Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders each week
A drunk holidaymaker who had to be handcuffed to a chair during a flight was among the criminals jailed this week in Greater Manchester.
Two off-duty police officers on the TUI flight from Cancun were forced to step in to try to calm self-employed scaffolder Alexander Rogers, 40, who was subsequently handcuffed to a chair, a court was told. Rogers - who later told police he had six double vodkas before boarding - called one member of cabin crew an 'Arab b****'.
Judge Paul Lawton said Rogers boarded the flight drunk and continued drinking. Sentencing him, he said he behaved in a 'quite appalling manner'. Stephen Ball, 32, was told he would serve a minimum of 15 years before he can be considered for release after he killed his mother, 55-year-old Suzanne Galvin. Police were called to the house they shared in Bury after receiving reports from neighbours of a disturbance, Bolton Crown Court heard.
When the emergency services arrived at the property on Pear Avenue on September 16 last year, they discovered that Ms Galvin had suffered ‘serious injuries’ as a result of a ‘violent assault’. She died two days later from head injuries sustained by ‘blunt force’. Watson, appearing via videolink from HMP Forest Bank, repeatedly interrupted barristers and the judge during the hearing. He said: "I was with her for years. I looked after her, I was good to her, but none of that gets mentioned.”
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