These are some of the men which women in Manchester should know about.
Whether they were driven by anger, jealousy or a desire for control, they were hauled before the courts for crimes committed against women.
Many of their victims have been left with long lasting scars, both physical and mental.
And while a couple of these offenders targeted complete strangers, most offended against women they were in relationships with.
Here are some of the most shocking cases to come before the courts in recent months.
'If I can't have you, no-one else will'
Fidal Robinson left his former girlfriend too terrified to report his crimes to the police.
But she was later hospitalised for about a month after Robinson brutally attacked her, stabbing her with scissors and using them to cut her hair.
During the horrific attack, Robinson, 23, chillingly told her: "If I can't have you, no one will have you."
He picked up a bread knife and began attacking her with it.
Robinson only stopped when she cried out for help.
Earlier this month, Robinson was jailed for 15 years after admitting attempted murder.
Manchester Crown Court heard how after meeting the 25-year-old woman on Snapchat, Robinson became increasingly violent and controlling until he launched the 'unrelenting' attack on her, three months after the start of their relationship.
After being released from hospital, she has been left with prominent scarring to her face and fears she may never regain full use of her left hand because of the injuries inflicted by Robinson.
Back behind bars, the Trafford Centre sex pest
Mel Orme had only been released months earlier after being locked up for attempted rape, when he was on the prowl and attacked women in the Trafford Centre.
Orme, 55, followed one woman to the car park where he groped her bottom before grinning at her and walking away.
Hours later he followed another woman around the complex and attempted to grab her.
A third woman out enjoying the afternoon with her daughter and friends had sat down on a bench when she spotted Orme watching her from behind a plant pot.
As she walked away he grabbed her by the arm and bottom, before pushing himself against her.
Orme had just five months earlier been released from jail despite being locked up for life for the attempted rape of a girl of 16 in 1998.
At Minshull Street Crown Court in February, he pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was jailed for a further 32 months.
The monster who imprisoned and waterboarded his girlfriend after she tried to leave his flat
During the brutal attack he launched on his girlfriend, Liam Hawkins told the young mum that she 'deserved to die'.
Hawkins imprisoned her for almost five hours in his Rusholme flat.
During that time he assaulted her using items including a TV, an ashtray and a broom handle as weapons.
He also put her head under the water in a bath.
Before police stormed the flat, Hawkins, 31, warned the woman that if she did not keep quiet he would 'make her famous'.
She was able to alert police to her location before Hawkins smashed her phone.
The couple had originally met on Facebook, and after a positive start to the relationship Hawkins later became 'possessive and controlling', demanding to know where she was and who she was with.
She had spent the weekend at his flat, and the attack began as she went to leave.
Hawkins became 'aggressive' and said 'where do you think you're going?'
The violence began with Hawkins punching her to the back of the head, and a 'catalogue' of assaults followed.
He later pleaded guilty to false imprisonment, damaging property, threats to kill and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and was jailed for five years and four months at Minshull Street Crown Court in April.
He forced her to drink 'like a dog': The vile boyfriend who tried to blame his domestic violence on girlfriend's abortion
Jayden Knight became 'aggressive and abusive' towards his girlfriend after she decided she was going to abort her child.
Knight, 27, from Middleton, said the decision affected his mental health.
He went on to commit a month long catalogue of domestic violence against her, attacking her as well as spitting and pulling her trousers down.
He also threw a can of lager over her, and 'forced her to lap up' a drink from the floor 'like a dog'.
During one incident, he told the mother in her 20s that he would 'terrorise' her, and also said ''I'm going to kill you'.
At Manchester Crown Court in April, Knight was jailed for 22 months.
He admitted four offences of battery, one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and three of criminal damage, in relation to incidents which happened at their home in north Manchester between December 5 last year and January 8 this year.
'I fell in love with a monster': Wife tells of trauma at hands of abusive husband who used mobile phone to track her
Salma Akbar said she fell in love with a 'monster'.
She spoke out after her former husband Shabaz Khan, 30, was hauled before the courts for subjecting her to a 'planned and premeditated campaign of intimidation'.
Controlling Khan tracked Ms Akbar using mobile phone apps, followed her around and imposed a curfew on her.
She broke up with him several times, but he promised to change.
When Khan refused to leave her flat, he refused and ran into her with his car, causing her to sustain bruising to her legs.
After being arrested and bailed, when he was ordered not to contact to Ms Akbar, Khan continued to follow her around.
Ms Akbar described how she felt like a 'prisoner' and that she was walking on egg shells around him.
In an emotional statement she read at Manchester Crown Court in January, fighting back tears Ms Akbar said: "Five years ago I was a bubbly, happy go lucky, smiley strong independent woman. I will never be that Salma again."
Khan, of Ringwood Road, Hampshire, received an 18-month community order, which includes 200 hours unpaid work and an order to complete a 'building better relationships programme', after pleading guilty to stalking and common assault.
Controlling boyfriend intentionally got his partner sacked and left her feeling suicidal
Scott Swinscoe broke seven of his girlfriend's mobile phones and intentionally got her sacked from her job.
Swinscoe, 27, had been in a relationship with the woman for about three or four years, but she said that it deteriorated last year due to his 'excessive jealously'.
He continually broke her phones on purpose and didn't let her see her family, Manchester Crown Court heard earlier this month.
On one occasion he threw a phone which hit her face, leaving her with a black eye.
He sent 'vile and abusive' messages to her, damaged her property and punching walls, and behaved in an intimating way.
Even after being arrested, Swinscoe continued to contact her.
In a statement read to the court, the woman, a mother with a child from a previous relationship, said she wishes she'd never have met Swinscoe.
Swinscoe, of Chorley Road, Swinton, who has previous convictions for dealing cannabis and burglary, was jailed for 16 months.
Controlling thug violently battered girlfriend in lockdown row then ordered her to wash blood from her face
There have been fears that the lockdown and coronavirus could lead to an increase in domestic violence.
And one case in Stockport appeared to have been influenced at least in some part by the pandemic.
Joseph Jones, 41, kicked, throttled and slapped his partner in her own flat during the 'sustained' assault, leaving her with two black eyes.
He then ordered her to wash her own blood from her face.
It came after they had an argument 'involving comments about her brother who was unwell during the current pandemic', according to prosecutors.
The woman was eating her dinner at the time, and Jones kicked the plate from her hands causing her to fall off the sofa.
While she was on the floor, he kicked her several times to her legs and shortly after grabbed her by the throat and 'lifted her into the air'.
In April, Jones, who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was jailed for 16 months at Minshull Street Crown Court.
He pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm.
Thug pulled clumps of hair from girlfriend's head after seven cans of Strongbow
Michael Smith launched the attack on his girlfriend after drinking seven cans of Strongbow.
He pulled clumps of hair from her head and dragged her around the room, kicking her to the face and body.
The woman left the house they shared to get away from Smith, 38, and stayed with a friend.
Smith turned up there began drinking and became argumentative, the court heard.
“Smith then dragged the woman off the sofa by her hair and pulled her around the floor," prosecutor Chloe Fordham told Minshull Street Crown Court in April.
He then started to punch her to the ribs and head, and kicked repeatedly.
She suffered bruising and swelling to the right side of her forehead, and hair had been pulled from her scalp.
A judge sentenced Smith, from Bury, to 12 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Thug jailed for string of robberies against lone women - he snatched a cancer patient's bag as she made her way to hospital
Lee Walsh targeted lone women during eight incidents across Rochdale and Bury, attacking them before making off with their handbags.
During one robbery, Walsh, 40, mugged a 69-year-old woman who was on her way to hospital for cancer treatment.
Walsh snatched her bag, containing personal items and her cancer medication.
He then ran off to a waiting VW Golf and passed the bag to his accomplice, Marie Ellis, 35.
On another occasion, a 58-year-old woman was threatened at knifepoint at her workplace in Wardleworth, Rochdale.
In February at Minshull Street Crown Court, Walsh, of George Street, Rochdale, was jailed for nine years.
He pleaded guilty to six counts of robbery and one count of theft.
Ellis, 35, of Peel Lodge, was previously sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after admitting one count of robbery and four counts of handling stolen goods.
The jealous ex who climbed through his former partner's bedroom window to attack her
Stewart Edge left the woman terrified after he broke into her house.
She was lying in bed at about 11pm as Edge climbed in through the bedroom window of her home in Denton.
They had been in a relationship for seven years, but a restraining order was imposed against Edge following their break up.
It marked the third time he had breached the order.
Edge, 34, then began 'ranting about other men' before slapping her across the face and pushing her, causing her to fall into a set of drawers.
He snatched her phone and left.
Earlier this week, Edge was jailed for 16 months at Minshull Street Crown Court.
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