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A 'wicked' arsonist, a sexual predator and a drugs gang were among the criminals to be jailed this week in Greater Manchester.

Nicholas Martin poured petrol through his wife's letterbox at her home in Eccles, weeks after she had reported him to police for domestic violence. She had to jump out of a first floor window to escape, breaking her ankles and a bone in her back as she did do.

Charles Liburd committed vile abuse against one girl, and did not let an investigation by police put him off committing33 further sickening abuse against a second girl.

A drugs gang once headed by murdered Thomas Campbell, which was then taken over by his brother Lee Campbell was brought down. A police operation discovered the gang had been involved in a £1.6 cocaine racket, supplying drugs

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