25 people were jailed for murder in our region in 2022
Judges and barristers work around the clock to ensure justice is delivered and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover trials, hearings and sentencings across our region.
Here are the 25 murderers who have been put behind bars in Greater Manchester in the past 12 months. George, of no fixed abode, was also handed a three year driving ban after pleading guilty to driving whilst under the influence of drugs in August 2021. Mr Da Silva was left bleeding out on the street before he died in hospital just hours later. Cardoso was arrested the next day, but provided no comment in his police interview. At trial, he claimed he had post traumatic stress disorder from the previous fight, and claimed he had ‘no memory’ of killing Mr Da Silva.
Marquis Richards, 17, was sentenced to the youth equivalent of life and locked up for at least 18 years. Rhamero was driving a stolen BMW and was with friends when he was spotted on the Princess Parkway at rush hour at about 6pm on September 9 last year. 'Evil' woman murdered partner by strangling him to death after tying him up for hours while she sexted new man A manipulative woman murdered her boyfriend after tying him up and strangling him with an extension lead as she flirted and sexted with her new man. Charlotte Dootson, 25, sent a picture of 53-year-old Mohammed Mukhtar to the man while he was bound by his hands, feet and neck with extension leads.
At 11.14am, Dootson messaged him saying: "I've done something bad, I mean bad bad, I need to run." Then five minutes later she called her father. "I think I've killed him," she said. "I think he's dead, he's not breathing, not moving." He told her to put Mr Mukhtar in the recovery position, give him CPR and 999, but Dootson refused and said this would alert the police.
Mr Asghar pulled over on Queensway after Treacy refused to stop eating, Manchester Crown Court heard. Then Mr Asghar was brutally attacked by the pair, being punched and kicked to the head. He was pushed over and hit his head on the wheel of his own car, and died two weeks later. A judge said Mr Ali was 'in no way to blame'.
He hoped it would be enough for police to track down James White, 16, and Mark Nuttall, 15. It would prove to be an essential key in solving the tragic case. White was found guilty of Reece's murder and jailed for 15 years, and Nuttall was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years imprisonment.
They became embroiled in a violent melee with eight members of the M40 gang, using knives and machetes. Overwhelmed, the M40 gang ran but John had been slowed down due to being injured in the earlier fight, Manchester Crown Court heard. Prosecutors said that in a 'fit of temper' Zain killed Aiman, who died from asphyxia. He then repeatedly lied about how she died to paramedics, his wife and police and came up with a 'fantasy story' to align with medical evidence, Manchester Crown Court heard. The prosecution suggested he deliberately smothered or 'crushed' Aiman, causing fatal injuries.
Murderers who hunted down Josiah Norman and killed him in 'savage' revenge attack jailed Four young men were jailed this week for a combined total of 75 years after killing a 17-year-old boy in an 'appalling' and 'savage' revenge attack. Mickel Liburd, 18, Kellan Gummery, 18, Dillon Saunders, 19, Kaylan Crankshaw, 28, 'hunted' down Josiah Norman as he walked through Salford with a friend.
Beverley, 58, had previously told police she was 'terrified' of her daughter and scared of her temper. The police were called out previously after Cassandra kicked her to the chest, and punched her to the ground years before. Dealers who killed vulnerable drug addict in his own flat The mother of a vulnerable drug addict who was stabbed to death in his own home in a brutal revenge attack hit out at two teenage drug dealers locked up for his murder. Leigh Smith, 48, was stabbed to death in his own home in Eccles.
Cookson believed Mr Smith had set up the attack. Cookson and Eaton went into his flat on June 21, when Mr Smith was stabbed seven times to his legs and buttocks.Killer, 17, stabbed 20-year-old stranger in the heart then fled and left him to die A teenager who stabbed a stranger in the heart and killed him has been jailed for life. Klayton Skelly knifed Dylan Keelan twice after they got into a fight outside the Premier Dreams convenience store, in Dukinfield, on February 4.
Skelly, now 18, pleaded guilty to murder on July 15 - the last working day before his scheduled trial. His two friends, both 16, were sentenced to 12 month referral orders at the youth court. Defending Skelly, of Sylvester Way, Hyde, Mark Rhind KC described the incident as a ‘moment of madness’ and said: “On any view what Klayton Skelly did was a grotesque overreaction to the most trivial meaningless coming together.