When the woman fell to the floor, Deegan, kicked her to the head before stamping on her face, causing 'jigsaw' injuries to her jaw.

Deegan, of Hilary Street, Rochdale, was been jailed for seven years and two months after admitting grievous bodily harm against the female guest and assault causing actual bodily harm against the male guest – who suffered a black eye, bruising, and a bite injury to an ear and one of his thumbs.

Jodie Hardy, the 27-year-old mother of Deegan's son, and a hairdresser, also of Hilary Street, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm to the female guest and was handed a four-month suspended sentence.

Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot jailed

Former Granada TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been jailed for four years for a string of sex offences against schoolboys on trips to Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s.

The 67-year-old indecently assaulted seven teenage boys in his care during camping and boating trips while working as a biology teacher at a school in Manchester .

He is already serving a five-year sentence imposed in Manchester in 2015 for indecently assaulting two other schoolboys.

The four-year sentence is due to start from August, at the end of the punishment part of his current jail term.

Talbot was Granada's regional weatherman and regularly appeared on a floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning show.

Bogus charity collector who targeted the elderly

A bogus charity collector who preyed on a blind couple in their 90s was jailed.

Gary Pedley, 56, claimed to be collecting money for charity in two frauds targeting elderly residents at a sheltered housing complex - the same complex where his own father used to live.

In one of his cons, he stole just £3 from his victim.

Pedley, of Carloon Road, Northern Moor - who has previous convictions for stealing from elderly people by posing as a gasman and a Meals on Wheels delivery man - has been jailed for 32 months after admitting fraud.

Sentencing, Judge Martin Steiger QC said Pedley had a 'shocking record' for preying on the elderly.

Teenager stripped, kicked and stamped jogger to death

A drugged teenager who stripped, kicked and stamped a jogger to death in a brutal, unprovoked attack has been jailed for life.

Wen Qing Xu, 65, was set upon by Nathan Richardson, 19, as he went for a New Year's Day run in Preston, Lancashire.

Mr Xu was found stripped from the waist down, with his running vest pulled up over his head, on land behind Plungington Community Centre.

He suffered more than 28 injuries to his body.

Richardson, of no fixed address but formerly of Bury Road, Bolton , was jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years after pleading guilty to murder.

Jenkinson was jailed for 33 months for assisting an offender - although the judge accepted he did not know the severity of the crime when he allowed Richardson to wash his clothes at his house.

Predator who lured missing teenage girl into his car

A predator who lured a teenage girl into his car before taking her home and sexually exploiting her was jailed.

Kyle Lees also took indecent images of the underage girl, who was missing from home at the time.

The 29-year-old first spotted the youngster while she was walking through Denton in Tameside, in July 2015.

Lees invited her into his car before taking her back to his home and exploiting her.

Officers later found he had other indecent images of children, which he was circulating online.

Lees, of Acre Street, Denton, was sentenced to five years in prison at Minshull Street Crown Court.