Sordid diary extracts revealing Fred Talbot’s ‘obsession’ with teenage boys have been released by police – after they were used to convict him at a Manchester court today.

The 65-year-old, who worked as a biology teacher at Altrincham Grammar school, was cleared of eight other indecent assault charges at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court earlier today.

Margaret O’Brien admitted to becoming ‘friends’ with Patient A while working as a staff nurse in the male section of Moorside Unit, a psychiatric ward at Trafford General Hospital.

Timothy Edwards, who was captain of the prestigious Saddleworth Golf Club in Greater Manchester, was found to have explicit images of children on his home computer when he was arrested by police.

TV weatherman Fred Talbot arrived at a Manchester court this morning to face trial for alleged historic sex offences at an Altrincham school.

Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, will not be prosecuted for the death of Anthony Grainger after the case against him was dropped.

With this case in mind, MM took to the streets and asked: Can a 16-year-old school girl be blamed for grooming a teacher?

A middle class house-husband has been ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register after he got drunk and gyrated his hips in a woman’s face during a ‘laddish prank’ in a Manchester city centre bar.

Marc Jepson, 40, paid with his life when he became locked in a bitter family fall out with Irene Hodgkiss, 63, after he split up with wife Sandra.

Police made the discovery, which included five or six strains of cannabis, when they attended Myles Cohen’s house in Broadway Mews, Hale, last July, after his businessman father made allegations of assault.

The cousin of convicted murderer Kiaran Stapleton, who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve on Boxing Day 2011, has been banned from his family home after breaching a court order.