Despite current circumstances, prison sentences have still been handed out and people have been locked up for their offences.
And our reporters were able to cover the most serious as usual, as justice is still being done in Manchester, just not quite as we know it.
There was the case of the drunk dad who carjacked a gran on Christmas Eve as she took presents to her family. And there was also the egocentric bully who tried to kill his girlfriend during a 'ferocious' attack months after they met on Snapchat.
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