Meet the Badger, Victorian Manchester's burrowing burglar

He earned his nickname by shuffling down coal chutes into the cellars during burglaries

Deansgate, where Jerome Caminada arrested the Badger.

John Currie was known by a few names, but mostly he was known as the Badger.

At 5ft tall, he had a unique method of breaking into shops — by lifting the coal grids and shuffling down into the cellars.

But his nocturnal burrowings might not be the only reason for his nickname.

Looking at his prison reco…