MM looks back over the list of our city’s bad boys – players with local links who found themselves in handcuffs at one stage or another during their career.

For every shiny skyscraper and sparkling restaurant in Manchester, there’s a cavernous warehouse and tenebrous canal path.

The armed robbers shot at police before fleeing the scene, in the Chilean capital Santiago, in a stolen Porsche Cayenne, which was later recovered.

A Freedom of Information request by MM to Greater Manchester Police revealed the 2016 figure of 672 had inflated by 375 cases to 1,047 in 2017.

You would think in 2018 people would actually use the emergency services for … emergencies!

Hate crime in general has risen by some 85% over the same period but the spike of reports online since 2014 might be due to the fact that is when Greater Manchester Police first introduced the cybercrime flag to its systems.

Christopher James Parker, 33, pleaded guilty last year to stealing a mobile phone from a young girl and a purse from Pauline Healey on the night of the attack. Both victims were badly injured at the time.

A 96-year-old woman was followed from a bank in to Quality Save where she was approached by a woman who distracted her with items she had picked up in the shop.

Nearly 250 guns were handed in to Greater Manchester Police during a two-week nationwide amnesty aiming to rid the streets of firearms.

FOI to Greater Manchester Police has revealed that reported crimes in the area did in fact double after the removal of the camera, and have remained at a rise ever since.  

The man who died in Tuesday night’s stabbing in Moss Side has been named as 18-year-old Sait Mboob.