Faces of 516 Merseyside criminals arrested in 2022 (2023)

As in many areas, 2022 was a tumultuous year in criminal justice.

Protracted strikes by lawyers meant that court proceedings were delayed for weeks and even months before the dispute was finally resolved. Despite this, there was still a lot going on in the Merseyside courts.

Whether at Liverpool Crown Court, Liverpool Magistrates' Court, Wirral or Sefton or beyond, hundreds of crooks were again brought to the dock last year. And these are the faces of 516 criminals who were taken to cells after being arrested by judges in 2022.

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Leon Clark

The pedophile's cover was blown when the police heard the ringing of the cell phone he allegedly sold.

The 46-year-old man lied that he no longer owned the device, which investigators linked to his Wirral home in June last year. But officers found the phone behind its radiator, leading to the discovery of 58 images of children being sexually abused.

Clark, from Lingdale Road North, Birkenhead, admitted that on one occasion he had indecent photos of children and on three occasions had downloaded them. The predator, who was once arrested for sexually assaulting a young girl, also admitted to violating a suspended sentence for failing to meet the requirements of sex offenders and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Michael McLoughlin

Michael McLoughlin killed aspiring firefighter Duncan Browne in an unprovoked attack on a taxi.

He fatally hit the 23-year-old at a taxi stand on Hanover Street in Liverpool city centre, resulting in a "catastrophic injury". McLoughlin's friend - convicted heroin dealer Terrence Kerwin - hit the victim first as they tried to get into a black cab in front of him.

But after McLoughlin left Mr. Browne unconscious in the early hours of Sunday, July 4, 2021, the "cowards" got into a taxi and headed to a party. Browne, from Kirkby, died in hospital the next day, surrounded by his family.

McLoughlin, 36, of Torus Road, Old Swan, and Kerwin, 31, with no fixed address, denied murder and were put on trial on 4 January. But prosecutors accepted McLoughlin's plea for manslaughter and Kerwin's plea for actual assault, to the dismay and anger of Duncan's grieving family, who criticized the decision.

McLoughlin - a convicted armed robber - was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison, two-thirds of which he is serving behind bars. Kerwin was sentenced to 10 months in prison, but had already spent nearly six months in pre-trial detention, meaning he was released immediately.

Michael Morson

Dog breeder Michael Morson had a special room set up in his van under the kennel to store cocaine and heroin.

He used his business as a cover while he was involved in a scheme in which he transported a total of 10 kilograms of cocaine and four kilograms of heroin. Police found Morson with £25,000 in cash, two Rolex watches, designer clothes and 25kg of marijuana when they arrested him in 2021.

A judge said Morson was involved in business "on an almost industrial scale". The 32-year-old used the name "LuckySea" on the EncroChat encrypted telephone network.

Morson of Paxton Road, Huyton, who admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin and marijuana, was sentenced to eight years and seven months in prison.

Nathan Creighton

Nathan Creighton brandished a "gun" while threatening his ex-girlfriend in a Snapchat video.

He told his ex, whose name ECHO declined to reveal, "I got this for you," and also filmed himself saying, "If you think I'm worried." it's real, your victim is very afraid of the "serial domestic criminal".

The boy, who had already abused his ex after their four-month relationship ended, was also violent with the police after his arrest in November. Creighton, 28, formerly of Manor Lane, Liscard, Wallasey, admitted to possessing a fake firearm to incite a fear of violence and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Paul Kempf

A pedophile who did not tell police his whereabouts claimed he was sleeping under a hedge and had no idea what day it was.

Paul Kemp was spared jail in November 2021 after offering to pay two 14-year-old boys £20 if he could touch their penises at McDonald's. Kemp, who pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to induce a boy to engage in sexual activity, received a nine-month suspended sentence.

The 64-year-old man had to keep the police informed of his whereabouts as he was on the sex offenders register, but he soon disappeared. He failed to appear at a police station and a parole appointment before he was found at the Mercure Hotel in Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port on 3 December.

Kemp, who is not a permanent resident, admitted to the report violation and his suspended sentence. In January, he was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Nicolas Whitcombe

Gym owner Nicholas Whitcombe's drug smuggling scheme was exposed when police found texts from him telling an employee how to 'clean up' dirty money.

Whitcombe, who was fined for refusing to close his Body Tech Fitness site in Moreton during the lockdown, was branded a "professional hustler" by a judge. His role in the marijuana trafficking and money laundering scheme was uncovered by an investigation by Jersey Customs and Immigration.

Whitcombe, 31, from Birkenhead, worked with Anthony Dryden, 31, from Jersey, on a property valued at over £54,000 between 2018 and 2019. He acquired the drugs that were sent to Jersey, collected and sold by Dryden, who then sent money back to UK addresses provided by Whitcombe.

The two men were sentenced to three years in prison.

Ian Robinson

Ian Robinson stabbed a man to death just months before knocking out his ex-girlfriend's tooth and breaking her cheekbone.

Robinson, 33, and his former partner Kylie Gaffney confronted a mother at her children's school over allegations that she was spreading rumours. The woman's partner, William McIntyre, told them to leave her alone, but the two couples met on Poulsom Drive, Bootle.

During an argument, Robinson stabbed Mr. McIntyre in the chest, causing a wound that required four stitches and inflicting a minor stab wound to the elbow. During the inquest into the attack and after parting ways with Ms. Gaffney, Robinson stayed in the home she shared with her three children.

When she confronted him about texting another woman, Robinson punched and kicked her in the face and head. He admitted to two counts of assault and possession of a sharp object and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Carl Sullivan

Carl Sullivan threatened to kill his neighbor when he pulled a fake gun and knife on him after the man parked in front of his house.

The 35-year-old man, who was intoxicated, started yelling at innocent driver Florin Niga from his window to move his vehicle. When asked why, Sullivan was adamant, so the victim parked the car across the street before Sullivan yelled, "Get in here."

Mr. Niga refused, but Sullivan said, "If you don't come, I'll kill you", while holding a gun to the victim's head and holding a knife. The drunk thug chased the victim with the air gun and knife down the street in Suez Street, Warrington at around 3:30am on 9th October 2021.

Sullivan later admitted to owning a fake firearm to incite a fear of violence, owning a knife, and possessing marijuana. He was imprisoned for 12 months.

Lucas Brown

Luke Browne pulled a machete out of his pants after being refused entry to a nightclub.

The 31-year-old has been plaguing pubs, bars and clubs in Birkenhead with violent and anti-social behaviour. A court heard that Browne and gangs of masked youths "intimidated" employees and customers.

He was once spared from prison after throwing a metal beer keg at the head of Elsa Frost, aka internet personality "Banter Dancing Queen", at Mr Whites sports bar. But last October 25, the boy - who has 60 criminal records for a staggering 106 offenses - tried to break into the Platinum Bar with a machete around 2:40 am.

Browne, of Paterson Street, Birkenhead, admitted possessing a bladed item and violated a suspended sentence. He was imprisoned for two years.

Anthony Lonergan

Taxi driver Anthony Lonergan used privately rented vehicles as cover for deliveries of cocaine, marijuana and ketamine.

Between March 2020 and June 2020 alone, Lonergan traded 76 kg of marijuana, 3.8 kg of cocaine and 3 kg of ketamine on EncroChat. But the private hire driver was arrested as a result of the EncroChat hack and exposed as the man behind the name "PalacePuma".

Detectives were able to arrest him thanks to other drug dealers talking about their work and Lonergan talking about the vacation he had booked to Ibiza. Thanks to his phone notes, they discovered that he had actually been dealing drugs and selling them from a "subordinate" phone since November 2019.

The 25-year-old from Lewis Walk, Kirkby, has admitted to conspiracies to supply cocaine, cannabis, cannabis resin and ketamine. He was imprisoned for nine years and four months.

Charlie Meadows

Charlie Meadows stabbed and ran over a taxi driver after trying to avoid paying the fare.

He left his victim John Gunning stabbed in the shoulder after the Ennismore Road attack in Old Swan on June 17 last year. The driver's car was so badly damaged in the incident that other men damaged it that it had to be canceled and he was unable to work.

In another incident, Meadows was involved in trying to get drugs into prisons, and on one occasion, he threw a tennis ball filled with ecstasy over the prison wall. The 23-year-old was also convicted of two separate incidents a week apart in 2019 in which he smuggled Class A drugs into HMP Berwyn in Wales.

Meadows, who has no fixed address, has admitted to being intentionally injured, possessing a bladed weapon and trying to take Cass-A-Drugs to prison on two occasions. He was imprisoned for six years and three months.

Roman Flechter

A pedophile referee showed up at children's soccer games and started checking the line and making offside decisions.

Roman Fletcher has a history of caring for young people and is subject to a 10 year sexual harm prevention order. The 21-year-old, formerly known as Peter Burns, was previously arrested for using his role as a wrestling referee to assault victims.

But then he started using his training as a football official to get closer to the kids - only to be spotted by an eagle-eyed coach. Fletcher, of Halton Road, Runcorn, has admitted to breaching his SHPO three times by attending games at the Orford Jubilee Neighborhood Hub in Warrington on 26 September, 10 October and 7 November last year.

He was imprisoned for 16 months.

Janine Clough

Janine Clough stabbed the manager of a Lidl store after she was caught stealing a shopping cart full of meat.

The 43-year-old is one of Liverpool's most prolific shoplifters and has already been banned from the city centre. A judge said his "impressive" criminal record now shows 70 previous convictions for 236 crimes.

Drunk on crack and armed with a broken coffee machine, she ripped open the victim's uniform, leaving three wounds on her back. Clough, from Liverpool Road, Huyton, attacked the Lidl store in Kensington at around 9pm on 24 July last year, stealing £140 worth of meat.

She pleaded guilty to robbery, possession of an assault weapon and an assault that actually caused bodily harm. Clough was jailed for two years and 11 months.

Christoph Halewood

Christopher Halewood slapped his ex across the face before hiding under the sheets when she called the police.

The drugged bandit appeared at the house of his former partner, whose name ECHO did not want to reveal, although he was forbidden to do so. The 39-year-old man slapped the victim across the face and dragged her hair down the hallway before attempting to throw an empty vodka bottle and iron at her.

A judge has branded the father of four a coward and a bully after hearing the details of what happened at the victim's address on July 10 last year. Halewood, of Roseside Drive, Netherley, was found guilty of the attack and admitted four breaches of a restraining order.

He was imprisoned for two and a half years.

John South

Drug dealer John Southern hacked into the EncroChat encrypted telephone network calling it "BigDunc".

The 34-year-old man was found to have shipped 3.8 kg of cocaine, 76 kg of marijuana and 3 kg of ketamine between March 2020 and June 2020. However, detectives said evidence showed that Burscough's Southern Street, Ormskirk, has been involved in drug trafficking since March 2019.

Southern denied any wrongdoing, but was found guilty after a trial for conspiracy to supply the drugs. He was imprisoned for 15 years.

Graham Draper

Merseyside Scout leader and former PCSO Graham Draper groomed and sexually abused a 13-year-old girl.

Graham Draper, then 22, sexually abused her several times over an 18-month period, saying they would run away together when she was old enough. Draper, now 31, was a volunteer Scout leader with a force on Merseyside and a former community support officer for Merseyside Police.

He groomed the girl online, kissed her at her home after picking her up in his car, and then sexually abused her at various locations in his vehicle. Draper gave her gifts, including money and alcohol, and told her that he loved her and that they would buy a house together.

She went to the police in 2020 and the now-father-of-one confessed when he was arrested before admitting to eight sexual offenses, including witnessing a child engaging in sexual activity and multiple allegations of sexual activity involving a child. Draper, of Halifax Crescent, Thornton, was sentenced to three years and four months in prison.

Courtney Ireland-Ainsworth

'Toxic' ex-girlfriend Courtney Ireland-Ainsworth sent herself threats from fake Instagram accounts to arrest an innocent man.

Courtney Ireland-Ainsworth created up to 30 fake profiles and later told police her ex-partner Louis Jolly was behind the "disgusting" messages. The "crafty" teen denounced him for allegedly threatening to stab her, warning: "She's gonna get a damn blade in the chest."

She made 10 police statements alleging that Mr. Jolly harassed and stalked her, resulting in his arrest six times and spending 81 hours in detention, including an overnight pre-trial detention, over the course of five months in 2020. He was charged with assault and stalking, struck a protective order against persecution with a theft, imposed a curfew with an electronic tag and even lost his job.

Detectives requested data from Facebook, which owns Instagram, but the court heard that "it took some time before it was released to the police". When it was finally released, it revealed that the fake profiles were in fact linked to Ireland-Ainsworth's own email accounts and IP addresses.

The accusations against Mr. Jolly and Ireland-Ainsworth, now 20, from Brackendale, Runcorn, were recalled and they admitted to perverting the course of justice. She was detained for 10 months.

Bradley Hughes

Police found a gun during a search of the home of drug dealer Bradley Hughes.

The 31-year-old used the EncroChat secret telephone network, nicknamed "TwoTimes", to deliver Class A and Class B drugs between April 2020 and July 2020. Detectives searched his home in Hatfield Gardens, Huyton, on Thursday- fair, July 15 last year, after he discovered his identity after EncroChat was hacked.

During the operation, officers found and seized a Class A weapon and drugs. He pleaded guilty to drug offenses and possession of a firearm without a certificate and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

michael hall

Thief Michael Hall, tripped by his distinctive striped socks, has been banned from all cooperative stores on Merseyside.

The 33-year-old has repeatedly targeted co-op stores in 2021 and has even checked into a hotel to rob two others in North Wales. He waited just two months after being released from prison to begin his latest crime spree, which saw him lose over £135,000.

Hall, who has no fixed address, would climb onto the roofs of the compound - usually brazenly with a ladder - to break in and steal money and goods. But the drug addict's downfall involved his distinctive socks, which were seen on CCTV and later found at his home.

Hall, formerly of Mont Pleasant, Waterloo, admitted to breaking into eight co-op stores and also a coffee shop, where he stole a charity box. He was imprisoned for six years.

Grant Pridham

One boy thought he was dying when Grant Pridham demanded cigarettes and held a BB gun to his head.

The blind crook had previously been thrown out of a Burtonwood pub after manufacturing the air gun and claiming to be a "murderer". Shortly after midnight, the 30-year-old spoke to two youths on the street and threatened them with a firearm.

Pridham, from Borron Road in Newton-le-Willows, has twice admitted to possessing a fake firearm to incite fear of violence. At the time of the crimes, on September 4 and 5, 2021, he was licensed, having served a sentence of seven and a half years for the knife robbery of an elderly couple at their home in Warrington.

Pridham was jailed for three years and nine months.

Roy Bryer

A father got 'sick' when he discovered that a pedophile had photographed his daughter through her bedroom window.

Roy Bryers, 49, spied the toddler naked near his window and took a picture with his phone. The victim and her parents had no idea until July 9, 2019, when police raided Bryer's home over sick chats he had participated in online.

In their collection of child molestation photos, the cops discovered the photo of the innocent child. Police discovered that he had discussed sex with a pedophile hunter posing as a 12-year-old girl named Izzy on WhatsApp.

Bryers admitted to trying to engage in sexual communication with a child and trying to trick a child into engaging in sexual activity. He also pleaded guilty to one count of possession and two counts of taking indecent photographs of children.

Bryers, of Castle Walk, Southport, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

Taylor Johnson

Two teenagers spend days planning how to take advantage of a drunk woman before sexually assaulting a vulnerable victim in a hotel room.

Alex Stormont and Taylor Johnson abused their victim while she was "essentially asleep," according to the judge who sentenced her. Her attack followed days of text messages between the two, in which they discussed booking a hotel room and planning how the attack could be possible.

The Wirral men, both aged 19 at the time, attacked Liverpool city center one night in March 2018, taking a woman who was "barely able to stand or walk" back into a room they had booked in a Travelodge. . Taylor Johnson, 23, of Edgbaston Way in Bidston, was sentenced to three years and six months on two counts of assault by penetration.

The couple engaged in sexual acts with the woman when she was unable to give consent before reporting the assaults. Stormont, now 23, of Woodchurch Road in Oxton, and Johnson, now 23, of Edgbaston Way in Bidston, were both found guilty of two counts of assault by penetration following a trial.

Each of them was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

Connor Higgins

Three men were arrested for their role in a County Lines drug raid with a phone number nicknamed "Scouse Mick".

The gang has flooded parts of North Wales with heroin and cocaine delivered directly to their clients' homes. One judge said their exploits had "a devastating effect on local communities", fueling vice and misery.

Ian Heyes, Connor Higgins and James Douglas targeted Flintshire addicts with their Class A drug deals. They are believed to have been dealing around £90,000 worth of heroin and cocaine before North Wales Police arrested them via Operation Blue Annex.

Heyes, 32, of Tuebrook; Higgins, 30, of Litherland; and Douglas, 28, of Woolton; Each admitted to conspiring to supply crack and heroin. Heyes was jailed for two years after serving an independent sentence.

Higgins and Douglas were jailed for three years and four months.

Jamal Adam-Neale

A 16-year-old shouted, "Do you want to be sliced?" before shoving a giant piece of glass into a parent's stomach.

Jamal Adam-Neale stabbed Steven Cartwright to death in an alley on Scarisbrick Avenue in Southport on August 23 last year. Cartwright required life-saving surgery to remove part of his small intestine after the brutal attack and was left with permanent scarring.

Prosecutors said it was unclear what triggered a dispute between a group featuring Jamal Adam-Neale and a group featuring Cartwright and his friend Steven Johnson. Adam-Neale punched both men, breaking Mr. Cartwright and injuring Mr. Johnson before running in and picking up a large shard of glass.

The teenager, from Falkner Street in Liverpool city centre, stabbed Mr. Cartwright once in the stomach and twice in the back before running away. Adam-Neale, who admitted to intentional injury and two joint assaults, was jailed for four years and four months.

Grace Smith

A woman smothered her grandmother with a pillow and pulled her hair in a desperate attempt to steal her money.

A judge said Grace Smith's attack on 73-year-old Mary Smith at Anfield last July resulted in the 20-year-old "choking her to death". It was the culmination of a years-long campaign of theft and harassment against family members.

Smith stole thousands from his grandmother through credit card fraud, and also tried to pawn a ring his mother inherited from his late father. She started stealing from her grandmother in February 2019, using her credit card details to place over £500 worth of food orders.

She then went further and used another card details to place orders worth just under £3,500 on Amazon, Uber Eats and Netflix. Smith, who is not a permanent resident, admitted to crimes including burglary, larceny, fraud and multiple violations of a restraining order.

She was imprisoned for six years and two months.

Dekan Colquhoun

Convicted gunman Dean Colquhoun was found hiding in a garden after escaping from a police escort guarding him at the hospital.

He helped break into a house in Lancashire in January 2020, only to be caught by police just nine days later at the wheel of a £50,000 Audi RS3 that was stolen in the operation. Colquhoun was released on bail before officers searched his home in July and found almost 90g of marijuana, £2,010 in cash and designer watches and shoes.

The 26-year-old was not present but was seen in the back seat of a taxi on Oct 27, 2020 as he was arrested after a fierce scuffle and injuries sustained. The crook was taken to hospital for treatment, but when a police officer answered a call, he fled into a residential garden when he was caught again.

Colquhoun, who has no fixed address, admitted robbery, possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, fleeing legal custody and possession of criminal property. He was imprisoned for four years and one month.

Michael Lynchen

'Dishonest trader' Michael Lynch forced an elderly lady to cut her food and heating bills when he swindled her out of nearly £33,000.

Lynch, 38, of Wordsworth Avenue, Widnes, became friends with his 75-year-old victim in 2019 and always said she was like "family" and "a second mother". He began charging her for poor or non-existent repairs to buildings and got her to secure a £6,000 loan ostensibly for his business.

Lynch made around £7,000 worth of phone contracts on her behalf and falsely said he would pay her back; she used her credit card to withdraw cash and purchase items at JD Sports and off-licenses; and "borrowed" electrical equipment from her, claiming she had a £2 million construction contract up her sleeve. He admitted four counts of fraud and one theft and was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison.

Josef Robinson

Joseph Robinson had a bicycle seat converted to hide a hidden shotgun in his home.

The daring contraption was recovered after police caught him on an electric bike in Kensington while carrying a gun. Officers went to the 22-year-old's home on nearby Hampstead Road after arresting him around midnight on October 10, 2021.

There they found the customized bicycle seat loaded with a shotgun, ammunition, cocaine and marijuana. Robinson admitted owning a firearm with intent to endanger life, possessing ammunition - 9mm ammunition - without a certificate, prohibited possession of a firearm, supplying cocaine and marijuana with intent, driving without a license and using a vehicle without insurance.

He was imprisoned for 11 years.

Chelsea Russell

"Out of Control" Chelsea Russell pointed a knife at a car window as a three-year-old sat behind him, screaming in terror.

Russell said she "lost her mind" when father-of-three David Law intervened in an argument she was having with her friend. Law and his wife Amy stopped their car when they saw Shauna Aston looking distressed in Stonebridge Lane, Croxteth on September 25, 2021.

But when Mr. Law prevented Russell from grabbing his partner, the 23-year-old went home and came back with a five to six inch knife. She slashed the blade at the victim in front of her terrified children - aged three, seven and eight - and then attacked her car.

Russell, of Stonedale Crescent, Croxteth, admitted to a fight, possession of a bladed item in public and criminal vandalism. She was detained for 12 months.

Nathan Frazer

Nathan Frazer threatened a couple with a machete and attacked one of them with a hammer inside their own house.

The 27-year-old was one of three men who broke into a flat on Whitethroat Walk in Birchwood, Warrington on Friday 3rd December 2021. The balaclava-clad men attacked one of the victims with a hammer and also threatened the couple with a machete, then made off with a handful of computer games.

But detectives did find CCTV footage of Frazer with his balaclava pulled up, smoking a cigarette and brandishing a hammer shortly before the incident. They also recovered text messages in which he admitted to committing the theft and later pleaded guilty to the aggravated robbery.

Frazer was imprisoned for seven and a half years.

Wesley Kavanagh

Wesley Kavanagh was caught after messages were activated from an EncroChat device after the network had already been hacked.

The dealer picked up a phone equipped with the software from a side street in Oldham in May 2020 as part of a £1,400 settlement. At that point, the system had already been compromised by an international operation that allowed the police to obtain texts.

Kavanagh, 36, got his EncroChat-enabled phone from his friend Lee Taylor, with whom he dealt cocaine and marijuana. Taylor, 34, was already trading under the name MuscialSalmon and Kavanagh started using the name MysticBlade.

Texts showed that Warrington dealers used an adulterator nicknamed "Marshmallow" to store cocaine before slamming it onto customers. Kavanagh of Stockport Road in Thelwall and Taylor of Longshaw Street in Dallam admitted to conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs allegedly containing at least six kilos of cocaine and at least nine kilos of marijuana.

Both were jailed for 12 years.

Joshua McLaughlan

Joshua McLaughlan viciously attacked a student while photographing or filming the helpless victim.

The 26-year-old hit Joshua Ormrod repeatedly to the head and body before coming back at him a second and third time. The crook left his victim unconscious in the middle of Fleet Street in Liverpool city center at around 4.30am on June 17, 2021.

But the IT network technician - captured by CCTV cameras - was detained by nearby gatekeepers while other security guards provided first aid. McLaughlan, from Hawkshead Drive, Bolton, admitted that one attack did indeed cause bodily harm.

He was imprisoned for 16 months.

Michael Schmidt

Michael Smith "looked like a zombie" as he knocked down a mother's front door with an ax before dragging her arm through broken glass.

Catherine McLoughlin suffered lacerations to her arm when Smith hit her Walton home last November, as part of a larger incident when he also vandalized her sister's home and even her own car. McLoughlin told police that Smith - former partner of her sister Donna Payne - "looked like a character from The Walking Dead" during the drunken bout on November 20, 2021.

Smith, 36, of Avis Walk, Fazakerley, admitted to self-harm, possessing a sharp object in public and two counts of criminal damage. He was imprisoned for 16 months.

Edward Mullins

Alcoholic Edward Mullins threatened to stab his roommates and repeatedly hurled homophobic slurs.

Police were called twice to the Belle Vale address on August 22 last year - once by Mullins himself. After the police arrived a second time, he continued to make abusive remarks to one of the arresting officers.

Mullins, 47, who now has no fixed address, admitted to a fight over the incident. He was imprisoned for 20 months.

Craig Ford

Craig Ford was caught trying to break into a house with a doorbell ringing and tried to flee the scene on a girl's pink bicycle.

The 28-year-old convicted burglar broke into a property in Capricorn Crescent, Huyton at around 2:40 am on January 20 of this year. But his victim was awakened by the doorbell and saw Ford fumbling with the lock on the front door, so he ran downstairs and threw him out.

Ford, who was accompanied by another man hiding behind a nearby car, jumped on the motorbike to flee, but abandoned it and fled. The homeless thief admitted to an attempted break-in.

Ford was jailed for two years.

Michael and Peter Moogan

Two brothers, once ranked among Britain's 'most wanted', carried out a drug deal criticized by birthday messages.

Michael and Peter Moogan shared a "PaleFlame" EncroChat handle, but were partially blindsided by a barrage of congratulations on Peter's big day. The convicted Huyton gun bandits were linked to trafficking eight kilos of cocaine and a kilo of marijuana, as well as nearly £90,000 in black money.

Michael also admitted to an affair related to threats to his partner's sister about alleged lack of money in August 2020 which caused her to flee Huyton. The court heard that the two men already had prior convictions for carrying weapons when they fled to Spain to avoid justice.

Michael, 33, of Boundary Road, and Peter, 39, of Salerno Drive, admitted to conspiring to supply cocaine and marijuana. Each of them was imprisoned for eleven years and three months.

Thomas Broadhurst

Thomas Broadhurst killed his friend of 20 years, Thomas Edmunds, after assaulting him in a brutal gang robbery.

Broadhurst placed Mr. Edmunds in a fatal choke while Terence Bennett, Kevin Nethercote and Kevin Condliffe helped steal the victim's money. The drunken gang was caught on footage talking about their plan to viciously attack Mr. Edmunds and even partying after they pronounced him dead.

The men broke into the home the 36-year-old victim shared with her father, Alan Edmunds, on Clorain Road, Kirkby, at around 10pm on 9 May last year. Bennett waited outside in the car while Broadhurst, Nethercote and Condliffe knocked on the front door before being admitted by Mr. Senior Edmunds.

Broadhurst and Condliffe attacked the victim, with Broadhurst putting him in a "chicken cellar" and Condliffe robbing him of the money he had saved from his work as a laborer. The group then fled in a car, squandering the money on alcohol and drugs before the victim died in hospital the next day after suffering cardiac arrest.

Broadhurst, 32, of Regal Road, Croxteth, was jailed for 10 years and eight months after pleading guilty to manslaughter and conspiracy to steal. Bennett, 34, of Sovereign Hey; 48 Nethercote on Regal Road; and Condliffe, 17, of Carr Lane East; all in Croxteth, were jailed for eight years, nine years, four months and five years respectively, after all confessed to a conspiracy to steal.

Michael Hoy aka Michael Brown

A murderer on parole from a life sentence has become a cocaine dealer trying to trade with guns and grenades.

Michael Brown changed his name and took up landscaping to escape his shocking past. He was one of two security guards who stabbed the innocent Colin McGinty to death after mistaking the 21-year-old for a gang rival.

In 2001, he was sentenced to life in prison with a recommended minimum sentence of 18 years after his victim was stabbed 15 times in Bootle Street. However, Brown was released in 2017 after serving just 16 years behind bars, changed his name to Michael Hoy and was given an EncroChat phone.

Using the codename TimelyBeta, he worked with Patrick Murray - aka WeirdGun - to try to trade grenades and weapons, including AK47s and Uzis. Phillip Moran - Murray's uncle - whose name was KeptHawk, was also linked to the weapons scheme, while the three men were involved in the drug trade.

Murray, 25, of Gloucester Road, Huyton, admitted to conspiring to possess explosives; possessing, purchasing or acquiring prohibited firearms and ammunition; and to supply cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. He was sentenced to at least five and a half years for weapons and explosives offenses and an additional 11.5 years for drug offenses.

Hoy, 42, of Cranford Road, Garston, was found guilty at trial of these offenses and conspiracy to supply ketamine and amphetamine. He was sentenced to at least six years to life in prison for weapons and explosives offenses, plus an additional 14 years for drug offenses.

Moran, 51, of Alder Road, Newton-le-Willows, was found guilty of conspiracy to possess, purchase or acquire prohibited firearms and ammunition; and to supply cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. He was imprisoned for 12 years.

Lauren Walsh

No one will ever know why a woman stabbed her best friend 18 times for no apparent reason.

Lauren Walsh, 22, repeatedly stabbed young mother Kelsey Gielinck to death after accusing her of killing her grandmother while she was still alive. When the attack was stopped by Miss Gielinck's friend Wesley Pemberton, Walsh also stabbed him three times.

Walsh had already stolen Ms. Gielinck, who was branded on the victim by his bank when a friend of his wore it on a shopping spree at Home Bargains and Tesco. Later that day, Walsh went to her friend's house in the Old Swan, apparently to comfort her with the fact that her debit card had been stolen.

Miss Gielinck suffered injuries to her face, chest, body, stomach and hands, while Mr. Pemberton was stabbed in the chest, back and one hand. Walsh, of Packenham Road, West Derby, admitted theft and two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

However, she was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder after a trial. She was imprisoned behind bars for life aged at least 14 years and eight months.

Lee Cunliffe

A "despicable" rapist who forced his victim to endure his ordeal again in court has been sentenced to a long prison term.

Lee Cunliffe, 37, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court to face convictions including triple rape, double assault and false imprisonment. After denying the allegations, Cunliffe was found guilty after a trial and sentenced to 17 years in prison plus five years in prison.

Danny Hanley

Nine members of an organized gang were arrested after the police infiltrated the drug and weapons trade.

The group sold large amounts of cocaine and heroin on Merseyside and the south coast of England, but were caught as a result of a sting operation dubbed the 'Casino'. Prosecutors said Daniel Hanley enlisted Eric McKevitt, Kevin Cooney, Paul Hoban and Liam Morris to help him obtain and stockpile cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

Hoban's father Paul Wright also helped transport drugs after being questioned by his son, while Mason Si and Jodie Gill, originally from Liverpool, collected drugs from Hanley and sold them close to where they live in Eastbourne in Sussex. All eight were sentenced to a total of 56 years in prison after an investigation that lasted more than 12 months.

In addition to drug offenses, Hanley, McKevitt, Hoban and Wright were all found guilty of firearms offenses in connection with a shotgun found by police in Wright's home and a silencer found at McKevitt's mother's home address. Hanley, 30, with no fixed address, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A controlled drugs heroin and cocaine and conspiracy to possess firearms and was sentenced to 13 years.

Hoban, 27, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A controlled drugs, heroin and cocaine, and conspiracy to carry a firearm and was sentenced to 11 years. McKevitt, 41, of Hazeldale Road, Walton, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A controlled drugs (heroin and cocaine) and conspiracy to possess firearms and was sentenced to five years and eight months.

Morris, 26, of Lindisfarne Drive, West Derby, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A controlled drugs (heroin and cocaine) and was sentenced to five years and nine months. Wright, 56, of Thursby Crescent, Southdene, Kirkby, pleaded guilty to involvement in supplying heroin and possession of a firearm and was sentenced to eight years and two months.

Cooney, 47, of Muirhead Avenue, West Derby, pleaded guilty to supplying Class A controlled drugs (cocaine) and was sentenced to five years and eight months. Jodie Gill, 37, of Leslie Street, Eastbourne, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine and was sentenced to three years and four months.

Mason Si Gill, 47, of Leslie Street, Eastbourne, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine and was sentenced to four years and three months. Paul McEwan, 30, of Dwerryhouse Lane, Norris Green, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin and was sentenced to four years in prison at an earlier hearing.

Thomas Davis

Two county border drug dealers were caught after they were pulled over in a car with 11 pounds of heroin.

Police stopped dealers on Cullen Street in Toxteth and found drugs with a sale value of between £220,000 and £330,000 in September 2021. Thomas Davies, 27, and Siyabonga Konze, 30, both from south Wales, were arrested by detectives from Project Medusa, a County Lines drug trafficking investigation.

Davies was jailed for 10 years and two months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin. Konze was sentenced to seven years and two months for the same crimes.

Keith Russell

A professional thief knocked down 88 houses while working for a gang that stole cars worth a total of £2.6 million.

Keith Russell was paid wages to break into property and steal BMWs and Audis, some of which were resold to other criminals. Using one of the stolen vehicles, he committed an armed robbery in which a postman was threatened with a crowbar.

Russell was part of a gang known for being behind 160 burglaries across Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire. He was arrested for his exploits along with fellow thief Paul Wharton.

Russell, who had already served a three-year sentence for some of the gang-related robberies, was sentenced to an additional four years and six months for conspiracy to commit burglary and larceny. He was sentenced to three years and six months for the theft, to run consecutively.

That means he was sentenced to a total of eight years. Wharton was sentenced to seven years and three months.

Stefan fragile

A pregnant mother was attacked in her own home by an abusive ex-partner.

Stephen Frail, 35, called the home of the victim, his former partner, at around 8.30pm on 28 October 2020. Liverpool Crown Court was informed that Frail and his victim had been seeing each other casually since November 2019 and the victim was five months pregnant at the time of the attack.

The court was told he had five previous convictions for nine crimes, including assaulting a woman together in August 2013 and violating a non-harassment order in April 2016, for which he was sentenced to eight weeks in jail. In addition to assault and drug offenses, he was sentenced in August 2016 to 18 months in prison for three assaults and one combined assault, all against women.

Frail, of Simonswood Lane, Northwood, Kirkby, pleaded guilty to common assault. He was jailed for five months and given a 10-year restraining order to stay away from his victim.

Ben Duffy

A bandit sped through residential streets before attempting to drive the wrong way onto the M57.

Ben Duffy was without a license due to a previous dangerous driving conviction when he went on a reckless killing spree on Merseyside last October. He ran a red light, drove in the wrong direction, and drove 70 mph into a 40 zone during his 20-minute high-speed chase.

The 29-year-old was only stopped when a policeman hit his car, which was going against the M57. Duffy, of Wigan Road, Leigh, was jailed for 16 months with his guilty plea being recognised.

In addition, his driver's license was revoked for three years.

Michael Lafey

A thief stole designer watches, bicycles, Coke cans and small change in a week-long rampage.

Michael Laffey counted a gym, a law firm and a pub among his targets during a string of robberies and thefts in Liverpool city center last year. Liverpool's Crown Court heard the crimes took place in September, October and November, with the 25-year-old targeting properties near Dale Street, Tithebarn Street and Crosshall Street.

He was eventually caught on CCTV after several sightings and was also caught entering an apartment block on Crosshall Street to break into one of the flats there. This was by far his biggest target, as Laffey looted nearly £20,000 worth of merchandise.

Laffey, of Crosshall Street, Liverpool, was sentenced to a total of three years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of burglary and burglary and an attempted burglary.

Else Frost

A TikTok celebrity threw paint at reality TV star Chelsey Harwood's home when a fight between the two escalated.

Elsa Frost received thousands of views as the "queen of prank", but was arrested after sending a series of offensive messages to Harwood, who first rose to fame on the TV show Desperate Scousewives. The Sefton Magistrates Court heard that Frost had posted a series of lewd videos on his TikTok account between January 1st and February 23rd last year.

The pair have been locked in an escalating feud for an extended period of time, with both posting videos criticizing each other. Mrs. Harwood is transgender and in a series of videos that have since been removed, Frost, 39, used transphobic language towards her.

The court heard that she also went to an address where Harwood lived and threw paint on the door. Frost, of Whitefield Close in Woodchurch, Wirral, was jailed for a total of 18 weeks.

Kieron Gill

A drug addict repeatedly kicked a vulnerable pensioner in the face when he abused his victim to fund his addiction.

Kieron Gill had David Bell curled up under a blanket on the sofa in his own Anfield flat - an address taken over by crack users. When the abuser was arrested, he revealed that his abuse extended to taking his victim to an ATM.

Gill was arrested after admitting to stealing Mr. Bell, who is in his 70s, just before Christmas 2020. The 31-year-old was sentenced to five years and three months in prison.

Alex Boston

A stalker has bombarded TV star Steph Davis with cards and flowers as part of an ongoing harassment crusade.

Alex Boston started messaging the star on Instagram during the first coronavirus lockdown, but his behavior soon took a turn for the worse. The 43-year-old from Moreton soon showed up at her home leaving gifts for former Hollyoaks actress Mrs. Davis, which concerned her enough to move in with a family member.

She later said that she did not feel safe at home and "her safe harbor was breached". Boston of Lyons Road was sentenced to 28 weeks in prison on Friday.

Ian Watson

A 59-year-old man was planning to travel to Cheshire to have sex with a nine-year-old boy.

Ian Watson, 56, from Churchfields in St Helens, started talking to another adult online to make arrangements to meet a nine-year-old boy in Cheshire with the intention of engaging in sexual activity. But Watson was unaware that he had actually spoken to officers from the Northwest Regional Organized Crime Unit.

He was arrested at his home address on 30th March 2020 and appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday 28th January charged with child sex offences. A judge sentenced him to five years in prison after being found guilty of organizing and facilitating a sex crime against children.

Kirk Davis

Kirk Davies crashed into a taxi, dragged his ex-girlfriend out, forced her into a stolen car and then punched her during a police chase.

The 19-year-old was following the taxi after spotting his ex-partner and her friends inside in the early hours of September 5 last year. Work forced the taxi off the road into a stolen car with false plates, then entered Fazakerley and forced the driver to stop.

Davies, from Middle Way, Croxteth, forced his ex into her car and reached speeds of up to 160 km/h as she "feared for her life". He repeatedly hit her on the head, pulled her hair and bit her before threatening her with a hammer.

The teenager was spotted by police and chased Longmoor Lane until he hit a wall and then drove off. Davies, who admitted to assault involving actual assault and dangerous driving, was jailed for 22 months.

James Birke

Taxi driver James Birch organized the cocaine and heroin trade in the Netherlands after it was decided that lockdown measures made it too risky to operate in the UK.

But the 35-year-old was still caught by police after messages detailing his criminal activities were found on the hacked EncroChat intelligence service. Birch allegedly used the name "OctoBourne" throughout 2020 while working as a private taxi driver and arranging the transport of Class A drugs.

EncroChat messages showed that he thought it was too "risky", but he later facilitated the delivery of up to 20 kilos of heroin from one employee in the Netherlands to another. Police raided his home on Brookbridge Road, Tuebrook on December 15, 2021 and confiscated five mobile phones.

Birch has admitted to money laundering and aiding or abetting in an overseas crime. He was imprisoned for six years.

David Houghton

David Houghton raided a hospital and a football club.

He met Vauxhall Motors at Ellesmere Port and entered the referee's dressing room during a match. The 56-year-old, from Ellesmere Port, stole a bag containing £20 in cash and a mobile phone ahead of another break-in on 19 December 2021.

He broke into a council house in Capenhurst Lane - the same street where he lived - and took two vacuum cleaners worth around £170 and other items. On 6 January he was challenged by the owner of a van in Tarvin after he was seen trying to access it.

Houghton returned to Vauxhall Motors on 22 January and stole bottles of vodka and whiskey. A day later, he attacked Ellesmere Port Hospital, where he stole money, coffee, tea bags and sugar.

Houghton, who admitted to four counts of burglary and one vehicular assault, was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Qaisar Mahmud

A mother of two has been stalked by an "obsessed" coworker, Kaisaar Mahmood, who creates "disturbing" fantasies about her.

The victim, whose name ECHO does not wish to reveal, had a happy and long-lasting relationship with her partner for 15 years. But the "delusional" Mahmood accused her of "sexually harassing" and "leading" him, even though she had no romantic interest in him.

The 44-year-old chemical engineer involved other colleagues in his terrible "obsession", falsely telling them that the woman had been abused by her boyfriend and was even going blind. Mahmood, of Fenham Drive, Penketh, Warrington, who has admitted to stalking between May 2019 and March 2021, has been convicted of sexual abuse twice in 2005 and 2010, both in connection with a woman he considered his girlfriend.

He was imprisoned for 13 months.

Dean McHale

Dean McHale broke into a house in Liverpool and stole a mobile phone and bank cards.

The 39-year-old man with no fixed address entered a house on Vandyke Street in Toxteth on June 9 last year. His crime spree continued when it was discovered he was dealing with items stolen from a home on Halkyn Avenue, Sefton Park, including laptops, cell phones and more bank cards.

McHale admitted to theft, fraud, and handling stolen goods. He was imprisoned for three years.

Robert Brazendale

A gang go-between delivered weapons three times in less than 24 hours while playing a key role in a prolific weapons supply chain.

Robert Brazendale delivered an AK-47 assault rifle to one buyer, machine guns to a second and, on April 15, 2020, another AK-47 to a third shop. The 34-year-old former electrician became an EncroChat user and also hid weapons and ammunition in the backyard of his bungalow in Selworthy Drive, Warrington.

Prosecutors branded Brazendale a "steward" and "an essential cog in a machine that arms other serious organized crime groups". When some of the weapons were discovered during the raids, he was interrogated - but later fled to Spain and triggered an international manhunt.

This ended in October 2020 in Estepona, Malaga, where he was arrested by the National Crime Agency and the Spanish National Police. Brazendale, who admitted conspiracy to transfer banned firearms, was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison.

Liam Wallace-Clark

Liam Wallace-Clark hit his ex-girlfriend while she was holding the baby.

The career criminal only met his 13-month-old daughter that day because he was in prison. But he repeatedly slapped his ex-partner across the face after she tried to call the police over his intimidating behavior.

The 33-year-old man then "cornered" her on a sofa and said: "If you send me to prison, I might as well kill you." He assaulted the woman, whose name ECHO declined to reveal, at his home in Southport on Wednesday 7 October 2020.

Wallace-Clark, of Wulfstan Street, London, but of Whitefield, Bury, admitted to assault on his former partner, a joint assault on her friend who tried to intervene to stop him and bail was breached. He was detained for a total of 59 weeks - around 13.5 months.

Christopher Welsh

Christopher Welsh hit a woman in the face with a broken wine bottle after having a cocktail of booze and drugs.

Security guard Christopher Welsh befriended a group of students living in a flat on Rumford Place in Liverpool's city centre. He was on property the students shared when he took marijuana as well as a sleeping pill and large amounts of alcohol.

But in the early hours of August 23, 2020, he inexplicably attacked one of the women and hit Anna Chapel over the head with a wine bottle so hard that he broke it before attacking her with the neck of the broken bottle. inflict permanent facial scarring. Welsh, 41, of Marina Drive, Upton, Chester, admitted unlawful injury and joint assault.

He was imprisoned for two years.

Eduard Warde

Edward Warde stole over £10,000 worth of cigarettes on a tour of over 20 stores, distracting the team, and then fled in a getaway car using fake license plates.

But detectives used data from automatic license plate recognition and CCTV footage to track the 35-year-old to his address on Warrington Road in Runcorn. Warde's killing spree lasted from 29 September to 26 October last year, when he attacked 24 stores in Cheshire and stole a total of £11,733 worth of tobacco products.

In an incident in Winsford, Warde also attacked a clerk who tried to stop him from escaping. He was imprisoned for three years.

John Newton

A girl tried to kill herself after being raped twice by unrepentant pedophile John Newton.

He attacked his victim between the ages of nine and eleven in historic sex crimes that have now come to light. The 56-year-old man from Wood Street, Birkenhead, also let the child perform sexual acts on him and view pornography.

Newton denied any wrongdoing, forcing the now-adult woman to testify in a harrowing trial. But the delivery man was unanimously found guilty of nine sex crimes and a judge said he was "denying it".

Newton was found guilty of two counts of rape of a child under the age of 13, three counts of assault with penetration of a child under the age of 13, two counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, and both counts of child under the age of 13 engaging in sexual activity and having a child observe sexual activity. He was jailed for 12 years with a one-year license extension.

Thomas Braun

Thomas Brown who swore “St. Helens Proud” before stabbing a man in the neck was found guilty of murder.

The drug addict turned his bedroom into a bloodbath when he stabbed 33-year-old Lee Andrew in the right carotid artery. Andrew escaped when he ran across the street to a YMCA reception for help around 11pm on August 2 last year.

Career criminal Brown was seen walking away "nonchalantly" - his hands were bloody - as his victim died in the street. After being arrested on Aug. 3, the 42-year-old man from North Road told police: "The beast was killed and it was self-defense."

He suggested that Andrew intimidated him and "went at him" with a knife, so he picked up a second knife to defend himself. Brown even claimed that "more should have been done for Andrew" and questioned why YMCA staff were not providing first aid on night shifts.

But it took the jury just two hours of deliberation to unanimously find him guilty of murder after a six-day trial. Brown was sentenced to life in prison when he was at least 18 years old.

Anthony McDonald

Anthony McDonald was caught in a hotel after breaking into and looting an office.

He was arrested after stealing wine and a box of money from the Hotel Indigo in Liverpool city center on November 16 last year. McDonald and an accomplice were found by night workers behind the Chapel Street Hotel bar at around 1:30 am.

They were challenged, leading to a brawl in which 40-year-old career criminal McDonald suffered a head injury. The homeless drug addict admitted to the theft and possession of marijuana.

He was imprisoned for two years.

Dean McCarthy

Dean McCarthy rented nearly £29,000 worth of equipment from his company account only to have it disappear.

The 32-year-old serial liar, from Nicholas Road, Widnes, enjoyed his position as an account manager at fire protection company Abbey Fire in Runcorn. After being hired in July 2020, he told supervisors that his girlfriend died suddenly and claimed his car was stolen.

He was given a company car equipped with a tracker, and in November he said he suffered a mild heart attack overnight. His boss could see that his car was on its way, as McCarthy claimed to be in a hospital bed and exposed his fraud.

McCarthy admitted to nine counts of fraud by providing false information and was jailed for 21 months.

Patrick Downy

A convicted child molester who continues to download indecent photos of children has been deemed "dangerous".

Patrick Downey, 40, has been jailed for the past two decades for his perverted perversion. Last year, police caught him with 426 sick photos, including one of a four-year-old boy who was raped.

Police raided Downey's home on Peel Road, Bootle, on May 13 last year and discovered the disturbing hiding place. He was jailed for two years, with an extended four-year license.

Liam Traynor

Liam Traynor, loaded with cocaine, walked around the house of what appeared to be a stranger and hit him with a wooden bat.

The 36-year-old was also a heavy drinker before attacking Mark Cummins at his Huyton home in the early hours of December 5, 2019. Traynor later said that he could not remember anything leading up to the brutal attack on Mr. Cummins. Cummins with two other men in Knowsley Heights.

Mr. Cummins suffered two head injuries and head and arm injuries. Traynor, of Nyland Road, Huyton, intentionally admitted to injury.

He was imprisoned for six years.

Stefan Skelhorne

Betting shop robber Stephen Skelhorne threatened to stab a customer if a cashier didn't put cash in his pocket.

The 37-year-old traveled to four different bookmakers in one day to get money for his drug addiction. On 7 February he was also involved in a serious robbery in Widnes when, again armed with a knife, he stole a 43-inch television.

Skelhorne, no fixed address but formerly of Pennard Avenue, Huyton, has 44 prior convictions for 78 crimes. The bandit admitted to 10 crimes, including attempted robbery, carrying a knife, aggravated robbery and robbery with a knife.

He was jailed for three years, with an extended three-year license.

William Farell

William Farrell stormed into McDonald's, then racially attacked and abused hospital staff.

The 28-year-old spat on his girlfriend, Hayley Burrows, at a McDonald's in Kensington in the early hours of March 23, 2021. After she ducked behind the counter, he kicked over some hand sanitizer, picked up a wet floor sign and threw it on the counters and smashed a £50 vase of flowers.

He was arrested and taken into custody but unresponsive and taken to the hospital where, while being held, he attempted to call Dr. Beat Alicia Waite. The thug then racially abused security guards Maria Haynes-Garcia and Jacqueline Cabungan, who tried to help the police stop him.

Farrell, who had no fixed address but previously lived in Old Swan, pleaded guilty to felony assault, assault for assaulting a rescuer, and two counts of racially aggravated threats. He is already serving a sentence of two and a half years for two attempts to steal and receive stolen goods.

He was imprisoned for 11 months.

Neil robe

Neil Badrock murdered his own father in a "savage, brutal and utterly ruthless" street attack.

Badrock, 28, pleaded guilty to manslaughter during the five-minute street attack on 51-year-old Neil Farrington. Witnesses described him shouting "volley" and "I'm going to kill you" at his father as he repeatedly kicked him in Kirkby Row in Kirkby.

The attack only ended when the police arrived and found Badrock still kicking the father in the head as he yelled, "What do you think of that?"

Badrock agreed to hit Farrington in the head on May 17 last year and then punched and kicked him because he was "angry", but said he never intended to kill or seriously injure his victim. But a jury unanimously found him guilty of murder after six hours and 20 minutes of deliberation following a four-day trial.

Badrock, of Kenbury Close, Kirkby, was sentenced to life imprisonment aged at least 19 years.

Gregor Ewiak

A mother and her children hid in a locked bathroom as her ex-boyfriend "stained" the house with blood.

Gregorz Ewiak and another intruder broke into his former partner Paulina Dziekan's home through the living room window. When the terrible ordeal was over, he sent her a message "threatening that her children would be taken and that she would be killed".

Ewiak, 34, of Neasham Road, Dagenham, London, broke into the home of Ms. Dziekan at Birchwood, Warrington, on the 21st of October last year. He admitted robbery with intent to cause damage and damage to property after a death threat charge was dropped by the Crown.

Ewiak was jailed for two years and four months.

Athanasios Konstantinidis

Athanasios Konstantinidis tried to hide his phone in a freezer to prevent police from finding dozens of videos of raped children.

The pedophile had already been caught with child abuse footage in June 2019, but a judge spared him jail at the time. But instead of complying with rules designed to prevent him from reoffending, the 57-year-old bought a new phone the following year and began downloading hundreds of child molestation images and videos.

When police arrived to search his home in Ashdown Close, Southport on 28 October 2020, he was caught trying to hide his phone. Konstantinidis admitted possessing, making and distributing indecent images of children and several counts of violating an order to prevent sexual harm.

He was imprisoned for two years and eight months.

Steven Dennett

The driver of a BMW convertible was shot in the eye while sitting in his car with the roof open.

Steven Dennett hurled the liquid, which hit James Halligan in the face, in a "terrifying" attack outside the victim's family home. "Industrial strength" Paramose stripper - not available to the general public - came in a tin "marked with a skull and crossbones".

When it hit Mr. Halligan, he "screamed" and the victim said his eyes and face were "burning" while a neighbor saw the car's leather seats "tangle". A judge said "mercifully" that Halligan did not suffer "horrific" injuries when he sentenced Dennett to 20 months in prison for the "cowardly" attack on July 21 last year.

Dennett, 40, of Adamson Close, Latchford, Warrington, admitted to criminal damage and battery causing actual bodily harm. He was found not guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.

Georg Heide

George Heath attacked a psychiatrist with a lamp.

The 24-year-old repeatedly punched his victim in the head in an "ongoing" attack at his Wirral home. The man suffered three lacerations to his head and some bruising to the back of his head and now has PTSD.

Heath, who has no fixed address but is from the Wirral, has admitted to injuring and possessing a sharp object. He was imprisoned for 20 months.

Wayne O'Keefe

Wayne O'Keefe, who previously assaulted his 90-year-old grandmother, was banned from seeing her for the seventh time.

Just before last Christmas, the alcoholic was hospitalized with a cold and the hospital contacted his grandmother to ask if he could come as he had nowhere else to go. She explained that she couldn't do it due to a court order, but he called her later, and when he assured her he was sober, she agreed that he could stay with her in Dovecot.

But at around 4:30 am on December 21, she called 999 "with some distress and anxiety" and the operator heard O'Keefe screaming aggressively in the background. The 49-year-old man, with no fixed abode, admitted violating a restraining order and was sentenced to five months in prison.

Alin Cobzaru

Alin Cobzaru sexually abused a young woman after dousing her with cocaine and vodka.

The 27-year-old crept through the streets of Southport in an Audi late at night offering "sex drugs" to children. The married father of two targeted a 15-year-old girl he took to a party one night in 2020, where he molested her.

Cobzaru, from Scarisbrick Street, Southport, denied any sexual contact with his victim. He denied two counts of rape and two assaults by penetration, forcing his victim to testify.

The first trial failed due to coronavirus issues and the second trial resulted in a tied jury. Before a third trial, Cobzaru admitted to four sexual acts with a child, which the Crown accepted.

He was imprisoned for seven years and eight months.

John Powell

A father caught with up to £400,000 worth of heroin and cocaine says he was 'blackmailed' by gangsters as he tried to stop dealing.

John Powell claimed he began helping his bosses ship the drugs across Merseyside and Devon to pay off a cocaine debt of almost £40,000. But prosecutors said the 49-year-old is also benefiting financially from the deal – as his daughter showed him by sending a text message asking for £3,000 for a holiday to Marbella and some designer gear.

Police searched Powell's home in Station Road, Roby, on 13 October last year and found about five kilograms of heroin and about 800 grams of cocaine. He admitted to possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to deliver based on a plea deal accepted by prosecutors.

Powell was jailed for six and a half years.

Steven Etchells

Steven Etchells and Luke Swift are said to have stormed the tallest building in St Helens to see the Christmas lights across the city.

The crooks were found on Christmas Eve carrying state-of-the-art Dyson fans down an NHS corridor at the former Pilkington site. They were hit with a crippling spray after they refused to expand their stolen possessions despite pleas from a police officer.

Etchells and Swift broke into Pilkington's former compound in Alexandra Park in the early hours of December 24 last year. Both men admitted to the theft, while Etchells also admitted to traffic violations after crashing into a bus stop in Thatto Heath on 6 September 2020.

Etchells, 50, of Ellison Drive, St Helens, had 41 previous convictions for 101 offences, including 49 larceny. He was imprisoned for 94 weeks - almost 22 months. Swift, 29, also of Ellison Drive, had 12 previous convictions for 17 crimes. He was imprisoned for 10 months.

daniel jones

Daniel Jones used his injured dog to lure a woman back to his home and sexually abused her.

The drugged boxing trainer and gym manager attacked the woman in Birkenhead last summer after spotting her in the street and asking her to help his pug, who he said had been hit by a car. He then convinced her to go to her house to call a vet, but as soon as she got there, he pushed her onto the couch, ripped her clothes off and sexually assaulted her.

Later, the 47-year-old man barricaded a police officer who came to the woman's aid in her living room, threatened to kill her, ripped the camera from her body and threw it out the window. Jones, from Borough Road, Birkenhead, admitted to sexual assault, penetrative assault, false imprisonment and death threats.

He was jailed for 16 years with an additional eight years on an extended license.

Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith told a supposed teenager, "I want to be the man who teaches you everything you need to know about sex."

The 44-year-old, who even described himself as "Nonce Pädo" in his online profile bio, targeted underage girls on chat forums. The online predator thought he was talking to a 14-year-old while discussing performing a sexual act with her and a date.

Smith, of Halliday Close, Birchwood, Warrington, sent her a photo of his penis and joked that he was "breastfeeding a little LOL". But he was actually talking to a fake profile created by pedophile hunters, and they caught him with another fake 13-year-old girl.

Smith admitted to trying to date a child after foster care and trying to engage in sexual communication with a child twice. He was imprisoned for two years and three months.

Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward has stolen over £9,000 from her employer by falsifying reimbursement payments to clients.

The mother of two "betrayed" her bosses' trust in Irish Ferries by issuing false refunds to customers and transferring the money to her own bank accounts. The 47-year-old, who has already escaped prison for stealing £23,000 from her previous employers, has tried to blame blackmailers for her latest bout of dishonesty.

Ward told a judge she was identified on a Wirral Facebook page and shamed for stealing £23,000, prompting men to come to her house demanding money, leaving her fearful of violence. She claimed that she initially gave them money from her state benefits before receiving money from Irish Ferries to pay them, but a judge would not allow her account.

Ward, of Bray Street, Birkenhead, admitted fraud by abuse of office and was sentenced to two years in prison.

Adam Jarir

A County Lines drug gang boss known as "Biggie" has flooded the streets with heroin and crack.

Adam Jarir, from Walton, was part of a gang that brought Class A drugs into Wigan, resulting in an estimated turnover of over £800,000. The 29-year-old would occupy people's homes in the neighborhood to store, prepare and distribute Class A drugs, in a method known as cuckooing.

Jarir was one of the leaders of the group alongside Jake Muldoon, 23, of Lowerson Crescent, Norris Green, also known as "Scouse Joe". Muldoon was jailed for 15.5 years in December when he was convicted of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and stabbing a gang member in the head after the victim 'lost' £5,000 worth of drugs.

Jarir of Kingsland Crescent admitted to the drug plots and was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

Jem Traynor

Jem Traynor has downloaded over 1,000 images of child sexual abuse, including one called "Paedo Archive".

He claimed he had no sexual interest in children despite police finding the vile collection on his computer. Police officers searched the 51-year-old's home in Ember Crescent, Everton, in April last year and found a plethora of medical records, including 167 photos of child rape.

The former soldier, who said he didn't download the files on purpose, blamed his PTSD on serving in Bosnia and abusing drugs and alcohol. But evidence showed he took steps to cover his tracks and later admitted to downloading indecent photos of children and owning one on three occasions.

He was imprisoned for 12 months.

Gary Kelly

Two scammers impersonated Netflix, Spotify and Apple to steal data from millions of people and resell it for profit.

Gary Kelly and Craig Gorton used phishing emails to target subscribers to popular websites between 2017 and 2019. By impersonating the companies, they redirected people to enter details on a fake website and collect names, addresses and phone numbers.

It is estimated that the crooks made over £140,000 worth of cryptocurrencies by auctioning these details on the website called Mirashop. However, that ended when their homes were raided by the Northwest Regional Organized Crime Unit's Dark Web Operations Team.

Kelly, 32, from Caldy Road, Orrell Park, was jailed for three years and four months. Gorton, 30, of Rochdale Old Road, Bury, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and suspended for two years.

Christoph Longworth

Fired employee Christopher Longworth told his former boss he was going to "go out" and ransack his premises after a fight over vacation pay.

The 34-year-old was employed by Speke Fencing and Gates and his vandalistic killing spree caused £15,000 worth of damage and put jobs at risk. The father of two was fired on May 28 last year and had a series of phone calls with his former boss, Michael Lynch, after he left the company.

At one, Longworth of Lincoln Street, Garston said, "I want my holiday pay. If I don't get it I'll come down and cut your head and slit your throat."

On 30 July, he broke into a business establishment in Edwards Lane, Speke, spraying paint on a van and smashing the windshield, leaving taps running, causing flooding and further damage to the office. Longworth admitted to sexual abuse and theft.

He was imprisoned for 16 months.

Kieren McMahon

EncroChat drug dealer and loan shark Kieren McMahon counted and stored large amounts of cash.

McMahon aka "LimeAce" once held £280,000 as part of a massive drug gang. Police seized over 100 pages of chat logs before arresting McMahon as he was flying into Manchester Airport from Amsterdam.

McMahon, of Titchfield Street, Kirkdale, admitted to conspiring against Class A drugs and cannabis between September 2019 and August 2021. He was "the money man" with at least 20 kilos of Class A drugs, mostly cocaine, and no less than 50 kilos of marijuana.

McMahon also admitted to being involved in handling 15 kilograms of marijuana. He was imprisoned for 12 years and seven months.

Lee Roberts

Disabled motorcyclist Lee Roberts, who goes by the nickname "Joker", tried to evade police by climbing the sidewalk.

The 40-year-old man was charged with dangerous driving, driving with a disqualification and driving without insurance after officers tried to talk to him while he was riding a Kawasaki motorcycle on Underwood Lane in New York City on Tuesday, February 8 this year. , Crewe was driving, but he was driving his way. Thorn Road driver Runcorn, who has been banned from the road since 2001, has admitted to the allegation.

He was detained for six months.

gary towns

'Controlling' Gary Towns has moved in with his ex-girlfriend after being banned from anywhere near her for the eighth time.

The 65-year-old threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend if she left after violating his five-year restraining order. He had been living in her house for five months, despite the ban in place at the time of his last arrest and while he was on leave.

Towns was jailed for 12 months in March 2021 for the seventh violation of his restraining order, but when he was released he had nowhere else to go, so he rejoined her. He was arrested at her home in Widnes on 14 January and later admitted to violating a restraining order.

Towns, of Millar Crescent, Widnes, was jailed for 16 months.

Liam Jones

Liam Jones, who threatened to rape a corrections officer - and his mother and daughter - has had his sentence extended.

The 23-year-old was furious at HMP Grampian in Peterhead, Scotland, when he was told to pack his bags and move to another cell. He subjected the officer to a "prolonged attack" with "abominable" comments and threats, then boiled a kettle and threatened to scald anyone who tried to enter his cell.

Jones, formerly of Brainerd Street, Stoneycroft, also said he would rape the prison officer, her mother and daughter, in the 9 February 2021 speech. The thug said he would be released soon and would wait for her outside and explode his car before she vandalized his cell and caused hundreds of pounds of damage.

Jones, who is currently serving a three-year sentence for drug dealing as part of a gang in Aberdeen, admitted to threatening behavior. He received an additional nine months in prison.

Vinzenz Connolly

A parent's web of lies was uncovered when security camera footage found by his victim's grandfather was played back in court.

Vincent Connolly, 59, repeatedly hit a neighbor's friend, then called the police and claimed he was the one attacked. He kept up his lies at his victim's trial - only for the damned CCTV to surface, meaning he was later found guilty of perverting justice. On October 14, 2019, Ellis Shead got into a fight with his girlfriend at his home in Auroran Close, Belle Vale, insulting her when he thought he saw Connolly's partner watching.

On October 16th, he entered some stores, but on his way back he was attacked by Connolly, who gave him a series of blows. Shortly afterwards, Shead smashed the rear window of Connolly's car with a golf club.

Connolly called the police and said that Shead did it while in the car and that he got out and hit him in self-defense. Shead was charged with property damage and assault. He admitted the former, but was acquitted of the latter at trial and spared prison.

Connolly of Auroran Close, Belle Vale has been imprisoned for 16 months.

Jason Whinett

Jason Whinnett bit his ex-partner and hit her brother with a rubber mallet in a vicious attack.

He drank brandy and smoked marijuana before going to his partner's brother's house and attacking them both. The 51-year-old also broke a coffee table and a television in his unexplained attack on January 17th of this year.

Whinnett, from Westmorland Drive in Liverpool city centre, admitted assault and property damage. He was imprisoned for 12 months.

Alan Kent

'Predatory' child molester Alan Kent was found guilty of molesting two girls after he offered to pay them 'for sexual favours'.

The 73-year-old, from Humphreys Close, Murdishaw, Runcorn, was initially accused by one victim of a series of crimes before a second victim came forward. Thirteen counts related to sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 and inciting the same girl between the ages of six and ten.

One trial involved a charge of attempted sexual assault in connection with the second victim, who was aged between 10 and 12 years old. Kent was jailed for seven years.

Liam Rogan

Liam Rogan, 32, with no fixed address, was found guilty of carrying a handgun and passing a handgun. He pleaded guilty to possession of a submachine gun. He was imprisoned for 11 years and three months.

A violent thug exploited his autistic brother, forcing him to keep a submachine gun in his family's home.

Liam Rogan and his "partner in crime" Ryan Kennedy have been remanded in custody for the brutal kidnapping of a 17-year-old boy. But they got Liam's younger brother, Jake Rogan, to leave a Heckler & Koch MP5 in the house he shared with his girlfriend and daughter.

Police found the machine gun with three magazines, one loaded, during a raid on the young family's home in Patmos Close, Everton, on February 15, 2020. A few days after the gun was seized by police, Liam Rogan and Kennedy hid a cell phone inside. cell phone to order the recovery of an Italian revolver.

They contacted crooks including William Egan, John Wells and Anthony McVey before police found the gun in a house in Beryl Walk, Fazakerley on 25 February. Liam Rogan, 32, with no fixed address, admitted to owning the Heckler and Koch and was found guilty of possessing the revolver and arranging for its transfer.

Kennedy, 28, of Westmoreland Place, Everton, was found guilty of all three offences. Rogan was jailed for 11 years and three months.

Kennedy was imprisoned for 13 years. Egan, of Tenlands Drive, Prescot, admitted to possessing the revolver and marijuana with the intention of providing them.

He was sentenced to six years in prison. Wells, who had no fixed address, was found guilty of possessing the revolver and arranging for its transfer.

McVey, of Worcester Drive, Clubmoor, was found guilty of possession of the revolver. Both were also convicted of a "terrible" grand theft at Stafford in 2020.

Wells was sentenced to six years for the firearm offenses, followed by nine years with an extended four-year license for burglary. McVey was sentenced to five years for his firearm offense, followed by eight years with an extended four-year license for burglary.

James Weisskopf

A gang of thieves broke into a family home and stole sentimental heirlooms in a £20,000 raid.

Dylan Hyams, Kevan Walsh and Jack Whitehead drove a stolen van with fake license plates to Skipton, Yorkshire last November. They broke into the victim's home, looted the address and made off with jewelry.

A white van was stolen from outside the house, along with work tools belonging to the victim. All three men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery.

Dylan Hyams, 29, from Leadenhall Close in Everton, was sentenced to four years in prison. Kevan Walsh, 32, of Simonswood Road in Kirkby, was sentenced to four years in prison.

James Whitehead, 28, of Barncroft Road in Halewood, later admitted his guilt. He was imprisoned for four and a half years.

Laura Gibson

Laura Gibson targeted a vulnerable man in his own home and stole his money.

On more than one occasion, she has stolen money and a bank card from a man at his home in Rodney Street, Birkenhead. The 35-year-old, from Sidney Street, Birkenhead, was arrested and admitted to committing three robberies in October 2021.

Police said the victim was "deeply shaken" by his despicable actions. She was imprisoned for three years and two months.

Anthony Atherton

Starbucks employees were horrified after Anthony Atherton smashed himself against a drive-through window with a hammer.

The thug from Sapphire Road in Old Swan drove up to the cafe in Edge Lane, broke the window and went inside. The 37-year-old man grabbed two of the workers and dragged them by their clothes and hair.

He demanded access to the safe, but the only person who could open it, the manager, escaped and ran for help. Atherton, who fled empty-handed around 7am on 17th October last year, was subsequently arrested and admitted to an attempted robbery.

He was jailed for four and a half years, with an extended license of three and a half years.

Dean Hall

Idiot thief Dean Hall posted pictures of himself posing on stolen motorcycles on Instagram.

The 26-year-old, from Albert Road, Widnes, was shown riding a Ducati, Triumph Speed ​​​​and a SYM scooter, all of which were stolen in Runcorn. Cheshire Police said the bikes in social media photos posted between July 2021 and January 2022 were worth more than £25,000.

Officials linked the account to Hall and arrested him at his home on Friday, January 28 of this year. He admitted to stealing a motor vehicle and handling stolen goods in two cases.

Hall was jailed for 52 weeks.

Craig Treverrow

Craig Treverrow and David Gamble laughed when they left a man for dead on his own doorstep after a stabbing attack.

The brothers fled after attacking John Smith in Dingle on February 27, 2019, leaving him bleeding profusely. Treverrow was confronted shortly after the incident by Robert Hughes, a relative of the victim's partner, saying, "I just killed your man."

Upon being questioned, the drunk and drunk boy pulled out a knife, became furious and attacked the man's companion, then fled and hid until the police arrived. Gamble, who repeatedly hit Mr. Smith with a wooden plank before his brother stabbed him three times in the back, later turning himself in.

Treverrow, 31, of Dovecot Place, Dovecot, admitted to being injured and threatened with a sharp object. He was imprisoned for three years. Gamble, 25, also of Dovecot Place, pleaded guilty to the injury. He was imprisoned for two years.

Alan Airey

Pedophile Alan Airey started a relationship with a mother of two young children without telling her about his twisted past.

He met the woman via Facebook after his release in April last year after serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence on charges of sexual assault and child care. Using a false surname, the 37-year-old began hooking up with his wife, their children and a teenage girl, who also shared a Merseyside home.

Prosecutors said the woman was "shocked and concerned" to learn of his past, but Airey claimed she visited him in prison to bring him his underwear and they are still "in a relationship". Airey, from Halkyn Road, Chester, admitted to breaching her order to prevent sexual harm.

He was imprisoned for two years.

Alexander Porter

Alexander Porter slapped a shop employee in the face before stealing £6,000 in cash.

The bandit left an innocent employee with an eye injury when he attacked the News Factor store in Bootle on 10 January this year. The 42-year-old broke into the Esplanade store and fled on a bicycle, but was arrested later that month after being identified by police.

Porter, of Bedford Road, Bootle, admitted to the theft. He was imprisoned for three years.

Franz Casey

Francis Casey told the mother of his 10-month-old daughter: "I'm going to your house to burn it down with the baby in it."

The 30-year-old threatened his ex-girlfriend and her baby in vile voicemails that they would break their heads. The alcoholic accused her of stalking and sending offensive messages to a three-month alcohol and drug police officer.

But a judge said he was trying to "play down" what he did to his victim, who was "petrified" in December and January. Casey, who is not a permanent resident, admitted to stalking out of fear of violence and violating a 12-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.

He was imprisoned for 22 months.

de Dean Jough

Dean Joughin was caught driving under the influence of drugs, but escaped from the police after his arrest.

The thug once inflicted permanent brain damage on another man by kicking and stomping on his head. Joughin, then 25, from Netherton, was sentenced to six years in prison for that violent street attack in 2009.

Police stopped a Volkswagen Passat on the Southport Road in Bootle at around 8.15pm on Friday 15th October last year. Joughin tested positive for cannabis, but ran away while being warned, only to vomit four days later.

The 37-year-old Warbreck Avenue man, Walton, admitted to escaping legal custody. He was detained for four months.

Daniel Hayes

Daniel Hayes threatened a group of children when he pulled a knife on a terrified store clerk.

The 31-year-old first ambushed a Spar on Thomas Jones Way, Runcorn, on the night of July 10 last year. The next day he met a Spar at Palacefields, Runcorn, and on 12 July a One Stop Shop at Chester Road, Helsby.

Hayes, of Clifton Crescent, Frodsham, was left in a getaway car each time by Sam Oultran, 24, of Churchill Mansions, Runcorn. He then approached the cash register, pulled a large kitchen knife from his pocket, and threatened employees to open the register before running off with the money.

Outside, he would jump into the Volkswagen Passat driven by Oultran. It was at the Spar in Palacefields that he told a cashier, "Put it all in your bag" and then warned, "Just do it or you or the kids will get it." Hayes admitted to three counts of burglary and three counts of possessing a sharp object. He was imprisoned for six years.

Oultran admitted to three thefts and was jailed for four years.

John Bishop

John Bishop hid his dark past from a new girlfriend by lying about why he was in prison.

The pedophile moved into her house in the Wirral and gave her one of the two cell phones he bought. The 47-year-old was present as she welcomed her family, including a nine-year-old, for Christmas.

Bishop told his new partner he was under surveillance after being arrested for assaulting a police officer. The woman only discovered the truth when police discovered that Bishop was not living at his registered address in Waterpark Road, Prenton.

He admitted four counts of violating a sexual harm prevention order and failing to meet sex offender registration requirements.

Bishop was jailed for two years and eight months.

Patrick Childs

Patrick Childs fled to Spain after trying to evade police by jumping into the Leeds-Liverpool Canal.

The 24-year-old drug dealer was eventually convicted of crimes dating back to 2018 and 2019. This included "little horses" on the pavement as he rode his electric bike down Scotland Road at 30mph.

He "smiled and sped away" and was later seen selling drugs to known addicts from his bike. Childs was caught after ditching his bike and diving into the canal, where he dumped plastic bags containing trace amounts of cocaine and heroin.

After being released under investigation and on bail – despite £27,000 worth of cocaine being found in his home – Childs disappeared abroad only to be extradited. Childs, of Lyle Street, Kirkdale, admitted he failed to provide a copy, drove dangerously, possessed cocaine and heroin with the intention of posting bail and broke bail.

He was imprisoned for six and a half years.

Adrian Tomcik

Domestic abuser Adrian Tomcik threatened to kill his girlfriend.

The 29-year-old from St Helens has admitted to two assaults and two death threats. The charges relate to crimes committed by the bandit on January 20 and 21 of this year at his home on Windle Hall Drive.

He was imprisoned for four years.

Peter Ginley

A member of a large criminal network worked to flood the streets with class A and class B drugs.

Peter Ginley attempted to avoid detection using an EncroChat encrypted phone and the identifier "CrabCookie". Cash and cocaine worth £120,000 were seized after he and another thug were arrested in July 2020.

Ginley, 33, may have been linked to the handle "CrabCookie" through personal details he shared in messages. He was arrested at his home in Heath Road, Garston, where police found over £13,200 in cash and the case of his Encro device.

Ginley was found guilty after a trial of conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine. He was imprisoned for seven and a half years.

Richard Green

Richard Green raped a child during horrific and depraved sexual abuse.

The 35-year-old man, from the Tuebrook area, has been charged with multiple sex crimes. But he denied any wrongdoing and forced his victim to undergo the ordeal of a trial.

Green was found guilty by a jury on 15 counts, including rape of a child under the age of 13, assault with penetration, sexual assault and incitement of a child to engage in sexual activity. He was imprisoned for 19 years.

James Freemann

Shocking CCTV footage showed James Freeman and Alan Roberts shooting each other with the same gun.

Arming himself with a loaded gun, Freeman chased Roberts outside the Old Bank pub in Page Moss. The two men were struggling for the gun in a doorway when it went off, with two bullet fragments hitting Roberts in the groin.

But the "victim" grabbed the gun and with Freeman now "overpowered" and lying on the ground being kicked by two villagers, opened fire in "retaliation". He shot Freeman twice in the chest at close range, leaving his assailant with two bullets in the chest in the Princess Drive pub.

Roberts, 30, was acquitted of attempted murder, but a jury rejected his claim that he acted in self-defense against a "murderer" on Monday, May 17 last year. He was convicted of willfully injuring and possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life - charges against Freeman, 24, admitted before the start of the trial.

Pennard Avenue Freeman, Huyton, who was already a convicted armed felon, was jailed for 14.5 years, with an extended license of four years. Roberts, of Page Moss, but now Heyes Street, Everton, was jailed for 12 years.

Leonard Holz

Leonard Wood raped a child nearly 40 times during the abuse that lasted over a decade.

When the woman, now an adult, went to the police to report her ordeal, Wood claimed that she instigated his "vile" attacks. He denied any sexual activity between them when she was a minor, claiming that all subsequent sexual contact was consensual.

However, a search of his home found camcorder tapes hidden in the attic, including one that appeared to have been destroyed. And when a detective managed to fix the old cassette, it turned out that Wood had filmed himself raping and molesting the child.

Wood, 67, from Bark Road, Litherland, claimed the activity was consensual and admitted to only two offenses - allegations of taking offensive photos of a child - and claimed the videos were of her when she was 16 or 17. But evidence showed she was under 16 at the time and found guilty of 11 counts of rape and three counts of indecent assault.

Wood was jailed for 24 years with a one-year license extension.

John Chean

EncroChat dealer John Chean traded luxury cars for drug shipments in cocaine and amphetamine rackets.

Chean and fellow crook Remez Caffrey navigated the underworlds of Liverpool and Manchester under the shared codename "FrostJacket". News reports suggested they were also behind a raid on a rival gang's drug den.

Chean and Caffrey exchanged messages with other EncroChat trading partners and purchased about five pounds of cocaine with a street value of about £100,000 from a store. They also acquired 61 kg of amphetamine, believed to have a market value of around £61,000, and 44 kg of cannabis, believed to be worth around £264,000.

Chean, 34, of Thirlmere Walk, Kirkby, admitted to conspiring to supply cocaine and amphetamines. He was imprisoned for six years. Caffrey, 24, of Chelston Avenue, New Moston, Manchester, admitted to conspiracies to supply cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines, conspiracies to import cannabis and money laundering.

He was imprisoned for 11 years and three months.

Benny Lundquist

Pedophile Benny Lundquvist, who suffered a stroke before being extradited to the UK, has lamented his treatment in British prisons.

The 65-year-old Swede sexually abused a girl on Merseyside, which had "devastating effects" on the victim. But while she was contemplating suicide, he returned to his homeland and continued his life as if nothing had happened.

In late 2020, the pervert suffered a stroke just months before he was taken back to Merseyside to stand trial for his sick crimes. When he appeared for sentencing, he had the temerity to complain that health care in prison was not of the same standard he received at a home rehabilitation center.

He was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child. Lundquvist from Blockflöjtstigen, Kungsängen, Sweden was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Anthony Ballard

A victim who lives in fear of her abusive and controlling partner, Anthony Ballard, managed to escape his clutches using a domestic violence code word.

The terrified woman went to Boots Pharmacy in Bootle and asked for "Ani", who the staff knew needed help, and they took her to a back room. Police were contacted and her attacker, Ballard, ended up admitting that she committed controlling and coercive behavior and aggression.

Ballard, 30, of Marsh Lane, Bootle, who molested the woman in 2021, was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiracy to commit robbery at the time. He was imprisoned for two years.

Paulo Otti

Paul Otty waved a machete at a pregnant woman as his partner Christina Evans stood guard in a gruesome robbery.

Otty threatened the worker at an unlicensed Rocky Lane in Tuebrook less than an hour after he did something similar at another store on Lower Breck Road. He and Evans were stopped by a clerk during the robbery and only managed to steal a bottle of brandy instead of the money they were hoping for.

During the second attack, they made off with a cell phone. The masked Otty, 38, led the thefts on May 14 last year, while Evans, 43, helped him by keeping watch.

Evans of Scotland Road admitted to the theft and provided the court with crucial evidence that identified Otty as an accessory, who then pleaded guilty. She was imprisoned for three years.

Otty, also from Scorton Road, was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Lee McGuiness

Lee McGuiness set up a stranger in a nightclub and was spotted "laughing" and "joking" at McDonald's.

The 21-year-old attacked Jake Hopwood, 18, at The Establishment in Wigan, whom he accused of filming him with a mobile phone. Hopwood filmed the club as it was permanently closed the next day, but McGuiness snatched the handphone from him.

Although Hopwood explained that he did not film McGuiness, the boy broke a glass on the side of his head on New Year's Eve 2019. The victim suffered a 3cm cut on the back of his left ear, a 5cm tear on that side of the head and left a permanent bulge.

McGuiness, 21, of Rivenmill Place, Widnes, admitted causing serious bodily harm through carelessness. He was imprisoned for 15 months.

Kevin Marshall

Kevin Marshall opened his girlfriend's head with a glass ashtray and a pitcher before washing the blood from her hair.

The 33-year-old told the victim, "I might as well execute you, I only get seven years," before leaving her covered in blood in a cowardly fit. A judge criticized him for lacking empathy after telling a parole officer, "It wasn't like she was bleeding and asking for help, I just kept hitting her."

Marshall and the woman, whose name ECHO declined to reveal, had been in an "on/off" relationship for about two years before the attack on their home in St. Louis. Helens on January 6th of this year. She needed five stitches for a cut on top of her head, four stitches for a cut on her left ear, butterfly stitches in her nose, and treatment for a broken left collarbone and a scratched eye.

Marshall, who has no fixed address, admitted the injury with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He was jailed for five years and three months, with a three-year license extension.

Shaun Rimmer

Hit-and-run driver Shaun Rimmer killed a father of three, then left with a bloodstained and cracked windshield.

The 28-year-old drove a stolen Seat Leon at high speed through Aberdeen while being pursued by police. Fleeing at around 80 km/h in a 30 km/h zone, Rimmer, from Liverpool, met Simon Musabayana, 48, as he was crossing a road.

Rimmer accelerated out of the Seat Leon, which had been stolen from a house in Cheshire 12 days before the accident. Psychiatric nurse Musabayana, who suffered catastrophic injuries on 16 August 2021, died in hospital 26 days later.

Career criminal Rimmer went on the run and was later arrested in Liverpool. He admitted to causing the death by dangerous driving, driving without a license, and driving without insurance.

Rimmer was sentenced to eight years in prison.

John Davis

John Davies, who got a job at Network Rail after getting out of prison, screwed it up by breaking his girlfriend's eye socket.

He has a shocking history of violence which led to him being sentenced to Indefinite Protection of the Public (IPP) in 2010. The thug was then sentenced to 18 years in prison for possession of a firearm and supplying and conspiracy to supply cocaine when he was convicted in 2011.

The 46-year-old, from Fishers Lane, Pensby, was released in October 2020 and said he was "determined to live a lifestyle in accordance with the law". But his partner called 999 from the bathroom and whispered: "I was badly beaten by my partner.

"He's coming upstairs. He's going to kill me."

He has admitted to being injured in the attack on Adele Bradshaw at his Wirral home on January 30 this year. Davies, who was recalled to prison for his IPP, was jailed for 16 months.

Shaun Brownlee

Shaun Brownlee, armed with a broken pool cue and a kitchen knife, attempted to set a house on fire in a drunken fit of revenge.

The 36-year-old was brandishing weapons when he broke into a shallow block and knocked on his target's door on November 8 last year. He then tried to start a fire outside the address, failed, and returned an hour later, only to fail again at Stanley Street, Southport.

Prosecutors said he was targeting a man named Thomas Moreland, but the court did not hear the motives behind the dispute. Brownlee, of Bath Street, Southport, admitted aggravated robbery, arson which was reckless as to whether life was in danger, two counts of possession of an offensive weapon and arson.

He was imprisoned for four years.

Jack Roberts

Two burglars who robbed a British Heart Foundation store while drunk say they didn't know it was a charity shop.

Jack Roberts and Gary Dutton broke into a phone repair shop in Old Swan on 10 October last year and stole £2,500 worth of equipment and cash. They then broke into the West Derby Road charity shop on 18 November, stealing £1,336 from the register and damaging the building.

Roberts, 27, also attacked a day care center alone on Sept. 29 before conducting the two raids involving Dutton, 41. He caused thousands of pounds worth of damage by breaking into the child's bedroom before looting just under £150 worth of goods.

Roberts, of Judges Drive, Tuebrook, was jailed for two years and three months. A judge said sending Dutton to prison would leave his children homeless.

Dutton, of Darmond Road, Kirkby, was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment, suspended for two years.

Ryan Campell

Ryan Campbell uploaded intimate family photos of a woman and edited a newspaper article to make it look like she was a pedophile.

The computer hacker was previously sentenced to 20 months in prison in September 2020 for making three girls' lives miserable.

This included a 12 or 13 year old after she refused to send him nude photos; a 16-year-old ex-partner he told to kill herself; and a 15-year-old victim he tormented by pretending to be his alleged rapist. Campbell was 17 when he targeted his youngest victim.

In October 2021, just days after his release from prison, he sent a friend request via Snapchat to his latest victim, a young woman whose name ECHO declined to reveal. Campbell, 22, of Smith Road, Kirkdale, has admitted to hacking computers. Harassment and disclosure of private sexual photos.

He was imprisoned for two years.

Michael Haiwood

EncroChat drug dealer Michael Hailwood has embedded himself in the international underworld.

He was operating under the codename "CardinalTrunk" as he tried to sell large amounts of cocaine, but a police stabbing revealed his ties to a network of more than two dozen dealers, couriers and street hustlers. Hailwood – who boasted connections from Europe to South America – offered his list of global contacts to help re-establish himself in the Northwest gangland after being released from prison on drug-related offenses in 2019.

The news revealed that the 51-year-old spoke about the supply of cocaine and a trafficking network that stretched as far as Scotland and Hull. Hailwood, who has worked in Amsterdam and previously on Cherry Tree Road in Huyton, has admitted to colluding to supply cocaine. He was imprisoned for 16 years.

kevin wand

Kevin Wall punched a motorcyclist before revving his engine and running over another motorcyclist's leg.

The father was about to visit his pregnant wife when he got stuck behind two motorbikes on Hanover Street in Liverpool city centre. As Ethan Lawless pulled up in front of him, the 41-year-old got out of his car and hit the motorcyclist multiple times in the head.

Then, as he tried to drive away, he encountered second motorcyclist Greg Simpson, who rolled over the hood and landed on the ground before Wall's car ran over Mr. Simpson's leg. Simpson, leaving him with life-changing injuries. Wall told police on January 21, 2019 that he believed he was being provoked by Mr. Lawless - who just wanted to tell him there was a problem with his bike.

Wall of Pennsylvania Road, Tuebrook, admitted assault and serious injury from reckless driving. He was imprisoned for 14 months.

Christopher Welsh junior

Christopher Welsh Jr., nicknamed 'Scouse Escobar', had his gigantic prison sentence extended after he was found in prison with cell phones.

Prison officials discovered that the notorious drug dealer had a prison phone, and after it was misplaced, he connected it to another illegal device. The 43-year-old is serving a 28-year sentence in two separate drug conspiracies - including one managed with his father, Christopher Welsh senior.

Welsh Junior, formerly of Lyndale Avenue in Eastham, Wirral, was caught with an iPhone and SIM card at HMP Wymott, Lancashire, in August 2020. Then, after being transferred to HMP Berwyn in Wales, he was found with a tiny Zanco cell phone and a SIM in April 2021.

Welsh Junior, who used them to contact family members, admitted to having some items in prison. He received another six months in prison.

Karl McIntyre

Karl McIntyre stabbed a man multiple times as the victim jumped out of a window to save his life.

The thug stabbed Anthony Owens in the leg and arm with a 10-inch kitchen knife after a night of drinking. McIntyre, 41, and his friend Gary Davies, 32, were invited to the Owens home in Bootle when they had nowhere else to go.

But they demanded the victim's bank card and PIN before McIntyre stole £110 in cash from Mr. Owens and his £100 mobile phone. Owens handed his bank card and PIN to Davies, who left, but when the victim tried to flee, McIntyre launched his attack.

Both men admitted to the theft on the day the trial was supposed to begin. McIntyre, of Pear Grove, Kensington, was jailed for nine years, with a four-year license extension.

Davies, of Oriel Road, Bootle, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.

Beetroot Price Snr

Three members of the same family were involved in an incident where shots were fired and a wagon was hit by a dump truck.

Witnesses told police that between five and six shots were fired during a clash on Factory Lane in Widnes on 3 August 2020. Police said the disturbance was linked to a land dispute between two families who owned property on Factory Lane.

They said that one of the families decided to do work on their land, which the Price family vehemently opposed. The Price family then decided to take matters into their own hands and flocked to the scene en masse.

A wagon driver delivering fencing at the site said his truck was intentionally hit by a yellow dump truck driven by one of the prizes. Other people also claimed that they were also hit by the truck. During a search of the Price family property, police found destroyed cell phones, ammunition and abandoned vehicles.

A long barreled gun was also later seized from an address linked to Reuben Price Snr in Newton-le-Willows. Rueben Price Snr, Rueben Price Jnr and James Price admitted to allegations of violent disorder.

Price Snr, 49, of Regent Street, Newton-le-Willows, was sentenced to three years in prison. Price Jnr, 27, of Southworth Road, Newton-le-Willows, was sentenced to two years and five months in prison.

James Price, 24, of Baguley Avenue, Widnes, was also jailed for two years and five months.

Hugo Schwartz

Hugh Black stole over £500,000 from a series of deals while his wife spent the money on a luxury holiday in Spain.

The 58-year-old from Rainford has founded companies that install energy-efficient home improvements to combat fraudulent claims. With the help of a Manchester right-hand man, he forged and altered legitimate business invoices totaling £593,000.

He fraudulently transferred £350,000 from his bankrupt company, Ecogreen Renewables Ltd, before it was liquidated to avoid paying creditors. The money was sent to Phoenix Interiors (North West) Ltd, a company of which he and his wife Helen Black, 51, were directors.

He later claimed that the money had been transferred because Ecogreen owed Phoenix £750,000 in debt - putting this false debt ahead of the actual payments due. Hugh Black admitted conspiracy to fraudulently evade VAT; two fraud cases pending settlement; and knowingly providing false information.

He was imprisoned for five years. Helen Black admitted to acquiring criminal property and transferring criminal property.

She was given a suspended sentence.

Dona Williams

Donna Williams slapped a paramedic in the face and called her "T***" after a passerby called 999 because he feared he was having a heart attack.

The drunk grandmother had to be stopped by police when she threatened to continue beating the woman in Birkenhead in the early hours of November 28 last year. It was the 54-year-old's last disgraceful attack, repeatedly hitting rescuers and making bomb threats to police.

Williams of Fieldway Court in Birkenhead, who later said he was "10" out of 10 on a drunkenness scale, admitted to violating a suspended sentence and assaulting a first aid worker. She was detained for 14 months.

Aaron Green

A freed cocaine dealer hid a gun under his pregnant girlfriend's mattress.

Aaron Green said he was "trying to keep his head down" and stay out of trouble after serving two prison sentences for drug dealing. He himself had been arrested on a crack and heroin ring, later for hiding £24,000 worth of cocaine in his underwear.

But after being released on leave, the 30-year-old said he was told he had debts and had to pay them by taking care of the gun. Undercover officers monitored the family home of Green's partner in Flamstead, Skelmersdale on Friday 17th December last year.

After stopping a car pulling off the road carrying bags of adultery, officers searched the young mother's home and found the gun along with £15,000 in cash. Green, of Eavesdale, Skelmersdale, admitted to owning a firearm and possessing a firearm when prohibited by a previous prison sentence.

He was imprisoned for five years and four months.

Alexandre McDonald

Alex McDonald blamed online conversations with a "13-year-old girl" for the stress of her father, who died of cancer.

The pedophile sent disgusting videos and sexually explicit photos to what he believed was a child. The then 19-year-old, who encouraged her to engage in sexual activity, was speaking with an undercover police officer.

McDonald, now 20, has admitted to trying to engage in sexual communication with a child, trying to get a 13- to 15-year-old to look at a photo of sexual activity and trying to engage a 13- to 15-year-old girl from 13 to 15 years old to engage in sexual activity. He now claims not to remember the February and March 2021 chats and denies having any sexual interest in children. But a judge dismissed those allegations and jailed him for 20 months.

Paul Mangan

Paul Mangan planned to sell a revolver and submitted "price lists" for weapons that included AK47s and machine guns.

The 27-year-old also used his EncroChat alias, PaleRadio, to order and distribute kilos of cocaine, heroin and marijuana to dealers in Liverpool. Mangan denied conspiracy to transfer and possess prohibited weapons and plans to supply cocaine, heroin and marijuana, but was found guilty after a trial.

He used EncroChat to notify several accounts with price lists for a variety of different weapons that could be purchased, including submachine guns, rifles and Glock pistols. Huyton manganese, but now without a fixed address, finally made it possible to transfer a special caliber automatic revolver pistol.

He was sentenced to 18.5 years in prison.

Michelle Marshall

Michelle Marshall and her husband Simon brought down a children's football club by blowing nearly £100,000 of its money.

The 'greedy' couple were directors of the Phoenix Football Youth Club in Southport, who secured a £75,000 donation for a new club and around £41,000 worth of player signatures. But while construction ground to a halt and players struggled without the right equipment, the Marshalls and their three children spent their vacations in the US, France and Italy - enjoying food, paintball and boating.

Mrs. Marshall, 42, was president and treasurer, while her husband, 47, was secretary and welfare officer for the club, then based at Russell Road. Her mother stole around £70,000 from the purse and a further £29,000 in subscription fees, including a sum of around £12,500 which her husband jointly raised. Ms Marshall admitted two counts of fraud totaling £99,453.

She was imprisoned for two and a half years. Her husband admitted a fraud case of £12,686. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, 18 of which were suspended.

Matthew West

Matthew West agreed to take care of a shotgun in exchange for 10 packs of cocaine and heroin.

The 49-year-old drug addict hid the gun in his shed after his dealer asked him to look after a package. The shotgun was discovered when police searched West's home on Carlton Road, Birkenhead, on 9 February this year.

The police also seized four packs of crack and four packs of heroin - part of the payment. West admitted to owning a shotgun, crack and heroin. He was imprisoned for 12 months.

Neil Webb

Neil Webb was caught with almost 200 indecent photos of children.

The 25-year-old, from Bruera Road, Ellesmere Port, was previously found guilty of possessing and downloading indecent images of children in February 2021. He was subsequently sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 24 months and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. prison. Annual sexual harm prevention ordinance.

An officer visited his home address on June 25, 2021 to ensure he was complying with his terms. She discovered that his phone was in private browsing mode - a violation of his SHPO.

The officer found that there were more than 350 tagged URLs related to category C child-appropriate images. On February 2, 2022, officers searched Webb's home and another phone, not registered with the police, was seized from him.

198 images were found suggesting indecent images of children. He admitted to two disposition violations and possessing and downloading indecent photos of children. Webb was jailed for 20 months.

connor cotterill

Connor Cotterill's mother and father were "deeply shocked" when they found out he was a drug dealer.

He said he started selling cocaine and ecstasy to pay off drug debts. But his parents had no idea until police ransacked his home and searched the property for his illegal stash - the first of three drug arrests.

Police officers found cocaine and MDMA when they raided the family's address in Acorn Street, Newton-le-Willows on December 13, 2019. Shortly after midnight on April 25, 2021, he was stopped in a car in Langdale Grove, St. Helens, with more cocaine and MDMA, as well as ketamine and brass knuckles.

The 25-year-old was caught using MDMA, Ketamine and Benzocaine at We Are FSTVL in London on September 8, 2021. Two counts of possession of class B drugs with intent to supply them and possession of an assault weapon.

He was imprisoned for four years and nine months.

Karl Donoghue

Karl Donoghue stole a car, shotguns and a samurai sword from several homes last summer.

He broke into a house on Sutherland Drive in Eastham in the early hours of the morning, where he stole the keys to a Volkswagen Golf. The 27-year-old drove the stolen car to another house on Queens Drive in Helsby, Cheshire, where he broke into another house earlier that day.

He searched the address and stole two licensed shotguns, two knives, a martial arts sword and a baseball bat before fleeing in the stolen car. Later that day, police discovered the gulf in Little Sutton unmarked and found the plates, sword and baseball bat inside.

Donoghue, of Barnston Avenue, Ellesmere Port, pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, two counts of possession of an uncertified shotgun and three counts of possession of a bladed object. He was imprisoned for five years and four months.

Michael Schmidt

Michael Smith tricked a vulnerable teenage girl into thinking she was in love with him before he sexually assaulted her.

The 49-year-old man spent months caring for his victim before arranging a meeting with her and luring her into his home. The pervert picked up the child at an address in Warrington in February of last year.

He then took the girl back to his flat in Cheetham Fold Road, Hyde, Greater Manchester, where he sexually abused her. She was found around 5:30 am the next day after contacting the police. Smith was found guilty of inducing and inciting a young woman to engage in sexual activity.

He was imprisoned for 12 years.

Gary Reid

EncroChat's merchant grandfather Gary Reid was arrested after posting selfies from his own home.

The 54-year-old man, who used the identifier 'LockStar', was transporting large amounts of heroin, cocaine and marijuana via Wirral. News of his arrest included mention of seven kilograms of heroin worth £20,000, five kilograms of cocaine worth £41,000, and the use of adulterants.

Detectives found that the grandfather of five mentioned his home address, photos of him and his home, and his children before researching his address in February of last year. Reid, of Ackers Road, Woodchurch, has admitted to three conspiracies involving the supply of cocaine, heroin and cannabis between 23 March and 5 June 2020.

He was imprisoned for nine years and three months.

Joel Lawler

A mother safely dropped her son's drugs into the trunk of her car and blocked her driveway as police surrounded her home.

Gemma Morris was told that Joel Lawler had been pulled over by cops while dealing drugs in his Mercedes. But police arrived at her home in time to stop the 41-year-old as she tried to make off with her illegal stash.

Lawler was pulled over by Birkdale Police on the night of 31 October 2020 after receiving reports of suspicious activity from a man in a Mercedes. He had eight packs of ketamine, four packs of cocaine, 1.5g of MDMA and 550 pounds, while his phone was "extremely active".

Police decided to search Lawler's home in Derby Street, Ormskirk, and caught Morris with the safe, which contained £3,565 in cash and more drugs. Lawler, now 20, has admitted to possessing cocaine, MDMA and ketamine with intent to supply.

He was detained for two years and eight months. His mother, who admitted to perverting the course of justice, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.

Jason Clarke

Unrepentant rapist Jason Clarke shattered his victims' childhoods by subjecting them to years of emotional abuse and sexual assault.

He repeatedly targeted young people, nurturing and exploiting them. In one gruesome case, he raped a child who was riding a bicycle through a forest. Clarke, 48, spent years manipulating three victims.

He forced them into sexual acts, abused them and, in some cases, raped them. The sexual attacks, which took place on several properties on Merseyside, were only stopped when one of their victims got up the courage to speak out. .

He was found guilty after a court hearing on 24 counts of sexual abuse, including multiple counts of rape. Clarke, most recently from Hollins Drive in Stafford, has shown no remorse. He was imprisoned for 24 years.

Thomas Hastie

Thomas Hastie set fire to a trailer near a store in a "revenge attack" after a fight in the park.

The 31-year-old from Harbern Close, West Derby ran Top Soil Supplies on Juniper Street in Kirkdale. He was irritated that Gaskell's Waste had parked trucks near his farm near Foster Street.

On May 2, 2021, Hastie set fire to another facility's parked trailer with gas canisters, setting fire to a diesel-soaked rag and throwing it at it. Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire before it spread beyond the trailer.

However, damage was estimated at £8,596. Hastie conceded that arson was reckless if lives were in danger.

He was imprisoned for two years and eight months.

Robert Neal

Robert Neal shot the owner of a diner he frequented five times a week and stole cash from the register to satiate his cocaine addiction.

The 31-year-old, from Brows Lane, Formby, walked a few yards from his home to Flames restaurant, where he pointed a BB gun at the shopkeeper. The armed assailant entered the cafeteria around 11:45 pm on January 24 of this year, wearing a mask and latex gloves, and threatened Kagan Kocak.

CCTV footage showed Neal firing the weapon, which appeared to be a Glock pistol, and the bullet hit the victim in the chest, leaving a small red mark, before escaping weighing 189 pounds. He confessed to the theft and possession of a fake firearm with the intent to commit a robbery. Neal was jailed for six years and eight months.

David Hickmann

David Hickman launched a vicious and humiliating attack on a nurse before trying to destroy her career.

The 33-year-old man bit, hit and spat at his then-partner, who he pushed through a glass shower screen and poured bleach over her. Hickman ignored her pleas for his release and locked her in his Wallasey home overnight after England lost the Euro 2020 final on 11 July 2021.

The victim, who ECHO declined to identify, ran away barefoot when Hickman fell asleep the next morning and the attack was reported to police. Hickman, from Poulton Road, had been on the run for a fortnight but continued to text her and threatened to kill himself if she helped with the proceedings.

He was jailed for seven years, with an extended three-year license.

Ross Lambert

Ross Lambert helped set fire to a car misidentified as belonging to a pedophile.

New Brighton 'vigilantes' smashed the front window of a white Jaguar parked on a Wallasey street with a hammer on October 24 last year. But the 28-year-old cut his hand breaking the car window before an unidentified accomplice threw a petrol bomb at the car, causing £13,000 in damage.

Police were able to link Lambert to the crime through DNA because he wiped his bloody hand on his hood. Lambert admitted to arson. He was jailed for four and a half years, with an extended license of four and a half years.

John Batey

A teenager who stabbed a father of two in the heart has been arrested with a man who tried to help him get away with murder.

Connor Dockerty was stabbed repeatedly in the chest on a street in Huyton by a 14-year-old boy, Boy A, who cannot be named for legal reasons. Dockerty, 23, staggered into a nearby garden bleeding from four stab wounds and said in his dying words: "I'm dying - tell my children I love them."

Boy A, riding a red mountain bike, attacked Mr. Dockerty around 8pm on Monday 19th April last year on Kingsway near the Oak Tree Pub. The victim had previously been involved in a minor altercation on Liverpool Road which resulted in Boy A being confronted.

The Huyton teenager, now 15, claimed he acted in self-defense and that Mr. Dockerty had a blade, but the victim was unarmed. Boy A was found guilty of murder in December after a six-week trial. He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 14 years in prison.

John Batey, 44, no fixed address but from Huyton, was found guilty of aiding a perpetrator. This was for the disposal of Boy A's 'signature' red Trek bike - 'critical evidence' after the murder.

He was imprisoned for three years.

Robert Trigg

Robert Trigg took disgusting photos of himself raping and sexually abusing a young boy.

The pedophile accessed child abuse footage online and National Crime Agency officers searched his home and confiscated his iPhone. On the device, they restored indecent A, B, and C grade footage of children, including grade A files showing him raping a young boy.

The perverted Haydock, formerly Wirral but now Fairclough Crescent, moved the child's mobile phone photos to a secure safe. He admitted to rape, two counts of causing or inciting the boy to engage in sexual activity, and three counts of taking indecent pictures of the boy.

Trigg was jailed for 11.5 years with an extended 12-month license.

Andreas Murphy

Andrew Murphy shouted "I love you" to his now-girlfriend while being arrested for racially abusing his ex-partner.

The 37-year-old saw his ex-girlfriend walking down the street and called her a racial slur before spitting on her and squeezing her neck. The couple broke up four weeks earlier in a first incident on March 10, 2020.

Murphy then sent threatening racially offensive texts and voicemails before kicking and pounding on the front door. Then, on March 14th, while she was away, he broke into her house and stole a television set.

Murphy of Carr Meadow Hey, Netherton admitted to aggravated racial harassment. He cried when he was detained for two years and 11 months.

Nigel Diakite

The father of the "monster" Nigel Diakite murdered a young mother beside her sleeping baby.

Diakite launched a brutal attack on N'Taya Elliott-Cleverley for her domestic violence the day they moved in. He strangled her on the bed with a jump rope while their four-month-old daughter lay on a bed next to them.

The 19-year-old claimed he had no recollection of committing the murder at his Wavertree home - although he later confessed. Diakite, aka Mohammed Diakite, blamed mental health issues and even accused his 20-year-old victim of assaulting him.

But he was found guilty of murdering his partner in his apartment on Prince Alfred Road in the early hours of January 29, 2021. Diakite, who was accused by the victim's family of crying crocodile tears in court, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum 19 years in prison.

Karl Goodwin

Charles Goodwin raped a female student and sexually assaulted another while an earlier rape was being investigated.

A judge said the 21-year-old business student, who described himself as a "sex god" to a victim, didn't care if his victims agreed. Judge Garrett Byrne said the young MMA fighter treated each of his victims like "toys or playthings" and that at the heart of his crimes was "a profound misogyny in which women should be treated as nothing more than sex objects". .

Goodwin, from Hilbre Street in Liverpool city center but previously from Salford, was found guilty of three counts of raping a student in Manchester, attempting to suffocate her, penetratingly assaulting her and assaulting her. After the strike in January 2020, he struck the following September after starting his studies at the University of Liverpool.

He was found guilty of raping a second female student in his city accommodation - although he was acquitted of two other rapes of her - and just three days later was convicted of two counts of sexually assaulting a third female student. He was acquitted of assaulting a fourth student for penetration.

Goodwin was jailed for 17 years, with an extended three-year license.

Shane Unwin

Idiot drug dealer Shane Unwin brought his exploits to the attention of the police after he scratched his name and address at a branch in the territory he wanted to control.

He carved his nickname - "Onion" - the Huyton property he lived on - "Longy" means Longview - and the message "F*** the Drug Squad" into a tree near where his crack-coke and heroin dealers in Sankey Whipped Valley Park, Warrington. Under his leadership, an "Onion" drug line bombarded addicts with a "mass advertising" campaign, sending customers up to 178 offers of drug deals a day.

These messages were sent from a "graft" phone that detectives were able to connect to Unwin, whose gang was arrested after all key members - including him - dealt with undercover officers between October 2020 and May 2021. Cheshire Police found evidence that 1.5 kg and 3 kg of heroin and crack were sold while the gang was active - although the court heard that the actual amount could be higher.

Each of the defendants admitted to conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine, with the exception of Kris Bamford, who admitted to only conspiracy to supply heroin. The leader of the gang, Unwin, 27, of Hale View Road in Huyton, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.

Second-in-command Callum Cargin, 26, of Knowsley Lane, Huyton, was jailed for six years and eight months. Young gang member Jack Murphy, 20, from Nightingale Road in Croxteth Park, was jailed for three years.

Paul Ellis, 56, who dealt drugs from his home on Rixton Avenue, Bewsey, Warrington, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. Darren Houghton, 49, who dealt drugs from his home on Trafford Avenue in Bewsey, was sentenced to three years in prison.

Bamford, 36, whose home on nearby Whitecross Road, Whitecross, was used as a shelter by the gang, was sentenced to three years in prison.

mark hills

A mother and son ran a garbage dump where garbage was illegally dumped and burned.

Police and the Environmental Agency (EA) participated in raids on MWM Recycling Ltd in August 2018. Two men were arrested and several vehicles impounded at the Redfern Street compound in Kirkdale.

Patricia Hills, 69, managed the site and her son Mark Hills, 44, was responsible for the day-to-day operations. EA said MVM Recycling's environmental license was revoked after a series of violations and the company received a writ of execution. But garbage continued to be illegally dumped and incinerated at the site.

Patricia Hills, of Moss Delph Lane, Aughton, admitted to five offences, including failing to comply with environmental permit conditions and knowingly permitting the controlled landfill. She was detained for 12 months.

Mark Hills, of Turn Pike Road, Aughton, pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching the terms of the environmental permit. He was imprisoned for eight months.

Alex Nicholson

Alex Nicholson said texts telling addicts he was "out all day and all night" only offered marijuana and ketamine for sale.

The convicted cocaine and heroin dealer was stopped by police in a Renault Megane on Everite Road in Widnes on January 16 this year. Officers searched the car and found no drugs, but they did discover a Nokia described as a "Brenner cell phone" in his jacket pocket.

The device was found to contain "flare" messages offering drugs for sale to known addicts in Northwich, Cheshire. Nicholson, 29, of Lakenheath Road, Halewood, was originally charged with two counts for his involvement in the supply of Class A drugs.

However, prosecutors accepted confessions to two crimes in which he had offered to supply Class B drugs because the texts did not specify which drugs he was selling. He was imprisoned for three years.

Declan Connerton

Declan Connerton beat up an innocent woman in an unprovoked street attack that resulted in the removal of several of her teeth.

He followed his victim and her friends after they got off a bus, verbally assaulted them, then threw the victim to the ground and kicked her up to five times, knocking her unconscious. Connerton's attack took place in the early hours of July 4 last year, as a group of women boarded the 10A bus from Liverpool to St Helens, his home.

After they disembarked at Warrington Road, Whiston, a passenger did the same and said he was concerned for their safety with Connerton's behavior before the shocking attack took place, leaving the victim in constant fear. Connerton, 26, from Sefton Close in Kirkby, admitted that one attack had indeed caused bodily harm.

He was imprisoned for 18 months.

Mark Klein

A gang of street vendors sold hard drugs to addicts next to a children's playground.

Lenny Line told customers there was "no waiting, no arguing" as they sold heroin and crack. The Class A commercial network operated on the streets of Warrington between December 2020 and May 2021.

During that time, 8,647 text advertisements were distributed and between 940g and 1.88kg of Class A drugs are believed to have been traded, resulting in sales that may total £188,000. The gang was scuttled by Cheshire Police after gang members made eight sales to an undercover police officer posing as an addict.

Mark Little, 38, from Town Hill in central Warrington, led the way with the help of his younger brother Matthew Little. He admitted conspiracy to supply crack and heroin, dangerous driving, driving without a license, driving without insurance, possession of cocaine and failure to provide a sample in connection with an incident in the area in March 2021.

Mark Little was jailed for 11 years. Matthew Little, 34, of Melville Close, Orford, Warrington, admitted to conspiracy to supply crack and heroin and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Anthony Westhead, 46, of Melville Close, Orford, who administered a transplant called "Scouse Billy", was also involved in the operation. He admitted to a conspiracy to supply crack and heroin.

He was also convicted of an incident in which he was caught with up to £6,500 worth of heroin and cocaine in Wales in August 2019. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Street vendor Barry Jones, 53, of Algernon Street in Fairfield, Warrington, has admitted to conspiracy to supply crack. He was imprisoned for three years.

Michael Wright

Child rapist Michael Wright was caught with a collection of extreme pornography.

He was found deleting content on his laptop when police visited his home to verify he was complying with a sexual harm prevention order. The device was confiscated and over 150 images of bestiality were discovered in June 2021 - along with Google searches for more depraved content.

Wright, from Southport, was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2016 after admitting to a string of child sex crimes, including three counts of rape. The 56-year-old former truck driver admitted possessing extreme pornography and violating a sexual harm prevention law.

He was detained for six months.

Robert Jones

Former elementary school and college guardian Robert Jones' dark past has been exposed in court.

The 70-year-old was a caretaker at Sudley Junior School in Aigburth in the early 1970s. While working at the school, the then 20-year-old exposed himself to two girls in the bathroom.

But he got a job at Liverpool Polytechnic, which later became Liverpool John Moores University. During that time, in the 1970s and 1980s, he subjected a young girl to depraved sexual abuse that has only now come to light.

Jones, of Hardie Avenue, Moreton, Wirral, denied any wrongdoing but was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child. He was imprisoned for five years.

Yoann Lou

A drug gang, including three men from Merseyside, have been brought to justice in a massive sting operation.

More than 160 police across the north of England took part in a raid that seized around £600,000 worth of heroin, £18,000 in cash and six luxury cars in November 2019. Arrests were made during strikes in Sunderland, County Durham and Merseyside. 15 properties were searched after a group was found transporting drugs from Liverpool to Wearside.

Yoann Lou, 39, of Wharncliffe Road, Old Swan, has admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and violation of a previous suspended sentence for possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply. He was imprisoned for six years and five months.

Martin Pearson, 32, of Aspes Road, West Derby, admitted to conspiracy to supply heroin. He was imprisoned for six years and five months.

Gareth Lewis, 44, of Minver Road, West Derby, admitted to conspiracy to supply and possess heroin with the intent to supply heroin. He was imprisoned for two years and 10 months.

Philip Bordman

A father of two and former NHS worker raped a boy when he was a teenager himself.

Philip Boardman, 45, married, has worked as a nursing assistant in hospitals, as an ambulance technician and as a courier for a medical company. But in the early 1990s, when he was aged between 14 and 17, he ruined the life of a "terrified" boy living in the St Helens area and then "hid a dark secret".

Boardman, of Winstanley Close, Great Sankey, Warrington, has denied four counts of indecent assault but was found guilty after a trial. Two of the charges would now be classified as sexual assault. They referred to touching the boy's penis at least 10 times and having him touch his.

The court heard that the other two charges would now be classified as rape. They referred to two specific cases of child oral rape.

He was imprisoned for four years.

Andreas Cates

Andrew Cates forced his mother, who has dementia, to sell their house and invested the money in a Rolex, laptop and jewelry.

The 54-year-old sold his mother's three-bedroom home on Berwick Avenue, Ainsdale at a discount and spent £80,000 of the profit in just nine months, including buying luxury items. Cates rarely visited her mother, now 75, and the fees for the nursing home where she has lived for seven years have not been paid.

Fortunately, the victim would have been "mercifully unaware" of her conniving son's betrayal. Registrar Ian Harris, QC said: "This offense was cruel, selfish and calculated. It is the type of offense that recklessly disregards the rights of others."

Cates, of Salford Road, Ainsdale, pleaded guilty to fraud by misrepresentation between 1 November 2018 and 30 April 2019. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Brian Maxwell jr

A father and son received life-threatening warnings from police after being threatened by rival gangsters.

Drug dealers Brian Maxwell, 54, and Brian Thomas Maxwell, 35, clashed with a rival organized crime group that threatened violence. Prosecutors said a rival gang suspected Maxwell Jr. was involved in stealing drugs they owned.

In response to Osman's warnings to Merseyside Police on 27 May 2020, Maxwell junior attempted to purchase weapons from criminal contacts to defend himself. He used EncroChat to obtain an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, an AK47, a Glock 17, a Grand Power pistol, a Walther PPK pistol, and ammo.

Maxwell jnr has offered two Rolex watches to pay for guns and ammunition, saying in other messages that he already has two guns. Maxwell Sr., who used the EncroChat handle "RetiredVermouth", and his son, also known as "MediumRose" and "DiorNote", were arrested in September 2021.

Maxwell Sr. from Stockswell Road, Tarbock Green and Maxwell Jnr. of Ditchfield Road, Widnes, both admitted to conspiring to supply and manufacture cannabis for cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines. Maxwell jnr also admitted to conspiring to possess, purchase or acquire prohibited firearms and possessing prohibited firearms.

Maxwell junior was sentenced to 18 years and four months, while Maxwell senior was sentenced to 13 years and four months.

Roy Woodward

Roy Woodward subjected a young woman to a 'rape campaign'.

The 56-year-old man, who had no fixed address but owned Runcorn and Widnes, was convicted along with his wife, Gaynor Woodward. Roy Woodward was found guilty of 14 counts of sexual offences, namely four counts of rape, eight counts of indecent assault on a child and two counts of indecent exposure to a child.

One trial heard Roy Woodward, who has denied any wrongdoing, harass his victim with candy to ensure her silence. He also used alcohol to help with his preparation.

Gaynor Woodward, 58, of Worcester Court, Runcorn, was convicted on a charge of cruelty. She had also denied her guilt.

The now-adult victim, who has since had "terrible nightmares", believes the abuse triggered a mental illness. She said, "I can never live a normal life. I feel empty and empty.”

Roy Woodward, jailed for nine years in 2018 for raping another girl, was jailed for 21 years with a four-year license extension. But he died a few months later, in July.

Gaynor Woodward was imprisoned for four years.

David Clemens

David Clements, who committed a robbery on Christmas Eve, was caught after his victim found him on Facebook.

The 42-year-old man took aim at the SRS Convenience on Rice Lane in Walton on December 24, 2020, just after 10pm. Clements, who was a regular customer of the store, entered covered in a mask and sweatshirt and broke worker Sekalathan Arulampalam's neck before stealing money from the till.

Arulampalam recognized Clements by the small visible part of his face during the robbery and initially thought it was a joke, but the crook stole up to £250 in cash. The victim then showed the police the thief's Facebook and Clements admitted to the theft.

He was jailed for six months to reflect the fact that he was already serving time for another theft.

Liam Maxwell

Liam Maxwell hid cocaine, heroin and guns in his home.

The 28-year-old, from Ternhall Road, Fazakerley, played a key role in an organized crime gang involved in drug trafficking across the county borders. His home was raided on Thursday 17th February as part of Merseyside Police's Operation Toxic.

Around 85g of class A drugs were seized from the house, along with scales, bags, £500 in cash and weapons. Maxwell was arrested and later charged with possession of an assault weapon, Class A and Class B drugs in a private location with intent to furnish and use criminal property.

He was imprisoned for three years and four months.

Ameir Anual

Annuar Ameir carried a drunken girl into a house and raped her.

The 30-year-old man attacked his 17-year-old victim as she slept on a sofa at a party in Liverpool in 2018. He denied any wrongdoing but was found guilty of rape following a trial that required his victim to testify.

Judge Gary Woodhall said: "I am disturbed by the circumstances of this offense which involved predatory behavior towards a particularly vulnerable girl." He said that Ameir clearly had misogynistic and "failed" views on sex, adding: a sense of male entitlement, with a misogynistic view of female characters.

Arnold Crescent's lover, Toxteth was jailed for nine years and nine months.

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"Self-shame" gambling addict Ricardo Randev worked as a drug dealer to pay off a loan shark.

The 59-year-old man was caught with high purity cocaine with a potential value of £57,000 when police raided his Cronton home on April 4, 2021. Officers found two blocks of cocaine and 79 bags of the 67% purity drug , plus benzocaine compound and an unspecified sum of money.

Randev said he had long "lived a double life", keeping his gambling addiction a secret and turning to a loan shark out of "desperation", which left him £13,000 in debt. Randev of The Ridgeway, Cronton has admitted to possessing cocaine with the intent to supply it.

He was imprisoned for three years.

Kieran Murphy

Homes and vehicles were attacked on Merseyside by burglars Kieran Murphy and Lawrence Pybis.

His three-month crime spree was crushed by Merseyside Police as part of Operation Mothman. The incidents occurred from November 1, 2020 to January 26, 2021.

Murphy, 25, of Clieves Road, Kirkby, has admitted conspiracy to break in. He also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal motor vehicles. He was imprisoned for three years and nine months.

Pybis, 20, of Utting Avenue East, Norris Green, admitted to conspiracy to break in. He was imprisoned for three years.

Simon Rosa

Bent Copper Simon Rose had a secret sexual relationship with an alleged rape victim and later tried to stop a police raid on her home.

He was convicted of misconduct in public office and attempting to pervert the course of justice after a court case revealed his corruption. The 48-year-old, from Burnside, Parbold, West Lancashire, had been assigned to the Salford Division of Greater Manchester Police.

He met the woman in May 2012 in his role as an officer specially trained to deal with rape and sexual assault allegations. She claimed that she was raped at knifepoint after being taken away by two men in a vehicle, although the case was later dismissed.

Their relationship was hidden from Rose's colleagues until October 2019, when the woman's name came under the spotlight due to plans to break into her home. He repeatedly told a colleague that there must have been a mistake, then went to the house with two police officers and asked them to review any evidence that might lead to her firing.

When the woman was interviewed, she revealed that their relationship turned sexual a few months after they met. However, Rose persuaded her to remain silent about it.

He was imprisoned for three years.

Jacob Bullen

Jacob Bullen, who hid £10,000 worth of high purity cocaine in a fridge, was exposed as an EncroChat drug dealer "HeroicFox".

Bullen was caught with two large blocks of cocaine while police searched his girlfriend's home in Appleton Road, Walton on December 16, 2020. He was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison in January 2021.

But on the day of his arrest, he handed over his iPhone 7 and the PIN to the device, which was sent for analysis by experts. The contents of that phone, combined with EncroChat messages, revealed his role as drug and £2 million money mule "HeroicFox".

Bullen admitted new charges of conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin and marijuana. The property was demolished during a military police operation.

He was imprisoned for five years, to be served after the existing sentence.

Thomas Farrell

Thomas Farrell yawned in the dock as he was convicted of breaking into a pensioner who was so scared she was pretending to be asleep.

The 86-year-old woman "froze to death" and hid under the covers as the burglar went through her closet around 5am on December 11 last year. Farrell, 20, then left her bedroom at her Egremont apartment and rummaged through closets and drawers in other rooms.

She lay in bed for an hour, too afraid to move, until she was sure he was gone. He took his £200 mobile phone along with his purse.

The victim lived independently in her apartment for 34 years but was forced to leave because of the incident. She was initially in short-term care but is now housed in a nursing home and reliant on help from others.

Farrell, of Comely Bank Road, Wallasey, admitted to the theft. He was imprisoned for four years.

Anton Lea

Corrupt lawyer Anthony Lea laundered dirty money from organized criminals running an international timeshare fraud scheme.

The 66-year-old admitted to laundering £465,000 for the gang using cold calls who promised to sign up timeshare buyers for a quick sale. Lea, from West End Road, St Helens, was found to have handed over bags containing £180,000 cash for road services.

An investigation into trading patterns began in 2016 following a complaint from a retiree in West Berkshire. But it soon became clear that hundreds of timeshare and vacation club members were being harassed by the organized crime group.

The mentors of the operation, who were never identified, presented themselves as the so-called "resale companies" Simple Timeshare Sales and Marketing, Find Me Travel and UK Holiday Consultants. Lea, who was removed from the attorney roster in 2001 for using client funds for her own gain, admitted to four counts of criminal acquisition of property.

He was imprisoned for three years.

Fethi Chebbi

Abusive father Fethi Chebbi asked his partner if she "wanted to feel pain" before lighting up a cigarette for her.

He also pulled the woman's hair so hard that her hair extensions were ripped from her head in a heinous campaign of abuse. Chebbi, who is originally from Tunisia but lived in Eastham, Wirral, had been in a relationship with the woman for two and a half years.

The victim, who ECHO declined to identify, revealed that he stubbed out a cigarette on her in July 2020 and pulled her hair in October. Chebbi admitted criminal damages for breaking the woman's phone, but denied the assaults until the day of his trial, when he pleaded guilty.

Despite his actions, the 36-year-old from Argyle Street, Birkenhead cried that the decision to put him in jail was "a joke" as he was taken to the cells. The serial bully was jailed for 20 months.

Kevin Bernhard

Speeder Kevin Bernard ruins a teenager's life in a terrible accident and then spends over a year on the run.

He was speeding down Southport Road in Bootle in a black Audi S3 at 86mph - almost triple the road's 30 hour limit. Lee Baxter, meanwhile, drove with two friends in his blue Ford Fiesta to his 19th birthday party at his mother's house.

Bernard hit the Fiesta and inflicted multiple injuries, including brain damage, on the teenager, who was fighting for his life in a coma. The 22-year-old victim "had to learn to breathe, talk, walk and eat again" and her personality changed dramatically.

Bernard, 44, has denied causing serious injuries by driving dangerously in the horrific accident on Saturday night, June 16, 2018. However, he disappeared in December 2020 and did not appear at his trial last May, when he was found guilty, nor to sentencing in July.

Bernard was sentenced to six years in prison in his absence, as a judge also convicted him of a series of driving-related fraud. Riversdale Road fugitive Aigburth turned himself in on April 4 and admitted to breaching bail.

He was jailed for two months after his six-year sentence.

Daniel McDonough

Daniel McDonough raped a woman in her sleep and claimed he never had sexual contact with her.

He attacked his 20-year-old victim in the first few hours after leaving in 2020. The then 38-year-old man was drinking with her and others in a Liverpool pub and offered to share a taxi home with her.

McDonough invited her to his house for a drink and they talked until the woman said she was tired and went to bed. The victim woke up to find that McDonough had pulled her clothes down and was raping her, and begged him to stop, which he eventually did.

When arrested and questioned, McDonough, who is not a permanent resident but is from West Derby, denied any sexual contact with the victim. However, DNA traces were found on the victim's underwear and could be traced to 40-year-old McDonough.

He was found guilty of rape after a trial and sentenced to seven years in prison.

Dale Schofield

Dale Schofield and Wayne Roberts were part of a drug ring estimated to be worth £1.8 million.

They allowed crack, heroin and money for an organized crime group to be stored in their homes. This gang smuggled drugs from Ellesmere Port into the Wirral, Greater Manchester and Scotland.

Schofield, 39, of Alverstone Road in Mossley Hill, and Roberts, 51, of East Float Quay in Wallasey, used their homes as shelters. This was done on behalf of the gang leader, Mark Cavanagh.

Cavanagh, from Foxdene in Ellesmere Port, ran a drug dealing business where he sold around 25 to 50 kg of Class A drugs. He was sentenced to 14.5 years in prison in June 2020.

Schofield and Roberts were responsible for guarding the gang's drugs and the money earned from them. Roberts was also responsible for moving money and drugs for Cavanagh and his gang.

Both admitted to helping an organized crime group. Schofield was jailed for two years and three months and Roberts was jailed for 20 months.

Lukas McHugh

Pedophile Luke McHugh climbed a ladder and entered a bedroom to sexually assault two sleeping girls.

He was to be confined to his secure quarters on Knowsley's Longmeadow Road and prevented from walking unsupervised. But the 20-year-old breached a window and escaped in the middle of the night in July last year to launch his attack on a local family's home after days of spying on them.

The convicted sex offender was only stopped from sexually abusing two girls inside the house after his father heard him enter and stopped him. He was on the unit for trying to solicit an eight-year-old girl to send him nude photos online and has a criminal record for possessing indecent photos of children.

McHugh admitted to breaking in with the intent to commit a sex crime. He was imprisoned for 10 years.

Gita Friedenberga

A mother in a pink unicorn jumpsuit was spotted in the home of a vulnerable woman who took her to deal drugs.

Gita Fritdenberga was part of a gang that flooded the streets of Southport, Seaforth and Waterloo with heroin and crack. After serving a prison sentence for these crimes, the 37-year-old Princes Road woman, Toxteth, said she tried to turn her life around for her son.

But after her boyfriend died in prison and lost her job at a Liverpool hotel, she moved to Warrington and soon returned to dealing. Police searched the home of a "nearly bedridden" woman on Thorneycroft Drive shortly after midday on 9 March this year and found that she had been cheated.

They found Fritdenberga, 37, with 44 packs of heroin and 84 packs of crack with an estimated combined worth of £1,280. Fritdenberga admitted to possessing crack and heroin with the intent to supply.

She was imprisoned for three years and nine months.

John Wood

John Wood raped a traumatized mother just days after giving birth.

The 38-year-old Cheshire carer met the Liverpool victim in an online conference and they continued to chat. But when she traveled to his new home in Glasgow to meet him, he raped her and subjected her to controlling behavior.

Wood moved into her house in Liverpool, she became pregnant and felt trapped, and he raped her again after she gave birth. He also twice raped a woman in Scotland and was on trial in Glasgow High Court for raping both women.

Wood, of Dowanhill Street in Glasgow, was found guilty of raping the two women. He was imprisoned for six years.

Lewis Fitzpatrick

Lewis Fitzpatrick was helping to organize a gang attack when an innocent man was shot dead by a fake pizza delivery boy.

The victim was shot in the leg by a thug who knocked on the door of his house and shouted "pizza delivery" while holding fast food boxes. Norris Green "Fixer" Lewis Fitzpatrick organized the Warrington coup on the night of April 24, 2020 as part of an underworld war.

He then helped sponsors acquire another weapon which was stored in a shed in Croxteth. The 27-year-old from Eldersfield Road was also a drug dealer for EncroChat "LimeEagle" who planned to ship ketamine and cannabis by the kilo.

He was convicted of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, supplying firearms and ammunition, and supplying both drugs. Fitzpatrick was jailed for 26 years, with an extended five-year license.

Stefan Smith

Stephen Smith hit a mother on the head with hair straighteners before trying to urinate on her.

He had also strangled his current ex-partner with a belt a few days earlier, as part of a series of increasingly brutal attacks. The 32-year-old from Stockbridge Village tied her belt around her neck and tightened it on Dec. 21 last year.

On Christmas Eve, he attacked her again and knocked over a cart full of Christmas shopping, causing it to fall to the ground. On Christmas Day, he hit her over the head with flat irons and boots, then tried to urinate on her before spitting on her.

Smith, of Snowberry Road, admitted to three counts of assault, all of which were witnessed by some of the victim's children. He was imprisoned for three years.

David Bottomley

Former karate teacher David Bottomley, who raped a student and a woman, was called a "monster".

The 58-year-old former coast guard and prison security officer was exposed as a "violent and abusive" rapist and pedophile. Bottomley abused a woman by committing a historic sexual offense against her that today would be classified as rape.

In another incident, he karate kicked the woman in the jaw while wearing steel-toed boots. His second victim was a schoolgirl who raped Bottomley of Hoole Lane, Banks, aged around 12.

Bottomley was found guilty of the historic sexual offense and assault that caused actual bodily harm to the first woman. He was found guilty of rape, indecent assault of a child and two counts of indecent assault on the student.

Bottomley was jailed for 14 years, with a one-year license extension.

John Pennington

Stalker John Pennington, who terrorized a woman on Merseyside, has been rearrested after failing to learn his lesson.

The 39-year-old previously targeted an ex-girlfriend in Liverpool, slashing her tires and attaching a tracking device to her car. But when he was released from that prison sentence, he contacted another woman and violated a no-harassment order.

Pennington of Crossford Road, Knotty Ash, was convicted of stalking. He was imprisoned for two years.

Ana Bonner

For years Anna Bonner lied to swindle her best friend and maid of honor out of over £100,000.

She asked Susan Hughes for large sums of money, which she believed was helping a sick friend's cancer treatment, but was actually funding her own lifestyle. The 40-year-old even encouraged Ms. Hughes to fall in love with the man she has only met a few times, prompting her to write letters and send gifts that she thought were going to him but were instead received by Bonner.

The man had no cancer and a judge called Bonner, a mother of three, "greedy, sneaky and manipulative" for stealing more than £117,000 from her friend. Bonner, of Seaview Road, Liscard, admitted fraud by misrepresentation.

She was imprisoned for two years and four months.

Pedro Kante

The father of a young woman with Down syndrome came across perverted caregiver Peter Edge, who exposed himself to her during a video call.

Edge, 62, was a director of a company that provides recreational care for adults with disabilities — giving parents and caregivers a much-needed break. But he betrayed her in the most devastating way by raping and sexually assaulting the victim in an empty center in West Lancashire.

The abuse only came to light when her horrified father saw that Edge had shown his penis on a webcam while the victim was at his family's home. Police discovered that Edge had sexually assaulted her the first day she was released as a vulnerable person after being protected from the coronavirus.

Edge, of Goswell Street, Wavertree, was found guilty of rape, sexual assault and other misdemeanors. He was jailed for 15 years, with an extended five-year license.

Darren Higham

Darren Higham, who once complained about living next door to a convicted pedophile, was arrested - for being a pedophile.

The 53-year-old once complained to the local newspaper that he was angry that his housing association had not told him his neighbor was a sex offender. But he is now behind bars for subjecting a young girl, aged between seven and 11, to a series of filthy sexual assaults.

The abuse ranged from kissing and touching the child by the self-employed musician to being forced to perform sexual acts with him multiple times. Higham, of Chaffinch Close, Birchwood, Warrington, has admitted four counts of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 and inciting a girl under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity.

He was imprisoned for four years.

Philip reading

Philip Read, using the EncroChat name "EducatedGoose", hid 25 kilograms of heroin in a bedroom.

He was also trusted to handle large amounts of cash and use it to buy ketamine and heroin from other dealers via the encrypted messaging service. The 43-year-old said he became involved in crime after racking up gambling debts in the first five months of 2020 while using drugs to do business on Merseyside.

When police searched Read's home in Portico Lane, Eccleston, in March last year, they found 12 kilos of heroin in a bedroom. He admitted to conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs and to conspiring to convert criminal property.

Read was jailed for 12 years.

Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith put a razor blade to an aide's throat and threatened to rape another.

She targeted women at a care center in north Liverpool in a horrific incident. The 39-year-old man with no fixed address had long-term mental health issues and remained at the facility.

Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and one count of sexual assault. She was imprisoned for 16 months.

Ahmed Al-Razawe

Ahmed Al-Razawe bit a woman's chest in a "vicious" street attack, leaving a permanent scar.

The 24-year-old sexually abused three victims in just four days in Liverpool city centre. He first groped the thighs of a "terrified" 17-year-old girl and her 18-year-old friend at Liverpool One bus station on 23 October 2021 after he asked them to have sex and made "weird noises".

Then Al-Razawe launched a second "humiliating and degrading" attack when he slapped a young woman on the bottom. He then sank his teeth into her chest and hit her over the head with a wine bottle on October 27th in Lydia Ann Street.

Al-Razawe, of Upper Park Street, Toxteth, admitted three counts of sexual assault and one count of assault. He was imprisoned for three years.

Elavi Dowie

Busker Elavi Dowie had her sentence extended for secretly filming private family court proceedings.

The 53-year-old father was known for playing guitar while rapping on Church Street in Liverpool's city centre. He was embroiled in a bitter legal battle over his two children and was faced with restraining orders and non-abuse.

In August last year, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for repeated violations of both. However, it turned out that he had secretly uploaded clips of filmed family court proceedings to YouTube in June and July 2020.

Dowie, from Preesall Road, Preston, admitted contempt of court and was sentenced to a further eight months in prison.

Jamie Hart

Convicted rapist Jamie Hart refused to tell police where he lived after being released from prison.

Hart was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in November 2013 for rape. He was also instructed to place himself on the sex offender register for life.

As part of the sex offenders registry's reporting obligations, he had to give officials his address. But the 36-year-old "persistently and deliberately ignored" these police rules and warnings.

Hart failed to comply with authorities' requests for his release from prison on February 8 of this year, after being arrested for a previous violation until his arrest on March 16. He admitted he had failed his reporting duties—the fourth time he had done so.

Hart, who has no fixed address, was jailed for eight months.

Christoph Atherton

Christopher Atherton, who showed up at his former partner's house with a machete, said he "just wanted to see his son".

The 29-year-old man sent threatening messages to the woman, whose name ECHO declined to name, and later tried to convince her to withdraw her statement. Atherton, of Ullswater Street, St Helens, has admitted to several breaches of a non-harassment order that prohibited him from coming into contact with the mother of his child, possessing a sharp object and intimidating a witness.

The woman was at home with her new partner last September when her car windows shattered. They couldn't find the culprit, but then a man knocked on the door and said that Atherton was on the phone and wanted to speak with her.

When she refused, Atherton came, pulled his T-shirt over his head, pulled out a machete, and chased his new boyfriend down the street. After his arrest and on bail, he tried to intimidate the woman.

Atherton was jailed for 20 months.

Umar Hamid

Gang boss Umar Hamid ran a 'bribe' phoneline for drug dealers behind bars at HMP Liverpool.

The 31-year-old was the leader of a drug gang that ran two lines of drugs - the Felix line and the CCPP line (marijuana, cola, powder and pills). Hamid is a convicted rapist who ran the CCPP line behind bars at Walton Prison.

Using an illegal mobile phone, Hamid ran the operation from his mobile phone before being released in September 2019. Hundreds of text messages were sent to drug users in Hyndburn, Rossendale and Blackburn in East Lancashire nearly every day between 2018 and 2020 .

Users were given class A and class B drugs to "make their dreams come true". Hamid took advantage of a vulnerable drug user to test the drugs before offering them for sale, and when a marijuana farm was ambushed, an innocent man was threatened with a fake weapon and his work van was rammed.

Hamid, formerly Hazel Avenue, Darwen, admitted to conspiring to supply Class A and Class B drugs. He was jailed for 10 years and 10 months.

Hamid is already serving a 22-year sentence for rape after being convicted in February 2021.

Franz Ward

Francis Ward looked stunned as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenage girls.

The 36-year-old man has refused to accept that he raped one of the teenagers and sexually assaulted the other, even after being found guilty following a trial in March. The two girls and their families faced him in court and cheered as the sex offender was taken to their cells.

Ward, from Fox Street, Everton, launched his first attacks on one girl before taking aim at the second girl. One of the girls addressed the court and explained how his attack led her to consider taking her own life. A statement from the second girl outlined a similar psychological trauma.

Ward called the girls "liars", but a judge said he was satisfied he had caused them serious harm. Judge Robert Trevor-Jones sentenced Ward to 18 years for the rape and sexual assault of one of the girls and seven years for the sexual assault of the other.

Michael Crothers

Five members of a drug gang known as "Two-Hour Tony" were arrested after police discovered a hideout in Runcorn.

The gang was arrested when police searched a flat in Waterbridge Mews in Castlefields on 23 November last year. Within Two Hour Tony's crew, The Hub officers seized 88.7 grams of crack and heroin with an estimated potential value of up to £9,680 plus mixed substances.

Michael Crothers, 25, of Heathgate Avenue, Speke, and Michael Bethell, 30, of Elstead Road, Walton, were arrested at the scene. A table in the apartment is "obviously" used to "counterfeit and fill packages" with drugs for further distribution.

On the same day, police stopped a car driven by Alan Brewer, 41, from Colworth Road, Speke. He was with Liam Malvern, 21, of Townsend Lane, Tuebrook, in a vehicle that officers saw when they reached the block.

Malvern had 26 10-pound packs of crack and one 10-pound pack of heroin, as well as £809 in cash. A fifth member of the group, Benjamin Humphries, 21, of Alderwood Avenue, Speke, was arrested separately. All five men admitted to conspiring to supply heroin and crack.

A police drug expert estimates that the illegal company sold between a pound and a half of crack and heroin in the 50 days of the conspiracy. It had a potential value of up to £100,000 after being mixed with adulterants.

Two "graft phones" sent a whopping 7,613 illuminated messages to potential buyers in Warrington from 4th October to 23rd November. Crothers, who controlled the phones, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.

Acting as a chauffeur, Brewer dropped off Malvern and Humphries, who were selling drugs to users from their homes, before returning to the Waterbridge Mews to replenish their supplies. Brewer was jailed for four and a half years.

Malvern was jailed for five years and seven months. Humphries was jailed for five years and three months.

Bethell also admitted to hitting a man outside The Cornerhouse pub in Widnes in the early hours of 7 August last year, which had indeed caused bodily harm. Bethell was jailed for seven years and ten months.

David Jones

Former teaching assistant David Jones used his position as a football coach to groom and sexually abuse a young boy.

Jones, described by a judge as "a serious risk to the boys", met the child when he was working as a teaching assistant at his elementary school. The 33-year-old fell in love "immediately" with his son and invited him to join a football club he coached.

He began grooming him with text messages and lifts in his car as he integrated himself into the boy's family life. His parents innocently thought that friendship would be good for their son and boosted his confidence, but the boy's sexual abuse led to a suicide attempt and ruined his life.

Years later, in 2018, when Jones was a fully qualified teacher, he created a fake Instagram profile posing as an 11-year-old girl to contact a boy a year older, sending inappropriate messages and asking for nude photos. . The boy told his mother, who contacted the police before officers profiled Jones.

Jones, from Loxley Road, Southport, admitted to inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in a sexual act in relation to the Instagram offence. He was found guilty of two counts of sexually assaulting the high school football player and inducing him to engage in sexual activity.

He was imprisoned for three and a half years.

Ashley Moorcroft

Rolex watches, designer clothes and £70,000 in cash were seized as police searched the homes of three EncroChat dealers.

Ashley Moorcroft aka "RustyPalace" was involved in importing cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines and then transporting them across the UK. He worked closely with Jonathan McKeown, aka 'BushTern', who brokered drug deals across the country and kept a 'meticulously recorded' ledger showing over £1m in cash changed hands.

Painter and decorator Craig Murray, also known as "MicroBlue" and formerly "ZanyForce", transported drugs and cash in vehicles with hidden "slots" or "skins". But the 2020 EncroChat hack stopped them from spreading "disgusting misery" to generate significant profits.

Moorcroft, 33, was arrested at his home in Halsnead, Wavertree on May 6, 2021, while his partner and children were present. Police seized an Audi, £8,925 in cash, four Rolex watches, a special Kenevo electric bike and charger, as well as designer clothes and shoes.

McKeown, 36, was arrested when police searched his home on Marlborough Road in Waterloo on the same day. They stole £12,750 in cash.

Murray, 41, has been arrested twice, first on 17 June 2020 when £36,710 was found in his home in Simonscroft, Netherton. On 6 May 2021, officers struck again when a further £14,000 in cash was seized.

All three men admitted to conspiring to supply cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines. Moorcroft and McKeown also admitted to conspiring to supply heroin.

Moorcroft was jailed for 19.5 years, McKeown for 20 years and Murray for eight and a half years.

Marcus Ellison

"Predatory pedophile" Marcus Ellison posed on Snapchat as a teenager to lure a female student to a park and film himself having sex with her in the bushes.

The 31-year-old man told the 13-year-old victim that he was only 16 and built up her trust in him before grooming and encouraging her to have sex with him at Birkenhead Park and poor toilets at the Pyramids mall. When she told the 31-year-old man to stop all contact with her, he sent a video he recorded without her consent to friends at school, which was later shared online.

A judge told Ellison that he willingly "used and abused" the girl after meeting her in 2019. The abuse left the child devastated and he subsequently humiliated and hurt her even more.

Ellison, of Hatherley Close, Toxteth, admitted meeting a girl after adopting, two counts of sexually communicating with a child, making a child look at a photo of sexual activity, engaging in nonpenetrative sexual activity with an engaging girl, three counts of penetrative sexual activity with a girl, plus one count of possession, one count of making, one count of taking, and one count of distributing indecent photographs of a child.

He was jailed for nine years, with another three years on an extended leave.

Mohammed Azizi

Mohammad Azizi murdered his wife after discovering her affair with a family friend.

Malak, aka Katy Adabzadeh, 47, was beaten to death by Azizi at her home in Stoneycroft. Azizi used an unidentified weapon to inflict 11 head injuries as the mother of one child desperately tried to defend herself.

He searched her flat on The Green to make it look like it had been ransacked by a mysterious assailant. He later returned with his son and his mother found him "in a pool of blood" face down in the bathtub on November 25 last year.

Iranian citizen Azizi found out that his wife was dating married man Tooraj Khorshidi, who was visiting her for botox and lip fillers. That day, she planned to meet Mr. Khorshidi at Edge Lane Shopping Center and later spend the night with him at a downtown hotel and her suitcase was found in his car.

Asked about the case, Azizi later told police: "In the past, this case was culturally unacceptable and you could be stoned to death." Azizi admitted to the murder.

He was jailed for life with a minimum age of 16.

Christoph Chan

Chinese restaurant waiter Christopher Chan "persuaded" a 15-year-old girl to have sex with him after he took her back to his apartment.

The 34-year-old man took the victim back to his Southport flat and, according to the court, had "consensual sexual intercourse" with her. On two occasions, Chan, from Manchester Road, Southport, gave the child alcohol.

The girl said his behavior had affected her ability to concentrate at school and her grades, hurting her chances of attending Cambridge University. She started self-harming and overdosed. She has since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and is on medication.

Chan, who worked at Lings On Kings in King Street, Southport, was found guilty of four counts of engaging in sexual activity involving penetration with a child.

He was imprisoned for three years.

Philipp Courtney

Philip Courtney spat in his ex-partner's face, called her a "shitty rat" and sent threatening text messages to one of her children.

On February 7, 2022, the 37-year-old man spat in his mother's face in front of two children, whose names ECHO declined to name. Courtney continued her "disgusting" behavior, with one of the children insulting the two teenagers.

The three left and Courtney sent threatening text messages to one of the youths and the police were alerted. The day after the indictment, he called the woman and verbally assaulted her.

Then, after appearing in court, he left more threats on voicemail and tried to silence a child witness. Courtney, of Bowring Park Road, Childwall, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault for battery and witness intimidation.

He was imprisoned for 10 months.

Melvin Miller

Child rapist Melvin Miller, who filmed himself subjecting girls to depraved abuse, has admitted to more sexual assaults.

Miller, from St Helens, was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020 after molesting two girls - aged six and 11 respectively - in a horrific campaign of abuse. However, it was later revealed that he had committed further rapes on one of his victims.

Miller, who was found to have more than 250,000 indecent photos of children, filmed himself for eight minutes raping the girl. The new charges against the 46-year-old, who is serving his sentence at HMP Frankland in County Durham, come after fresh allegations from one of his victims.

Miller, from Mountsfield in Frome, Somerset, pleaded guilty to three other counts of rape, two of attempted rape and one of making an indecent video of a child. The judge jailed Miller for 15 years, concurrent with his existing sentence.

Joshua Morgan

Father of four, Paul Morgan was stabbed to death by his nephew Joshua Morgan in front of his children.

Joshua Morgan stabbed his 39-year-old victim twice after his family came to Dingle to celebrate his 21st birthday. He refused a hug from his uncle before following him down Prince William Street and launching the attack on September 19, 2020.

Joshua Morgan harbored resentment and jealousy towards the victim's children, as his own father died when he was only nine years old. His father committed suicide and his death anniversary was just one day before the murder.

Joshua Morgan, who previously threatened to kill his uncle, has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and cannabis dependence disorder. However, a psychiatrist determined that the attack had nothing to do with his illness and Joshua Morgan, 22, of Prince William Street, Dingle, admitted to the murder.

He was jailed for life with a minimum age of 17.

William Ormandy

William Ormandy raped a teenage girl behind Lime Street Station.

The 31-year-old man approached his 18-year-old victim shortly before 2am on Sunday, February 6th this year, and began talking to him as she walked alone to a taxi stand. Ormandy said "you're beautiful" and tried to kiss her, but the woman said she wanted to go home and she was only 18.

He dragged her into an alley and raped her, then left before she asked three passing women for help. After his arrest, Ormandy claimed that he consensually kissed the victim three times and denied raping her.

Ormandy of Church Road, Halewood, who had a history of violence against women, later admitted to the rape. He was jailed for eight years and three months, with an extended four-year license.

Ryan Frederick

Police have found a gun hidden under the floorboards of drug dealer Ryan Frederick's bedroom in St Helens.

The 22-year-old was in his office after having a smoke with colleague Nathan Mullen, also 22, when police entered. Officers discovered 23 bags of marijuana lying around the couple and the modified firearm upstairs.

It was an Italian-made Glock-type gun that fired a blank, but had been shortened and reworked to allow it to fire real bullets. Police also found scales, nearly £1,300 in cash and a bag of the adulterant benzocaine.

Frederick admitted possessing a prohibited firearm and marijuana with intent to deliver. He was imprisoned for six years and two months.

Michael Cullen

Sex offender Michael Cullen is stalking a sleeping boy in a tent.

The 36-year-old man, from Catherine Street, Widnes, was put on trial after a jury convicted him of having sexual activity with a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. He showed "elements of planning and affectionate behavior" before abusing the young teenager.

The boy woke up to find Cullen molesting him. The boy struggled to sleep and said his relationships were strained by his ordeal.

Cullen was imprisoned for three years.

Ryan Holland

Ryan Holland was caught with 95 packs of heroin in his boxers, but denied involvement in the County Lines drug trade.

Police arrested the 31-year-old as he was leaving a block of flats in Llandudno, north Wales, last January. Officers, noticing that he reeked strongly of marijuana, took him to Llandudno Police Station, where he was found with Class A drugs and £2,100 in cash.

Holland, of Borough Road, Wallasey, claimed no involvement with County Lines. But along with the £1,100 stash of heroin, the father-of-two also stashed 70 packs of crack worth £700.

Holland, who was also carrying 140 diazepam pills, admitted on two occasions that he was in possession of Class A drugs to deliver them.

He was imprisoned for four and a half years.

Shaun Clare

Shaun Clare stole a hospital nurse's purse and then went shopping with her bank cards.

The 32-year-old man, from Plumpton Mews, Widnes, was captured after the victim, who worked at Warrington Hospital, contacted police at 11.40am on 26 April. Clare admitted to breaking into an apartment and three counts of fraud for providing false information.

He also admitted to violating a criminal conduct order, two counts of shoplifting and another burglary on non-residential property. He was jailed for 36 weeks.

Harry O'Brien

Harry O'Brien, 16, led a mob of teenage thugs in three shootouts and a horrific arson attack.

He controlled a "bribe" line and a team of dealers who sold pot on the streets of Dingle. But his "profitable" business was exposed after a "fight" in south Liverpool resulted in three shootings in three weeks.

Bullets were fired from an Audi into a BMW in an attack as the two cars sped side by side through the city on the night of 29 December 2020. A stray bullet flew through the front door of a "completely innocent" family's home in Dingle Lane and fell down the hall steps.

A gunman on an electric bicycle peppered a family's living room on Sundridge Street with bullets on Jan. 8 and shot into another victim's bedroom on Beloe Street on Jan. 20. Eventually, O'Brien had petrol poured into a mother's home mailbox and set on fire as she and her children ran for their lives down Dingle Lane on 1 February.

Police also searched the home of Nathan Kelly, a client of O'Brien's gang, on April 21. Officers found a .22 caliber revolver and other ammunition in an abandoned aquarium on his porch.

For three days, Nathan Kelly agreed to keep and look after O'Brien's "bribe" phone, as well as look after a motorcycle, helmets and a jerrycan. In a community garden outside, police recovered an 1892 New Army Colt .41 revolver.

O'Brien, now 17, of Buckland Street, Aigburth, has admitted colluding: possessing a firearm to incite a fear of violence; committing arson without taking into account the danger to life; and deliver marijuana. He was jailed for nine years and eight months, with an extended three-year license.

Daniel Lawler, then 19 but now 21, of Halewood Road, Woolton, was found guilty of firearms conspiracy and admitted to unrelated charges of dangerous driving and handling stolen goods. He was jailed for eight years, with an extended two-year license.

Michael McClean, now 18, of Upper Warwick Street, Toxteth, has admitted to the marijuana and firearms plans. At trial, he admitted to two counts of possession of a prohibited firearm and possession of ammunition. He was imprisoned for eight and a half years.

Aaron Donohoe, then 19 but now 20, of Bewey Close, Toxteth, admitted to the marijuana and gun plans because he was only involved in the first shooting. He was imprisoned for six years and four months.

The jury was unable to reach a verdict against Sian Kanu, then 19 but now 20, of Amity Street Toxteth, for arson. He later admitted to having been involved in the criminal activities of an organized crime group. He was imprisoned for two years and three months.

Nathan Kelly, then 27 but now 28, has denied conspiracy to supply marijuana, possession of a prohibited firearm on two counts - related to the two firearms - and possession of ammunition. He was acquitted in relation to the gun found in the garden, but was convicted on the other three counts after a trial. He admitted violating a suspended sentence imposed last April for possessing a sharp object. He was imprisoned for seven years.

Shaun Kelly, then 35, but now 36, of Harefield Road, Speke, sold the Audi A1 used in the first shootout to O'Brien. Car was hijacked in a burglary at a family home in Whimbrel Close, Runcorn on 30th November 2020. He admitted dealing with stolen goods and unrelated matters of aggravated trespassing of a motor vehicle, theft, five counts of fraud, two counts of theft and violation of a suspended sentence for dangerous driving. He was imprisoned for three and a half years.

James Mercer

James Mercer has collected nearly 2,000 "terrifying" images of rape and child abuse.

He was hit with a Prevention of Sexual Offenses Order (SOPO) in 2013 after he was caught with a sick stash of indecent photos of children. But when officials performed a routine check on their computer equipment as part of SOPO, they discovered another library of "terrible" photos.

The 41-year-old, from Ashburn Avenue, Tower Hill, Kirkby, later admitted to possessing 1,997 indecent photos of children. Mercer admitted to downloading 368 category A images, 323 category B files, and 1,306 category C files between May 16, 2018 and March 17, 2021.

He also pleaded guilty to possessing seven prohibited [animated or animated] images of a child. Mercer was jailed for 12 months.

Joshua Corless

Joshua Corless raped a college student, then made and shared a video online of a 16-year-old girl being sexually assaulted.

The 23-year-old predator targeted a drunken college student who was only weeks away from home and offered to help her get back home. Shortly thereafter, he attacked, overpowered, and raped her. In another incident, he threatened and forced a 16-year-old girl to have sex with a vulnerable man in Widnes and filmed it before sharing it on TikTok.

Corless admitted to posting indecent photos of children, but denied taking indecent photos of children and inducing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, for which he was convicted after a court hearing. He admitted to the rape. Judge Gary Woodhall sentenced him to 13 years in prison and said, "You have no regrets, remorse or shame for what you've done."

Anthony Reilly

Anthony Reilly was caught with £80,000 worth of cocaine just months after his release from prison.

Anthony Reilly spent 18 months on the run from Merseyside police after he assaulted and doused a woman with boiling water. At the time, he made his victim's life "a living nightmare" with threats so sinister that she even wore a wig to disguise herself in public.

He was jailed for three and a half years in March 2020 and served about half of that time in prison before being released from leave. However, in February of that year, Reilly was once again implicated in serious crimes at his new home in Ulverston, Cumbria.

Undercover police officers from the Cumbria Division of Drugs grabbed him with a plastic bag containing about a kilogram of "high purity" cocaine. The 24-year-old, formerly from St Helens and Wallasey but now from Theater Street, Ulverston, later admitted to conspiracy to supply cocaine.

He was imprisoned for five years and three months.

–Natasha Hanson

Two drug dealers ran a "drug call center" as part of a County Lines operation.

Natasha Hanson and Khristopher Burton ran the 'Paddy line', which transported Class A drugs from Merseyside to the Shrewsbury area in 2019 and 2020. Officers investigating the shipment raided a flat in Lockerby Road, Kensington, on 17 January of the year past.

In the pocket of Hanson's robe, they found a cell phone that received calls and text messages. Officers also discovered marijuana and a stun gun with his DNA found behind a bathtub panel. A "grafted" phone, two iPhones and a "bucket list" related to cocaine and heroin were also found.

Hanson, 32, and Burton, 42, of Bird Street, Wavertree, were released pending inquiry. On 7 October 2021, Police on patrol in Shrewsbury saw Hanson riding a bicycle.

A plastic bag in her bra contained 28 packs of crack and 23 packs of heroin, totaling £510. She had £95 in cash, a bank card and a phone connected to the Paddy line.

Hanson and Burton admitted to concerns about the supply of heroin and cocaine and the possession of the stun gun. Burton was jailed for three years.

Hanson also admitted to possessing cocaine and heroin with the intention of supplying those drugs and having concerns about supplying those drugs. She was imprisoned for six years.

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Aidan Dansie stepped on a teenager's head before boasting "that donut was put to sleep".

He kicked a 17-year-old boy so hard he was knocked unconscious and left a footprint in a violent downtown attack. Dansie, 30, knocked the stranger to the ground in a sudden, unprovoked attack one night in Liverpool city centre.

He attacked just before 1:30 am near the Baa Bar on Fleet Street in an attack recorded by CCTV. The thug later claimed that the teenager threatened him with a knife on September 12, 2020 - a lie that a judge found "ridiculous".

Dansie, from Leatfield Drive, Derriford, Plymouth admitted that one attack did indeed cause bodily harm. He was also convicted of assaulting two rescuers two months after the teen was attacked.

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Sarah Kirby

Sarah Kirby was so busy 'savagely' attacking her friend in an elevator that she didn't realize she'd left her son.

She had her son in her arms when she started to attack Molly Culshaw, 36, taking her to the ground in a shocking attack that was captured on CCTV. The mother of two then placed the baby in the stroller and used it to run over the victim, who was lying on the floor, before pushing him out of the elevator.

On May 18 of last year, she began kicking, punching and stomping her helpless friend again, and hitting her with a piece of wood, apparently unaware that the doors had closed and the elevator had fallen. The 36-year-old, from Sandy Road, Seaforth, admitted to the punching attack.

She also admitted to violating a 13-month suspended sentence imposed in September 2020. This was because of an aggravated racial attack on a taxi driver.

She was detained for 12 months.

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Drunk arsonist Gerard Foott told police to "arrest me" when they arrived to arrest him for setting fire to his own home.

He admitted that arson was reckless if life was in danger. The 54-year-old said he set fire to a paint cupboard in a pantry at his home in Sextant Close, Murdishaw, Runcorn, after spilling "12 cans".

When Foott initially called 999 to report the fire on November 9, he claimed not to know how it started, only for the call to die. Foott then called again and confessed.

Four fire engines were called to fight the fire and Foott was taken to hospital with smoke inhalation, where he spent three days. The fire caused "severe smoke damage" to the two-story townhouse and fire damage to the utility room.

Foott, who had prior convictions including robbery and violence, was jailed for three years and four months.

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Saeed Ahmed shot at a house where children lived while intoxicated with cocaine and alcohol.

The 40-year-old man, who said he was looking for two guns and ammunition for drug dealers, fired one of the guns shortly after a man fled his apartment. When police arrived at Wellington Road, Wavertree, on the morning of December 17 last year, they found bullet marks in the wall of a family home.

Ahmed, who lived down the street, tried to flee on an electric scooter but was arrested. His house was searched and two women were found there, but without weapons.

A cartridge was discovered on the sidewalk in front of his house and a bullet in the backyard of a nearby house. The next day, a police dog handler found a North Face backpack in an open area behind the Wavertree Sports Center.

It contained a black Glock pistol loaded with a clip and a Zoraki pistol. There were 37 more bullets and a silencer, and the defendant's DNA was found on both guns, which had their serial numbers removed.

Ahmed, now of Eversley Street, Toxteth, admitted to owning the Glock with the intention of inciting a fear of violence and possessing a prohibited weapon, the Zoraki. He had a criminal record, including conspiracy to commit robbery, and received a four-month suspended sentence for possession of a knife.

He was jailed for seven years, with an extended three-year license.

David Lavendell

David Lavender murdered his father in an unprovoked attack just days before his 80th birthday.

He drank heavily before hitting his father with a glass kettle last December and running away from his home in Old Swan. A judge said the death of 79-year-old Anthony Lavender at the hands of his son was "an unspeakable tragedy".

Lavender, 37, has lived in her father's house on Woodhall Street since returning from London during the Covid pandemic. He had been drinking heavily on the night of 29 December before picking up a glass kettle and hitting his father on the head several times, resulting in injuries to his eyebrow and cheek.

The victim called 999 to report the attack, but when officers arrived, he was unconscious on the stairs. His son had fled the house in his black Audi before being involved in an accident on the Queens Drive flyover shortly afterwards and was taken to Aintree Hospital.

Lilá, who said she did not know why she killed her father, confessed to the murder and was jailed for life at the age of at least 14.

Gareth Davis

Gareth Davis filmed himself raping a baby in what a judge called the worst sexual assault he had ever witnessed.

The 43-year-old, from Ashridge Street, Runcorn, was arrested after the National Crime Agency (NCA) discovered indecent photos had been uploaded to a Google account in his name. NCA investigators suspected that Davis was among the 512 images of child sexual abuse and searched his home.

He was arrested and his Samsung cell phone was confiscated. Research found that some of the images were of Davis himself molesting a baby.

He had shared some of his contaminated collection with other pedophiles online and simulated strangulation with a child doll. He admitted rape of a child under 13, sexual assault by penetration of a child under 13, and three counts of indecent imagery: 36 of the most heinous category A, 382 of category B and 94 of category C.

Judge Steven Everett, Chester's clerk, sentenced him to life in prison with a minimum of 27 years.

Stuart Cornmell

Stuart Cornmell broke a restraining order preventing him from seeing his parents for the ninth time when he broke into their home.

The 32-year-old has been banned from visiting the address in Peter Mahon Way, Bootle "due to a previous domestic incident". The order also prohibited him from contacting her.

But on June 18 of last year, a neighbor saw Cornmell try the handle on the family home. He was seen climbing through a first-floor bedroom window and exiting through the front door after about two minutes.

Cornmell returned 20 minutes later, in and out. He took £50, a £400 gold bracelet and a case of beer. His parents did not report it to the police and said they would give him the Universal Credit money if he returned the bracelet.

However, he didn't, got angry and was reported to the police. Cornmell later admitted to the theft and has since been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for the theft.

He was detained for 12 consecutive months.

Thomas Cawley

Thomas Cawley depressed a teenager before repeatedly hitting him in the face with a hammer.

The 32-year-old man attacked his 17-year-old victim outside the Red Lion pub in Robins Lane, St Helens at around 7.45pm on Monday 19th November last year. Cawley poured a caustic household substance over his victim before restraining him.

After being pinned down, he repeatedly hit the teenager in the face with a hammer and threatened him with a knife. The victim was left with extensive bruising, cuts and facial swelling, and lost two teeth in the attack.

Cawley, who has no fixed abode, admitted to intentionally causing grievous bodily harm. He was imprisoned for eight years and one month.

Adam Higginson

Thug Adam Higginson beat a woman unconscious after she confronted him about his "disgraceful" comments.

Higginson and another man left Maeve Brooks intimidated and scared as she walked home alone. But she decided to stand up to her drunk friends.

They continued to tease her until she kicked Higginson in the shin. After kicking her back into the body, Higginson chased the retreating woman and hit her in the head, leaving the victim with a permanent scar across her mouth.

The incident took place outside the Railway Pub on Birkenhead Road in Meols, Wirral at around 11pm on 12 June last year. Higginson, 32, of Shelley Street, Bootle, who has a history of violence, admitted to being injured.

He was imprisoned for 18 months.

Ramija Hindes

Sex offender Ramija Hindes turned himself in to police after reading a report in ECHO asking for information about him.

The 21-year-old sexually assaulted a young woman on March 17 as she was walking home from a potato chip shop in Garston. He grabbed the 17-year-old and subjected her to violent sexual assault before she could break free and he fled.

After turning himself in, Hindes was arrested and charged with sexual assault, but he initially denied sexually assaulting the victim, claiming he tried to rob her. Hindes' phone was confiscated and it was discovered that he had searched the device for violent and underage pornography.

He admitted to sexual assault. Hindes was jailed for three years and nine months.

Mohammed Mohammed

Mohammed Mohammed burned down the home of a young family on the orders of a 16-year-old gang leader.

He was a pot dealer for Harry O'Brien - the baby-faced man behind three gruesome shootings and a firebomb. Mohammed, then 19 years old, carried out arson on O'Brien by pouring gasoline on the front door of a mother's house and setting it on fire.

The victim and her children were having breakfast when flames engulfed their Dingle Lane address. They ran for their lives as the fire spread from the hallway to the stairs and upstairs.

Mohammed, now 20 years old, committed the arson on February 5, 2021 at around 8 am. But he left a can outside the house, the screw cap containing his DNA.

The young con artist, who also supplied marijuana to O'Brien from February 17 to March 26, 2021, admitted that he conspired to commit arson, was reckless about whether his life would be in danger, and conspired to use marijuana to deliver.

He was imprisoned for five years.

Vicky Bewan

Vicki Bevan orchestrated the rape and molestation of a young woman along with two men, telling them "there were no boundaries".

The 37-year-old woman fulfilled some of her horrific sexual fantasies alongside Paul Rafferty, 62, and Tony Hutton, 42, as they raped and abused a teenage girl. Bevan also spent time discussing with another man his desire to "kidnap, rape, torture, kill and then eat children" after they had sexually abused them.

The three St Helens pedophiles were all involved in the systematic abuse of a young girl. One of the men once asked her if she had any boundaries, and she replied, "No, none..."

Footage of the abuse was found on Bevan's cell phone. They were shared between the three of them and also by Bevan to other perverts online on Kik Messenger.

His morbid crimes came to light when a fourth man was arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent pictures of children. His phone was scanned and footage of Bevan's abuse was discovered before police discovered the video showing Bevan sexually abusing the child.

Bevan, of Napier Street, St Helens, admitted to raping a child under the age of 13; five attacks on a child under 13 through penetration; two counts of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13; a count of sexual activity with a child; and a count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. The rape, one of the counts of assaulting a child under the age of 13 by penetration and one of the charges of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13, were carried out jointly with Rafferty of Fry Street, St Helens.

One of the other cases of sexual assault on a child under the age of 13 involved Bevan and Hutton of Liverpool Street, St Helens, both of whom engaged in a sexual act with the victim. Bevan also admitted that indecent images of children were produced on 17 counts and disseminated on three counts, and possession of extreme pornography on two counts.

Rafferty admitted to raping a child under the age of 13; an assault on a child under 13 by penetration; one case of sexual assault on a child under the age of 13; and six cases of indecent photos of children. Hutton pleaded guilty to one count of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 and three counts of taking indecent photographs of children.

Bevan was sentenced to at least 10 years to life in prison. Rafferty was jailed for 10 years on an extended four-year license. Hutton was jailed for four years.

Stefan Crook

Cocaine-addicted brute Stephen Crook has his girlfriend live her life "on the edge" and "always wait for the next attack".

He wept when a court heard how he subjected his partner to "ongoing abuse" for seven years. The 32-year-old man punched, kicked, choked and spat on the victim.

Much of the abuse revolved around the Crooks' demands for money to buy cocaine or pay off drug debts. He even threatened to cut off her head and put it in a box.

The woman, who declined to name the ECHO, said Crook, from Exeter Street, St Helens, would not let her shower or go to the toilet alone, have friends or family contact or access social media. When she failed to respond to his demands for money for cocaine on February 21 of that year, he slammed a closet door that had sprung off its hinges.

Crook then put his hands around her neck and squeezed her neck. He continued until her nose started to bleed. He has admitted to controlling and coercive behavior and aggression between 2015 and 2022 in connection with the February 21 attack.

Crook was jailed for two years and three months.

David Welsh

David Welsh, who dragged an 81-year-old woman down the street "like a rag doll", has asked a judge to give him the maximum sentence.

The 22-year-old interrupted his sentencing hearing to apologize for his behavior. Welsh returned to drug use after his father was diagnosed with cancer and tried to steal the pensioner's purse so he could cure his addiction.

The victim had a firm grip on his bag, which was wrapped around his body, although he kicked it when she was lying between two parked cars on the street. Nearby people heard her cries for help and came to her aid. Welsh was arrested and imprisoned.

Welsh, from Vanbrugh Road, Walton, admitted to an attempted robbery at around 4pm on 10 February this year at Priory Road, Anfield, over the incident. The court heard that he had mental health issues and was the son of a crack addict who was placed in foster care as a child.

Judge Gary Woodhall accepted that Welsh was truly repentant, taking into account his "extremely tragic and traumatic upbringing". He stressed that this does not excuse his behavior, but that it is his duty to impose the lowest possible sentence compatible with his crime and sentenced him to three years and eight months in prison.

Thomas Wright

A carpenter from Huyton was part of a gang that transported heroin and crack between Liverpool and Wrexham.

The group was disbanded after officers blew up several doors and discovered the true extent of the operation. Seven of the 11 members of the Wrexham-based team were convicted this week, including 'trust' messenger Thomas Wright.

They operated a large drug supply chain for about a year between March 2020 and 2021. Their patch was mainly in and around Wrexham, a place the judge said was already suffering "severely" from a drug problem.

Thomas Wright, 44, of Fairfield Avenue, Huyton, has been labeled an "upstream supplier." Wright - who bought "pound for pound" hard drugs for the gang to move around the Wrexham area and who was convicted of involvement in Class A drug conspiracies - was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

His defense attorney, Julian Nutter, claimed the "respectable" carpenter had been threatened with joining the trade. He was reportedly "forced" to work for criminals further up the drug supply chain.

Ethan Birke

Cyber ​​social media trimmer Ethan Birch drove to Widnes with children's underwear in the trunk to meet an "11-year-old girl".

The 20-year-old appeared in the DCBL stadium car park in Lower House Lane, Widnes on Friday 21 January wearing "short pants and tops" and a switch of boxers to himself after 10 days of online news including sexual incitement and sending lewd pictures of yourself.

Unbeknownst to Birch of Little Lowes Meadow, Lowton, Warrington, the alleged child was actually an adult bait to catch pedophiles who are preying on boys online. When Birch arrived, adults from a group known as Cobra UK confronted Birch and telephoned Cheshire Police, who arrived and arrested him.

Birch admitted five counts of trying to get a child to engage in sexual activity, two counts of trying to get a child to watch a sexual act, trying to find a child after adoption, trying to cause sexual communication with a child, and trying to engage a child in communication sexual.

He was detained for four years and eight months.

Steven Mallon

Jewel thief Steven Mallon has been dragged away by police after being hit by an SUV while trying to flee.

CCTV footage of the "brazen and brazen" attack, carried out on bystanders, was shown in court after the only captured gang member appeared for sentencing. Mallon's five accomplices jumped onto two motorcycles as police rushed to the scene, Rebecca's jewelry shop in Southport, and disabled the other motorcycle.

Mallon was thrown to the ground and arrested as he tried to flee on foot and was hit by a small SUV. The robbery was carefully planned in advance and the gang was armed with an angle grinder, an axe, a hammer and a crowbar.

The "clearly organized" theft happened this year on Monday, March 21, shortly after 9pm. Three of the men, all in black and wearing helmets, waited on their motorbikes while the others, including Mallon, engaged in a break-in during an operation estimated to be worth £80,000.

One of them used an angle grinder, from which large showers of sparks could be seen, to cut the metal shutter and then a railing inside the store. Mallon, 43, of Briarwood Road, Aigburth, admitted to the theft.

He was imprisoned for two years and eight months.

David Houghton

David Houghton jumped into the Manchester Ship Canal after driving the M6 ​​in the wrong direction.

At 1.17pm on Wednesday 6th April this year, officers spotted a white Volkswagen Transporter on the southbound M6 near junction 21 at the Woolston Interchange. Intelligence suggested that the van's driver, Houghton, 43, did not have a driver's license and officers tried to stop the van.

He exited the motorway onto the A57 roundabout and appeared to be stopping for officers. However, he then took off at high speed.

Houghton twice drove the M6 ​​in the wrong direction, driving at speeds well over the 50 mph limit. Although the chase was twice called off because of his driving, officers followed Houghton from a safe distance to the A50 Knutsford Road.

Houghton finally turned into Thelwall Lane, a dead-end street. He abandoned his vehicle and fled before jumping into the Manchester Ship Canal. He was arrested as he was coming out of the water on the other side.

Houghton, who has no fixed address but is from Liverpool, has admitted to dangerous driving and has not provided a copy. He was imprisoned for 16 months.

Lisa Fletcher

The mother broke Lisa Fletcher cried as she was taken to the cells for a prison sentence, meaning she may not see her father alive again.

Fletcher and his then-partner Lee Owens stole over £1,200 worth of goods from an independent shop in Maghull last year. The couple was caught after an off-duty police officer spotted them at an Indian restaurant and recognized them on CCTV.

The pair took aim at Ryat Menswear on Moreton Way on 21 November and waited until the owner left for lunch before looting the shop within a minute. They took £1,285 worth of stock from the store.

Police found the couple's CCTV but were only able to track them down the following month, when an off-duty police officer went to a restaurant with his partner for dinner. He spotted the thieves at another table and called the police.

Owens tried to rob another restaurant and the officer took him to the ground before he and his girlfriend were arrested. The couple, both from Drake Crescent, Fazakerley, admitted to the theft and Fletcher told the court she was looking after her father, who was dying of cancer.

Owens was jailed for three years and a tearful Fletcher for 16 months as she whimpered, "But my father is going to die."

Gary Stanley

A man found a loaded gun at the end of his backyard after two thugs threatened to shoot him.

The landlord stopped the masked men lurking outside his Childwall home. They made a frightening threat before fleeing on a motorbike.

Looking around his property, the victim spotted a bag in the woods behind his address. It contained a Russian semi-automatic pistol - with the DNA of fugitive crack dealer Gary Stanley on it.

Stanley was diving from a boat into a canal in a vain attempt to evade the police when he was caught by officers in June 2020. He was wanted for crimes at the time, including threatening to skin and bite his ex-girlfriend while she was still alive.

Stanley of Kingsland Road, Norris Green, was sentenced to five years in prison this summer. He was back in the dock at around 7:20 pm on 14 February 2020 at Lanfranc Close in connection with the discovery of the firearm.

He was only found on June 17th of this year, jumping from a boat in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Burscough. Stanley, now 33, has admitted to possessing a prohibited firearm and unlicensed ammunition.

He was imprisoned for six years.

Behnam Tavakoli-Juibari

Behnam Tavakoli-Juibari, who helped spearhead a £9 million scheme to distribute cocaine across the UK, kept details of his gang's dealings in notebooks.

He acted as an accountant for a crew responsible for transporting large amounts of Class A drugs. The 37-year-old is the last of the gang to be convicted, but was eventually arrested after being extradited from the Netherlands and admitting his role in the conspiracy.

The group shipped hundreds of kilos of drugs to England, Wales and Scotland in the first half of 2016, with eight members sentenced to a total of 106 years in prison in May 2018. The plot, which focused on supplying cocaine , but also included heroin, MDMA and diazepam, was mainly run by Wirral, but fell apart following Merseyside Police's Operation Wessex.

Officers raided an address used by the group and seized a £1.4m stash, including more than 9kg of cocaine, 7kg of unadulterated heroin, 10,000 MDMA pills and 11,000 diazepam pills.

Accountant and courier Tavakoli-Juibari, of Woodlands Avenue, New Brighton, admitted his role in the plans. He was imprisoned for 15 years.

Peter Neld

Peter Neild, who recorded sexually assaulting a child, was caught by police who recognized his tattoos.

His attacks on the girl came to light after police found a phone hidden in the headrest of a chair at her Little Sutton home and compared her tattoos to those in the video. Officers arrested him on suspicion of downloading indecent images from the internet, but were confronted with hideous footage of Neild committing abuse.

The 50-year-old man, who told police "I need help, I can't go on like this", was deemed a danger to children after police searched his home on January 27 this year. Authorities have since been able to identify the child and she and her family are being supported by social services. Neild admitted to sexually assaulting her.

Neild was also convicted of a previous series of sex crimes committed while living in Southport, when he was caught by pedophile hunters trying to groom a teenage girl online and then dating her in 2018. He has admitted to trying to find a child after foster care, encouraging a child to engage in sexual activity, encourage a child to observe sexual activity, and engage in sexual communication with a child.

Neild, from Chester Road, Little Sutton, has previously been arrested for rape, unlawful sexual contact with a child and sexual assault on a child. He was jailed for 10 years and 10 months, with an extended five-year license.

Harry Beardsmore

Harry Beardsmore conned the home of two drug addicts and used their apartment to package and sell Class A drugs.

During a raid on a Torquay flat, police found Beardsmore and Brandon Murray packaging and selling heroin and cocaine. The apartment's legal tenants were drug addicts who lived in the bedroom while the two men slept in the living room.

On 22 June 2020, over 20g of cocaine and heroin and £1,500 in cash were seized. Beardsmore, 21, of Bedford Road, Birkenhead, was found guilty of involvement in the supply of Class A drugs and possession of criminal property.

Beardsmore was jailed for four and a half years.

Paul Devine

Paul Devine threatened to stab a store employee before vandalizing his store in a robbery triggered by a dispute over a phone top-up.

He launched the horrific attack at the Day 2 Day convenience store in Everton Valley on December 20 last year, brandishing a large kitchen knife at a terrified worker. Later, the 34-year-old told police he had no memory of the incident and had cried when he saw footage of the chaos he had caused.

Devine asked to top up £10 on his phone. The money seemed to be leaving his account, but he still couldn't see it in his phone records and he argued before leaving the store, returning with a drink and a drug-fueled rage.

The father of a child who screamed "I stab you, I stab you" admitted to attempted robbery, possession of a sharp object and vandalism. Devine, of Jason Street, Everton, was jailed for five years and three months.

José helps

Joseph Helps strangled his partner during brutal domestic violence.

The 48-year-old man, from Main Street, Halton Village, Runcorn, was arrested following the attack on the woman on Main Street on Saturday 14 May. According to court records, the crime was considered "very serious" and only imprisonment would be sufficient because Helps had shown "flagrant disregard for people and their property".

The court heard that he had a history of domestic violence involving strangulation and already had a community directive. He admitted to an assault involving actual bodily harm.

A three-year restraining order was issued, preventing him from contacting his victim and from visiting two identified addresses. Helps was jailed for 12 months.

Andreas Graham

Drug dealer Andrew Graham missed the birth of his first child after police caught him transporting a block of crack from Liverpool to Scotland.

He hid 107g of class A drugs in the steering wheel compartment of his car when he tried to transport it from Merseyside, but officers discovered it after searching his car. They also discovered that he and another man in the car, Justin Richmond, were dealing marijuana on November 7, 2020.

Graham and Richmond's phones were confiscated and both were found to have been low-level marijuana dealers for the previous two months. Both admitted to being concerned about supplying Class B drugs and possession of marijuana, while Graham also admitted to being in possession of crack cocaine with intent to supply.

Graham, 21, of Tiree Court, Dreghorn, was sentenced to three years and two months in prison. Richmond, 19, of Annick Drive, Dreghorn, was spared arrest.

Aaron Rowe

Aaron Rowe, who destroyed nine police vehicles, could have endangered lives, a senior police official said.

The 36-year-old man with no fixed address admitted to threatening a woman in Widnes on 11 March; two separate attacks in defeating two men on 11 May at Widnes; criminal damage to the ceiling of a Halton Borough Council disabled toilet on May 11; Damage to nine police vehicles in Runcorn; and a violation of supervision.

According to court records, the crime was "very serious" because it was committed under license, domestic misdemeanor, assaulting people at work, and because of his previous criminal record. Cheshire Police said he could have disabled vital vehicles, leaving patrols unable to reach incidents, which could mean the difference between life and death.

He was jailed for 24 weeks.

Trevor Carr

A 12-year-old child has been kidnapped outside a busy train station and taken 120 miles away.

Trevor Carr, 40, and Ava Jones, 28, threw a blanket over the child's head and asked her to turn off the phone so she couldn't be followed. The couple abducted the child, who was wearing a school uniform, from Wigan North Western railway station and drove to a campsite in North Wales.

The couple argued while driving and the police called them while driving, resulting in the child screaming. Jones placed his hand over the child's mouth and told officers his name was David Jones and that he was camping in Ireland.

But when detectives traced Jones's phone, they discovered they were at Fferm Cedris Farm Campsite in Abergynolwyn, North Wales. Jones had set up a tent and was sleeping in it with the child, in separate sleeping bags.

The child started talking to Jones online in September 2021 when they were discussing gender identity. The child's grandmother told Jones to stop and warned that it was "beware", but on October 4, Jones and Carr kidnapped the child.

Carr of Burns Street, Bootle and Jones, who have no fixed address, admitted to the kidnapping because the crime was not sexually motivated. Carr was jailed for two years and Jones for two years and two months.

Ryan Blake

Work Scrambler Ryan Blake was caught with over 5 kilos of MDMA, but told police he was only saving it for his dealer.

Police seized around £100,000 worth of ecstasy when they raided his home in Hughes Street, Garston, in 2019. But in a bizarre complaint, the 26-year-old told officers his own dealer, known simply as "Gary", asked him to him to keep the colossal amount of the Class A drugs - and never claimed it back.

A judge said Blake, who had previously been arrested for a cowardly bicycle attack on police, his apology was incredible. Police searched Blake's home on November 11, 2019 and found 5 pounds of ecstasy. The drugs had a market value of between £78,000 and £130,000 at 32% purity.

Blake admitted to possessing MDMA with the intent to deliver, but said his role was secondary and that he really only believed the drugs were a dealer he owed £800 in debt.

A judge dismissed his claims, noting that he had previously been convicted of drug trafficking. Blake also admitted to possessing cocaine with the intention of delivering via separate transport eight packets of cocaine weighing 3.9g found during a separate police search in July 2020.

He was imprisoned for seven years and eleven months.

Johannes Neild

John Neild threatened to bury his girlfriend in a hole if she spoke about his despicable domestic violence.

The 30-year-old man attacked the woman - whose name ECHO declined to name - twice in separate attacks just over a month apart, attempting to strangle her in the first incident and knocking her unconscious in the second, breaking bones.

Neild became aggressive at home with his partner of almost three years around 10pm on Boxing Day last year. He punched the woman, tried to strangle her, then grabbed a kitchen knife and told his friends to leave before pressing her face into the bed. When she screamed, he threatened to bite her ear off.

On December 27, he threatened to bury her, and on February 4, after drinking, he attacked her, leaving her with facial fractures that required surgery. Neild, from Barnes Close, Widnes, admitted to causing grievous bodily harm and threatening behavior in the 4 February incident and actually causing bodily harm in the Boxing Day attack.

He was imprisoned for 16 months.

Joseph Byrne

Joseph Byrne, using the EncroChat handle "FoxHedge", blew kisses at his partner as he was sent down.

Byrne was a drug dealer and courier who shipped narcotics across the country. The 44-year-old man was involved with at least 30 kilos of cocaine and heroin and thousands of kilos of marijuana.

In a message, he told another EncroChat user that he carried £38,000 owed when passing through a police checkpoint. Byrne said, "It was hard to fuck me."

When police searched his house on Radway Road, Huyton, on 15 July last year, they found passports, £7,000 in cash, marijuana and scales. Byrne admitted to three drug supply conspiracies involving cocaine, heroin and marijuana between January 1 and June 4, 2020.

Byrne, whose previous convictions include conspiracy to supply amphetamines, was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison.

Michael Brandrik

Michael Brandrick and James Donnelly dealt cocaine and marijuana from a car in a Toby Carvery parking lot.

They were caught when police saw them sitting in a Volkswagen Tiguan in the restaurant's car park on Aigburth Road, Aigburth. The pub formerly known as the Kingsman has closed due to lockdown. The Tiguan was parked with its headlights on next to another car with its headlights on on January 4th last year.

The car reeked of marijuana and when Brandrick, 30, was searched, officers found two packets of cocaine in his jacket pocket and two clear bags around his waist containing 13g of the same drug. He also had £300 worth of weed and his phone vibrated.

He was arrested and a thorough search at the station found four more packets of cocaine before officers seized amphetamines from his home on Dovedale Avenue, Eastham. He had a total of £1,700 worth of drugs.

When Donnelly, 37,'s home on Arranmore Road, Mossley Hill, was searched, police found a red bag containing £1,500 worth of heroin. A bag of cocaine worth £2,070 was also found.

Brandrick admitted to possessing cocaine and marijuana with the intent to supply and possess amphetamines. Donnelly admitted to possessing heroin and cocaine with the intent to supply.

Brandrick and Donnelly, neither of whom had a criminal record, were jailed for two and a half years.

Allan Breen

Allan Breen, who came across a man trying to cross the street, had more than seven times the legal limit for cocaine in his blood.

He was also with his son in the car when he collided with Paul Tyler on Prescot Road last year, leaving him in hospital for four weeks. The 43-year-old father, who was already serving a sentence for drug trafficking, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison after admitting to causing serious injuries by driving dangerously.

Amber Owen, 23, who was driving right in front of Breen before the accident but dodged Mr. Tyler shortly before the impact of Breen, admitted to driving carelessly. Breen and Owen stopped side by side at a red light on the night of April 14 before it turned green.

The couple, unknown to each other, turned onto Prescot Road and hurried downhill. Owen claimed that she felt threatened by Breen and was trying to get away from him - but he denied this.

Breen ran to Owen's car and when it swerved to avoid the victim, Breen hit him and catapulted him across the street. Mr. Tyler suffered compound fractures to one of his legs, as well as injuries to his head and face, requiring two surgeries and spending a month in the hospital.

Breen, of Regal Road, Croxteth, was imprisoned for two years and eight months. Owen, of Heather Brow, Claughton, was fined £450.

Anthony Byrn

A woman was left in agony after her drunken partner poured a kettle of boiling water over her.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that Anthony Byrne, 55, had been in a relationship with his victim for three years at the time of the crime on March 8 this year. On the night of the attack, his victim asked Byrne for a key to his house because of his drinking.

He threw her the key, she took it and went to the kitchen, but he followed and pushed her. He then took the kettle, which he knew contained boiling water because she had told him, and poured it over it, said Paul Blasbery, the prosecutor.

Registrar Blakey said she suffered a burn as a result, and said he had seen photos that showed "a sizable blister" on her back. He has a criminal record, including sexual abuse from previous partners, and the judge said it showed "a history of domestic violence, but nothing comparable".

Byrne, formerly of Alpine Street, Newton-le-Willows, who pleaded guilty to intentional aggravated assault, was sentenced to four years in prison.

The judge issued a life restraining order against Byrne to stay away from the victim and Alpine Street.

Huch Thomas

A pedophile who sent dozens of messages to what they believed to be teenagers was caught after vigilantes managed to break into his apartment.

Huw Thomas was unaware that he was messaging self-proclaimed "pedophile hunters" by sending a series of vile messages to accounts he believed belonged to underage girls. But members of the Fleetwood Enforcers UK, based in Lancashire, found out where he lived and went there to try to capture the 46-year-old man himself.

It was only after they spoke to other residents of the assisted living facility and discovered that Thomas was not there that the police were contacted about his behaviour.

The judge, Brian Cummings, QC, said Thomas accepted that he had a sexual interest and children and that he was dangerous, but said he only stopped when the police intervened and not willingly. He said: "There was a degree of insistence that you continued to be offended after one of your phones was confiscated."

Thomas, of Queens Road, Southport, was jailed for three years and four months.

Lucas Dwyer

A man who attempted to shoot at a Liverpool away game has been arrested after twice violating a suspended sentence.

Luke Dwyer was originally taken to court last year after being convicted of dangerous driving when he was prevented from getting behind the wheel. Despite having a chance then, the 29-year-old committed two more offenses and wept in court today as he ended up in prison for the first time.

Described by judge, registrar Daniel Prowse, as "terrifying", Dwyer narrowly avoided prison in 2021 after a judge handed him a 10-month sentence with an 18-month suspended sentence.

He was caught trying to enter Selhurst Park with a flare to watch Liverpool's game against Crystal Palace on Sunday 23rd January this year. Months later, officers also found him unpredictable when driving and believed he was under the influence of marijuana, although he refused to take the test. He later admitted that he was disqualified from driving and failed to provide a sample and possession of marijuana in addition to the Selhurst Park offense.

Dwyer, of Sunnyside Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, was sentenced to a total of six months' imprisonment. That included an eight-week sentence for the crimes committed earlier this month and a four-month suspended sentence.

He will also have his driver's license revoked for four years and banned from regular football matches for three years. Dwyer wept at several points during the hearing, but was unemotional as he was taken to the cells.

Daniel Colebourne

A man dragged his mother from her bed and banged her head against the wall in a brutal attack inside their home.

Daniel Colebourne has left Margaret Colebourne "black and blue" after a violent attack on her home earlier this year. The 27-year-old's actions were so serious that a judge not only arrested him, but banned him from contacting her after she told prosecutors she never wanted to see him again.

Colebourne attacked her mother in April last year, leaving her with a three-inch gash and extensive bruises on her head. He later claimed that the injuries were caused by an accident, but eventually admitted that he had been injured and criminally damaged for damaging his mother's refrigerator during the same incident.

Colebourne of HMP Altcourse was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Peter Wilson

One pedophile's sick stash of child molestation videos contained a half-hour movie of him molesting a child.

Convicted sex offender Peter Wilson moved to Merseyside after his release from prison and "disappeared". The 32-year-old was eventually located at a hotel in Litherland.

Police found he had downloaded distorted files, including video of a baby being raped, which left a judge speechless when it was described in court. But another film showed Wilson himself sexually abusing a young woman - and then turning towards the camera to reveal her face.

The judge sentenced him to five years in prison, with an extended license of eight years. That means Wilson must serve at least two-thirds of his sentence - three years and four months - behind bars before he can apply for parole.

However, at this point, he will only be released if the parole board decides he is no longer a risk. He will then have a license for the remaining five years plus the extended eight years.

If he reoffends, he could be recalled to serve a full prison term.

James Gibney

A gang of thugs launched fireworks at Liverpool fans as they celebrated the Reds' 2020 Premier League victory.

James Gibney, 39; Peter Mallon, 20; Youssif Ahmed, 28; Quaynan Browne, 21; and Claire Rowson, 38, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing on Friday after pleading guilty to the racket. A video compilation of their behavior on the night of June 26 and in the early hours of June 27, 2020 showed individual members throwing lit firecrackers and other rockets, attacking police vehicles, fighting in the street and, at one point, climbing a Greggs truck. who was stopping on a downtown street.

Each of the defendants was represented by their own counsel at sentencing, with the exception of Browne, who chose not to be represented. They took responsibility and expressed remorse on behalf of their customers for the role they played in the disorder that night, blaming their actions on excessive alcohol consumption.

Record holders David Knifton QC said: "The night of 26 June 2020 should have been a proud day for many in this city as Liverpool FC claimed a prize that had eluded them for 30 years by being crowned Premier League champions. due to the strict Covid lockdown restrictions in place at the time, large crowds illegally gathered at Pier Head that day.

“At night, a crowd of 1,000 people gathered, drunk and jumping in traffic. Police officers tried to disperse the crowd, but many chose to remain. The mood had changed from a noisy celebration to a violent, angry scene.

“This was a case of severe or prolonged violence that left people in great fear or distress. Some hid in doorways, crying, trying to avoid being hurled by rockets.

“Each act of violence or disturbance excites or emboldens others. Those who engage in mob violence face stiff penalties for deterring others. In my opinion, your offenses were so serious that imprisonment alone may suffice.”

Gibney, of St Paul's Close, Kirkby, was sentenced to 24 months' imprisonment plus a further 10 months for dangerous driving. Mallon, of Broad Lane, Kirkby, who is already serving a sentence for assault, was sentenced to 18 months at a young offenders' institute, in addition to his current sentence of five years.

Ahmed, of Fairfield Street, Kensington, who was released from prison via a video link, was sentenced to 21 months plus four months for violating a suspended sentence. Browne of Kirkburn Close, Toxteth was sentenced to 21 months in prison whilst Rowson of Shaftesbury Avenue, Kirkby was sentenced to 24 months in prison.

Clare Roughley

A scammer who stole hundreds of thousands from his family left his father with a mortgage he didn't take on when he retired.

Clare Roughley subjected her parents, grandparents and a woman who cared for her to a heinous robbery campaign for several years. The former bank teller was arrested in October after admitting to using her insider knowledge to steal £325,000 from those she was supposed to trust.

She set up online access to the accounts of her father Raymond Roughley, mother Delyn Roughley and grandmother Theresa Leyland. For several years, she used her savings to fund her growing gambling addiction, stealing thousands from a woman she cared for.

In June, the 40-year-old faced another judge at Liverpool Crown Court to be convicted of mortgage fraud over the same period. Prosecutor Peter Hussey told the court that in 2015 and 2016, around the same time she stole from her parents, Roughley applied for a mortgage in her father's name and later bought it to buy the house where she and her partner lived.

Roughley, who is already serving a long sentence for the crimes she was convicted of last year, has admitted to mortgage fraud. She was sentenced to an additional 38 months in prison. However, this will be served at the same time as his other sentences and means it will not affect his expected release from prison in the fall of 2024.

John Kirk

A cocaine-fueled thug's homemade gas bomb exploded in mid-air while he was trying to "get revenge" at a nightclub that wouldn't let him in. Convicted heroin supplier John Kirk, 34, launched the attack on Chambers pub in High Street Runcorn in the early hours of 6 March, after having been banned from Chambers and Alchemy in the same street that night.

Door staff at Bar Alchemy turned Kirk away at 10:30 pm on Saturday, March 5 after seeing him arguing with staff in another pub. Kirk, who later told his parole officer that he had been drinking alcohol and snorting an array of cocaine, responded by making "gross remarks" and cursing the security guards and bar staff.

Just over an hour and a half later, he tried to enter the Chamber, but was refused by the same officials. He became aggressive but seemed to agree when the police stepped in to take him home. However, he filled an empty Pepsi bottle with fuel from a nearby gas station and fired the flaming missile at the security guard. Luckily, it exploded before reaching him.

Kirk, of The Hove, Murdishaw, Runcorn, pleaded guilty to attempted arson with intent to endanger life. He was imprisoned for four years and 10 months.

Karl McDonough

A burglar broke into the home of an elderly couple and stole thousands of pounds worth of jewellery, saying he was a police officer investigating a previous theft.

Karl McDonough attacked Jean and Francis Hampson at their Everton home early last year and stole Mrs Hampson's "jewels worth a life". McDonough cruelly suggested he was there to take pictures to catch the previous thief, but then he went through a closet and found her jewelry box.

When the couple became suspicious of him, he brushed past them and ran into the street with many of their valuables. The court heard that the Hampsons' Everton address had already been attacked by burglars and McDonough used information about this crime to gain her trust before he could steal Mrs. Hampson.

In a statement, she said that she also lost all the jewelry given to her by her husband, who unfortunately passed away. McDonough, formerly of the Great Crosshall Street YMCA, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. A restraining order will also prevent you from contacting Ms. Hampson.

James McGowan

A drug dealer doused a woman with gasoline from a Lucozade bottle before she burst into flames.

James McGowan threatened to set Kelly Quinn on fire when she asked for drugs while already in debt. The 24-year-old hit her in the head with an iron bar.

Prosecutors said conflicting reports about what happened next meant they could not be certain that McGowan set her on fire. But after weeks in a coma, she remembers waking up covered in bandages like an Egyptian "mummy".

Quinn visited his dealer's home on Southport's Derby Road on Boxing Day to try to get drugs, but McGowan and his girlfriend Holly McCarthy later stopped by and argued with her about debts. McCarthy hit Mrs. Quinn and McGowan, who had previously threatened to "set her on fire", doused her with gasoline.

Quinn then left, but the gasoline, believed to have been ignited by lighting a cigarette, severely burned her and put her into a coma.

He told McGowan, "His intention must have been to scare his victim into line." The judge sentenced him to two years and 10 months, saying: "I accept that you didn't set them on fire, but you must have realized that in pouring gasoline on someone who is smoking, serious harm was foreseeable - there was a risk of serious harm occurring. "

McGowan's friend Holly McCarthy also admitted to a joint assault and received an 18-month community directive in February with a 15-day rehabilitation activity requirement and 28-day curfew.

Claire Neumann

A mum stabbed two security guards as they tried to stop her stealing children's clothes from a Next store in Liverpool.

Claire Newman punched David Bailey at the chain's New Mersey Shopping Park with a Stanley knife and caused him to receive 20 stitches in his arm. Bailey's colleague Ian Grogan was also injured by Newman after she slashed his hand with the blade.

The 34-year-old wept when a judge arrested her for the March 9 attacks and two robberies in which she stole designer bags from Selfridges in Manchester and also assaulted a security guard there.

Jonathan Duffy, the prosecutor, said Bailey and Grogan saw Newman stealing baby clothes from the Speke store and managed to stop them from escaping. The couple had no intention of calling the police and wanted to get Newman's picture taken so she could be banned from the business. However, after initially following them, Newman became aggressive and agitated.

Duffy said "She was screaming that she was going to stab David Bailey and it turned out that she had a Stanley knife on her and she stabbed Mr Bailey causing a nasty wound on his forearm." and she bit the other arm. During the fight, she also grabbed Mr. Grogan with the knife.

Newman later admitted to hurting Mr. Bailey on purpose and Mr. Grogan unintentionally. She also pleaded guilty to theft and possession of a bladed article. Newman of the HMP Styal was jailed for six years and five months.

Helena Robertson

A woman who was banned from lying on the street in 2019 is back behind bars after threatening to demolish a woman's home.

Helena Robertson, 45, no fixed address but from Runcorn, appeared before Warrington Magistrates Court after the crime. She pleaded guilty to "screaming and verbally abusing" her victim, in violation of a Criminal Behavior Order (CBO), threatened to destroy the woman's home and breach her supervision.

According to court documents, she was sentenced to 38 weeks in jail and ordered to pay a £156 surcharge, with the sentence deemed "serious" because the "crime was committed in someone's home after she was invited" during surveillance. was committed after conviction and because of his criminal record.

The incident happened in Runcorn. Robertson was subjected to a five-year CBO in May 2019 after a litany of problem behavior aimed at curbing her antisocial antics.

Graham Handlon

A depraved parent asked undercover police to send him distorted photos and said, "I'm 100% pedestrian."

Graham Handlon thought he was talking to another pervert online. But the 49-year-old actually did talk to an undercover police officer - just months after the dissident was spared jail for a sick pile of photos. The father-of-two revealed he bought an unregistered payment while you were on the phone "for all my pedo".

And he bragged, "There are no limits to me. I'm just a dirty c***, I'll just go for anything. Anything and everything that counts. You know what I mean?"

Liverpool Crown Court heard that Handlon, of Park Crescent, Southport, was given a two-year community order in January 2020 after he was caught with photos of child rape. He received a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

On November 30 of this year, he wrote to the official on the ChatIW web forum: "Hi m 47 peD North West No Limits" and used the profile name "Bipedlknforbiped". Jamie Baxter, prosecutor, said: "Maybe a bisexual pedophile is looking for another bisexual pedophile, if that's what biped represents."

Handlon sent him lewd photos and videos before claiming he "made" a girl when she was two. He sent more photos, bragging about having "100s" and asking the officer if he had any pictures of his 11-year-old daughter - who the officer claimed he sexually abused.

The officer said he was "careful" about who he shared photos with, but Handlon responded: "I understand that buddy, I'm 100% buddy." To prove his claims, he uploaded more photos and added: "I have videos too."

He sent the officer three child rape videos and one video of him performing a sexual act. Police traced his phone and found CCTV footage of him purchasing a top-up voucher at Spar in Roe Lane, Southport on November 7, 2020.

On January 25, 2021, officers searched his home. He handed over a phone and a laptop, but was unable to show his Alba phone, which was discovered hidden in a plastic bag in his mailbox.

He admitted to three counts of downloading, three counts of distribution, and one count of possession of indecent images of children, as well as possession of extreme pornography and violation of his SHPO. A judge sentenced him to three years and ten months. He made a new 15-year-old SHPO and demanded that Handlon put himself on the sex offender registry for life.

Lauren Blaney

A mother ransacked her neighbor's house and tried to hide from the police behind a trash can.

Lauren Blaney "vandalized" the Handfield Road home while on bail for doing almost the exact same thing at her ex-boyfriend's house months earlier. The 30-year-old knocked over an aquarium in last summer's bizarre incident, stole a television and trashed several rooms.

Zahra Baqri, a prosecutor, said Blaney's neighbor at the time returned to his home on the afternoon of 17 June 2021. She said the front door was locked as usual, but he found the rooms inside "vandalized".

Blaney was later seen running down the street trying to hide from the police behind a rubbish bin, but was arrested the same day and admitted to a burglary. Blaney's victim suffered financial losses of around £1,000 as a result of the theft.

The court heard that his crime was fueled by drug and alcohol abuse. Judge Anil Murray sentenced Blaney to 12 months in prison and urged her to continue her efforts to address her prison addiction issues.

Olivia Kamara

A dealer was found hiding in a bathroom with more than 150 packets of crack and heroin during a house search.

Olivia Kamara previously had a similar conviction and the Liverpool Crown Court heard on Monday 6th June that she had only been out of prison for a short time when she was re-arrested. The 26-year-old was found with Class A drugs after police searched a house on Lovely Lane in Warrington on the morning of September 9 last year.

Police searched the house after discovering another woman, Louise Butler, involved in a drug deal on Lovely Lane. Butler returned to the house on Lovely Lane, where she lived with her "abusive and intimidating" partner.

After a few minutes, she reappeared and headed for Colin Street, ostensibly to meet a drug customer. But Butler was intercepted by the police and fell to the ground. Then she spit out five packs of drugs.

The police then discovered that Kamara was hiding in a house with more drugs. She admitted possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply them and was jailed for four years and three months. Butler was sentenced to 23 months in prison, which was suspended for two years.

John Stanley

A man tricked a teenage girl into his car one night, then drove her to an apartment, locked her up and pinned her to the bed by the neck.

John Stanley previously targeted the 17-year-old in Liverpool city center in 2018. After telling the victim, whose name ECHO declined to name, that he needed help getting home, the former taxi driver launched an attack which a judge said today would give "a chill" to the city's girls and women.

Stanley, now 35, maintained his innocence for years but is now behind bars after a jury at Liverpool Crown Court uncovered his lies.

His judgment heard Stanley manipulating the girl, luring her to his car and asking her to drive him home, crying when she said she couldn't do that. She finally agreed to get into his car with her friend and the other man to try and help him. However, Stanley then drove away, letting the girl's friend and the other man out of the car.

Gibson said that when they were alone, Stanley's mood changed dramatically and he became aggressive. He refused to take the girl home and instead took her to another house he rented and said he would call a cab.

The teenager tried to ask a friend for help, but did not know where she was taken. When Stanley parked the car, she refused to get out and asked him to call her a taxi, but he grabbed her by the head and dragged her inside, throwing her against the wall.

After trapping and suffocating her on a bed, she managed to escape by hitting him with a high heel and running out of the property. Stanley was jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of false imprisonment.

Alan's undergrowth

A thief's harassment campaign against a shopkeeper forced the man to sell his business and move house.

Alan Underwood hacked into Prescot Mobiles & Computer Services in 2019, causing around £1,000 in damage to the business. But when owner Shakir Ur Rehman recognized Underwood on CCTV and challenged him about the theft, Underwood threatened him and terrorized his business for weeks.

The 40-year-old's campaign against Rehman came before he launched a vicious attack on another Prescot clerk, throwing hot coffee at her. Underwood of HMP Altcourse was sentenced to three years in prison. A restraining order will also prevent you from contacting the merchant for seven years.

Tyrone Grimes

A dealer who hid 58 packs of crack and heroin in his ass said he entered Class A to pay for his mother's funeral.

Tyrone Grimes, 25, was arrested by police after they spotted him involved in an alleged drug deal in Widnes on May 11 this year. Paul Wood, who prosecuted the case at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, said officers stopped a Citroen Berlingo on Hale Road and arrested the driver Grimes, who "was trying to fight back".

The officer also confiscated a "Brenner" phone from Grimes' pocket. Officers searched Grimes in the North Cheshire Police detention room.

Back in prison on leave following his arrest in Widnes, Grimes pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply a Class A drug, namely heroin and crack cocaine, at Chester Magistrates Court on May 12, and one guilty of acquiring or consuming criminal property.

Grimes was originally charged with assaulting a first aid worker in connection with his May 11 arrest in Widnes, but the charge was dropped on Thursday. He was sentenced to three years and four months in prison. The sentence was reduced by a third of five years to honor Grimes' guilty pleas.

Craig Walker

One dealer told police the bags of drugs found in his home were "for chicken nuggets".

Craig Walker's bizarre attempts to get out of trouble came when he was caught by police with 70 packs of crack in his pants just weeks after his release from prison. A Liverpool Crown Court judge warned he risked wasting his life if he did not stop dealing Class A drugs to fund his own addiction.

Anthony O'Donohoe, prosecutor, said police located Walker, 30, on May 17, 2020 at an alleged drug deal on the outskirts of downtown. The car left Angela Street for Pennygate Close and after someone got into the car to buy drugs, police stopped the vehicle.

He appeared to have something in his pants and was later discovered to have 70 packs of crack on him. When questioned by police about a bag of drugs in his home, Walker told them to put away chicken nuggets.

He later admitted to possessing with intent to supply Class A drugs and was sentenced to four years in prison.

Claire McGlone

Two sisters transported kilos of Class A drugs and tens of thousands in cash across the country as part of a large drug conspiracy.

Amy and Claire McGlone used the name 'Moodyalpha' to receive instructions to ship cocaine, heroin and cannabis from Merseyside to destinations across the UK. The police who arrested the couple found a huge stash of drugs in their Mazda, while hacking the Encrochat network revealed the full extent of their crime.

Nicola Daley, a prosecutor, said the sisters worked together and passed the Encro phone back and forth when they both received orders from their "secretgold" boss in the spring of 2020. "Secretgold" had no criminal record, was involved in drug trafficking .

However, a series of news reports show that the couple were transporting drugs to and from Merseyside in April and May of this year. They were stopped by South Wales Police on 20 May 2020 and later admitted to conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

The court heard that there was no evidence that the women or their families were living "luxurious lifestyles" as a result of the drug trade, with Amy McGlone's financial situation looking particularly dire. Daley said they seemed to get only a few hundred pounds for each trip.

Claire McGlone was sentenced to four years and nine months and Amy McGlone to four years and six months.

Callum Unsworth

Callum Unsworth was arrested at Liverpool Crown Court for the brutal robbery of a man in Southport. But supporters lost their sentence after their outbursts caused them to be removed from court.

Unsworth was targeting a man who wanted to withdraw money in the early hours of January 29th of this year. The victim was in a downtown bar and was about to withdraw money from an ATM, but just as he was about to take it, Unsworth appeared behind him, grabbed the money and pushed the man to the ground.

Bernice Campbell, a prosecutor, told the court the man's knee was injured and his glasses were broken in the robbery, in which Unsworth, 23, made off with 30 pounds. Unsworth was later arrested and admitted to the theft.

Unsworth, who was homeless for two and a half years, said he believed the circumstances of his early years made him more prone to crime.

Martin Grant

Martin Grant, 33, was sentenced to over 14 years in prison on Friday 10th June after the Liverpool Crown Court heard that he started using an EnroChat phone shortly after his release from prison. Grant, a father of two, originally from Old Swan, specializes in high-quality cocaine imported from Bolivia.

Police were able to link Grant to the EncroChat SwiftOrchid identifier after identifying images of his home on the device. Grant, who lived in the Southport area, uploaded pictures of a bouncy castle to the device.

Prosecutor Ben Jones said Grant acted as a "wholesale broker", distributing class A drugs in the Midlands, Lancashire and the Carlisle area. Last week, the court heard how Grant's younger brother, Liam, used a beige palm to deliver marijuana. Liam Grant was jailed at a previous hearing for four years and six months.

Jones told the court that Grant had previous convictions for vehicle seizure, extortion, handling stolen goods, Section 18 injuries and possession of an assault weapon. Grant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, conspiracy to supply heroin, conspiracy to supply amphetamines and conspiracy to supply cannabis.

Paul Munro

A pedophile who sent messages saying he wanted to have sex with teenagers told police: "I was being silly again" after being confronted outside his home.

Paul Munro sent vile messages to a chat room account he believed was run by a 13-year-old boy. But the 47-year-old man from Oxton revealed his sexual interest in children to an adult, who then turned them over to police.

Liverpool Crown Court heard Monroe send a series of messages to accounts held by a vigilante. He sent the messages just months after the end of a community directive he had received for a previous offense.

A judge branded Munro, from Woodchurch Road, a danger to girls when he jailed him for four years and another six on extended leave.

Michael Doyle

A dealer planning to transfer kilos of Class A drugs was found in a closet at his home with a vacuum-sealed block of cocaine.

Michael Doyle led the movement of large amounts of cocaine, heroin and amphetamines in the first half of 2020. Bickerstaffe's father was arrested earlier this week after an investigation uncovered his criminal record.

Police were able to link Doyle to the transfer of 7 kg of cocaine, although there are reports alluding to larger deals that fell through. Other news showed Doyle's interest in importing drugs from the Netherlands and transferring millions of euros to South America.

Doyle of Heyescroft was imprisoned for 12 years.

Paul Shaw

A pedophile sent 100 messages a day to Facebook accounts he believed were managed by a teenager.

Paul Shaw thought he was talking to a 13-year-old when he sent messages saying he would make her "tingle" if they ever met. But Bootle's 61-year-old grandfather did speak to a vigilante, who later confronted him and relayed the messages to police.

Court member No More Silent Voices created a Facebook profile posing as a 13-year-old boy and received a friend request from Shaw. She then started getting more and more messages from him.

Shaw continued to message the account, saying he would have sex with the girl and asking her to masturbate for him. Like Paul Munro, he was caught after members of the vigilante group went to his house and the police were called.

Shaw of Aylward Place was jailed for two years and eight months.

Dean Potter

Two drug dealers are back behind bars after one drove the other home from prison despite being forbidden to see each other.

Cheshire Police said Dean Potter, 24, and Callum Pope, 22, were hit with criminal behavior orders (CBO) in 2019 to curb their "repeated involvement" in anti-social behaviour, selling drugs and making threats in the town. Despite this, Potter picked Pope up from HMP Risley in Warrington at 10am on Friday after being released from jail to take him back to Runcorn.

Pope was jailed for eight months and ordered to pay £156. Potter was sentenced to six months in prison and a £128 surcharge.

Following the sentencing, Chief Inspector Andrew Blizard of the Runcorn Local Police Unit said: “It is unbelievable that within minutes of his release from prison, Pope was in breach of the terms of his CBO by being taken home by Potter.

“The couples knew they were forbidden to have a relationship, but they preferred to get in the car together. As a result of that action, both men are now behind bars.”

Lewis Lally

A man riding an electric bicycle has fled France after colliding with a six-year-old girl, leaving his victim seriously injured in the street.

Lewis Lally, 24, was serving a suspended sentence when he hit a six-year-old girl "at full force" on Windsor Road, Tuebrook, on March 4 this year. Harrowing footage of the accident was shown at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday 14th June, showing the child being hit by the electric bike and being lifted into the air by the force of the impact.

Lally, from Belvoir Road, Widnes, took a ferry to France the next day with another man on his way to Barcelona, ​​and after several attempts to locate him he was eventually arrested in Widnes on 27 March.

He finally pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving when he first appeared in Crown Court in April. Imprisoning Lally for a total of two and a half years, Judge Brian Cummings QC described the CCTV footage as "shocking".

Kevin Campbell

A "disgusting" pervert has been spying on people using the bathroom.

Kevin Campbell has appeared at Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing. The 58-year-old has already pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism.

Campbell, who lives in Allerton, placed a camera in a bathroom in Birkenhead and filmed unsuspecting members of the public for a year. The accused saved the footage on his laptop, where an IT company discovered his hiding place in December 2020.

The court heard that Campbell was "disturbed" as he examined the videos - and immediately pleaded guilty. However, prosecutor David Watson has read a series of testimonies from his numerous victims, who remain traumatized after their images were used for the defendant's own "sexual gratification".

Campbell, of New Heys Drive, was jailed for eight months.

Sarah Campell

A mother sexually abused a 15-year-old boy for months and ended up giving birth to her child.

Sarah Campbell had sex with her victim on a golf course and under a blanket while others slept in the same room. Her mother, now 40, also doused the boy with cocaine and marijuana so they would "get out of their barnets" together, as part of her dirty plan to make him her "sex romp" between 2016 and 2017.

Martine Snowdon, a prosecutor, said Campbell began caring for the boy in 2016 and abused him for the first time. She said they had sex several times and she offered him drugs. Mrs. Snowdon said, "They would regularly 'take out their barnets', as [the victim] put it, smoke marijuana and take the cocaine she supplied".

Mrs. Snowdon said Campbell would try to prevent social services and others from finding the boy by tricking him into sneaking into his home and hiding at odd times of the day. She then became pregnant with a child that was later determined to be his and was accused of multiple sex crimes against him.

Campbell was found guilty after a trial earlier this year and was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on Tuesday.

Darren Nelson

One drug dealer bragged that he had a key worker in his gang who was transporting illegal packages during the lockdown.

Darren Nelson, of Whitfield Road, Walton, boasted of Virgin Media employee Robert Wood's freedom of movement heard in court. On Tuesday, seven of the 14 people from both gangs were arrested at Caernarfon Crown Court for their crimes in North Wales and Merseyside, totaling 66 years and 11 months.

Andrew Jones, prosecutor, said the cocaine and marijuana were obtained in Liverpool and distributed and adulterated in North Wales between December 2019 and April last year.

Jones said Wood, 58, worked for Virgin Media at the time and was a key employee during the lockdown. He transported cocaine across North Wales while other shipments were brought in by other gang members.

But police broke their EncroChat messages — in which the conspirators used names like Powerwhale and Excellent Wolf — and officers seized drugs from properties and vehicles.

All persons involved admitted to colluding to supply a Class A controlled drug - cocaine - and a Class B controlled drug - cannabis resin. Nelson and Wood's convictions included their involvement in the crimes of a Liverpool gang.

Nelson, 32, of Whitfield Road, Walton, was sentenced to 15 years and nine months. Wood, 58, of Stamfordham Drive, Garston, was sentenced to nine years and eleven months.

Kevin Hill

A high-ranking member of a drug gang has been arrested after claiming to be a dog breeder selling XL thieving dogs.

Kevin Hill, from Tarbock Road, Speke, led a Merseyside organized crime group responsible for the wholesale distribution of cocaine in Herefordshire between May 2021 and February 2022. The 48-year-old took over the illegal business from his twin brother, Keith Hill, of Ridgemoor Road, Leominster, who is currently serving a nine-year sentence.

West Mercia Police said the brothers were at the forefront of the organization and were estimated to have distributed more than a kilogram of cocaine. The sting operation managed to collect substantial cell phone evidence involving Hill, with him pleading guilty and receiving a reduced sentence.

Hill was sentenced to nine years in prison by Worcester Crown Court on Monday, June 13, for supplying cocaine and possessing assault weapons.

Jonathan Gordon

A dangerous and ruthless killer behind a string of shootings has been sentenced to life in prison after shooting a father in the face with a bottle of acid for money - leaving him with permanent injuries.

Well-known Deli-mob gang member Jonathan Gordon, 34, volunteered his services on the EncroChat encrypted telephone network under the name "ValuedBridge" and was hired by an unnamed gang boss known as "AceProspect" to carry out vile attacks on various enemies. The news revealed how Gordon of Kirkdale demanded £6,000 for an acid attack, rising to £10,000 to permanently blind the victim.

Gordon has been identified as the man behind a devastating attack on St Helens resident Lee Deakin, who was attacked on 14 April 2019 while leaving his home to retrieve a phone charger from his car. Deakin remains in a constant battle for his eyesight and even had to undergo emergency surgery this week due to complications following the attack three years later.

The Liverpool Crown Court was convicted not only of nearly blinding Deakin, but also of two plots to carry out similar attacks, which were called off in the closing stages, and a series of shootings, including two ongoing shootings in the streets of Liverpool.

Judge Aubrey said Gordon's "extreme dangerousness" and lack of remorse meant a life sentence was necessary to protect the public. Gordon was given a minimum sentence of 24 years and eight months before a chance of parole by a parole board.

Gordon's accomplice, Dylan Johnston, was sentenced to an extended prison term of 27 years with four more on leave. Stephen Wissett, who was driving the car during the attack, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, two-thirds of which he must serve before being released from prison.

Michael Wild

A former teacher who sexually abused boys at the school where he taught for 38 years has been arrested for the fifth time.

Michael Wilde, 73, was first arrested in 2015 after two of his victims came forward, prompting another three to reveal their ordeal at their hands, for which he was rearrested. Liverpool Crown Court heard on Wednesday 15 June how Wilde was re-arrested in 2019 and 2020 after two other former pupils of Wade Deacon High School in Widnes came forward.

The latest victim revealed what Wilde did to him when he was between the ages of 11 and 14 in the 1970s, while police were talking to him about an unrelated matter in 2020.

Wilde, grandfather of Drake Close, Burtonwood and Westbrook in Warrington, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent exposure and was sentenced to two years in prison. The judge also ordered him to register for the sex offenders register for ten years.

Thomas Henwood

A driver driving to Tesco with a friend crashed his car, leaving one of his passengers with serious head injuries.

Thomas Henwood was well over the speed limit on the Sussex Road in Southport when he failed in an attempt to overtake another car and hit him, causing his car to roll over. The fabric top of his Mazda MX5 Convertible collapsed inward during the crash, leaving friend Harrison Povey, who was in the passenger seat, with a head injury that required 47 staples inserted into his skull.

The court heard that Henwood and Povey were racing to Tesco with another of their friends when the accident happened. The 21-year-old admitted to causing serious injuries by dangerous driving earlier this year.

Henwood of Aintree Lane was jailed for 20 months.

Joshua Kehoe

Two security guards beat an owner, his bar staff and customers during a riot at a Merseyside pub.

George Harper and Joshua Kehoe terrorized the Manor Farm Pub in Rainhill when it threw an 18th birthday party they weren't even invited to. They knocked a customer unconscious before kicking his unconscious body, hit a man on crutches at the bar, and hit the licensee with a wine bottle so hard his nose was disfigured.

The couple hit the bar on Saturday, May 29, 2021 because their boss was keeping them safe - even though they weren't working themselves. After a fight with the owner's partner, who believed he saw Kehoe rummaging through a bag.

Things escalated quickly. Kehoe accused Mrs. Casey of having "a bad attitude" and got into an argument about what he had done. Mr. Lunt asked the couple to leave, and as they left, Kehoe called out to him, "You've got to sort out your bird problem."

Harper and Kehoe left and sat outside the pub for a few minutes. They had gone out through a fire door, and after a few minutes Kehoe opened it and went back inside. Stephen Gledhill, another clerk who had helped escort the couple, was inside with Mr. Lunt.

Both attacked before entering and attacking another man inside the bar and another outside. They then returned to the bar and attacked two other men before hitting Mr. Lunt with a bottle of wine.

Eventually they left and Harper punched another man in the head. Kehoe, from Cretan Road, Liverpool, was jailed for four years. Harper of Holland Street was jailed for two years and eight months.

Peter Beecham

A man who managed to manage one arm of a £6 million operation in cocaine and marijuana from prison and helped organize a courier to bring drugs into the prison.

Thanks to surveillance and the cracking of encrypted phone messages, the police were able to bring down Thomas Davies' organized crime ring along with a group based in Liverpool. On Tuesday, seven people were sentenced to a total of 66 years and 11 months for their part in the North Wales floods involving drugs in Liverpool.

The day before, the same judge sentenced another six people to a total of 42 years and eight months. A total of 11 men and two women were put behind bars for a total of 109 years and seven months.

Among them was Peter Beecham of Merseyside, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine. Beecham, 38, of St Brides Road, Egremont, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis resin.

Stefan Francom

An unwitting teenage passenger was thrown from a stolen van after it crashed following a 17-minute police chase.

Horrified police saw the girl lying in the grass on April 8 and when she was found unconscious, they feared the worst but miraculously survived, albeit seriously injured.

The teenager and her friend were taken away in the vehicle when Francom, whom they didn't know, offered to take them to a nearby gas station to buy cigarettes. But once there, while her friend was in the garage, a police car pulled up and Francom drove off because he was a disabled driver and didn't want to go back to prison.

During the chase, she was thrown through an open window and suffered serious injuries. He was later arrested and found to have 47 micrograms of alcohol in 100 ml of breath, 12 micrograms over the limit. A swab test came back positive for cocaine, but he refused to have a blood test.

Francom, of Paton Close, West Kirkby, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by reckless driving, van theft, driving with disqualification and failure to provide a sample and was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.

Stephen Jennings

A pedophile left his young victim at the foot of his bed under a man's 'night terrors' after she was sexually assaulted twice.

Stephen Jennings, 39, from The Glen, Runcorn, appeared at Chester Crown Court to receive his sentence after facing three guilty pleas for possession of indecent photos and a conviction on two counts of assault in court.

Philip Clemo, prosecutor, said Jennings initially groped his victim over clothing. When she asked him to stop, "he refused" and attacked her again. The abuse came to a head when the child's mother overheard her using "inappropriate language" and told her what had happened.

The complaint was made at the victim's school. In a voluntary interview with Cheshire Police, Jennings denied what happened and any "sexual interest in children".

That lie was left in tatters when a search of her two phones turned up 10 photos of Category A abuse - the most serious kind and including one of a girl aged about 10 being raped "in danger", 10 of Category B and 178 of category C.

Registrar Mark Ford sentenced Jennings to four years in prison and placed him on a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and the Sex Offenders Register for life or until further notice.

Steven Bragger

A vile bully stepped on his girlfriend's head and hit her with a bag containing a drill.

Steven Bragger also slapped the woman across the face in front of her horrified friends, leaving her with a split lip. The 33-year-old from Warrington subjected his then-girlfriend to a series of violent assaults throughout 2019 and early 2020.

The court heard that Bragger and the woman, whose name ECHO does not want to be used, had a "tumultuous" relationship and that he had assaulted her on several occasions. Bragger of HMP Liverpool was jailed for three years and four months.

Christoph Woo

A disgruntled customer threatened a store employee with an ax after an argument over a faulty mattress.

Christopher Woo also smashed a mirror and smashed a table during the Worldwide Furniture incident earlier this year. This left the worker terrified and caused over £1,000 worth of damage to the Walton Road store.

The court heard that Woo, 67, of Chatsworth Road, was enraged after discovering a replacement mattress had not been ordered and went to get an ax from his car before threatening the worker and damaging furniture.

A judge sentenced him to 16 months in prison.

Paul Kugel

A Liverpool man who bombarded his ex-partner with vile messages threatening to cut her face and pour acid on her has been arrested.

Paul Ball also threatened to shoot the woman, destroy her sentimental jewelry, attack her under the cover of darkness and in front of her children.

The 42-year-old woman also threatened to have social services take her young son and burn down her house. Her victim told Liverpool Crown Court: "No eight-year-old should ask, 'Nan, what would acid do to mum's face?'"

Ball of Richard Kelly Drive, Walton, pleaded guilty to harassment between October 30, 2019 and October 30, 2020. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Ryan Fagan

A thug who started the attack on a man in Liverpool city center celebrated as he left court after being arrested.

Ryan Fagan, 40, has pleaded guilty to assault for his part in an attack in Liverpool city center in March. Fagan and co-defendant Kyle Johnson assaulted Paul Buckley, 45, on Victoria Street in the early hours of March 1, 2022.

The court heard that Mr. Buckley was attending a formal event in Liverpool city center on 28 February 2022 and decided to remain in the city after the event ended around 11pm. Fagan was downtown with Johnson and others that night and they approached Mr. Buckley on Victoria Street around 3am.

The duo then launched a disgusting attack at the man.

The judge sentenced Fagan to 12 months in prison. Afterwards, Fagan thanked registrar Shafi before giving a loud ovation as he left the courtroom: "Get on board".

Shaun Wrigley

A burglar broke into a man's home and viciously attacked him with a golf club.

Shaun Wrigley, 37, attacked his victim before taking her wheelchair and stealing her wallet. He then apologized to the man who couldn't defend himself as he had no legs.

Judge Graham Knowles QC sentenced the intruder to 11 years for robbing and assaulting a woman in a Liverpool safe house.

The court heard that Wrigley broke into the man's home while his partner was there and demanded money while holding a golf club over his head. He then apologized to the victim and said he didn't know he was disabled, but then he appeared to grab something from his wheelchair.

The victim's companion described Wrigley's behavior during the robbery as bizarre and he was arrested by police a few days later.

The court heard that Wrigley had also assaulted a woman who was being held in a safe house due to previous violence by him, after a social services error resulted in her not being addressed. During the attack, Wrigley knocked the woman to the ground, strangled and bit her, turning her black and blue.

A judge has sentenced Wrigley, of Bridge Street, Liverpool, to eight years for burglary in Blackpool and three years for actual assault (ABH) on a woman.

Yacine Djalti

The leader of a Liverpool organized crime group used a child to smuggle drugs into Cumbria.

Yacine Djalti was the leader of a county border drug gang tasked with bringing crack and heroin into South Cumbria at the county border known as the 'Mo' in July and August 2021. On 28 July 2021, Cumbria Police issued a warrant for his arrest at an address in Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness after receiving word that drug dealing was taking place in the area.

80 packs of crack and 98 packs of heroin worth £3,600 were found at the property along with £360 in cash. When police raided the apartment, they found resident Marc Woods, traveling salesman Derek Duncan, and "warehouse worker" Fred Williams, all three arrested.

Thanks to telephone evidence from the day, the police discovered that there was regular contact between the three men and OCG leader Djalti, as well as contact with drug dealer Gary Crompton.

Just over a week later, on 5 August 2021, officers executed another arrest warrant at another address on Titchfield Street in Barrow-in-Furness, where a further 89 packs of heroin and £1,080 in cash were found. Inside, officers found flat-dweller and traveling salesman Ben Heavyside and a young man from Merseyside.

Finally, on a joint warrant issued by Merseyside Police and Cumbria Police, executed at a house on Whitney Road on 17 August 2021. As police approached the address, Djalti was seen walking down the street and officers began to chase him as he ran through the gardens, discarding cell phones, money and a knife.

When the phones were recovered, police discovered that both were devices used to operate county lines.

Yacine Djalti, 20, from Liverpool but without a fixed address, was sentenced to nine years and nine months in prison on charges of conspiracy to supply heroin, conspiracy to supply crack cocaine, criminal damage to property, possession of a knife blade in a public place place and racial conviction public order.

Leslie Foster

A convicted rapist made a three-year-old rub his genitals at a downtown store before attempting to kidnap and sexually assault an eight-year-old.

Leslie Foster was recently released from prison after committing sex crimes against children, but last year she attacked other children at Home Bargains and Wilko at St. John's Shopping Center. The 71-year-old has spent most of his life in prison after committing a series of sexual assaults on women and girls.

A judge said his predatory behavior posed a risk to children when he was arrested.

Martine Snowdon, a prosecutor, told Liverpool Crown Court that he was first arraigned after he was lurking in the arts and crafts corridor at Wilko's in September last year. A ten-year-old girl shopping with her parents and sister walked away from them and was seen near Foster by her sister who had walked past her. Mrs. Snowdon said: "The defendant said to her, 'Are you sure, you're shy, you want a kiss?'

Days later, in Home Bargains, he targeted a three-year-old girl and asked her to rub her genitals over her pants. This girl also told the family what had happened, and while store employees checked the CCTV, Foster tried to kidnap another child. He found an eight-year-old child in another part of the store and asked her if she wanted to "come play", saying he would give her some money if she wanted it.

He quickly fled after realizing he was under suspicion - but was arrested upon his later return.

Foster, who had no fixed address, was jailed for nine and a half years, with an additional four and a half years of extended leave.

Alan Turn

A man who sexually abused a child for 11 years has been brought to justice.

Alan Dreha, 70, from Hanmer Road, Kirkby, abused his victim between 1990 and 2001. Following a trial in May, he was convicted of 14 counts of sexual assault.

He was imprisoned for 17 years, plus two on leave.

Detective Inspector Yoseph Al-Ramadhan said: "Dreha has denied his insult, which means his victim has been forced to endure a trial. We welcome the fact that he will now spend considerable time behind bars considering the consequences of his actions.

"I would like to take this opportunity to commend Dreha's victims for their courage in reporting their crimes and the dignity they demonstrated throughout the investigation."

Lucas Devereux

A County Lines dealer stole several cars and flooded communities with drugs.

Lucas Devereux, 20, of Ranworth Place, Norris Green, was arrested in July 2021 after Project Jellyfish officers searched his home. The warrant came after an investigation into a County Line doing business in Widnes, Cheshire.

Devereux pleaded guilty to being concerned about the supply of Class A drugs. He pleaded guilty to a series of four burglaries and vehicle thefts that occurred between December 2020 and February 2021 in the Kirkby, Southport and Norris Green areas.

Devereux was sentenced to four years and 10 months in a Young Offenders Institute after pleading guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to supplying class A drugs and four counts of burglary.

Project Medusa officials welcomed Devereux's verdict and of his verdict, Inspector Gary Stratton said: "The criminals who control these county lines are doing this to the detriment of everyone around them - they are exploiting young and vulnerable people to camp them and to transport and traffic in drugs and corrupt the communities in which they operate.

“Project Medusa is committed to cutting those lines and bringing the organized criminals who run them to justice, as we did today. We are also working to remove those who have been exploited by these groups to give them a choice and a chance to make a different life for themselves.”

David Byron

A gangster debt collector has been arrested for dodging penalty points in a speeding ticket scam.

Father-of-three David Byron, 44, conspired with suspected rental car owner Benjamin Rood, 41, to avoid fines after he was caught speeding in August 2016 and February 2017. Byron of Longfellow Close , Kirkby drove Land Rover vehicles leased from Rood's franchise, 4x4 Hire Liverpool on both occasions.

The Liverpool Crown Court heard that Rood was required by law to provide the driver's details as the hired vehicles were registered with Rood's shop. But rather than simply taking Byron's points and paying the fine, WhatsApp messages retrieved from Rood's phone revealed extensive conversations about naming a "fallen guy".

This resulted in two men, Barry Sissons and James Ryan, being convicted of speeding in a magistrates court, each receiving six penalty points and fines of between £600 and £900. James Rae, a prosecutor, told the court that Rood and several other men were arrested in May for money laundering and conspiring to tamper with the law, but Byron was not implicated in their wider crimes.

During an investigation into Rood, WhatsApp messages were received by police and Byron later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and demanded that the 2016 incident be considered by the court. Rae said Byron had also previously been convicted of a similar crime for which he received a suspended sentence in August 2012.

Byron was jailed for 10 months and is eligible for leave release after the break.

John Digweed

A "proud father" turned out to be Encrochat dealer "Diorpaw", who moved 40kg of Class A drugs in just a few months.

John Digweed used Encrochat's services to organize spring 2020 cocaine and heroin shipments. The 33-year-old tried to deny he was behind the name "DiorPaw", but a jury uncovered his lies in December.

A judge told him that his news about his children played an important role in the police being able to identify him.

Henry Riding, prosecutor, told Liverpool Crown Court that Digweed was convicted of conspiracy to supply a variety of Class A and Class B drugs, including cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, ketamine, cannabis and ecstasy. He said Digweed appeared to sell drugs mainly to other dealers in Devon and Cornwall, although other UK locations were mentioned in his messages to other criminals.

Digweed was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Bradley Graham

A father of two, who trafficked crack, cocaine and heroin between Liverpool and Cornwall, was forced to work for gangs as a child to pay off his mother's drug debts, a court has heard.

Bradley Graham, of Pym Street, Walton, founded what became known as the 'JC Line', a County Lines operation designed to flood the seaside town of Newquay, Cornwall, with class A drugs. Graham sent 56 so-called text flares , mass messages on a "scam phone", to about 71 drug users in the city between April 17 and June 19, 2020.

Graham would also recruit some of the local junkies to supply drugs for him. He was a regular visitor to Cornwall but performed most of the operation from his home in Liverpool, as reported by our sister site Cornwall Live.

Judge Anna Richardson jailed Graham for four years and three months after admitting he was concerned about supplying Class A drugs on two counts.

Stephen Grzyb

A man broke into a family's home to steal their car while they were sleeping upstairs.

Stephen Grzyb, from Huyton, broke into two homes in Brinton Close and Chillington Avenue, Widnes, in the early hours of 14 October, while families and their children were sleeping.

The 18-year-old broke into the first house through the garage, but was unable to enter the house by himself. He left empty-handed before running across the street to another house on Chillington Avenue.

The victims were upstairs when they were awakened by the sound of shattering glass as Grzyb forced his way through two sets of doors. He then stole the keys to a VW Golf R parked in the garage and drove away as the victims watched from their bedroom window.

The vehicle was recovered in Huyton later that day. An investigation was conducted by detectives from the Widnes Proactive Policing Team and Grzyb was quickly identified as a suspect.

He was imprisoned for three years and six months.

Josh Hoskison

A pensioner was taken into intensive care and suffered life-changing injuries after being attacked outside a pub.

Denis Cunliffe suffered a brain haemorrhage after being beaten outside Sefton in St Helens town center before falling and hitting his head on the ground. Josh Hoskison, 25, committed the unprovoked attack after rowing with his girlfriend and getting into a fight with another stranger who tried to intervene.

Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Wednesday, that the incident happened in the early hours of September 1 last year. At around 1:15 am, a passer-by found the couple who were involved in a heated argument near the Baldwin Street premises.

He was described as a peacemaker during the quarrel. But Hoskison, who was on crutches at the time of the incident, told him to "fuck it", threw the crutches to the ground and ran towards the man.

The enraged mechanical engineer yelled, "I'll gouge your damn eyes out" before the two grappled to the ground.

They eventually broke up, but Hoskison then hit Mr. Cunliffe - who fell backwards and "crashed his head". His assailant tried to help him up before realizing that he had fallen unconscious and "had completely changed".

Mr. Cunliffe was taken to Whiston Hospital, where it was also found that he had fractured his head. Mr. Cunliffe, who had recently recovered from a stroke, was subsequently transferred to St Helens Hospital and recovered for two months before being discharged home.

Hoskison, who has no criminal record, admitted to unintentionally causing grievous bodily harm and nodded when he was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Adam Kain

An injured pub customer was taken from ATM to ATM after a night out by thieves, leaving a trail of blood in their wake.

The victim was taken by his attackers from a taxi rank in Birkenhead town center with promises that they would take him to a pub where he could be served until the wee hours of the morning. Instead, he was thrown to the ground and repeatedly beaten while being robbed by Adam Caine and Neil Griffiths.

The man had gone to several pubs in the area around 5:30 pm on 20 February 2020. At 3:30 am the next day, he went to the Argyle Street stall and asked strangers if there were any nearby restaurants open to continue drinking.

Caine and Griffiths approached him claiming to know such a place and he left with the two. But he was attacked and knocked to the ground.

The victim ran back to the taxi rank, but was tackled again and taken to an ATM - being "beaten frequently" in the process and getting elbowed in the face by Griffiths. He was then escorted to several ATMs, leaving "a trail of blood".

Caine and Griffiths were sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Jakob Santamera

A "prolific" burglar targeted a minister's home and school during a school shooting on Parents' Night.

James Santamera broke into a staggering 18 homes, businesses and other properties during his latest attack last fall. At the time, he had just gotten out of jail on leave.

The 46-year-old was sentenced to four years in prison in February 2019 for eight other robberies. After being released from that sentence, he turned himself in to St Anne Street Police Station in November last year and said he had been "threatened".

There, Santamera confessed to seven more robberies. This included stealing a wallet containing cash and a bank card from the parsonage of a church in Clubmoor.

The merchant marine ex-husband later admitted to 11 more crimes committed during the same period.

A burglary was committed in a shared flat above Yo's Restaurant, a Chinese restaurant on Wavertree Road in Edge Hill. The accused broke into a resident's room and stole a wallet containing £20 in cash and a bank card, which was used to buy cigarettes.

Others saw Santamera go into employee rooms and "take whatever he could find", including bags and money, while another took aim at a company manager's office. He broke into Merchants Taylors' School on Parents' Night and took the opportunity to sneak in unnoticed and steal three laptops.

He received the mandatory minimum sentence of three years for a third theft, minus credit for his guilty plea, resulting in 876 days in prison.

Darren MacPhee

A shopkeeper suffered a "terrible" 17cm wound after being attacked by a burglar.

Darren MacPhee, from Birkenhead, left the worker with a "serious laceration" to his back after the worker tried to stop him from shoplifting. But the "public danger" called the police and claimed that it was he who was attacked.

The fight, recorded by video surveillance, lasted more than 10 minutes inside and outside the complex. During a "fairly lengthy" incident, MacPhee threw the man to the ground and punched and pushed him.

It is said that he suffered a nasty cut when he was pushed onto a shelf. The 29-year-old Prince Edward Street defendant admitted to the injury and was jailed for two years.

Rebecca Chisnall

A woman assaulted a hotel manager after being asked to leave the hotel for rowdy behavior.

Rebecca Chisnall was kicked out of the Ibis in Haydock after noise complaints kept other inmates awake at night. The 23-year-old, who was already jailed for assaulting a love rival by dragging her by the hair down a street in central St Helens, was sentenced to another sentence for the unprovoked assault on the hotel employee.

Several guests have complained about noise from Chisnall's room, including loud arguments, as she and her housemates talked to staff throughout the night. They were told they had 10 minutes to collect their belongings after threatening to "knock out" the clerk. to hit".

Shortly afterwards, Chisnall - from Newton Road in Parr - inhaled her vape in the reception area, blew the smoke in the manager's face and smacked her in the head before leaving. She pleaded guilty to the assault and was placed behind bars for six weeks.

Paulo mayor

A thug subjected a caregiver to a violent attack that left him so afraid for his life that he jumped out of a first-floor window to escape.

Paul Maylor left his victim in a coma for days after punching, kicking and biting him in a prolonged assault in early 2020. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Maylor was drinking and using cocaine before the attack on his home a friend in north Liverpool.

Later, Maylor seriously injured his nephew in another incident while he was out on bail for assaulting Peter Gibbons. He is now blind in his left eye from the attack.

The 58-year-old defendant, from Clapham Road, was convicted of two counts of assault. He received 14 years and five months.

Marcus Garry

A drug dealer who was flooding the streets of Runcorn with Class A drugs climbed onto his roof as officers searched his home.

Mark Garry, from Swainson Road, Fazakerley, was selling crack in the streets of Runcorn until police raided his address on 30 May 2022. When they arrived he was seen climbing out of a window and onto the roof.

Paraphernalia and equipment for drug use were found on the property. The 26-year-old later admitted to colluding to supply heroin and crack.

Garry was jailed for four years. Detective Inspector Gary Stratton said, "Garry thought he could escape justice, but now he's paying for his crime."

Phil McAlary

A knife-wielding man repeatedly stabbed his roommate in the stomach after mistakenly believing he had stolen his motorcycle.

Phil McAlary, from Keble Road in Bootle, fumed at his neighbor over the misunderstanding and laughed maniacally after splattering faeces in a community toilet. He spent hours thinking about the argument before he stabbed the innocent man five times the next morning.

The victim felt three blows to the stomach and extended his leg to deflect the attack, receiving two more blows to the knee and shin. He failed to realize that McAlary, 48, was brandishing a knife and was in fact stabbed multiple times.

Doctors discovered that the blade had pierced the abdominal wall and had to perform emergency surgery. The assailant admitted to the injury with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and was jailed for four years.

Adam Challoner

A crook who ambushed a pizza delivery man and stole his car at the end of a knife is still on crutches months after smashing him against a tree.

Adam Challoner, 26, has been hospitalized for three weeks after being pulled out of the wrecked Vauxhall Astra at Netherley Road, Tarbock Green on 28 April this year. The accident, which was unobserved and involved no other vehicles, happened just eight minutes after the horrific robbery at Hastie Close in Netherley.

The driver was referred to a takeaway to deliver the pizza after a cell phone call from Challoner at 10:10 pm. However, when the driver stopped, he was tackled by Challoner de Bechers, Widnes, who snatched the car keys from his hand.

Local residents who lived close to the crash site heard a loud bang and found the assailant trapped in the driver's seat. He admitted to the theft and was jailed for 40 months.

John Skelett

A pedophile has been caught trying to groom 13-year-old girls after he brutally assaulted his 66-year-old mother with his own cane.

Police discovered hideous Facebook chats on John Skelton's cell phone after his arrest for aggravated assault, which left the pensioner with a broken arm and a cracked head. On the news, he implored "teens" to engage in sexual activity and sent nude photos of himself.

The analysis found that the 46-year-old had "deliberately targeted" two teenagers - who were actually decoys created by pedophile hunters - by engaging in sexual conversations on Facebook Messenger. The accused made first contact before "becoming sexual".

Skelton - with no fixed address but formerly from Kensington - sent in the fake profile pictures of his penis and asked for lewd photos of the couple. He admitted to two counts of attempting sexual communication with a child and two counts of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, and was sentenced to an additional two and a half years behind bars.

Brian Morton

A child rapist who treated a girl to sweets and cigarettes has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Brian Morton of Halewood turned his victim into his own family, manipulating them for their unhealthy sexual urges - even telling her that her parents didn't love her. He also bought her cell phone recharges and took her for a ride in her car, where he sexually abused her.

The perv watched her shower and "offered to clean her up". Then, when she was 15, he raped her while she was sleeping in the guest room of his house.

More than a decade later, the now 61-year-old tried to set up another 14-year-old. Morton was found guilty of two counts of rape and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

christian collar

A pervert secretly filmed his victim having sex with her boyfriend after installing spy cameras in his home.

Kristian Kolar "raped" the woman by secretly recording thousands of her most intimate moments for over a year. When his perverted behavior was finally exposed, the police also discovered sickening videos of women having sex with horses and dogs on his computer.

Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday on Tuesday that the 39-year-old man from Warrington had installed the "hidden" cameras in the claimant's living room, bedroom and bathroom in February 2019. They were not discovered until September of the year following, having taken 20,315 "voyeuristic photos" and 4,311 videos of her in that time.

This "insidious intrusion into her privacy for sexual gratification" also included filming the woman in bed, in the bathroom, and naked in the shower. Afterwards, the police confiscated Kolar's laptop and found that he had been collecting bestial pornography since 2017.

A total of 17 such images and two videos were found on the device, including a clip showing a dog "riding a naked blonde woman" and another showing a woman and horse having sex.

Ross Close's Kolar at Old Hall admitted to voyeurism and possession of extreme pornographic imagery. The worker, who has no criminal record and was assisted in the dock by an interpreter, was sentenced to 14 months in prison.

John Cass

A cocaine 'broker' was involved in shipping over £400,000 worth of drugs on behalf of a mysterious importer known only as 'Jurgen'.

John Cass of Kirkby secretly operated under the alias FrostFortress on the EncroChat encrypted communication platform.

Liverpool Crown Court on Friday found the 34-year-old man was acting as a "broker and agent" buying large quantities of freshly imported Class A and Class B drugs. Cass de Corbet Close had 64 other identifiers stored on the list of contacts from his Encro phone, with 22 of which messages were exchanged.

In particular, he has been in contact with the name JurgenSixNineteen - described as an "upstream provider operating out of the UK". The first offender took possession of 10kg of cocaine in his name, drugs valued at between £365,000 and £425,000 wholesale.

Cass received a commission of around £500 per kilo for reselling the illegal substances. A series of messages found by police detail Cass' dealings with JurgenSixNineteen, as well as a conversation about possibly obtaining a gun.

Cass was linked to the handle FrostFortress after he was pulled over by police after "driving erratically" on Whitefield Drive in Kirkby in October last year. He admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis, money laundering and possession of criminal property and was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Amanda Bywater

A grandmother and her partner have been trying for months to get a teenager to have sex with them.

Amanda Bywater, 48, and Phillip Park, 37, encouraged each other to have sex with the same girl in a series of messages sent between the two on WhatsApp. Bywater and Park were arrested after a Liverpool Crown Court judge told them he was sure they intended to have sex with the child.

Promoter Jonathan Rogers said Bywater, of Widnes, and Park, of Leigh, met on a swingers website and soon began texting each other regularly throughout 2019.

He said that they soon began having sex with a certain teenager. In messages read out in court, the couple discussed in detail how they planned to have sex with the child. They sometimes framed the news as a joke, but always came back to it later.

Eventually, the two even discussed plans to have sex with the teen and whether they could douse her with alcohol to encourage her consent. Their sick messages were later discovered before any sexual activity took place and they were reported to the police.

Park, of Holden Road, Leigh, and Bywater, of Brooklands Park, Widnes, were sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment.

Andrew McMullen

A pedophile engaged in a sexual act during a 19-minute Skype call using an account he believed was owned by a 12-year-old girl.

But dad Andrew McMullen was talking to a police officer when he sent a series of vile messages encouraging and encouraging sexual activity.

Prosecutor Nardeen Nemat told the court that McMullen began sending messages to an account maintained by a police officer under the name "Izzy" on a chat site in May of this year. Mrs. Nemat said: "The officer connected to a chat site called ChatiW with the user 'Year8off'. He used the profile picture of an 18-year-old, which was the youngest option in the platform's drop-down menu.

"About 12 minutes later, 'Izzy' received a message from a user, 'Wirral xx', a 53-year-old man who is now known as the defendant. His message read: "Look at me". ", to which the defendant said, "shame to put on a good show, get big cock horny." Izzy told the defendant that she was under 18."

He continued to message the account, eventually sending a 19-minute Skype broadcast in which he performed a sexual act. McMullen was later arrested and police also found 272 offensive phone pictures of him.

He later pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images, inciting a child to engage in sexual communication, and inciting a child to observe sexual acts. McMullen of Old Greasby Road was jailed for two years and nine months.

Hamid Akhonzada

A knife-wielding convicted sex offender with a "compulsion" to use violence slit the throat of a teenager on a Runcorn bus after he was taken north from Croydon without ongoing care - despite suffering from a "severe psychotic disorder" .

Hamid Akhonzada, 26, launched the attack on May 8 last year after taking his seat behind a young couple at a service from Palacefields to Brookvale in Runcorn. Dafydd Roberts, prosecutor at Chester Crown Court on Friday, said Akhonzada grabbed the 17-year-old by the hair from behind, then "restrained his head and dragged a bladed object described as a steak knife across his throat".

The young man tried to dodge and fight back as shocked passengers looked on and his 16-year-old girlfriend was also slightly injured trying to help him. Akhonzada, of Liskeard Close, Brookvale, Runcorn, hit the boy three or four times as they struggled in the luggage compartment and fled the scene when the bus stopped.

Upon arrival, Cheshire Police officers found the victim sitting on the bus, wearing a Covid face mask to stop the blood from her neck. Roberts said the teen was given glue and butterfly stitches to treat six or seven "scratches" on his neck, which Judge Michael Leeming described as "cuts".

Afghan refugee Akhonzada was arrested on 14 May in Croydon, where he had previously lived until officials moved him north to Runcorn. In the police interview, he gave "no comment" answers.

Three days later, while in custody at HMP Altcourse, he knocked prison officer Michael Bennett unconscious, first calling for attention from his cell and then beating Mr. Bennett. Roberts said Akhonzada has 10 previous convictions for 23 crimes, including two for combined assault and battery in 2016, assault with actual assault in 2017 and assault and sexual assault in 2018 that resulted in a prison sentence.

Kevin Slack, defending himself, said Akhonzada was diagnosed with schizophrenia after arriving in the UK after fleeing Afghanistan aged 16 following a series of traumas. Judge Leeming acknowledged the seriousness of his condition, but responded that convicted sex offender Akhonzada had tried to "self-medicate" with marijuana and spices instead of seeking help.

He said the gunman had a "compulsion" to use violence when he jailed him for four years for dangerousness, with an extended four-year license. Akhonzada faces 32 months behind bars before being considered for parole.

Kohl Thomas

A pervert assaulted a woman, sexually abused her and stole her belongings on a busy downtown street.

Cole Thomas headbutted his victim and choked him before groping him during a shocking incident outside the St Johns mall. The 22-year-old threatened to rape her and her family.

Liverpool Crown Court heard on Monday that the incident happened just before midday on 9 November last year. Thomas, of Aigburth, "started yelling" at the complainant before grabbing her fingers and headbutting her.

She pushed him away, but he responded by "grabbing her around the neck and thrusting his fingers down her throat". Her defendant continued to be "offensive", calling her "disgusting" and saying her mother was "pedestrian".

Thomas of Mossley Hill Drive told her, "I hope you get raped. I'm going to rape your mother and brothers while you're at it."

He then proceeded to "stroke her face" and grabbed her breasts over her clothing as she was pinned against the wall. The sex offender "suggested that she was enjoying it," adding, "How does it feel to be touched without consent?"

Thomas, who appeared in court with two fingers in a bandage via a video link to HMP Styal, took her purse – causing the purse to tear – stole three bank cards and tore up her train ticket before leaving. Police attended the scene and found the victim "very distressed and crying" while her attacker was found nearby and arrested.

Thomas admitted to sexual assault and theft and was jailed for 30 months. He was also given an indefinite restraining order and a 10-year notice period.

Jake Burrows

Two burglars broke into 11 properties in one day, stealing game consoles, tablets and bicycles.

Jake Burrows and a 17-year-old boy, whose name cannot be released for legal reasons, broke into homes and garages in Aigburth and Mossley Hill during their crime spree. The heroin and crack dealer and the young man raided addresses in Rose Lane, Brodie Avenue, Lugard Road, Cherrydale Road, Benmore Road and Mentmore Road on February 8 this year.

Two mobile phones and a Samsung tablet were stolen in a robbery on Avenmore Road, while two Nintendo Switch consoles, a wallet and car keys were stolen from a home on Heatherdale Road. The couple also stole a backpack, an Amazon Fire Stick and bank cards from a house on Bridge Road.

Teenager Toxteth was jailed for one year and three months at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Monday after admitting to six counts of burglary, four counts of attempted burglary and one count of burglary. Burrows, of Maud Street in Toxteth, had already been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for the same offence.

The 22-year-old was sentenced to two years and four months in prison at Chester Crown Court last month after being convicted of possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply - resulting in a combined sentence of six years and 10 months.

Shaun Wilkinson

A cocaine-fuelled thief led police to chase children home from school.

Shaun Wilkinson, of Woodchurch Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, stole the keys to a red Honda Civic and a mobile phone from a locker at the Waterworld Leisure and Activity Center in Wrexham on Friday 17th June. The 28-year-old then used his keys to get into the car parked in front of the leisure center and drove off.

The owner discovered around 2:10 pm that her car, keys and phone had been stolen and called the police. Officers looking for the car located it in Chester at around 3:15 pm and chased it to Ellesmere Harbour.

During the pursuit, a backpack was thrown through the window of one of the vehicles. Police said that due to the dangerous nature of driving the car and the presence of a significant number of children walking home from school, the decision had been taken to call off the chase in the Sutton Way area of ​​Ellesmere Port due to safety concerns. public. .

Shortly thereafter, officers found the Honda Civic in the Flatt Lane neighborhood after colliding with a parked car. Wilkinson fled the scene on foot without shoes.

One of the pursuing officers found him a short distance away and immediately recognized Wilkinson as the driver of the Honda and arrested him around 4:10 pm. The phone that Wilkinson stole was in the car and the backpack that was thrown away was found by the officers, the bag containing pliers.

Wilkinson pleaded guilty to aggravating the vehicle, being equipped for theft, stealing his car keys and cell phone, dangerous driving, disqualifying and driving without insurance, and failing to produce a blood test for analysis.

The 28-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison and a three-year driving ban. He will also have to pay a £156 victim surcharge.

Thomas Forshaw

A teenage drug dealer who "went into the family drug business" was caught with nearly £20,000 worth of luxury goods and was making "hundreds every day".

Thomas Forshaw was caught with the massive stash of designer clothes as police searched his Liverpool city center home. The "wild" 19-year-old was involved in the operation of three different county gangs who flooded areas in Lancashire and Cumbria with heroin and crack, which he described as "dynamite" and "the best in town".

Liverpool's Crown Court heard on Thursday that he had been "wooed" into the underworld, where several of his relatives were already imprisoned and earning hundreds of pounds a day. On 20 June 2021, a car driven by a relative and carrying Forshaw as a passenger was stopped on the M6 ​​towards Barrow-in-Furness.

An enticing text, a message sent to various numbers promoting the sale of drugs, said on the device: "Better on, dynamite. Mitch."

Forshaw was released on bail, but on 16 March this year, Merseyside Police executed a search warrant on his Marlborough Street apartment. Upon entering the room, the teenager was caught by the police holding another Nokia device.

However, he "actively resisted" arrest and had to be restrained in bed. During a search of the property, the force seized six mobile phones, a "large amount" of caffeine and paracetamol used as a filler, heroin of around 50% purity and worth up to £5,016, £2,000 cash, a pad of Cannabis resin and a vial of class B drug.

Also discovered were "designer clothes and shoes", an Apple Watch and a PlayStation 5 with an estimated combined value of around £19,000. Analysis of two of the phones revealed that they had been used on the Real Jackkk and Kai district lines, which delivered heroin and crack to Barrow and Morecambe respectively, in the previous three months.

Forshaw - who had a criminal record for possession of a sharp object in a public place and possession of marijuana - admitted to conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession of criminal property. He was imprisoned for four years and four months.

Chris Morris

A teenage girl has her 'childhood stolen' after a vile pedophile rapes her 10 times.

The actions of Chris Morriss, 49, formerly of Denecliff, Stockbridge Village, have come to light after he was found to have broken the Sex Offenders Register rules after being released from prison for a previous sex offence. He tried to escape detection by changing his name, but was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for this crime in July 2021.

As officers investigated the rape, officers were told that a 13-year-old girl had been raped 10 times by the vile pedophile. Morriss fed the boy by buying her gifts before attacking her to satisfy his perverted sexual urges.

The girl described how her entire family was changed by what Morriss did and how he denied her the chance to be a normal teenager. Morriss was convicted of 10 rapes of the 13-year-old and was sentenced to life in prison in court earlier this week. He must serve at least 11 years before he can apply for parole.

Lee Walsh

A man broke into a couple's bedroom, leaving a victim with multiple facial injuries.

At around 4:30 am on April 15, 2022, Lee Joseph Walsh, 51, broke into an address in Wolstenholme Square and entered the room. The duo woke up to find Walsh and a fight broke out, leaving one man with injuries to his face.

Walsh then fled the scene with the man's wallet and bank card, which he later used in a Smithdown Road supermarket. He was arrested on 8 June after forensic and CCTV investigations and later charged with theft.

Walsh, of Langton Road, Liverpool, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

Rueben Murphy

A murderer berated a judge as he was sentenced to life in prison for killing a young father in the street.

Rueben Murphy, 26, called the High Court judge a "fat paedophile" and shouted "Fuck the system" as he was led to cells at Liverpool Crown Court. Murphy, formerly of Barkbeth Road in Huyton, was convicted of murder after firing two 9mm bullets into the chest of 26-year-old Patrick Boyle on July 1, 2021.

Boyle, who was living in Kirkdale at the time, was the father of a three-year-old boy and, at the time of his death, was expecting a second child with his pregnant partner, the hospital's ward manager Ashleigh Deans. He was standing outside an address in Newway on Lordens Road in Huyton at around 5:55 pm when Murphy approached on an electric bicycle and opened fire.

Two shots hit him in the left side of the chest and he was pronounced dead at Whiston Hospital less than 30 minutes later. Murphy denied he was on the street at the time, claiming he was "crazy" on ketamine and marijuana in a garden in another Huyton neighborhood.

But he came across overwhelming evidence, including a pair of black gloves with traces of gunshot residue and his DNA profile found in a kitchen cupboard at his home. CCTV evidence also placed him in the realm of murder at the time.

Murphy was convicted of murder after a trial at Liverpool Crown Court along with his friend Ben Doyle, now 25, who rode an electric bike with Murphy on his back just minutes away. Another friend, 21-year-old Thomas Walker, was acquitted of murder but admitted handling one of the bullets that killed Boyle the day before the shooting.

Murphy will serve a life sentence with a minimum of 31 years.

Doyle, of Lyme Grove in Huyton, was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 27 years, while Walker, who was not a permanent resident but a native of Clubmoor, served two years behind bars.

Roberto Saxonia

A violent bully subjected his girlfriend to brutal assault over a 12-hour period.

Robert Saxon headbutted, punched, kicked and choked his partner during the Warrington attack earlier this year.

The woman said Saxon, 50, later told her he would kill her after he was released from prison. He and the victim began a relationship in April 2021. The court heard that she was later flagged as very drunk and saxon on class A drugs.

Riding said that on January 23 of this year, Saxon launched an attack against the woman at a house on Plumtre Avenue and that it continued at her home on Yardley Avenue. He said the attack led to him subjecting her to a series of violent acts, including grabbing her by the neck so hard she couldn't breathe, sticking his fingers in her eye sockets and hitting her with his head.

The woman was later examined by medics and luckily found she had escaped serious injury, but said the attack had a devastating effect on her mental health. Saxon was imprisoned for two and a half years.

Reece Brown

A drug dealer has flooded a town with crack and heroin.

Reece Jon Browne, 26, of Eton Street in Walton, appeared in court on Wednesday 27 July after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. He was arrested after a sting operation found he was involved on a district line that delivered drugs in Wigan between February and April this year.

He was eventually arrested and charged with supplying heroin and crack in April and sentenced to five years in prison.

Stefan Spencer

A man ran back to a house from which he had been thrown to attack two police officers.

Merseyside Police were called to a domestic incident on Greenbank Drive in Field Lane Estate on 10 April. Shortly afterwards, patrols rushed to the area and ordered Stephen Spencer, 44, out of the house to avoid breaking the peace.

He ran back onto the property a short time later and attacked two police officers. He was arrested and charged before appearing at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday 27 July.

Spencer, of Simonswood Lane in Northwood, Kirkby, was jailed for two years and seven months after being convicted of aggravated assault on a paramedic and assaulting a paramedic.

Jonathan Byrne

A pedophile has been caught with hundreds of morbid images of child abuse and bestiality on his phones, as well as a story describing a "sexual fantasy" about a drunken teenager.

Jonathon Byrne, 34, was arrested at his home on January 9 last year when officers arrived with a search warrant. Jamie Baxter, who filed charges at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, said the Cheshire Police Online Child Abuse Investigation Team unit seized two Samsung phones and took Byrne de Widnes into custody for questioning.

Byrne confirmed his personal details but denied seeing an indecent photo of a child or having any sexual interest in children. He claimed he didn't think such things would be found on his devices.

Baxter told the court, "How wrong he was."

After initially being released under investigation, Byrne was questioned again on November 5, when he responded to investigators "without comment" after a "large number" of abuse footage was found on his phones.

In total there were 283 images and six videos in category A – the most serious type, 270 still images and six moving images in category B, 186 images and 14 videos in category C, plus 24 still images and 40 videos of “extreme pornography” . - i.e. bestiality.

Byrne was jailed for 16 months.

Stephen Carmody

A passer-by joined in the conversation when an 86-year-old woman was attacked by a "calculating" thief outside Asda.

Mary Rishworth had gone to the shops to buy a newspaper on April 26 of this year when she had a falling out with career criminal Stephen Carmody. Carmody, 39, saw Ms. Rishworth entered the Asda store in Kirkland Street, St Helens, and waited for her outside.

Mrs. Rishworth noticed something tugging at her bag and realized that Carmody had reached into it, but he managed to steal her bag and house keys before fleeing the scene, leaving her on the ground.

The Liverpool Crown Court heard that Mrs. Rishworth was not seriously injured and called for help, which caught the attention of spectator Carl Molyneux. He chased after her and found Carmody rummaging through her purse.

Carmody then threw it to the ground and said "sorry" before fleeing the scene. The bag was returned to Mrs. Rishworth, who confirmed that between £5 and £10 had been stolen.

Carmody was arrested and initially charged with theft, which he denied, however the charges were reduced to theft of the person as he did not use force during the incident. Carmody, of College Street, St. Helens, then pleaded guilty. Carmody was jailed for 20 months.

Glyndwr Willis

A 'depraved' retired teacher has downloaded over 60,000 images of children being sexually abused.

Glyndwr Willis, aka George Williams, has amassed a vast collection of offensive and prohibited images of children over the years.

The Liverpool Crown Court heard that Williams continued to seek out indecent footage despite knowing that police were investigating him and despite being subject to a court order designed to prevent him from accessing footage depicting the show of sexual abuse by children. .

The 72-year-old man told parole officers he was addicted to images showing child sexual abuse before a judge arrested him this morning. Nardeen Nemat, a prosecutor, said Willis admitted to police that he started accessing child abuse footage online in 2011 - three years after he was convicted of possessing indecent footage.

Williams, of Winstanley Road, was jailed for a total of 20 months.

Peter Spencer

A drug addict who has fallen into debt with his dealers has them dig up his concrete backyard and install a £180,000 safe containing cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

Peter Spencer, 41, was also "pressured and threatened" to run a "corruption hotline" for the gang and allowed his attic to be used to grow a "small but sophisticated" marijuana farm. The carpenter was at home when Merseyside Police searched the property on 6 September 2019 and quickly found the drugs.

Spencer was living in Chiswell Street, Kensington at the time with his partner, who was also a Class A drug addict. plastic mat. A safe had been installed inside, which could be opened with the keys in Bird's pocket.

The safe contained a large amount of drugs, including 1.5 kg of cocaine, 81 g of heroin, 1.6 kg of cannabis resin and 350 g of cannabis bush. The court heard that the estimated street value of the stock was between £89,000 and £187,000.

Spencer was jailed for three years and four months.

Winifred Chapmann

A grandmother set fire to a room in her ex's house after he broke up with her.

Winifred Chapman started the fire in a bed in the house where she lived minutes after Julian Lowe gave her a letter from lawyers telling her to leave the premises.

His ex was left with burns on his hands after dragging the drunken 52-year-old man out of the room. A Liverpool Crown Court judge told Chapman that his actions could have killed someone.

Prosecutor Derek Jones said Chapman and Lowe had been in a relationship for several years and she had been living with him and her mother at their home on Coronation Road in St. Louis. Helens, until earlier this year.

However, in the days leading up to the incident, their relationship fell apart and he asked her to leave the property. The court heard that she refused and the atmosphere in the house grew increasingly tense before she drank too much and lit a fire in a room.

Chapman of Hillside Avenue, Huyton was jailed for 20 months. A five-year restraining order also prevents her from contacting Lowe.

Michael Strange

A thug who assaulted a woman is one of the first in the country to be arrested for non-fatal strangulation.

Michael Strange, 33, of Nortonwood Lane, Windmill Hill, Runcorn, was sent to North Cheshire Magistrates' Court in Warrington. He pleaded guilty on the day of the charge to intentional strangulation, criminal mischief and assault causing actual bodily harm (ABH).

All three charges were brought against the same woman the day before the hearing, Sunday, July 17th. Strange was sentenced to 52 weeks in prison and prohibited from contacting or approaching his victim or stepping onto an identified street.

Stephen Hill

A man left a bag of feces on his disabled neighbor's doorstep, attacked him with a hammer and stabbed him with a steak knife.

Stephen Hill also threatened to kill David Smith's dog and taped offensive messages to his car during an unprovoked campaign of harassment. The couple had previously lived harmoniously side by side, but within a fortnight the victim was left behind "in fear of her life".

The Liverpool Crown Court heard on Monday that Smith had lived at his home in Beaufort Street, Dingle, for around 10 months at the time of the series of incidents in September and October 2021.

There were a series of events leading up to the stabbing of Mr. Smith, including Hill berating him and brandishing a hammer at him. Early on October 5, Mr. Smith was in his garden smoking a cigarette when he saw Hill "coming towards him". When asked what he was doing, he said he was "looking for his cat", but then he leaned in and attacked his victim.

Smith felt "excruciating pain" in his right abdomen before Hill "giggled" and fell. It was at this point that Mr. Smith realized that he was wielding a five-inch serrated-blade steak knife and had been stabbed.

Hill of Beaufort Street tried to "stick" the knife in him again, shouting, "I'll kill you, you cockney fool. Kill, kill, kill."

He admitted to injuries, possession of a sharp object in a public place, assault and criminal mischief at a previous hearing and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

John Parvin

A stalker threatened to 'hack' his ex-girlfriend's son and cut off her cat's head.

John Parvin, who has a history of abusing former partners, also said he would stab the victim's new boyfriend and set their house on fire on Christmas Eve. He also told her that she hurt herself because he knew that she had thoughts of suicide in the past.

Liverpool's Crown Court heard earlier this week that the 33-year-old had known Katie Herridge "for many years" as they were "close neighbours" who lived opposite each other. They began a short-lived relationship in November 2020 which ended in April 2021.

Weeks after they stopped seeing each other, Parvin began a campaign of abuse, repeatedly threatening her and saying she would either stab her new partner or throw a brick.

In late October 2021, he left a voicemail threatening her son and revealed that he was tracking his ex's movements through her phone. She then contacted the police.

But on November 20, 2021, Parvin messaged Ms. Herridge on Instagram, threatening to "cut your son and tear him to pieces" and burn down his house on Christmas Eve. He said he would "happily go to jail for this", adding: "Drop the charges you weed".

Parvin admitted to stalking and intimidating witnesses at a previous hearing and was sentenced to 35 months in prison. He held out his hand to Mrs. Herridge in the gallery and said, "I'm sorry," before being led to the cells.

Timothy Byrnes

A pedophile collected hundreds of child abuse images on an iPod and used software to try to hide his activities from the police.

Timothy Byrnes downloaded footage of three-year-olds being raped and saved it to the device at his Wirral home - but it was discovered after he backed up the iPod to a laptop. A judge arrested the 70-year-old man, who had previously been convicted of similar offences, at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday.

Byrnes' crimes didn't begin until 2011, but since then he has been convicted multiple times of taking and possessing indecent photos of children. Under an order issued after his last conviction in June 2019, he was instructed to provide information to police about any devices he had for storing footage and accessing the internet.

However, when a parole officer paid a routine visit to his Bebington home in January of this year, he suspected Byrnes of breaking the rules. Byrnes' laptop was later searched and it was discovered to have child molestation footage from a backup that took place when an iPod was connected to it. The search also revealed that Byrnes had downloaded two software programs designed to obfuscate his Internet activities.

A total of 683 offensive images were found on the laptop and linked to an iPod backup. Of this total, 181 fell into the most serious category A, with some children between the ages of three and five having been victims of sexual abuse.

Byrnes pleaded guilty to possessing indecent photos and violating a sexual harm prevention order and was sentenced to three years and two months in prison.

Peter McHale

A violent thug beat up a teenage Liverpool fan and operated on him.

Peter McHale robbed the 17-year-old and his girlfriend at the Mercure Hotel in Liverpool city center earlier this year in an attack in which he chased the boy and hit him repeatedly. The boy's jaw was broken in three places and he subsequently had a suspected seizure while awaiting medical attention.

The 17-year-old and his girlfriend celebrated his birthday in Liverpool on April 11 this year. They had eaten in the city center and were on their way back to the Mercure Hotel where they were staying.

On the way back, they met McHale, 36, and his partner and chatted briefly with them, including about being Liverpool fans. Walmsley said the victim and his girlfriend said goodbye and left, but McHale ran after them soon after and began his attack.

CCTV footage showed him beating the teenager outside the Mercure hotel before chasing him inside and continuing the attack there. The teenager's girlfriend, who was wearing his coat, followed them into the hotel, but McHale then turned on her and pinned her to the ground before grabbing the coat and running away.

A Liverpool Crown Court judge told McHale's father that he was a "violent person, unable to control his temper" as she had imprisoned him for four years and four months.

Abdul Gani

A pervert gropes a 10-year-old girl as she chooses a bag of potato chips at a newsstand.

Abdul Gani, 32, from Langsdale Street, Everton, cuddled up with the little girl as she was with her nine-year-old cousin at Jim's News on Fountains Road, Kirkdale. The girls were sorting out packets of chips when the pervert walked by and touched her ass.

Gani then smiled and winked at her before touching her again as she paid. shooting. Store officials pointed out where the perpetrator of the crime, who did not work at the scene, was the suspect.

Gani was found guilty of sexually assaulting the child by touch following a court hearing, but his case was referred to the Liverpool Crown Court due to the gravity of the offence. On the day of the trial, Gani refused to leave his cell to appear via video link and also failed to cooperate with the probation service in preparing a bias report.

Gani jailed for 10 months Judge Stuart Driver QC said he could not impose a specific extended sentence as Gani had no prior qualifying offenses and the appropriate sentence would not exceed four years.

Police were called "and found Gani unconscious outside his house after being attacked". Gani was jailed for ten months.

Dawi Jones

Two thieves broke into the City of Liverpool College and stole items to be sent to those in need in Ukraine.

Dewi Jones and Lee Thompson stormed downtown college in the early hours of June 6th of this year. Liverpool Magistrates' Court heard they fought their way through a security gate before stealing several items from inside the building.

Thompson, 41, and Jones, 45, took around £300 worth of goods and caused £200 damage to the college.

Jones, who had no fixed abode, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison and the judges ordered compensation from the City of Liverpool College.

Peter Bennet

A thief armed with a knife robbed the same store twice in one week, while the same terrified worker worked alone.

Peter Bennett twice attacked the Go Local Extra store in Bootle in four days and stole hundreds of pounds in cash from the till. The employee who was on duty during both incidents was left behind "in fear for his life" and had to resign from his job.

Bennett was subsequently arrested on May 20. The court heard his staggering tally of 51 previous convictions for 112 crimes going back to 1994 and including a tally of robberies in 2014, for which he served 27 months behind bars.

He admitted to two robberies earlier this year and was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

Andrew Fearnley-Hill

A man with multiple convictions for sex crimes has been caught engaging in sex at a bus stop on his birthday. Serial exhibitionist Andrew Fearnley-Hill now has 12 convictions following the indecent exposure incident.

On the most recent occasion, Fearnley-Hill, 52, was spotted by officers "naked from the waist down" in his car while performing a sexual act on a busy Warrington street. He held his cock while his pants and boxers lay beside him on the sidewalk.

The court heard that he could be seen by motorists, pedestrians and nearby residents. Police believe he was under the influence of alcohol as he "slurred his words and smelled heavily intoxicated".

Fearnley-Hill admitted to indecent exposure and was sentenced to one year in prison. However, he is already serving time and the new sentence will not affect his release date.

Karl Townsende

A murderer who stabbed a thief has been sentenced to 19 years in prison.

Jordan Brophy was attacked with such ferocity that two fragments of a broken blade lodged in his skull. He died aged 31 from injuries sustained in the Halewood incident last October.

Karl Townsend was acquitted of his murder by a jury of six men and six women. However, he was convicted of manslaughter by a 10 to 2 majority.

Judge Andrew Menary sentenced him to 19 years in prison and described the attack as "a deliberate and armed response to an attempt to steal his drugs". Townsend must serve two-thirds of that term before being licensed.

At the sentencing, Liverpool's Honorary Clerk said: "That night, shortly after you left and your partner and son left the house, the late Jordan Brophy and three other accomplices broke into your home. This was clearly a targeted attack - a break-in and apprehension where the burglars didn't want to make a fuss and obviously didn't expect to be in the house for long.

“I have no doubt that they were after their stash of controlled drugs because I have no doubt that their main source of income at the time was dealing in class A and class B drugs. No other explanation makes sense.

"That means it wasn't a home invasion with a scared, unsuspecting homeowner. As soon as you saw these men on camera, you knew exactly what they meant.

“The result is the type of violent encounter that so often accompanies this type of criminal activity. You were provoked by Jordan Brophy's actions, but his reaction was not warranted.

"I also found out that Jordan Brophy was not armed with any weapons in the house and especially not a knife. He did not expect a confrontation that night.

"I also found out that none of the robbers had a gun. This is an ornament you made up.

"The jury's verdict means they cannot be certain that you intended to kill with a fatal blow or cause serious injury. Either way, the level of unlawful force you used was shocking.

“Within seconds and without delay, after entering the property, you stabbed Jordan Brophy multiple times in the head, face and arms. Mr. Brophy tried to protect himself, but he didn't have a chance.

“He tried to flee the scene of the crime, but was caught again by you in the street, where you repeatedly stabbed him in the neck with the remnants of the blade. The notion that you acted in self-defense at any point is frankly absurd.

“Jordan Brophy was no angel. But whatever he did that night, he didn't deserve to die the way he did.

“He was a beloved and cherished son, brother, partner and uncle. His life has been damaged beyond repair.

“This is a particularly serious case of manslaughter. Mr. Brophy was killed in a series of unlawful assaults that must involve intent on his part to cause harm just short of grievous bodily harm.

“You are expressing remorse for what you have done and the loss of life it has caused. I hope this is real.”

Gerald Kohl

A stalker called his ex an average of 325 times a day during a campaign of threats and harassment against her.

Gerald Cole told the woman he would throw acid in her face and set her house on fire during the weeks of abuse when he called her from prison. A judge told him he was confident he felt no remorse and did not accept the trauma he had inflicted on the "emotionally unstable and vulnerable" woman.

Cole was serving a prison sentence for assaulting the woman when he called her thousands of times in a matter of weeks and threatened her several times. Cole has been in prison for 16 months and a restraining order prevents him from contacting the victim.

Darren Baptiste

A mother was confronted by a gang of machete-wielding masked thieves during a gruesome robbery.

The woman had a second knife pointed at her face and believed the attackers were also armed with a gun. The "leader" of the "shocking" robbery, her ex-boyfriend Darren Baptiste, was arrested earlier this week.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the single mother was bathing alone at home at her address in Rock Ferry, Wirral at around 5.45pm on 4 December last year. Then she heard a bang and her dogs started barking. The woman got out of the shower and came across two men wearing masks and gloves. They broke a window at the back of the property and climbed in to gain access.

One of these invaders was armed with a machete while the other carried a switchblade. They demanded money and took £300 that she had saved up for her children's Christmas presents.

But the couple demanded more, believing there was a "substantial sum" of up to £50,000 in the house, which they "looted". The man with the knife pressed the blade to her cheek as he threatened her, inflicting a cut.

She also believed that a third perpetrator was armed with a gun. The court heard that she and Baptiste - from Burnard Crescent, Kirkby - were once in a relationship, although he denied this.

Baptiste was jailed for 14 years.

Daniel Kelly

A gang has stolen nearly £40,000 in cash after robbing seven convenience stores in just over a month.

The Liverpool-based organized crime group attacked cooperative stores across the North West, armed themselves with "heavy" tools and raided after the premises closed for the day. Three fathers - Anthony Carroll, Anthony Hollywood and Daniel Kelly - were arrested today for their respective roles in the operation.

Liverpool Crown Court heard this morning, Monday, that the crime would see burglars open shop shutters before stealing money from vaults. The first took place around 10.30pm on 10 February at the Co-op on Knutsford Road in Latchford, Warrington.

Two men with a crowbar broke into the building while another stayed outside and stole £7,480. A Southport branch was attacked at 11:15 pm the next day, taking just over £6,500.

A store in Runcorn was raided ahead of two £3,185 attacks on Valentine's Day. Over £10,000 was taken in an incident in Salford just before midnight on 14 February.

Then, around 1:30 am, the perpetrators went to a supermarket in Hoylake and stole £6,500. Later that same day, Hollywood was stopped by the police and arrested.

Officers later discovered £6,900 in cash in his room, while clothes found matched those worn by an offender seen in CCTV footage. However, the raids continued on 12 March, when a co-op in Formby was raided for £2,697 in cash at around 11pm.

The robbery spree ended at the Co-op in Chaise Meadow, Lymm after men using a crowbar broke in late at night and stole over £2,000. The money stolen from all seven robberies totaled £38,487.

Carroll and Kelly were linked to the crimes through automatic license plate recognition cameras and cell phone location data. The former acted as a getaway driver and was involved in only two of the crimes.

All three defendants admitted to conspiracy to commit theft, while Hollywood pleaded guilty to possessing criminal property. He was jailed for 40 months while Kelly was jailed for 45 months.

Carroll received 28 months behind bars.

Andreas Netherlands

A sick pedophile locked a 14-year-old girl in his attic and sexually abused her.

Andrew Holland's victim was branded a liar after police abandoned their initial investigation into the child molester. Decades later, he finally confessed to his heinous crimes and was tried a second time for sex crimes.

The attack took place in the attic of what was then the 60-year-old's Merseyside home. Holland - who has a total of seven convictions for 23 crimes - admitted to indecent exposure during an earlier hearing. He was imprisoned for 32 months.

Thomas Falkes

A drug dealer used the 'Goldgrape' encrochat handle to raise £1.4 million for other criminals.

Thomas Jefferson Hawkes was arrested at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday 9th August after admitting to conspiring to supply cocaine and marijuana. The 30-year-old, from Valerian Road in Claughton, was also convicted of money laundering.

This ties in with a six-month period between January and June 2020, during which he is believed to have raised over £1.4 million in cash on behalf of other Encrochat handles. The court also heard that he was responsible for the collection and distribution of 14 kilograms of cocaine and 75 kilograms of marijuana. He worked with other criminals, two of whom have already been arrested.

Hawkes, of Valerian Road in Claughton, was sentenced to eleven years and a half in prison.

Keelie Murphy

A woman who was "in love" with her childhood best friend began to molest her again as soon as she was released from prison.

Keelie Murphy has been arrested three times for obsessively molesting Gemma Ellison. But after she was released from prison, she immediately resumed her harassment campaign - bombarding her mother's workplace with constant phone calls, bringing the family business to a halt.

The couple had been friends since they were 10, but the relationship "turned sour" after Woolton's Murphy "developed a crush" on Ellison. The two had not spoken for many years, but they got back in touch in 2017.

But in 2020, the 36-year-old was convicted of sexual abuse and given a restraining order barring her from contacting her ex-boyfriend or visiting his Widnes-based company, Ellison Motors, for five years. And Murphy of Halewood Place has flouted that ban ever since.

Her latest ban violation resulted in a 30-month prison sentence - and a judge warned her that if she continued delinquent, her sentences would simply increase.

Oliver Rauhley

An evil pedophile sexually abused and raped a seven-year-old boy at a water park.

The Liverpool Crown Court heard that the 24-year-old committed the abuse over a three-year period when he was in his late teens. Roughley of St Helens looked after the boy by buying him gifts including toy cars and teddy bears.

He also used force to ensure their silence, including twisting his arm behind his back. The pervert kept the child's underwear in his room and sent a message saying he loved her.

Roughley - from Bailey Way in Windlehurst - first attacked the boy when he was seven, touching his penis. So "he told him not to tell anyone or he would go to jail and never see him again".

His abuse escalated to the rape of the young man in cubicles at a south Liverpool swimming pool and at Splash World in Southport. He was convicted after a trial - and continues to protest his innocence. A judge sentenced him to 21 years in prison.

shaun kelly

A "career criminal" led police on a 100mph chase before hitting a light pole and fleeing the scene to hide in someone's backyard.

Shaun Kelly, 37, was behind the wheel of a stolen Vauxhall Zafira with false license plates when officers were alerted to the car at around 7.15pm on 17th November 2020 in Runcorn. Ben Berkson, prosecutor, told Chester Crown Court that a police officer went to intercept the Zafira which was tearing up the Highway Code.

Berkson said the dangerous actions included "running a red light, making a dangerous U-turn at high speed, crossing double white lines, driving at 70 mph in a 40 mile zone, taking over vehicles, which were also on the road, driving at 100+ mph in a 60 mph zone and 60 mph on a narrow residential street with a 30 mph limit.

He later pled guilty on the first opportunity to dangerous driving, criminal damage to a fence he broke in an attempt to escape, and aggravated vehicle acquisition in connection with knowledge that the car was stolen and hit a light pole. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison.

Christoph Schmidt

A vile man said he "would love to be there" after seeing video of a girl being sexually abused.

Christopher Smith, 31, messaged pedophile Vicki Bevan online, responding to a clip of her abusing a boy with "that's hot" and one of her abusing a girl with "I wish I was there". Bevan was part of a pedophile ring based in St Helens and fulfilled some of his horrific sexual fantasies alongside Paul Rafferty and Tony Hutton by raping and abusing a young girl.

Bevan also spent time discussing with another man his desire to "kidnap, rape, torture, kill and then eat children" after they had sexually abused them. The vile woman made contact with Smith, who lived 230 miles away, via internet chat rooms before sending him at least two clips.

Charlie Barrass-Evans, a prosecutor, said Smith was caught in an undercover sting operation in which officers posed as users of a Kik chat room. Smith used the hashtag andysmith01 and offered to "swap" photos of children before he could be traced to his phone.

Smith, of Clare Drive, Tiverton, Devon, pleaded guilty to two counts of disseminating and four counts of downloading indecent images of children and was sentenced to two years and four months in prison by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court.

Leslie Radley-Braithwaite

A stable worker was arrested after a fight broke out over a dead horse.

The fight involved a "Viking", a Liverpool fan who is banned from matches, and his mother-in-law. They all left after the aggrieved family barricaded the entrance to the Formby compound.

Liverpool Crown Court heard on Thursday that Lisa Masterson had boarded seven horses at Kentonwood Stables, Freshfield, but one had died. Thereafter there was "some enthusiasm about the cause of the horse's death".

The 54-year-old also had "payment difficulties" and was told to find another place for her animals. The court was informed that there had been an unspecified "incident" at the stables on 16 August 2020.

Masterson, from Maple Close at Croxteth, returned the next day with family members in tow. They blocked the entrance to the complex with three vehicles to retrieve the equipment they had.

But the mother became "abusive and aggressive" towards staff and pushed one. Her daughter's 23-year-old boyfriend, Sam Lomax, from Camp Road in Woolton, grabbed a craft knife from his car.

Stable boy Leslie Radley-Braithwaite, of Redgate in Formby, then armed himself with two large kitchen knives and the argument 'escalated'. Cellphone footage of part of the discussion at the hearing, during which Masterson was heard saying, "Fuck, did you take our stuff?"

Police were called, but "things had calmed down" by the time officers arrived. Masterson admitted to using threatening behavior and received a 12-month community guideline with 150 hours of unpaid work and up to 20 days of rehabilitation activity.

Lomax pleaded guilty to possession of a sharp object in a public place and possession of marijuana after a small amount of the Class B drug was found on him during his arrest. He received a 10-month sentence suspended for 18 months, plus 150 hours of community service and a 10-day rehabilitation activity requirement.

Radley-Braithwaite admitted to one count of brawling and two counts of possession of a sharp object in a public place. He was detained for 10 months.

Connor Kelly

The thug stabbed a sixth grader to death after he got mad at a party.

Connor Kelly was recently given a suspended sentence for arson after he attacked his victim at a Wirral party earlier this year. The 22-year-old argued with his ex before picking up a knife and attacking the victim, a senior high school student, who did not provoke him.

He suffered a stab wound to his left hand. Kelly fled after the attack but was quickly apprehended.

Despite his young age, the shooter has multiple convictions, including robbery. He was imprisoned for two years.

Phil Hudson

The vile pervert sent his partner a video of him performing a sexual act in front of a young woman.

Phil Hudson said "What did I do" when the police broke into his home. Three months after the 33-year-old man and woman broke up, she went to Huyton Police Station and reported her disturbing behaviour.

Her ex told cops that he "began to reveal his fantasies and desires regarding the children". Seven indecent images of children as young as eight years old were discovered on the Pets at Home employee's phone after the operation, along with extreme pornographic images.

The video in question, which lasted just over a minute, showed Hudson naked and holding his phone to record the incident. He admitted to crimes, including sexual activity in the presence of a child, and was sentenced to 27 months in prison.

Josef Plavnicky

A motorcyclist was left on the road with his bones visible after the drunk driver hit him.

Jozef Plavnicky, 42, was attempting an illegal maneuver by ignoring a turn signal when his Audi A3 "jumped forward" and collided with a motorcycle. Aston Connerty racer was thrown from his bike and suffered a life-changing injury to his right foot.

It was feared that his foot would have to be amputated, but doctors managed to save it. Plavnicky, who works for a bed linen company, first stopped at the site at the intersection of East Lancashire Road and Back Gilmoss Lane in Fazakerley, but then changed direction and drove off.

About five minutes later, officers who were unaware of the collision saw him at the Randles Farm Interchange with significant damage to the front of his vehicle. They followed the 42-year-old onto the M57, where he was seen swerving and driving a 70-mile stretch at 45mph.

After being pulled over at the end of the highway, his speech was "slurred" and his eyes "glazed over" and he was more than double the drunk driving limit. Plavnicky admitted to causing serious injuries by dangerous driving and was sentenced to 34 months in prison.

Michael Walker

The knife-wielding man pulled a blade at a corner shop before being chased down the street and stabbed in the head with a machete.

Michael Walker brandished the knife in front of shocked customers, including terrified children, after a parking dispute broke out. He pulled the "very large" gun from the waistband of his underwear, held it over his head, and made a downward stabbing motion.

His neighbor then tried to run him over with his car and "cut" him with the terrifying weapon. Blood "gushed" from the 34-year-old's head following the incident at the Go Local Extra store on Roughwood Drive in Kirkby.

Walker admitted to an altercation and possession of a sharp object in a public place. He was imprisoned for a year.

Thomas Crawford

The dealer was found with drugs valued at up to £110,000 in a Kirkdale home.

Thomas Crawford's involvement in the County Lines drug operation, which supplied cocaine and ketamine, was discovered when police made the discovery. The raid was carried out on 18 July as part of Merseyside Police's Project Jellyfish and over £8,000 in cash was seized.

The 28-year-old from Keithley Walk in Speke was sentenced to six years in prison.

Anthony Bowden

The heroin smuggler was an important member of a large gang led by "Jabba the Hutt".

The Merseyside-based organized crime group imported and shipped millions of pounds worth of Class A drugs. Anthony Bowden, one of Jabba's closest associates, was jailed for 21 years for the ring.

This large-scale operation was organized on the EncroChat encrypted communication platform. The head of the OCG used a JabbaTheHutt wired device while managing the sale of over 84kg of heroin and 17kg of cocaine.

Of this total, the gang was responsible for importing more than 20 kg of heroin and 4 kg of cocaine. Operating under the name HyenaJaw, personal trainer Bowden was "very trusted" by the Star Wars-inspired "head of operations", who organized the buying and selling of drugs "on a commercial scale".

Keenan Fairclough

A woman was jogging in a park when she was grabbed from behind and pulled into a bush.

The victim feared for her life after Keenan Fairclough put her in a chokehold and demanded money as she desperately looked for ketamine. The runner then posted about her ordeal on Facebook.

She then received a message from the 21-year-old's stepmother who, based on the description provided, was concerned that he was the perpetrator. She sent photos of the defendant and it was confirmed that he had been the assailant.

The father was again caught lurking in the same area under suspicious circumstances three days later and arrested. Fairclough was jailed for 40 months after confessing to an attempted robbery.

Peter Lynchen

The drug lord, who went by the alias Eager Ape, had close ties to Spain and was involved in the delivery of almost 300kg of cocaine and marijuana.

Peter Lynch "entered the pinnacle" of the criminal underworld after losing his job in the construction industry due to ill health. His father traded en masse, paying his subordinates thousands of pounds a month in wages to carry out illegal activities in his name.

The 43-year-old used the EncroChat encrypted communication platform with the handle EagerApe for his dubious dealings. He organized the trafficking of 277 kilos of marijuana and two kilos of cocaine.

The father of three had contacts in Spain, with photos on his Encro phone showing drugs being packed in the country and discussions of "boats ready for a dummy operation" to import drugs into the UK. Lynch was jailed for seven years and four months after admitting to a conspiracy to supply cocaine and marijuana.

Lee Ashton

A man stabbed by a gang could have died had he not been rescued by a passing ambulance.

Lee Ashton stabbed his victim, who lived in a tent in a park, in the back out of jealousy for starting a new relationship with his former partner. The creepy attack followed a riot in which the crook stole firearms during a robbery and robbed a cyclist at gunpoint.

Robert Bassnett was left in his chest cavity with the blade after the attack, but was accidentally discovered by paramedics lying in the street. An EMS official said he "didn't think he could tolerate this blood loss for much longer".

Ashton then had a friend and his new girlfriend pick him up and ask him to get rid of the clothes he was wearing when checking into a hotel. The 23-year-old was found guilty of assault and sentenced to eight years in prison.

Joshua Moorcroft

The scammer fraudulently claimed over £75,000 in false travel insurance claims.

Joshua Moorcroft of Dovecot invented reasons for not being able to take flights to demand large sums of money. In October 2019, he took out global travel insurance for several trips and just nine days later filed a claim for a missed flight from Manchester to New York.

The scammer told his insurance company that his taxi broke down on the way to the airport because of a tire blowout. About two months later, Moorcroft made another claim for a missed flight - this time from Manchester to Qatar, saying he was involved in a car accident on the way to the airport.

Then, in February 2020, three false missed travel claims were filed while he appeared to have surgery on a broken hand. Moorcroft admitted fraud and was jailed for 16 months.

Kenneth Kavanagh

The child rapist branded one of his victims a liar as he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Kenneth Kavanagh raped a seven-year-old boy and sexually molested a six-year-old girl. Decades later, he was finally brought to justice-but tried to molest the woman he abused as a child as she described the devastating effect her crimes had on her.

The morbidly obese 74-year-old, who appeared in court in a wheelchair via a video link to HMP Liverpool, was heard saying "cash, cash, cash, cash" at the start of the hearing before being silenced. He also shook his head and made hand gestures, including rubbing his thumb across his index and middle fingers.

The retiree appeared to spell out the word "liar" as the victim bravely read a statement to the court. Kavanagh was convicted following a trial on seven counts of indecent assault, two counts of sodomy and one count of indecency with a child.

William Rumsby

The pedophile tried to blame his own son when he was caught with videos of boys having sex.

William Rumsby took to the dark web a second time to collect a pile of unsavory images of children and installed a variety of software on his tablet to cover his tracks. He then told a "series of lies" when the police knocked on his door.

The pensioner was sentenced in December 2016 to a suspended prison term of four months and two years and a seven-year sexual harm prevention order after being convicted of indecently possessing and photographing children. But the 71-year-old disregarded this SHPO by downloading similar heinous materials again.

Rumsby falsely told police that the Samsung device on which the images and videos were found belonged to his son. He admitted to possessing indecent photos, taking two counts of indecent photos and violating a sexual harm prevention order, and was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Sean Clamp

The thief told employees "I'm a nice guy" after ambushing a bookie and a pharmacy armed with a piece of pipe that he tried to pass off as a gun.

Sean Clamp silently handed workers a note that read, "Give me money and nobody gets hurt", while another worker was so scared he fell off his chair. The "career criminal" made less than £100 from the two raids, both carried out on the same night.

In one, he walked into Park Street Pharmacy in Bootle wearing a helmet and handed a clerk a note that read "Give me cash and nobody gets hurt" in block letters. As he left, he told her, "I'm not a bad guy."

Clamp has an impressive 111 previous convictions for 233 crimes. He confessed to theft, attempted robbery and possession of a counterfeit firearm with intent to commit a crime and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Mark Woolley

The domestic abuse 'controller' thug headbutted his partner and broke her nose after demanding 'respect' from her and claiming she would 'never meet someone like him'.

Mark Woolley and his partner got into an argument over the weekend of October 29th and she asked him to leave. The 50-year-old man told the victim: "You will miss out on the best thing in your life - you will be alone forever."

He pressed his head against hers before pulling away briefly and then bumping her nose again. She was "shocked" as "there was blood everywhere".

Woolley admitted to an assault that resulted in actual bodily harm. He was imprisoned for a year.

Peter Stevens

Peter Stevens drove a motorcycle towards the officers and said "I smoke you" as he ran away from them.

The 25-year-old almost ran over PCs and pedestrians when he drove onto the curb at high speed on a main road. The chase took place just days after the convicted drug dealer was released from custody.

Patrols ordered Stevens to pull over, but he continued driving towards them. The motorcyclist "broke down at the last minute, slipped and slipped" - "nearly hitting" emergency services workers - then taunted as he tried to flee.

The defendant confessed to dangerous driving, driving without a license, driving without insurance and drunk driving and was jailed for 14 months. He told a judge, "I should've kept my head down when I got home, boy."

Donna Thomas

A woman who was caught shoplifting the day after her release was arrested.

Donna Thomas was given a suspended sentence in May of this year on nine counts of theft and possession of a sharp object in a public place. The next day, the 47-year-old was caught stealing pieces of meat and two car battery chargers from the Lidl supermarket in Edge Lane.

Thomas admitted to the theft and was jailed for eight weeks. Judge Richard Conley said of the sentence: "Your case is a sad one because you have been a law-abiding person for 46 years.

"Something must have happened that turned your life upside down. Hopefully when you get out in a month you'll be clean and able to stay out of trouble."

Colin Chapmann

The former bus driver accused his girlfriend of poisoning his food before biting her on the nose.

Colin Chapman left his partner bloodied and bruised after a "protracted and prolonged" bout of drunkenness at the couple's Wirral home, during which he also knelt in his victim's face.

The 56-year-old accused her of "tampering" with his meal and asked her to try it as he believed there was "something inappropriate about it". Then he grabbed her, pulled her to the ground, knelt down and bit her.

Their relationship ended and she returned to her native Wales to "start over" after "packing up and moving to a whole new area" to be with her abuser. Chapman was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm after a trial and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Dean Gorst

The drug dealer sold crack and heroin at a user's home.

Police raided the Milton Road property in Widnes town center on 9 June after receiving "intelligence information" relating to the supply of illegal substances. Inside, officers saw Dean Gorst standing behind the couch and tenant Leanne Beneke running into the kitchen.

A search found 46 packs of crack worth £10 each and 56 packs of heroin of the same value. These were distributed in "baking boxes" on the living room table, on Gorst's coat and behind the sofa. Cops also seized two transplant phones and £337 in cash.

Two samurai swords found on the property did not result in charges. Gorst admitted to two counts of possession of crack and heroin with intent to supply them and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Michael Konley

The dealer was caught with cocaine between his cheeks and claimed it was for personal use.

Four bags of cocaine were found on Michael Conley's buttocks during a police search. He then told officers, "It's for personal use, it's for the weekend."

Merseyside Police searched his home on Melling Road, Aintree, where they found another 17 bags of white powder, also identified as cocaine. The estimated total street value of the cocaine was £2,086, while £772.10 in cash was seized.

Conley admitted to two counts of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply them. The 46-year-old was sentenced to one year in prison.

Andreas Evans

The 'despicable' scammer took his 80-year-old victim to ATMs 150 times to steal over £50,000 from him.

Serial scammer Andrew Evans posed as an RV salesman and claimed he was receiving regular payments for a vehicle he never provided. As a result, the retiree was no longer able to heat his home.

Evans admitted four counts of fraud at a previous hearing and received an additional five years behind bars. Sentencing Judge David Aubrey QC said: "They took everything, all of his life savings.

"You placed a suction cup and bled him dry. As much as the blood runs in your veins, I'm sorry to say that there is also dishonesty and segmentation by elders."

Richard Murray

The pervert, who showed his naked body to a "14-year-old girl", was arrested for violating the rules of the Sex Offenders Registry.

Richard Murray was spared from prison in January 2021 after being ensnared by pedophile hunters. The 53-year-old thought he had sent obscene Facebook messages to a child, but he had actually been talking to a decoy.

He asked for photos of the child and "said he was naked and in the bath". The pedophile then dubbed the "girl" from a video, with a four-minute video beginning with him shirtless before moving the camera to his bare genitals.

Murray then failed to notify police when he moved into the house, violating his reporting requirements. He was imprisoned for a year.

Michael Mond

A man stabbed his ex's mother 22 times in the street before trying to run over the seriously injured 67-year-old man.

Grandma's arm was partially amputated during an unprovoked, nauseating attack laced with cocaine and vodka by Michael Moon, but she managed to dodge the oncoming vehicle - although she was still on the ground with serious and life-changing injuries, trapped the eight-inch knife on his shoulder. Carmel Ratcliffe only survived the attack thanks to life-saving treatment from a neighbor who was a recently retired paramedic.

Moon was sentenced to 22 years in prison earlier this week after confessing to attempted murder. The incident came after he blamed the victim for the breakup of his relationship with her daughter and the resulting difficulties in dealing with the children.

Liverpool's Crown Court has heard that the 39-year-old's relationship with Leanne Finnegan, with whom he has a nine-year-old daughter, ended around three years ago. The trouble arose while she was pregnant with her son, including an incident where he walked past the mother-to-be - who was holding another child at the time - and sliced ​​open a sofa and mattress.

There were several other arguments that led to his violent attack on Mrs. Finnegan, including Moon falsely denouncing Ms. Finnegan on child neglect charges.

Shortly after 9:00 pm on June 4 of that year, he was driving to Mrs. Ratcliffe after consuming nearly two liters of vodka and over half a gram of cocaine and saw her walking down Tabley Avenue. Moon honked his horn and pulled up beside her, briefly spoke to her through the window, but then got out of the car armed with a large 13-inch kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade.

He then stabbed Mrs. Ratcliffe eight times in the head and torso and stabbed her 14 more times after she fell to the ground. The knife "withdrew" after neighbors rushed to help her.

Moon threw the knife at the pensioner from a distance of 4 feet, causing it to become lodged under her shoulder blade. Mrs. Ratcliffe began to crawl away in a desperate attempt to escape, but he told her he was going to "run her down" and climbed onto the curb as he walked away, turning to face her.

Miraculously, she avoided being run over by rolling in the bushes. Kenneth Reid, her neighbor and a former paramedic with nearly 30 years of experience, along with Mrs. Ratcliffe, Alan, provided roadside lifesaving first aid.

Doctors later said that Ratcliffe likely would have died quickly had he received such medical attention. Moon later admitted to attempted murder and possession of a bladed article.

David Hughes

A man "bombed" a colleague during a three-year campaign of "disturbing and sinister" online stalking after they shared a kiss.

David Hughes, 41, was stalking her colleague and his "paranoid" behavior led her to consider ending her life. On Monday (September 5), the Liverpool Crown Court heard that Hughes had hacked his stalking victim's social media accounts, repeatedly changed her passwords and followed one of her young children on Instagram.

Hughes, who identified with violent film characters, "bombarded" them with text messages and on social media. He sent her frightening "coded messages", including a photo of her earring that had fallen into her car, and said: "Bad things are coming her way".

Hughes, of Harris Street, Dentons Green, St Helens, pleaded guilty to stalking with severe anxiety and unauthorized access to a computer with intent to commit other offenses and voyeurism between February 2018 and July last year. The judge, Registrar David Knifton, QC, sentenced him to two years and eight months behind bars and said Hughes was "in love" with the stalking victim.

David Cooper

A father of three sexually pursued a "13-year-old girl" despite knowing he could "lose everything".

David Cooper chatted with 13-year-old Grace on Kik Messenger and tried to get the teen to have sex with him. But unknown to Cooper is that "Grace" was actually an undercover police officer whose job it was to find pedophiles online.

Cooper agreed with the girl in a series of online messages that her mother would kill her if she found out about their conversations. The defendant added, "She won't know, but I could go to jail and lose everything."

The Liverpool Crown Court heard that Cooper, 35, of Nicholas Road, Widnes, was a diagnostics technician for a carmaker about to be promoted. But the father's career is now in shambles.

Cooper told the girl he was 30 and lived in Warrington. He said the defendant had talked to her even though she said she was 13 - and he had repeatedly asked her to send him pictures of her thighs and crotch in leggings or tights.

Cooper sent 'Grace' a photo of his penis and moved the conversation to Instagram. He told her "this is our secret" and made lewd comments. He asked about her panties, said he masturbated thinking about her, and said he wanted to have sex with her.

The contact, which lasted from May 11 to August 4 last year, ended and he was arrested in November. Cooper pleaded guilty to attempting to communicate with a child and attempting to induce or encourage a child to engage in sexual activity.

He was imprisoned for 27 months.

Fay Dunn

A successful businesswoman who worked as an accountant for a drug ring wailed "I can't believe it" when she was arrested.

Former professional football player Faye Dunn was arrested at an airport after police exposed the multi-million dollar marijuana trade. The mother became involved in the underworld when her business came to a halt due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Liverpool Crown Court heard on Tuesday today that the 38-year-old woman and her father Michael Dunn were operating using EncroChat - an encrypted communication platform commonly used by criminals. But authorities gained access to the network in 2020, and Operation Venetic later revealed that the daughter had used cable StiffNinja.

Meanwhile, her convicted drug dealer father went by the name ZincBat. Faye Dunn was found to be in close contact with a user called LedZeppelin, with messages revealing that she was "involved in the supply and production of cannabis".

The mother of two was described as "an accountant for an organized crime company" while smuggling illicit money abroad. Nicola Daley, prosecutor, said: “She played an operational role within the drug supply chain, but appeared to have significant influence over others in the chain, facilitating and directing others to find themselves among criminal allies in relation to the supply of controlled drugs. for tasks such as collecting and transporting packages of drugs and money.

“Significantly, she appears to have acted as an accountant for the organized crime company and not only hid her EncroChat device but also cash while traveling abroad to avoid detection by authorities.”

Faye Dunn was arrested at Manchester Airport on June 13th and remained silent during her interview with officers. Michael Dunn was arrested on July 11 and also declined to comment.

Both defendants, from Walpole Avenue in Whiston, admitted to conspiracy to supply marijuana and money laundering. The former, formerly on Kingsway Parade in Huyton, has already been convicted of drunk driving and driving with a disqualification.

Faye Dunn was jailed for three years and nine months, while her father received a two-year sentence suspended for two years.

Paul Braun

A county drug dealer continued to deal crack and heroin after heated conversations with police.

Paul Brown, from Quickthorne Crescent, Stockbridge Village, was caught leaving a flat used as a base for the supply of crack and heroin. When police discovered Brown, 42, leaving a house on Lilac Drive in Northwich, he was already under investigation after being stopped in a car on Runcorn Road in April 2019.

A search of the car in which he was a passenger led officers to find two knives in the trunk and £2,000 worth of drugs. Brown was arrested at the scene, questioned and released under investigation.

Arrested for a second time on 9 June 2022, he was seen leaving a flat where there was crack, heroin, £200 cash, three mobile phones and drug paraphernalia. Brown was arrested and later charged with possession with intent to supply crack and heroin.

He appeared in Liverpool Crown Court on Friday 26 August and was jailed for 68 months after pleading guilty to the crimes.

David Alti

A thug who strangled a woman in a vicious attack killed his own father 17 years ago in an attack so severe that doctors found more than 100 wounds on his body.

David Alty was arrested after launching an attack on a family friend who gave him a place to stay.

Alty, now 36, was heavily intoxicated and in the midst of a psychotic break when he punched the woman before strangling her and telling her he was going to kill her at their Litherland home earlier this year.

He was arrested in hospital after admitting to assault involving actual bodily harm after the woman, whose name ECHO declined to name, said she feared she would die during the attack.

Lyn Karran

A grandmother posed as an accountant in a scam potentially worth up to £1.2m.

Lyn Karran filed false expense reports with HM Revenue and Customs on behalf of dozens of clients, defrauding the public purse of at least £300,000. The 46-year-old is starting a lengthy prison sentence just days after the birth of her first grandchild.

The Liverpool Crown Court heard on Wednesday that Nan previously ran a company called LK Accounting Services. Between October 2015 and 2017, she acted as an "unauthorized tax agent" - making fraudulent refund requests for her clients in order to "get rich".

Karran, aka Lyn Wilson, secured a total of £1.2m to 150 clients over that period – most of them plumbers and heating contractors, whose work she obtained through word of mouth and promotion via WhatsApp. Peter Killen, prosecutor, described how they "generally operated on a PAYE tax basis and were not familiar with the self-assessment scheme".

She instructed her to sign up for a self-assessment and provide her personal information so she could keep track of her accounts. Karran, of Tithebarn Lane in Melling, never asked workers for receipts and never told them the value of claims made in her name.

This included retrospective payments as far back as three years. They paid her a flat fee of £150 plus 10% of any rebates earned, which netted her around £190,000.

Karran's company also had a "misleading" website that "made it look like it was a registered professional company". She “failed to follow the required rules for taxpayers paying taxes” and did not register with HMRC or report that she was acting on behalf of others when completing the self-assessment tax returns.

The claimed amounts triggered an automatic response from the software and led to an investigation of the 150 merchants that began in 2017. At that point, Karran ended contact with her customers and stopped responding to messages.

She was eventually charged with fraud and found guilty by a jury earlier this month. She was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

Simon Rogers

A drug dealer hid nearly £30,000 worth of heroin and marijuana in his own children's backpacks to avoid being caught red-handed by the police.

Simon Rogers, from Formby, stuffed the illegal substances into the children's bags after being pulled over while driving a stolen Audi with his two young children in the backseat. The opportunistic father almost got away with his daring attempt, but the cops eventually discovered the drugs along with tens of thousands of pounds in ill-gotten money.

Liverpool Crown Court heard on Wednesday that the owner of the gray Audi Q2 woke up at 6am on 10 June this year to find her SUV had been stolen outside her Gateshead home overnight. Then, around 4pm on 15 July, Merseyside Police discovered the stolen vehicle being driven with cloned license plates in the Kirkby, Aintree and Maghull areas.

Driver Rogers was later cornered and arrested by police on the northbound M57. The 40-year-old was allowed to explain the situation to his children before they were transported home to other family members.

He was also given the opportunity to store his belongings in bags in the car before being taken into custody. Police then attempted to search his home on the Alt Road, but the house key was missing from a confiscated set.

The officers then returned to search the bags the boys had left behind in hopes of finding the key. Instead they found a block of heroin and two cannabis resins and a "huge sum of money" totaling £15,000 on their nine-year-old son - who had been left at his grandmother's house in Kirkby.

The other boy was taken to his mother's home in Speke. There, a search of his belongings revealed paperwork in his father's name and another block of marijuana resin hidden under a bundle of clothes.

Authorities did not find the pending key, but were eventually entered into the address around 8:00 pm by Rogers' partner. More funds were discovered in the kitchen, including £1,000 in a purse and £21,800 in a cupboard.

A search of the car revealed another block of cannabis resin. The 369g of heroin was 49% pure and had a market value of up to £22,000, while the cannabis was valued at £5,200.

Rogers admitted to possession of heroin and cannabis with intent to deliver, handling stolen goods, possessing criminal property, and driving without insurance. He was imprisoned for four and a half years.

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A sushi restaurant employee has turned his entire apartment into a £90,000 cannabis plantation and has claimed the "extraordinary" amount of drugs was for personal use.

Mark Green appeared at Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing on Thursday after admitting to cannabis production. Carmel Wilde, prosecutor, described how police searched his home at Feltwood Close in West Derby on 6 January.

Inside, officers found that the entire unit had been turned over to an outbuilding with a potential yield of £20,000 to £90,000 worth of Class B drugs. No bed was found in the flat and there was no food in the fridge.

That's because Green didn't live in public housing, but was "sofasurfing" with friends. The tenant initially claimed the marijuana was for his own use, but later admitted it was a "commercial operation" for later supply.

Green, now from St Albans Road in Bootle, also pleaded guilty to using electricity. He was sentenced to two years in prison for "non-compliance with court orders" - the offenses committed while he was monitored after sentencing.

Carlos Graham

A serial burglar broke into a woman's home while she was attending her father's funeral.

Carlos Graham stole a shipment of goods worth over £25,000 during a series of robberies over the course of a morning. The "normal, repeat, habitual" perpetrator was part of an organized crime group that tied up victims and attacked them with weapons.

Andrew McInnes, prosecutor, told Liverpool Crown Court that the thefts took place in the Sefton Park area on the morning of 30 June this year. Among the targets was an apartment on Croxteth Road.

One of the inmates was working in Canada at the time, while his partner was out between 11am and 4pm. She returned to find the door locked and the kitchen window open, so she had to go inside.

There she found that her house had been "ransagged", with coats strewn after the search and drawers open. Among the items stolen were a wallet containing two credit cards, two backpacks, a PlayStation and games, and £25,000 worth of professional recording equipment, said to be the absent owner's "tools of exchange".

The footage showed Graham breaking into the house and he proceeded to point to an address at nearby Ashby House on Ivanhoe Road. Resident Ben Davies left his home for work around 7:30 am, but received a cell phone alert just before 11 am with his CCTV system warning of an intruder.

Graham can be seen in the footage outside the patio doors trying to get in. Mr. Davies later mentioned this to David Ashton, who lived in a neighboring unit with his wife.

Her father's funeral was to be held that day and she left the apartment around 9am. Ashton followed shortly after 11:45 am.

He was informed of the attempted break-in by Mr. Davies around 6 pm and headed home. While initially not noticing anything unusual, her partner later discovered that the guest room had been broken into - with an iPad and a digital camera.

Graham admitted to two counts of burglary and one attempted burglary. He was imprisoned for five years and three months.

Adam Baker

A drunk befriended a man in a bar before stabbing him in his own home.

Adam Baker met the victim in a Bootle pub and was invited to his house to continue drinking.

But hours later, after gaining the man's trust, Baker used a kitchen knife to threaten the man into giving him his bank card and PIN number. Baker, 30, and an accomplice stole hundreds from his victim's account.

Liverpool's Crown Court heard that Baker attacked the man after meeting him at the Cooksons Bridge pub in July this year. Baker, from Pall Mall, Liverpool, was jailed for four years and one month and an injunction prevented him from contacting the victim for five years.

Jordan Duckett

The dealer had been dealing drugs in Merseyside and Cheshire but has now been arrested after being caught on a transplant phone.

Police became aware of Jordan Duckett after officers investigating the County Lines Scouse Macca Team gang found pictures of him and texts he had uploaded on the device. This came after detectives investigating the gang carried out searches of a property in Warkworth Court, Ellesmere Port, in March this year.

When the 26-year-old's Wallasey home was later searched, 64 packets of crack valued at £640 were discovered. He admitted to concerns about supplying cocaine, ketamine and cannabis and possessing crack with intent to supply and was sentenced to three years and four months in prison.

Zaid Alasali

The thief laughed after stealing a knife-edged electric scooter from a woman who was "frozen with fear".

Zayd Alasaly of Toxteth was one of two men who attacked Roberta Kirkpatrick while she was visiting the Spar store on Newtown Road, Carlisle just before 11pm on 15 July. She had parked her vehicle with the 20-year-old near the entrance. The 19-year-old defendant and accomplice, Liam Bateman, was also present at the store at the time.

Miss Kirkpatrick came out of the shop and, as she took a cigarette from her pocket, Alasaly threatened her with a large kitchen knife. She then fled to a friend "shaking, crying, visibly upset".

Both Alasaly of Corinth Street and Bateman of Carlisle admitted to the theft, with the former also pleading guilty to possessing a sharp object in a public place. He was sentenced to four years in prison.

Brandon Turnon

The street racer was speeding through a 30-mile zone at up to 150 km/h when he hit and killed a 14-year-old girl.

Courtney Ellis' teenage sister witnessed her brother's gruesome death, while the teenager's mother unknowingly stumbled upon the scene of the accident while driving home from work. Driver Brandon Turton wept today as he was arrested for causing the fatal collision after driving at high speed through residential streets in a convoy with another car at the time.

The Haydock schoolgirl was killed instantly after being hit by the 21-year-old Renault Megane on Blackbrook Road in St Helens just after 9.45pm on 19 September 2020, following unsuccessful attempts to court a female passenger.

Turton was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison after admitting to causing death by dangerous driving and wiping his eyes with a handkerchief as he was led to the cells. In sentencing, Judge David Potter said: "Courtney was a loving child with tremendous compassion and promise, leaving behind a fractured and traumatized family."

Matthew Sanderson

The car thief attempted to rob a woman armed with scissors before entering a store claiming to be Trading Standards and brandishing a fake gun.

Matthew Sanderson demanded to see the visas of the Polish workers in the store before attacking them and taking money from the register. A few hours earlier, he had tried to steal the car of a lone woman who was filling up the tires in the courtyard of a gas station.

Driver Pauline Garner, 58, "acted with commendable bravery" in disarming her attacker after she was attacked on her way to work at the BP workshop on Priory Road, Anfield. Sanderson responded by biting her arm and claiming that she stole it.

Hours later, he mugged Tatry on Breck Road and threatened to shoot staff before stealing money. The 38-year-old admitted to crimes including robbery and assault and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Gareth Rees

A victim of revenge porn has felt "disturbed" after her ex-boyfriend posted explicit photos and videos of her on social media.

Gareth Rees uploaded his former partner's materials to Facebook and Instagram and sent them directly to his loved ones. She was so devastated by his actions that she didn't even get to walk her dog.

The 44-year-old defendant responded "strongly, violently and disproportionately" to the end of the one-year relationship, sending "sexual material" from the victim to her daughter's boyfriend - who did not open the message. Just over a week later, he posted an explicit video of the woman on Instagram. The next day, Rees sent another of her ex-boyfriends a pornographic image, but deleted the image before it was seen.

About a month later, he posted a picture of her on Facebook that didn't show her face. Judges jailed him for a year after he admitted posting pictures of private sex with the intent to cause trouble and violated a non-harassment order.

John Smith

The dealer ruined his "promising" career at Liverpool by dabbling in cocaine and heroin.

John Smith once had a "promising career" as a young player for the Reds, but "wasted his talent" by falling into alcohol and drugs. And the now 38-year-old was caught with thousands of pounds of A-substance when police stopped his car.

When his home on Carr Lane in Norris Green was searched, he confessed and "told the cops where the drugs were". A total of 22g of crack cocaine worth £2,460 and 23g of heroin with a potential value of £2,080 were seized.

The search also uncovered £3,130 in cash. He admitted to possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply them and was jailed for 32 months.

David Kai

Just a week into their relationship, a bandit strangled his girlfriend in the street.

David Kay drunkenly strangled his new partner in the early hours of this morning after a night out in St Helens town centre. The horrific attack only stopped when the attack was spotted by passing police officers.

Liverpool's Crown Court heard on Tuesday that the father of 10 had been with Janice Gregory for around a week as they brawled in various pubs and bars on the night of Sunday 31 July. The couple were in the Duke of Cambridge pub around 2.30am on 1 August when Kay became "loud and aggressive".

Kirsty Linforth, prosecutor, said Gregory told him he wanted to leave and go home, but he "wasn't happy about it". The 51-year-old, from Thatto Heath Road, told her: "You're not fucking going home" and followed her out of the pub.

Once "out of sight" on Claughton Street, Kay stopped his former partner near some railings and began yelling at her, threatening "I'll kill you if you let me". He grabbed the victim's neck with both hands and began to push, "using her full weight" to push her back onto the railing.

Mrs. Gregory could not breathe and "was afraid of breaking his back". Kay "repeated this action four or five times" while making threats before a special police officer on patrol noticed the ongoing incident and intervened.

Kay was arrested and later admitted for deliberate strangulation and was jailed for two years. He also received a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting Ms. Gregory for the next five years and ordered to pay the victim surcharge.

Nick Clayton

A school principal wrote to more than 100 boys on Facebook asking for nude photos before claiming his account had been hacked.

Nick Clayton, from Hoylake, engaged in lewd conversation with 10-year-olds while working as a principal at a British international school in Iraq. His grooming campaign only ended when the police arrested him at an airport.

Liverpool's Crown Court heard that the 38-year-old had contacted the profiles of 131 boys - mostly from South Asia - over a three-month period in 2017 to "solicit" indecent photos of the young men. Jonathan Rogers, prosecutor, described how the negotiations also "presented evidence that he traveled to meet children" - although Clayton was only accused of attempts to solicit four teenagers.

These chats involved a 12-year-old from Cambodia, a 13-year-old from Indonesia, a 14-year-old from the Philippines, and a 16-year-old from Sri Lanka. The pedophile "bribed her off with gifts" before demanding sick photos.

Louis Howard

A bartender sent nude photos of himself to a "12-year-old girl" - but, unbeknownst to him, he was caught by undercover police.

Louis Howard claimed to be 15 years old when he tried to solicit obscene photos from the bait Snapchat account. The 22-year-old also amassed an unhealthy stash of videos of raped children and circulated these materials online.

Liverpool's Crown Court heard on Wednesday that the university student had sent a friend request to the profile, which was operated by a regional criminal police officer, in October last year. Howard, from Trouville Road, Anfield, falsely claimed he was a 15-year-old boy and had "engaged in openly sexual conversation" over a four-week period.

The pedophile asked the teenager for pictures of her naked and in her underwear and instructed her to remove her blouse and skirt. He also sent pictures of himself in his underwear, then took off his pants and sent pictures of his penis - telling her, "You got me really hot."

Merseyside Police then searched Howard's home and the accused was present and arrested. His cell phone was confiscated and later found to contain 37 offensive images of children.

Howard admitted attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child, attempting to get a child to observe sexual activity, attempting sexual communication with a child, two counts of dissemination of inappropriate images, possession of inappropriate images, three counts of making indecent images and possession of prohibited images. He was sentenced to 26 months in prison by Judge Stuart Driver KC.

Adam Fletcher

A murderer who stabbed a father of two in the heart has been sentenced to life in prison for at least 22 years.

Adam Fletcher killed 30-year-old Paul Stenson on Princess Drive in West Derby less than a week before Christmas last year after the two got into an altercation at a house party. Fletcher, 28, has denied murder but was found guilty by a jury earlier this year after a six-week trial.

Fletcher murdered Stenson after Fletcher escalated a disagreement at a house party.

The jury heard that the murder of Mr. Stenson took place minutes after the fight between him and Fletcher began. Mr. Pratt said the atmosphere at the party attended by Fletcher and Mr. Stenson was good until a disagreement arose between them over whether Fletcher had tried to flirt with Mr. Stenson, Samantha Rosser.

The court heard Mr. Stenson punches Fletcher and then the two get into a fight before agreeing to leave to stop the brawl. Pratt said there was no indication to Stenson or anyone else that the fight would involve knives, but that Fletcher decided to run and retrieve a kitchen knife from the house before stabbing Stenson with it.

While Fletcher was arrested for murder, his best friend Nathan Finnegan and his son's mother Demi Walsh were sentenced to prison terms after being convicted of aiding and abetting a criminal.

Both helped Fletcher after Mr. Stenson and helped him evade justice for days.

Both denied the crime, but were convicted after the trial with Fletcher. Walsh was sentenced to 18 months in prison, while Finnegan received a 14-month sentence.

Andreas Holligan

A dealer threw nearly £5,000 worth of drugs out of his bedroom window and into his neighbour's garden as police searched his home.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that a search warrant was executed at around 9.45am on 19 August this year at the home of Andrew Holligan in Greenside Avenue, Aintree. Prosecutor Kirsty Linforth described how the 31-year-old man was seen by officers throwing a bag from an upstairs window into the garden of a neighboring property.

This bag later found several bags of marijuana, another amount of the Class B drug in a box, and a scale. Five cell phones were seized during the operation, one of which was used as a telephone for a transplant.

300 euros in cash were also seized. The 315g of illegal substances are estimated to have a street value of up to £4,715. Holligan later claimed that he "bought the drugs for £1,250 and resold them to friends for around £2,000". However, this was refuted by the Public Ministry.

Holland admitted to possessing cannabis with intent to supply and was jailed for 18 months. He was also instructed to pay the victim's surcharge - with the confiscation of illegally obtained money, telephone and paraphernalia and the disposal of the drugs also ordered.

Philip Law

A cocaine dealer was caught with drugs in his pants in a supermarket parking lot.

Philip Legge turned to dealing in illegal substances after racking up crippling gambling debts. The father of four wept as he was arrested for his clandestine activities earlier this week.

Liverpool Crown Court heard police patrolling the Crosby area in February this year, spotting the 45-year-old BMW 3 Series at the Tesco Express store on Coronation Road before a man emerged from a nearby house and climbed into the passenger seat.

They then observed a "brief hand-to-hand conversation and transaction". The customer got out of the car and the police approached him. Legge also exited the vehicle and threw £60 cash on the ground while holding packets of cocaine in his hands.

"Immediately," he admitted, "having more drugs in the back of my pants." A subsequent search of his home found more packaging, while a large sum of cash was found hidden in a safe.

Meanwhile, messages on his phone pointed to "drug trafficking". A total of 23 hawkers of cocaine between 33 and 35 per cent purity were seized by Merseyside Police.

Legge admitted to possessing cocaine with intent to supply it and was jailed for two and a half years.

Dean Eastham

A killer lurked outside his estranged ex-girlfriend's house one night, wearing a balaclava and armed with pruning shears.

Dean Eastham had previously been convicted of manslaughter after the then-teen accidentally shot and killed his best friend while the two were "playing" with a gun in his bedroom. The now 29-year-old was put on trial again after he subjected his former partner to a disturbing campaign of harassment over a period of more than six months.

The Liverpool Crown Court has heard that he and Joanne Cartwright have been in a relationship for nine years and have a three-year-old daughter together. But Sarah Griffin, accuser, described how they ended the romance in October 2021 after learning that Eastham had cheated on her with another woman she had become pregnant with.

But the plasterer was "unable to accept the end" and at around 6.45 am on 27 October he visited her home in Huyton with her mother - who was standing at the top of the front door screaming. Mrs. Cartwright went down to talk to her through a window, but when she opened it, her ex appeared next to the address.

Eastham, from Beaconsfield in Prescot, struggled with her to keep the window open as she tried to close it while hurling insults. Her two-year-old son started crying upstairs and said, "I'm scared."

Her mother, Lydia Cartwright, stood by the open window as she checked on the girl. But Eastham said "fuck it" and forcibly climbed in, damaging the window in the process.

He ran into the bedroom, where his former partner was on the phone with the police, asking for help, prompting him to flee. After that, the defendant began to "constantly contact" with her.

This continued over the next few weeks, until an incident in December when he showed up at her house with a balaclava and scissors in hand. On a later visit, he attacked her.

Eastham admitted stalking, a misdemeanor of public communication, two counts of criminal mischief and possession of ketamine. When he appeared in court via a video link to HMP Altcourse, he was sentenced to two years in prison.

Michael Vos

The bandit intentionally drove his car into a bungalow where an elderly woman was sleeping.

Michael Vose broke into Edna Kearns' home while attempting suicide following a fight with his girlfriend. The 40-year-old, from St Helens, got behind the wheel after calling police about the fight in which he tried to strangle her before blowing a hole in the wall and damaging a mirror in the changing room.

He told his partner he was going to kill himself before taking off in the BMW, going through a mini roundabout and then crashing through a fence and into the house in Westhoughton, Bolton. Vose broke through the wall and entered the 92-year-old's bedroom, hitting her bed and leaving her with two broken ankles and severe cuts on her legs.

Mrs. Kearns died less than five months after the crash, but there was no link between the impact and her death, according to expert evidence. The driver admitted causing bodily harm, two counts of property damage and serious injury by reckless driving and was sentenced to four years in prison.

Lewis Dun

The bad guy tried to Facetime the girlfriend's father to see him torturing her.

Lewis Dunn burned his partner with cigarettes, stabbed her and threatened to cut off her toes in a nightmare. The 27-year-old victim ran through the streets in her pajamas to escape her kidnapper before hiding in a garbage can.

He held the 21-year-old against her will after calling her mother and threatening her: "I'm going to get some suckers to come up and burn your house down. I'm going to stab you."

She suffered 23 separate wounds at Dunn's hands after he consumed a cocaine and alcohol cocktail. He admitted to crimes, including false imprisonment and aggravated assault, and was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison.

Paul Riley

A pedophile started posting lewd images online months after getting out of prison.

Paul Riley collected hundreds of sick photos and videos of kids being raped and shared his vile stash with other perverts via the Kik news service. The father had just been released from a lengthy prison sentence for delivering heroin and crack in a £1.6 million scheme.

The gruesome footage showed five-year-olds, while a 12-second film showed a six-year-old being raped. He was released in January 2021 after 40 months to access the photos and movies online in May – and then share them with other perverts starting in June.

The father's house was searched by the police in August last year. Riley admitted to three counts of distribution of indecent images, possession of extreme pornographic images, possession of indecent images and three counts of making indecent images and was sentenced to two years in prison.

Jack Roach

Father and son grabbed golf clubs and baseball bats as they fought two brothers on a quiet street.

Horrified neighbors watched David and Jack Roach and Brendan and Michael Kennedy get involved in a bizarre brawl at Woodchurch last year. The outage, which appeared to stem from an allegation of bicycle theft, began after one of the Kennedy brothers arrived at the Roach family home with a metal pole before the situation quickly escalated.

All four men appeared before a judge on Thursday, but only the youngest, 19-year-old Jack Roach, was sent to jail. His previous gun convictions meant he was jailed for 11 months.

Callum Taylor-Greensmith

The thug filmed himself launching a disgusting attack on a friend before showing footage of the attack to horrified members of the public.

Callum Taylor-Greensmith subjected David Hughes to a horrific attack on the Wirral last year before feasting with people at a caravan park frequented by both their families. The attack resulted in plates being inserted into the victim's head.

Hughes was targeted after the two men drank together at the weekend of the Champions League final, before Taylor-Greensmith repeatedly kicked him in the head. The court heard that the plaintiff did not remember the attack, but woke up in a pool of blood on his living room floor.

It then emerged that Taylor-Greensmith filmed the attack on her phone, then went to the nearby trailer park and showed it to people at the clubhouse. The 22-year-old was sentenced to four years and six months in prison.

Anthony Atherton

A thief has been linked to a £500 meat theft at a Marks and Spencer branch after leaving his blood in the shop.

Serial criminal Anthony Atherton "went back to his old ways" and broke into the store in desperation to kick his drug addiction after the father-of-two's family fell apart. Less than a week later, the 38-year-old broke into a Starbucks drive-thru with a hammer and pulled baristas' hair.

He pointed to the M&S Foodhall on Queens Drive at night on Oct. 11 last year. Footage from the closed West Derby store was played on the court showing Atherton approaching wearing a bobble hat, pulling on a pair of gloves and throwing a rock in front of the store three times to break the window.

The premises had to remain closed until 11:30 am the following day due to damage caused by the break-in which resulted in a total loss of £11,200 in stolen goods, business damage and loss.

Atherton admitted theft and was handed 12 months behind bars.

Andreas Cooper

The kidnapper was stabbed after kidnapping a 12-year-old boy and then trying to make a hot circuit on a motorcycle.

Andrew Cooper kidnapped the young man on a train in a bizarre series of events. The student, whom he has never met before, and his friend are 'chilling out' in his apartment after a 'chance encounter'. They played football and listened to music together before the applicant's friend left around 10 pm, leaving him alone on the property.

He then "offered the victim to stay". They then took a train to Warrington, where Cooper "met" a man who owed him money for drugs - who slashed his arms and chest "several times" with a knife.

After trying to steal the motorcycle, he was taken to hospital for treatment of his injuries. The 24-year-old was sentenced to a year in prison after admitting to kidnapping the child.

Andreas Kain

The owner of the dog cafe was caught with over 6,000 pounds of heroin hidden under the floorboards.

Dog restorer Andrew Cain became 'storage master' for a Liverpool gang who shipped the illegal substances to Scotland and hid them in a park after their business failed. Police searched the 39-year-old's home on Sedgeley Walk in Huyton on 16 October last year and found 606 packets of Class A drugs.

Less than three weeks earlier, on 28 September 2021, a separate investigation in Scotland uncovered around 1,000 packets of heroin and crack found hidden on the banks of the River Don in a park in Stoneywood, Aberdeen. Cain's DNA was found on packaging where a Merseyside gang transported and stashed the drugs in the area for resale.

He admitted to possessing heroin with intent to supply it and was jailed for four years. The dealer previously ran Pups and Cups Bistro in Old Swan, but the cafe closed around Christmas 2019 when he and his business partner split.

Robert Eaton

The thug launched an unprovoked attack on his victim, slamming a glass of beer into his face in a transphobic attack.

Robert Eaton, addicted to cocaine and alcohol, attacked the victim outside the Prenton Park pub in Tranmere, Wirral, in the early hours of Sunday 1st May this year. The 18-year-old complainant was quietly drinking with family and friends at the time of the incident.

He changed from a man to a woman, and this was the first time he had ventured out in the guise of a woman. Eaton, 23, sat down next to the group and began to stare at the victim.

As the group left the pub at around 1am, their assailant was lying in wait and approached the teenager - hit him in the face with a beer glass and threw him to the ground with such force that he was momentarily unconscious and lost three teeth. Eaton was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison after admitting to trying to cause grievous bodily harm to him.

Andrew McClean

The pedophile was released on bail after he was caught trying to meet a "13-year-old boy" for sex, but was targeted by what he believed was another child during the investigation.

Andrew McClean was arrested on February 15th after texting a young suspect and arranging to have sex with him in a public toilet near Southport Station. In fact, he was in contact with an adult member of a local "pedophile busters" group who had set up the online profile as a decoy.

But three months later, after being released on bail, he resumed sending online messages of a sexual nature to another 13-year-old boy and arranged to meet him at Formby station on May 18. Once again, McClean met with members of the pedophile hunting group.

The 39-year-old man admitted to organizing a sex crime against children, trying to engage in sexual communication with a child, and trying to find a child after adoption. He was imprisoned for three years.

Connah Rutledge

The drug dealer had to be moved to three separate cells after collecting his bowel movements and spreading them around the rooms.

Connah Rutledge, 26, was arrested after his phone number was identified and used as a transplant phone to send messages to various people advertising the sale of crack and heroin. He was arrested on September 9 at his Ellesmere estate while in jail.

Rutledge was also found in CCTV footage dated 27 August, showing him stocking up on his phone in a supermarket close to where he was at the time. When he was taken into police custody, he was taken to three different cells for defecating and smearing his hands.

He pleaded guilty to involvement in supplying crack and heroin. He was sentenced to 45 months in prison.

Alfie Hodgin

The teenager was stabbed 27 times by a gang of men with machetes after trying to take over a drug ring.

Alfie Hodgin's dealings were discovered by police after they found him lying in the street in a pool of his own blood and with over 2,000 pounds of heroin and crack. This vicious attack was an act of "retaliation" after the 18-year-old stole drugs and a transplant phone belonging to the County Lines operation he previously worked for.

Officers also seized £1,208 in cash from the accused, while a transplanted phone was found on the floor next to him containing dozens of illuminated messages advertising drugs for sale that had been sent to customers over the past eight days.

In 2014, aged just 10, Hodgin became "one of the youngest people ever to receive an antisocial behavior order". he was imprisoned for two and a half years.

Carl Maclaren

A father whose kiss resulted in the death of his son has launched a vile attack on his former partner after he descended into a self-destructive life of alcohol and drugs.

Carl Maclaren, 44, blamed himself after unknowingly passing the herpes simplex virus to his premature baby, who died of multiple organ failure in 2012 at just two months old. A court heard this week that he was struggling to come to terms with the death of Kaiden, whose life support system was turned off after struggling in the hospital for six weeks.

On the afternoon of May 11th of this year, he broke into his ex-girlfriend's house, holding her hair with one hand and started hitting her with the other hand - causing her to fall to the floor. She screamed for help and feared she was dying.

Maclaren pleaded guilty to theft and attempted grievous bodily harm. He was imprisoned for three years.

Alexandru Lingurar

The drunk thief was thwarted when he was attacked by a dog, then stole and ate the children's Easter eggs.

The chocolate treats were left at dawn on Easter Sunday in the backyard of a family's home for a planned egg hunt. But Alexandru Lingurar mocked them during a 24-hour crime that included breaking into a nursing home's laundry room and trying to steal the residents' clothes from the dryer.

The 60-year-old claimed to have been collecting for charity when confronted. He was arrested but immediately continued stealing when released on bail - he took designer goods from a parked Land Rover, stole alcohol from a house but was run over by the resident's dog, then ate the Easter eggs while the children's father ate a ringing bell watched camera.

After the first incident, Lingurar also bit a police officer. He admitted to two counts of theft, assault on an emergency services worker and two counts of theft and was sentenced to 40 months in prison.

Anthony Hasell

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The thief chatted with staff at a bar in the city center before heading upstairs, stealing £200 worth of alcohol and escaping through an emergency exit.

Anthony Hassell took a dozen bottles of alcohol from the Roxy Ballroom earlier this year. Prosecutors said the defendant, who has more than 40 criminal convictions, entered the Rainford Square grounds shortly after 5.30pm on 14 March.

CCTV footage showed him briefly chatting with staff near the bar on the venue's lower level for several minutes, but when staff moved he went to an area upstairs. Once there, he quickly grabbed a dozen bottles of alcohol and stuffed them into a black garbage bag.

Hassell was then disturbed and managed to escape through an emergency exit. The 37-year-old pleaded guilty to the theft and was jailed for two weeks.

Ryan Leonhard

He was used as a drug dealer after gangsters threatened him with a hot iron and forced him to strip naked for cameras.

Ryan Leonard was held against his will and threatened after falling into debt, with the footage being widely circulated on the internet. Police came to believe that the 28-year-old's life was in danger, and he proceeded to pay the money owed through a "professional and dogged" heroin and crack supply operation.

He admitted possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to supply, supplying cocaine and heroin and money laundering and was jailed for 54 months. But her partner Brooke Morgan, who had hidden her drug-dealing boyfriend's drugs in her vagina, was released from court.

She agreed to accompany Leonard on his sourcing missions after falling victim to domestic violence at his hands. Illegal substances were also hidden at her Kensington home, but the 30-year-old was described as having "performed a limited function under duress".

Laurent Mitchell

The Liverpool man, who was arrested getting off a plane in Jersey, told customs officials: "I want to be brutally honest with you" before admitting he had 16 packets of cocaine in his body.

Lawrence Mitchell was one of three crooks arrested in the island's Royal Courthouse after being caught trying to take advantage of the inflated cost of illegal drugs. The 37-year-old had left Liverpool John Lennon Airport with the cocaine deals on July 21 this year, wrapped in condoms and hidden inside.

Jersey Customs and Immigration officials estimated the drugs were around 81% pure and had a sale value of up to £24,640. Customs officials also arrested another Liverpool man, 20-year-old Elijah Silbourne - who hid a kilo of cocaine in the spare wheel in the trunk of his car.

Mitchell, who has a long history of criminal convictions, was sentenced to seven years in prison for importing Class A drugs. Silbourne was sentenced to six years.

Michelle Griffiths

She received lingerie from men she met online after receiving child abuse footage from a pedophile.

Michelle Griffiths was serving a 40-month sentence after being arrested in May 2019 for facilitating and organizing a child sexual abuse commission. The 38-year-old woman was also given a life injunction to prevent sexual harm, but returned to court on Monday for violating its terms.

She admitted to receiving money and lingerie from a man on a site called Kiss Chat, which led to her disrespecting the SHPO because she was banned from using any device with internet access without calling the police within 48 hours and for using a social network or service without first telling the police your username." she received what she referred to as a "pedophile".

The sex offender also sent him nude photos of her. She was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of breach of order.

Chris Morgan

The father of four racked up drug debt and was attacked when he tried to refuse to go to Blackpool and run a County Lines operation.

Chris Mogan admitted his involvement in a drug ring called "Scouse JJ" that flooded the seaside town with cocaine and heroin. The court heard that the 34-year-old was "pressured" into working for the gang to pay off a drug debt.

He was attacked while "trying to retreat". He worked for Jaguar as well as Aintree Plastics for 11 years before he started using drugs.

Mogan pleaded guilty to being preoccupied and offered to supply cocaine and heroin. He wiped away the tears while imprisoned for 32 months.

John Carr

The cocaine dealer, who was on trial for sentencing, lost his nerve and fled before his case was called.

John Carr then went on the run for three months before being arrested again and jailed for two years and four months. The Liverpool Crown Court heard that the 45-year-old had sought solace in Class A drugs following the death of his sister six years ago.

He locked himself in the bathroom while flushing objects down the toilet when police searched his home and found him in possession of illegal substances and money. His defense lawyer pointed out that the sum of £30 was an indication of his negotiating level.

Carr was due to be sentenced on June 14 of this year, but he left the building before the hearing. An arrest warrant was issued for him and he was eventually arrested.

Omar Anwar

A police officer was left "screaming in agony" after the driver of the van, which was pulled over on suspicion of transporting drugs, ran him over.

The stop was made on a residential street in St Helens after police became suspicious of the occupants of a white Transit van parked near where a loading dock containing drugs and cash was found in the street. When the vehicle came to a stop, the officers stopped on either side of the vehicle and said they were conducting a drug search.

But the driver, Umar Anwar, suddenly put his foot on the gas and drove away - pulling one back a short distance and running him over. The pc feared that he would never walk again after the incident.

Anwar admitted to causing serious injuries by dangerous driving. He was imprisoned for 30 months.

Anthony Swabrick

He launched a frenzied attack, stabbing his 60-year-old neighbor four times in a lengthy argument over a parking lot.

Anthony Swarbrick attacked Stanley Greaves with a rusty screwdriver on May 19, then took a hammer from his neighbor's toolbox and went in search of his wife. Fortunately, Greaves managed to disarm Swarbrick, who said, "I'm having problems and I'm not happy with your cameras."

During the attack, which was described as "unprovoked, vicious and cowardly", he lunged at his victim's abdomen in a "sword thrust" style of movement. Mr. Greaves was particularly concerned as he had already undergone major stomach surgery.

His attacker then told him, "I know what I did, you should call the police". Swarbrick was jailed for 28 months.

Neil Morris

The pedophile father was caught after chatting online with a "12-year-old girl" who was actually an undercover police officer.

Neil Morris pleaded guilty to eight counts, including sexually communicating with a child and possession of a trove of 23,853 photos and videos of children being sexually abused. The hideous lair also contained scenes of bestiality involving living or dead animals.

When his house was searched, he said: "I had a conversation. It came back, it's a disease'."

His elderly father died months later. Morris, of Bridge Road, West Kirby, was jailed for three years and eight months.

Stefan Arnold

The bandit armed himself with a 12-inch meat cleaver and stabbed his rival while crouched in the back seat of a car.

Steven Arnold opened the door of Jack Williams's white Vauxhall Corsa and stabbed him three times in the leg at around 7.35am on 15 May at Jubits Lane in St Helens. He then fled the scene and went to his uncle and told him, "Take me to France, I've done something stupid and I'm going to jail."

Instead, his uncle took him to St Helens Police Station and handed him over to officers on the scene. This happened after Arnold hit his ex-girlfriend on a night out, which resulted in Mr. Williams vandalizing his father's home.

The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to injuring and possessing a sharp object in a public place. He was imprisoned for seven years and three months.

Obaid Mohammad

The teenager launched a "vicious and vicious attack" on a helpless woman, hurling a frying pan full of boiling oil at her.

In her statement, the victim described how she "feared for her life" after Obaid Mohammad became angry and threw the contents of the frying pan at her. The court heard that there had been "problems" between the two in the weeks leading up to the incident in the shared apartment where they lived.

The boiling oil landed on her arm and neck, causing severe burns that permanently injured her. She then tried to flee, but Mohammad, with a frying pan in his hand, followed her down the hall and attacked her.

The 20-year-old admitted to an attack with actual bodily harm. He was imprisoned for 18 months.

David Campbell

The pedophile asked a girl if she wanted to see her guinea pigs and showered her with gifts.

David Campbell subjected two five-year-olds to a series of disgusting sexual abuses. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his "unforgivable" actions.

A trial at Liverpool Crown Court followed by Ben Jones heard the 73-year-old as being targeted by one of the youths over a period of seven years. Campbell bought dolls for another victim and told her to "come and see your test subjects" before attacking them.

His crimes were first reported to police in 2020. He was subsequently charged with a series of sexual offenses against children and found guilty by a jury on 11 counts – including inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and disclosure.

Robert Gwilliam

The taxi driver told a 12-year-old girl that he would pay her to clean his apartment, but he used the opportunity to sexually abuse her.

Robert Gwilliam's victim now falls asleep hiding under the bed after years of assaulting her. The pedophile even took nude pictures of her and gave her a handful of cash in return.

The pensioner photographed her bare breasts on his iPhone and once asked her to undress and placed pound coins on her naked body. She would "tell him no but he went on anyway" and would pay her up to £40 per visit. The student finally confided in her gym teacher about the "ongoing and persistent" abuse she was subjected to.

Gwilliam admitted to six counts of sexual assault involving inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two counts of attempting sexual activity with a child, and taking indecent photographs. The 67-year-old was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Ibrahim Sajo

The teenager stabbed two men to death after they accused him of "ugly and disgraceful" racial abuse and chased him through Liverpool city centre.

Anthony Sweeney shouted, "If I catch you, you black bastard, I'll kill you," as he and Raymond Watkins chased Ibrahim Sarjo down Queen Square bus station. The then 18-year-old then pulled a knife from his pocket, leaving the couple with injuries that kept them hospitalized for over a week.

Sweeney also told the teen "girls like white boys more than black boys" before calling him a "n****r". He was left with a stab wound near the heart and had lost a significant amount of blood. He remained in the hospital for seven days while Mr. Watkins was discharged after 10 days of treatment for his stab wounds.

Sarjo admitted to two counts of being injured and possessing a sharp object in a public place. He was imprisoned for 18 months.

Wilhelm Lea

The pedophile sexually assaulted and exposed a female student at an arcade, then gave her his phone number.

William Lea tricked the teen into having sex with him and was caught for leaving her his contact details. After being released after the incident was investigated, he continued trying to care for an 11-year-old.

The 65-year-old man was using a slot machine at an amusement park next to the Scarisbrick Hotel in Southport when he groped a 14-year-old girl, then exposed himself and ordered her to have sex with him. Lea was then involved in an online pedophile sting.

He arranged to meet this "girl" at Southport railway station, but was confronted by members of the group. He was imprisoned for four years and 10 months.

David Morgan

A drug dealer was found with a machete and knife in his closet after police located "flares" on his phone.

Authorities were visiting David Morgan's home to arrest him on a matter unrelated to domestic violence on March 21 last year when they discovered his involvement with illegal substances. The 48-year-old man "fought" when he was arrested and finally produced a bag with "white and brown towels".

Analyzes showed that it was 247 mg of crack and 800 mg of heroin - a total of 1,047 grams of drugs. His mobile phone showed "illumination messages" Morgan had sent to other users that "suggested high street trading" and advertised three offers for £25. He pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs and was arrested for two years and ten months.

Layton Maxwell

The former Liverpool FC player was arrested for his involvement in a massive EncroChat drug conspiracy.

Former Reds midfielder Layton Maxwell was 19 when he scored on his debut at Anfield in 1999 but has now been sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in the conspiracy. He was one of 14 men sentenced to a total of 140 years.

Using encrypted devices, gang members organized the distribution of several kilograms of cocaine and heroin, as well as the collection and transport of significant amounts of cash. More than 50kg of Class A substances and £700,000 in cash were seized as part of an investigation into the gang.

After signing for Cardiff City on a free transfer in 2001, Maxwell had an encouraging start to life at Ninian Park before being loaned out to Barry Town, Aberaman Athletic and Barry Town in 2003, before becoming an engineer at Vodafone.

Emma Walsch

The killer, who fatally stabbed her boyfriend in the heart after a night out at a bar, was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 18 years.

Emma Walsh stabbed Gary Morgan to death on the night of April 10th of this year. They had previously visited the Belmont Pub to watch Liverpool FC's 2-2 draw with Manchester City on TV before staying for a night of karaoke.

The couple returned to their bungalow at Lavan Close in Everton around 10:00 pm, where she killed the tradesman in a "soaked, explosive rage". The year-long relationship was strained by Walsh subjecting him to domestic violence.

The 31-year-old was unanimously convicted of murder by a jury after just one hour and 37 minutes of deliberation.

Christoph Traynor

The army veteran, traumatized on the battlefields of Afghanistan, was driven to help smugglers import heroin hidden in furniture by the kilo from Amsterdam.

Christopher Traynor, who had "exemplary military service" in the Royal Mercian Regiment, was arrested after a border guard opened a package labeled "Frank de Boer" and found 2.5 kg of Class A drugs on a stool. Liverpool Crown Court heard their 'maimed friends' in a bitter struggle on Traynor's left, from Lightbound Road in Tranmere, who was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a growing addiction to cocaine.

The former infantryman fell into unpayable debts with his dealers and was tricked into working for a gang that sold heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and 2C-B. On 23 February this year, a UK Border Force officer was on duty at a DPD depot in Birmingham when he discovered an illegal package - containing nearly £150,000 of the former substance - being shipped from Amsterdam to the UK and destined for to the 30-year-old period was addressed.

Traynor admitted importing heroin, possessing cocaine, MDMA, ketamine and 2C-B with intent to supply and possess criminal property. He was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.

Craig Bakker

A street dealer who has smoked pot daily since age 13 has been caught with a knife for the second time in just over a year.

Craig Bakker was spotted on Poulton Road in Wallasey around 3pm on December 9 last year. Liverpool Crown Court heard from plainclothes police who were patrolling the area and noticed the teenager.

The then 19-year-old was "visibly shocked and startled" by the officers' sudden appearance. He was searched and a knife with a "very sharp" 5-inch blade was found in his pockets, along with three bags of marijuana and a transplanted phone.

Bakker was convicted over concerns over the supply of cannabis and possession of a bladed item in a public place. He was sentenced to a total of 326 days in prison.

Kane Harrison

A thug dragged his mother out of bed by her hair before dragging her down the stairs and knocking out her front teeth.

Kane Harrison pleaded guilty to assaulting his mother, Holly Jane Deacon, at their Walton home in August of this year. The court heard that Harrison arrived at the property and, drunk, started yelling at his mother, who was lying in bed.

The 27-year-old homeless woman went upstairs to wake her up before pulling her hair and dragging her downstairs. He continued to violently kick her in the face and also in the neck.

When police arrived at the house, they found bloodstains on the wall and floor. The force of the kick to her face caused Dona Deacon to lose two teeth in the attack and later said, "She thought she was going to die".

Harrison blamed his alcohol addiction for the attack, but initially denied the accusation, claiming that his mother fell or made something up. He was imprisoned for 15 months.

John Murphy

Murphy and his pedophile friend were yelled at by his girlfriend after she discovered a gruesome transcript of their disgusting conversations.

John Murphy shared his heinous stash of material via WhatsApp with other depraved individuals, including perverted bus driver David Owens. They were exposed after the latter's longtime partner became suspicious and checked his phone, revealing, to his shock, that they had been secretly talking about his desire to sexually abuse children.

An analysis of Murphy's own phone revealed a number of offensive images, while he also circled some. The 68-year-old said when arrested: "I only talk to people who want to be involved in something like this."

Murphy admitted to three counts of distributing indecent images, possessing indecent images and three counts of creating indecent images. He was imprisoned for 25 months.

Marcus Rooney

The bandit broke into the ex-girlfriend's house and brandished a baseball bat while she was taking a shower, threatening to fall into the store where she worked.

Mark Rooney then got into a new relationship but also attacked that partner. The 35-year-old man threw a beer can at his second victim at a camping trip and said he intended to burn her face with a barbecue before beating her unconscious.

He did this by hitting her with his own phone. The railroad man also sent a nude photo of his ex to a friend.

Rooney admitted to two counts of harassment, including threatening to release private sex photos, releasing private sex photos and causing physical harm. He was jailed for 42 weeks.

Robert Fall

The "manipulating and controlling" builder used cocaine to trick the girls into engaging in sexual acts.

Robert Case was convicted of a series of sexual offenses and abuse dating back seven years. The court heard how the 42-year-old man, from Croxteth Hall Lane, Liverpool, 'snorted' cocaine and used the substance to try to entice girls under 16 to engage in sexual activity.

He was once in the car with a 10-year-old girl when he tried to "put his hand down her pants". On another occasion, the pervert was at his home with a teenage girl when he offered her drugs before "arresting" her and making a series of unwanted sexual advances.

Fall was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison. Chants of "come in" could be heard from the stands as he was placed on the sex offender register for life.

Kieran Parkinson

The pervert abused a child and filmed his wife having sex with their dog.

Kieran Parkinson nursed the boy with a promise to pay him cash, then performed a sexual act on himself while the boy watched. Police also uncovered a series of depraved Facebook conversations between him and his wife Mary, in which they discussed rape and child abuse.

The 36-year-old man stood for a few minutes and rubbed his private parts in the boy's presence. The pedophile denied that this was sexually motivated, claiming he was scratching himself.

Parkinson was found guilty of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and causing a child to witness a sexual act after a trial and admitted to three counts of possession of extreme pornographic images. He was imprisoned for two and a half years.

Adel Hussain

The dangerous driver left a student dead in the street after a terrible accident "as if she was nothing".

Freya Griffiths was crushed on both sides of her jaw and suffered a painful broken leg after speeding motorist Adel Hussain ran her over in Bagot Street, Wavertree, just after midnight on November 25th last year. After throwing the 21-year-old victim into the air over the hood of his Volkswagen Golf, he accelerated without stopping or reversing.

The driver claimed he thought he cut a rearview mirror and didn't realize he hit someone, but a judge dismissed his story. Miss Griffiths, now 22, spoke about how she feared she would die at the scene.

Hussain, of Prescot Road, Old Swan, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by driving dangerously, failing to stop after an accident and preventing a police officer from doing his duty. The 34-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison.

Alexanderpark

A "pedophile sting" caught the 43-year-old man trying to buy a bikini for a child and arranging a trip to the pool.

Alexander Park on Old Chester Road in Tranmere was attacked by a decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl. The account received messages from him expressing the desire to be "washed" and "touch the butt" of the boy.

Park planned to meet her twice at Birkenhead in January, the first time involving a date at Birkenhead Park. For their second meeting, they met at Conway Park Station before heading to Europa Pools.

Park has admitted to multiple sex crimes. He was imprisoned for two years and four months.

David Madeley

A man woke up to find another man having sex with him after being offered accommodation after a night out.

Bar manager David Madeley has admitted to sexual assault. The 34-year-old man went out for a drink and then offered the victim a place to sleep.

He slept fully dressed and woke up during the night to find that the pervert had pulled down his pants and underwear and was engaging in a sexual act. There was a fight between the two, with bottles breaking, while the whistleblower tried to get his clothes back.

He fled the property and stopped a police car. Madeley was jailed for a year.

Eduard Williams

The thug yelled "You damn little mouse, look what's going on now" before running into a hardware store and brandishing an ax during a brawl downtown.

Edward Williams was leaving a barbershop in Prescot in February when he noticed a man walking down the street and the two men immediately lined up for a fight. Moments later, CCTV footage showed the 30-year-old man running into a hardware store after him and leaving with an ax in hand.

The video showed him swinging the gun but not landing any of the punches. The court heard that the man Williams threatened was linked to a "gang" that "terrorized the defendant for 13 years".

He was convicted of fighting and carrying an assault weapon in a public place. A prison sentence of six months was imposed.

Derek Wiswall

A woman allowed a pedophile to stay in her home after her release from prison, only for him to beat her black and blue three days later.

Derek Wiswall formed a relationship with his victim while behind bars. But when the 33-year-old was released from custody and moved in with her, he spat on her and knocked her to the ground - mistakenly believing she was having an affair.

Wiswall has three previous convictions for eight crimes being jailed for seven months in October 2020 for possession of indecent photos. In February 2022, he was given 18 weeks for failing to report this trial and committed his most recent crimes after being licensed out of that circuit.

The pervert admitted to an attack involving actual bodily harm and property damage. He was detained for 16 months.

liam power

The school teacher kicked her ex's partner in the face while he was lying on the floor, causing vision loss in his left eye.

Liam Power was convicted of first-degree assault when he kicked Joseph Ryan in the face following an altercation. The court heard that the 29-year-old man, from Elaine Street in Toxteth, kicked the victim so hard that his eyesight was severely impaired – causing difficulties in his work.

He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for aggravated assault.

Carl Llewellyn

A carefree delivery driver hit the assailant over the head with a wooden board after robbing a pharmacy with a knife.

Carl Llewellyn was also attacked by a chemist after he broke into the premises demanding money and drugs. He was directed to Green Cross Pharmacy in Bewsey, Warrington around 10.15am on the 5th of July this year. Llewellyn left after the robbery with only a few packets of diazepam.

The third offender confessed to the theft and possession of a sharp object in a public place. He was imprisoned for six years.

Karl Mello

An undercover police operation helped hunt down "Macca Line" drug dealers who were causing "misery" by supplying cocaine and heroin.

Operation Ground targeted a series of 'corruption phones' linked to the supply of cocaine and heroin on the Wirral. Carl Mello, from Cheapside in Liverpool city centre, has been arrested for involvement in the drug crackdown.

The 35-year-old was previously convicted of manslaughter after accidentally shooting his best friend. Mello was imprisoned for four and a half years.

carl burguer

The pervert posed as a doctor to sexually abuse a hospital patient in her 80s.

The grandmother was sleeping in her cubicle in the Royal Liverpool Hospital emergency department when Carl Burger attacked her and falsely said he was a doctor doing an examination. The attack only stopped when he was disturbed by a nurse.

It came just over two months after he groped another victim in his sleep. The severely disabled woman was sleeping on her sofa and woke to find Burger fondling her left breast under her pajama top.

The 55-year-old admitted to two cases of sexual assault. He was imprisoned for three years.

david demeter

The pervert followed a woman walking home at night and then sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in the street.

David Demeter fled in terror when the teenager reacted after groping her. The 31-year-old man then hit and kicked her and her friend.

He later laughed when asked by the police about the incident. It came just a few weeks after he tried to break into a woman's home by breaking into her bedroom window with a piece of wood.

Demeter admitted to attempted robbery and was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault, three counts of assault and one public order offense. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

Michael Lukas

The bandit attacked a railway worker after trying to travel without paying the train ticket.

Michael Lucas, from Bath Street, Southport, twice tried to avoid buying a ticket and then tried to force his way through the barriers at Wigan Wallgate station without paying a ticket. After being challenged by the workers, the 32-year-old left but returned later in the night - this time with success by winning.

He then grabbed an employee by the neck and hit the 52-year-old man in the face, causing him to fall to the ground. As a result, the victim suffered fractures to the eye socket, cheekbones and jaw.

Lucas dropped his cell phone and driver's license as he fled, leading to his identification. He admitted to unintentionally causing grievous bodily harm and was sentenced to 28 months in prison.

William Roberts

The sex offender cried and told the victim it wasn't his fault after he attacked her.

William Roberts repeatedly sexually assaulted the teenager over a period of around six months, once telling her, "I can't help it." The 42-year-old's crimes were discovered after he was hospitalized over concerns about his mental health and alcohol use.

There he admitted his crimes to his sister, telling her "I don't know what's real" - believing his victim was planning to kill him. Roberts also admitted that he "heard voices in her head telling him to touch the girl".

When the police contacted the applicant, they confirmed that he regularly touched his buttocks and breasts over his clothes. Roberts admitted to two counts of sexual assault and was jailed for three years.

Simon Tomkins

The pedophile collected over 10,000 lewd images over a period of more than a decade.

Simon Tomkins spent a period of about 12 years downloading a hideous batch of images and videos of children as young as eight years old. One showed a young man being forced to have sex with a man, while another showed a boy and girl of the same age engaging in sexual activity.

But more than 100,000 other files were "declassified" and it is unknown if they were illegal as they were not examined. The 39-year-old blamed the failure of a long-term relationship on his kinky behavior.

Tomkins admitted possession of indecent imagery, three counts of indecent imagery, possession of prohibited imagery, and possession of cannabis. He was imprisoned for two years.

Wayne Daniels

Brave store workers chased away the knife-wielding customer with wooden poles after a dispute over the switch escalated.

A masked Wayne Daniels returned armed with the gun after being pulled out following an earlier argument. The 42-year-old "extremely drunk" man came back in with a change of clothes and with his face covered and a knife in his hand "which he held as if he were going to stab".

The store owner and a clerk took wooden sticks and with them tried to push him out of the store while he continued to "gesture" with the blade while making threats. While Daniels "fixed his escape", his face covering was found abandoned at the scene with his DNA - leading to his arrest.

He admitted threatening with a sharp object, vandalizing property and violating a suspended sentence, and was sentenced to two years in prison. At the sentencing, Registrar Graham Wells said he drew the gun "not for a few moments, but in a planned and menacing manner".

Mia James

The caregiver lied when visiting the home of a "vulnerable" woman in her final days and left her to die of Covid in conditions described as "a total disgrace".

Miya James, 25, was scheduled to visit the home of a 71-year-old woman on the 24th and 25th of January last year. The woman was suffering from Covid-19, had recently been discharged from Whiston Hospital and suffered from mobility issues, which prevented her from going down the stairs.

But James failed to show up for three of the four visits she was supposed to make those two days, and mistakenly logged her presence into the company's system to collect payment. The pensioner passed away on January 25, 2021.

The defendant, of Fell Grove in St Helens, pleaded guilty to willful omission. She was detained for eight months.

Sieg Ozoemena

The college student led officers on a 90mph chase and later said he was "scared of the man who was shot by police".

Victory Ozoemena was already banned from driving after an earlier chase at 220km/h which ended when he crashed into a light pole. Caregiver then got back behind the wheel but was caught in a hedge following an impact.

The 24-year-old admitted to dangerous driving, driving with a disqualification, driving without insurance and violating a suspended sentence. He was imprisoned for a year.

Rashid Karkach

The assistant manager of a Liverpool city center restaurant has been caught with a £60,000 marijuana farm.

Police found a large crop of drugs growing in the attic of Rachid Karkach's home in Speke during a raid earlier this year. The 31-year-old man developed the habit after starting to smoke marijuana at age 12.

A total of 52 cannabis plants grow in his attic. The 'professional' setting was able to produce an estimated potential drug yield of between £14,560 and £65,520.

Karkach admitted to producing marijuana and consuming electricity without a license. He was imprisoned for 18 months.

Aurel Peter

Police stumble across a £100,000 marijuana farm after being called to a water leak.

Aurel Pjetri was caught red-handed handling the "professional setup" when he was accidentally spotted by officers. The 25-year-old traveled from his native Albanian to the UK by rubber dinghy in hopes of finding a job in the construction industry.

Instead, he was employed as a 'gardener' to a house extension on Hothfield Road in Wallasey, Wirral. Two rooms on the top floor of the address have been converted into drug factories - a third is being set up in the kitchen.

The 90 seized cannabis plants had a potential yield of between 2.5kg and 7.5kg, a stock that could have generated between £50,000 and "well over" £100,000. Pjetri admitted to producing marijuana and was jailed for a year.

Michael Janesson

The pedophile was devastated after he and his girlfriend met a man at a bar and invited him for a threesome at his apartment.

Mikael Janesson has made a number of disturbing comments about the man after the drug-fueled violence. The 41-year-old explained that he "believed that you should have sex with whoever you want, regardless of age", so he took out his phone and showed him a series of lewd pictures of girls having sex with grown men.

The affected participant then called the police, which the officers uncovered their vile things. The pervert then wrote a disturbing seven-page letter to the court, calling himself a "martyr of pedophilia" and comparing himself to Alan Turing.

Janesson admitted to possession of indecent images, three counts of creating indecent images, possession of extreme pornographic images, possession of prohibited images of children and supplying mephedrone. He was imprisoned for 20 months.

Markus Wheeler

The murderer beat his wife to death with a lamp after accumulating huge debts.

Mark Wheeler kept his money worries a secret from his partner Karen, then brutally killed her and attempted suicide in his Birkenhead flat when threatened by bailiffs. The "very dear mother" was also repeatedly stabbed during a prolonged attack that began when she was sleeping on a sofa and found herself being subjected to dozens of hand slaps.

The 62-year-old victim returned home from the night shift on the morning of May 11 and dozed off on a sofa in the living room before her husband began his attack. The next day, her son discovered her lifeless body.

Wheeler, 52, admitted to the murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 15 years and 10 months.

connor tomney

The thug wore swimming goggles as he chased a man through the streets with a knife before hitting him in the face with the gun.

Connor Tomney put the glasses on in a "bizarre" attempt to hide his identity by attacking his victim after a "minor" argument involving his girlfriend and her mother's neighbors. He got out of a car and ran past his victim's pregnant partner, saying, "Get out of the way, you son of a bitch", and chased him around parked cars.

The applicant fell to the ground and his assailant struck him with a knife - hitting him in the left lower back and causing a "shallow" cut. The 29-year-old asked: "Did I make it?" before proceeding to hit him with the knife before getting back in his car and being driven away.

Tomney admitted assault and threats with a touch object. He was imprisoned for 18 months.

Ryan Sumner

The bandit attacked a couple taking their children to the park, leaving a father fighting for his life.

Ryan Sumner's attack caused his baby's stroller to topple onto a street and saw the man fracture his skull and bleed from his brain. He was left homeless after his relationship ended as a result of the incident.

The 22-year-old had admitted at a previous hearing that he had intentionally caused grievous bodily harm. Sumner was jailed for two years.

Hussein Erdogan

The kebab shop owner tried to slash his wife's face with a skewer before locking her in a basement.

Huseyin Erdogan also ominously threatened to arrange an assassin to murder his partner after she accused him of having an affair. The businessman proceeded to stab the victim's face with a spear, impaling him in the basement while continuing to "slash" with the device.

He kept her in the basement and threatened to "cut her with a knife" if she called the police. The 54-year-old later told her, "You make me a killer."

Erdogan admitted assault and death threats. He was jailed for 23 months

Paul Roberts

The pedophile prepared a boy with gifts and then bragged about his sick exploits on the dark web.

Paul Roberts was already a convicted sex offender when he assaulted the young man after buying him a bike and clothes. An investigation by the National Crime Agency revealed that the 38-year-old had used the dark web to communicate with other depraved people online.

The pervert shared with others the abuse he had subjected a 12-year-old boy to - who was seen sitting next to him on the sofa, putting his arm around him and slapping his butt as he got up. Roberts also kissed him on the lips, watched him fight over water with another boy, and offered to buy him condoms.

He also admitted to seeing naughty pictures of children "most nights". The defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault, attempted sexual communication with a child, and two counts of indecent imagery, and was sentenced to 40 months in prison.

connor smith

The last member of a multimillion-dollar gang has been arrested.

Connor Smith was one of 10 men implicated following a National Crime Agency investigation into a Merseyside-based gang that ran an amphetamine lab in North Wales. The conspirators have now been imprisoned for a combined total of nearly 200 years.

The 29-year-old has only been involved in the supply of Class B drugs – including cannabis worth £2.5 million. Their EncroChat communication, conducted under the handle Tactical Hawk, shows that between April and June 2020 a total of 499kg was delivered or offered - drugs with an estimated market value of between £2,242,425 and £2,513,009.

He was also involved in trafficking around 20 kg of ketamine. Smith admitted conspiracy to supply and produce ketamine, mephedrone, diazepam and cannabis and was sentenced to seven years and eleven months in prison.

Liam McHale

The heroin and cocaine dealer dealt millions of pounds worth of drugs under the alias Lawless Fly.

Liam McHale funded a lavish lifestyle by earning huge sums of money from trafficking illegal substances. EncroChat notes and messages revealed that he was involved in the delivery of 84 kg of cocaine, 13 kg of heroin and 26 kg of marijuana, as well as transferring around £5.5 million in cash.

This allowed him to buy a £270,000 house in Mossley Hill, where police discovered 'high quality' watches, jewellery, clothes and shoes when they searched the address - with a crypto mining rig installed in the garage. Lyrics from him also boasted of buying a £24,000 Rolex and "getting into an expensive golf club in Formby" and shopping at a Louis Vuitton store.

McHale - who has no criminal record - worked for a plastics company but was put on leave during the Covid-19 pandemic and later switched to a £40,000 job as a telecoms engineer. His father admitted conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and marijuana and launder money and was jailed for 11 years.

John Maloney

He was part of a gang that broke into an elderly widow's home and sprayed her in the face before stealing her wedding ring.

The "closely affiliated team of four" - John Toohey, Paddy Doran, Philip Purcell and John Maloney - posed as workers when the first victim was shot at their address on Burbo Bank Road in Blundellsands on 4 June this year. They told the 76-year-old woman there was an "emergency" and they would have to shut off the property's gas and water supply for roadworks before attacking - and they also ripped a necklace off her.

The four masked assailants then proceeded to another house, where they threatened to kidnap the resident's children. When Doran and Maloney were caught after leading police the wrong way in a 90mph chase on one of the city's busiest streets, they told officers they were innocent as they walked from their home - 11 miles away.

All four defendants pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and aggravated grand theft of a vehicle. Maloney was jailed for 15.5 years, Doran was jailed for 14 years and eight months, and Toohey and Purcell were sentenced to 13 years and 10 months.

Liam Duffy

Murderous team member Croxteth led police on a chase at over 120 miles per hour weeks after his release from prison.

Liam Duffy collided with another vehicle, knocking down a light pole as the 15-minute chase came to an end. He was recently released from prison after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for manslaughter in the fatal shooting of teenager Liam Smith by rival beach gang Norris Green.

The 19-year-old was shot in the head and killed outside the HMP Altcourse in 2006. Revenge came after a fight in the visitors' room at Fazakerley Prison.

Duffy then runs a multi-million dollar drug ring from behind bars. The 41-year-old admitted to dangerous driving and was jailed for 10 months but is not expected to be released until December 2026 after his license was revoked

Peter Croft

Croft went on a crime spree, during which he committed a series of crimes, including beating a 72-year-old man and entering the bedroom of a woman armed with a knife.

He demanded money before repeatedly beating the pensioner and throwing him to the ground. The 31-year-old man attempted to break into a row of homes in the Crosby area armed with the gun.

When the victim of a house he had successfully entered asked Croft why he was there, he replied that it was because of "neighbors and then aliens". He confessed to crimes such as robbery and theft and was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison.

Kevin Jones

The pedophile tried to nurture a "13-year-old girl" by sending her pictures of her artificial leg.

Kevin Jones befriended two alleged teenagers on Facebook before engaging them in a series of lewd WhatsApp chats. But, unbeknownst to him, he was actually enmeshed in the frame of a pedophile hunter.

The 56-year-old woman asked a fake account to provide her with photos of herself and uploaded photos of her face and prosthetic leg. The three-time convicted pedophile asked her "if she liked older men" and if she "took sex classes at school" while "constantly calling her a nice girl."

Jones told her he masturbated, talked about pornography and instructed her on how to access it - and asked her to describe what she saw after doing so. He admitted to two counts of attempting to sexually communicate with a child, attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, and two counts of violating a sexual harm prevention order and was jailed for four years.

Robert Massey

The killer strangled the girlfriend and stabbed her corpse before scribbling verbal abuse onto her skin with a marker.

Robert Massey also dressed his late partner in designer clothes before leaving her for dead in his apartment while planning to kill two men he believed were unfaithful. The 43-year-old stabbed one of them to death with the same weapon he used to kill Jacqueline Forest after luring him into the apartment before taking a taxi to her ex-boyfriend's place of work and attacking him with a scissor.

He had been released from court two weeks earlier for assaulting the same victim, pouring vodka over her and threatening to set her on fire. So after going through her phone and finding suspicious texts, Massey flew into a rage — beating and choking her until she died, then stabbing her in the womb after finding a pregnancy test.

The killer remained at large for another 24 hours - during which time he drank with her debit card, lured one of the men to Mrs. Forest and tried to cut off his ears, then traveled to the other's workplace and gave chase. the street with the scissors. Massey admitted to the murder and two attempted murders and was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 28 years.

Paul Daw

A teacher solicited and indecently assaulted an underage girl who was one of his students.

The historic crimes took place in St Helens in the 1990s and only came to light when the victim went to the police many years later. The pedophile, now 55, took care of the student by lending her books and CDs and praising her before assaulting her.

He had already appeared in court in December 2013 after pleading guilty to filming indecent footage of girls changing clothes at the Wirral school, where he now taught, and teenagers shopping in Liverpool, for which he received a suspended sentence. Daw admitted to four counts of indecent assault for his recent crimes and was jailed for 28 months.

Keisha Harty

She left her victim homeless with a lasting scar after stabbing her with a broken wine glass before fleeing to Ireland.

Keisha Harty angrily overturned a table before attacking the complainant during a hilarious New Year's Eve party. She then went on the run for nearly a year before finally being brought to justice when she was caught shoplifting.

The 26-year-old admitted to an injury with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Harty was jailed for five and a half years.

terence side

The dealer "thought he was invincible" and tried to buy cocaine in bulk a few days after his daughter was born.

Terence Page traded large amounts of Class A and B substances on EncroChat using the identifiers CuppaTea and WorldPossum. The 40-year-old man used two different devices in the encrypted communications service and was involved in the delivery of at least 14kg of heroin, 1.75kg of cocaine and 2kg of amphetamine.

The broker and intermediary was part of an "intricate network that coordinated, acquired and supplied substantial amounts of Class A drugs". He was identified as the man behind the mask by CuppaTea and WorldPossum after revealing personal information, including names and ages of relatives and his home address, in his secret communications.

Page was previously sentenced in 2011 to eight years and nine months for another major drug raid. He admitted conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and amphetamines in connection with his recent crimes and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

David McMullan

The pedophile traveled from Northern Ireland to Merseyside and raped a girl in hotels and camps after grooming her on Snapchat.

David McMullan sent his teenage victim a series of gifts before flying out to sexually assault her four times over the course of about 18 months. At one point, the 32-year-old put drugs on her that knocked her unconscious - before she woke up to find he had sex with her.

This came after he sent a package to her house on Valentine's Day that contained a card with a picture of her face and a picture of a man he claimed was himself - plus a teddy bear, a sweatshirt, 30 pounds cash, lube and a bubble stick. McMullan admitted to four rapes and was jailed for 19 years.

Claire Dooley

The caregiver who became a drug addict was caught with more than 6kg of heroin in the trunk of her car.

Claire Dooley was involved in transporting Class A illegal substances and black money on behalf of a gang to pay off her ex's marijuana debt. Police spotted the 43-year-old's black Audi Q3 pulling up outside a house on Petherick Road, Croxteth, and co-defendant Patrick Campbell left the address with a white bag which he placed in the trunk - and took out a green bag .

Dooley, from Brunswick Street in Garston, entered the M57 before being stopped on the Knowsley Expressway, where the bag contained several brown packets - later revealed to be 15 pounds of heroin at around 40% purity - A search of his home revealed £ 3,000 in cash and a small amount of marijuana for personal use. Officers returned to the Petherick Road property to find the green bag containing £12,000, while another 3.12 kg of heroin was concealed in a black bag in a wardrobe.

Dooley stated in the interview that he believed he was transporting marijuana and not heroin. She was jailed for four and a half years after admitting to possessing heroin with intent to supply and possess marijuana, while Campbell, 29, received seven years and eight months after pleading guilty to using heroin with intent to possess. and possession of marijuana. criminal property.

Simon Tustall

The pervert used a hidden camera to spy on a young woman and streamed live video of her to his phone.

Simon Tunstall set up the camera that sent moving footage of the young man to his cell phone for about four weeks in May 2019. After the arrest, photos of the victim in various states of undress were found on the 45-year-old man's cell phone.

A statement read out on her behalf described how she was "traumatised" by her crimes. She added, "I don't think I will ever recover from the problems Simon's actions caused me".

Tunstall, from Fleet Lane in St Helens, admitted to voyeurism and took indecent photographs. He was imprisoned for a year.

Gerhard Myler

The drug dealer and gang debt collector was paid up to £5,000 a month and donated a Rolex watch for his birthday.

Gerrard Myler was identified as the EncroChat user behind the name DiorFox after he sent photos of his wife and children to co-conspirators. Messages on the encrypted communication platform showed the involvement of the 32-year-old in delivering at least 4 kg of cocaine and 3 kg of marijuana.

The engineer admitted to a conspiracy to supply cocaine and marijuana. He was arrested this afternoon for eight years and three months.

Paul Koch

The father tried to steal £4 million in a bizarre scam using false court documents after becoming "obsessed and obsessed" over losing his home in a repossession.

Paul Cooke wept in the dock when the court heard that he had implicated his 17-year-old son in his "twisted and elaborate" fraud attempts against three different companies that he believed had wronged him in various ways. The 58-year-old son, Tom Cooke, helped his father file "ridiculous" claims in the district courts but was found not guilty of involvement in the latest and boldest attempt against Birmingham Midshires Financial Services Ltd. condemned.

This led to the father filing a "staggering" £4,792,745 claim against the company in relation to the seizure of his family home in Huyton Quarry. Cooke changed the company's address on forms filed in London, meaning he was unaware of the legal dispute.

He said "I'm sorry for everything" as he was jailed for 30 months after admitting to seven counts of fraud. His son was sentenced to 12 months in prison on five counts, which were suspended for 18 months.

Reece Corran

The drug dealer could have walked out of court freely, but he was arrested after telling a judge that he refused to perform community service.

Low-level hemp supplier Reece Corran was arrested by police on two separate occasions in possession of amounts of the Class B substance. In court, the 20-year-old's lawyer discussed what a suspended sentence would entail, including unpaid work and meetings. with the probation service.

In the dock, though, he shook his head. Judge Gary Woodhall noted this, stating that Corran "told the court it wouldn't be practical" and jailed him for 10 months.

Angela Burns

An 86-year-old man was left "a shell of himself" after she forced her way into his sheltered accommodation.

The pensioner spent two weeks in hospital after falling and hitting his head when Angela Burns pushed him to the ground. Grandma then went through her coat and stole a whopping 6 pounds.

OAP answered a knock on the door of his Birkenhead apartment and found the defendant on the other side "looking ready for a fight". Burns then "pushed him really hard" and walked past him, causing him to stumble backwards and hit his head on the wall.

The 53-year-old man "rummaged through" his jacket hanging in the hallway and stole the money before leaving. She admitted to the theft and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Josef Ellis

The taxi driver delivered groceries to the vulnerable during the lockdown, but used his job as a cover to transport large amounts of drugs.

Police have seized nearly £20,000 worth of designer goods from Joseph Ellis' home after he was identified as the EncroChat user behind the name StrawSmith. This secret life of heroin and cocaine contrasted with the man who prepared meals for the elderly, food he delivered to the door.

The 38-year-old "acted as a trusted courier for an organized crime group" and received their orders via the encrypted communication platform. News reports revealed that he was transporting at least 15 kg of cocaine, 3 kg of heroin and 2 kg of marijuana.

Ellis, aka Joseph McNabb, admitted to colluding to supply heroin, cocaine and marijuana. He was imprisoned for nine years.

Gareth Parr

The drunken teen repeatedly stabbed a stranger with a kitchen knife after an argument broke out at a beach party.

Gareth Parr, 19, and his uncle Frankie Parr, 33, attacked the man at the Vine Tavern pub on Elephant Lane in St Helens. The two men were drunk at a beach party on the night of August 6 this year, which was attended by several families.

The first left the bar after being warned for his behavior and returned a short time later armed with a kitchen knife hidden in his clothes. Frankie Parr then got into a heated argument with another pub goer, hitting him repeatedly before the teenager stabbed him in the back and stabbed him again with a knife as he lay motionless on the floor.

He confessed to assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possession of a sharp object in a public place and was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. His uncle was sentenced to three years in prison after he too threw an ax through a candy store window.

Adam Sullivan

He was implicated after his DNA was found on a gun hidden in the side of a garden shed.

The 7.62 Tokarev model TT33 self-loading pistol was discovered in plastic bags near a house on Altmoor Road, Huyton in September 2021. Traces of the 26-year-old's DNA were found on the innerspring and guide rod.

Police then raided an address on the same street in February of this year and seized a lot of marijuana. Sullivan was later convicted of carrying an unlicensed firearm and carrying a Class B drug and sentenced to six years in prison.

Stefan Stokes

The wedding guest was one of several men arrested after the celebration ended in chaos after a mass brawl broke out.

Participants caused £15,000 worth of damage to the Daresbury Park Hotel after violence broke out in the venue's bar. Tables, chairs and glasses went flying as attendees fought back, arming themselves with makeshift weapons like coat hangers and fire extinguishers.

Five police officers were ushered into the hotel's Alice bar at around 11.35 pm, but they went downstairs to the reception area to call for backup when glasses were thrown in their direction. The men were "covered in blood" and taken into custody with injuries to their faces and bodies.

Stephen Stokes, pictured above, was sentenced to 20 months in prison after admitting to an affair.

Renee Weber

The drug addict jumped into a retiree's car as he was picking up his grandchildren from school and severely beat him in his own driveway.

Renee Weaver, 41, repeatedly punched the victim before going through his pockets, stealing money and his phone and threatening to break his head with a glass bottle. Surprisingly, she was the pensioner who was arrested after Weaver lied to officers on Vulcan Street downtown that she was a sex worker and that he had assaulted her after refusing to pay for a sex act.

Merseyside Police handcuffed the stunned grandfather only to realize that he was indeed the victim. The Liverpool Crown Court heard that the pensioner "felt let down by the people who should be protecting us" following the incident on 29 January last year near Sheil Road in Kensington.

Weaver admitted to theft and assault. She was detained for 10 months.

Mark Buchanan

The delivery driver modified his van to smuggle large amounts of drugs.

Everton's Mark Buchanan was part of an organized crime group and was caught by police transporting drugs into Wales. The 42-year-old was wearing a delivery company uniform and was driving a modified vehicle to hide the stash.

He was caught by police officers on one of Britain's busiest motorways with 7kg of cocaine worth approximately £700,000 in a bulkhead of the passenger seat. Buchanan was jailed for 16 years.

Michael Coney

Michael Coney was carrying 20 packs of heroin and 32 packs of crack when he was stopped by police in January.

The 58-year-old has 27 previous convictions for 65 crimes, including two for trafficking Class A drugs in 1998 and 2004. He was found guilty of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply and sentenced to five and a half years prison . one and a half year.

Michael Kain

He kicked a boy's crutch out from under him before racially insulting the O2 staff and throwing a drink at them.

Michael Cain, who has no fixed address, began his attacks at 10am on Wednesday 20 April when he confronted 16-year-old Elliott Heap, who was on his way to a GCSE review course at Liverpool Life Sciences. The 31-year-old man approached the teenager, kicked one of his crutches, made insulting comments about his disability and threatened violence.

In another incident, Cain directed racial slurs at an employee at the O2 store on Church Street in Liverpool city center at around 4.30pm on Tuesday 24 May. It was further reported that he tried to attack staff and threw a drink at them before being escorted away by security forces.

He was sentenced to 28 weeks in prison after admitting to assault, harassment and property damage.

Darren Blease-Maguire

The machete-wielding thug knocked out a man in front of terrified motorists.

A street fight broke out between Darren Blease-Maguire and a man he accused of threatening to burn down his home around Saturday, October 22nd. A witness watched the struggle from her car as she was stuck in traffic on Frederick Street, with the pensioner seeing two men "fighting and waving their arms".

She heard the victim "scream" on the floor, which she described as "shocking". Meanwhile, Blease-Maguire was spotted laughing.

The 26-year-old admitted to an altercation, an assault involving actual physical harm and possession of a sharp object in a public place. He was imprisoned for 20 months.

Gerhard Parkin

The dealer was arrested after supplying crack and heroin to a district police station.

Gerrard Edward Parkins of Dovecot was found guilty of concerns over the supply of crack and heroin following a joint investigation into the "Irish Line Mikey" by Merseyside Police and North Wales Police. The line delivered crack and heroin between Liverpool and the Colwyn Bay and Rhyl areas.

Parkins was the man in charge of the station during the investigation and was found with the station phone when he was arrested. The 25-year-old was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison.

Stefan Earle

The "dangerous bully" hit a disabled man with a beer bottle in a violent robbery after tracking him down with a Zimmer frame in a hotel.

Stephen Earle, 36, followed the vulnerable Peter Keppie to his room at the Scarisbrick Hotel in Lord Street, Southport, around 10am on 15th August last year. He then went through his belongings for his medicine and took his bank card out of his wallet before hitting him over the head with a bottle of Desperados.

Earle then took the victim's new iPhone, a gift he had received for his birthday five days earlier. Tragically, Mr. Keppie died three months later and spent his final weeks grieving.

The bandit confessed to the robbery and assault. He was imprisoned for 12 years and eight months.

Kevin Barley

The thug dragged a homeless man down the street while holding his car before running him down less than two weeks later.

Fortunately, Kevin Bartley left his victim with only abrasions and bruises after the first incident. But the 37-year-old man chased him down and threatened to kill him a few days later.

He admitted to two counts of dangerous driving and was jailed for 14 months.

Roy Braun

A little girl has been "shorn of her innocence" after being sexually assaulted on her birthday.

Roy Brown's actions had a "life-changing" impact on the young woman after she was hunted down in "a moment of celebration". The retiree has already been convicted of sex crimes for the third time.

The 77-year-old student touched the student on her birthday for a "persistent incident" on the chest area above her clothing. A statement read in court on behalf of the victim's mother described how the attack had a "horrific effect" on her, as she "feels that the defendant has taken a piece of her innocence away and forced her to speak in front of her". above." .

Brown was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault. He was imprisoned for four years.

Hamed Naderi

Takeaway food delivery man posing as a taxi driver abducted and raped a teenage girl as she walked in Liverpool city center at night.

The "relentless predator" Hameed Naderi snatched the "very vulnerable" student off the street in the early hours of the morning and lured her into his car before attacking her in a public place and in her own home. But he remains unmoved by his "evil" actions.

The 19-year-old victim took a taxi into town shortly after 12:15 pm and remembered being in a bar in the concert square, but her next memory was of being on top of her in the stranger's room and having sex to have had with Is it over there. The 30-year-old accused also took her to Riverside Drive in Otterspool, where he also raped her.

Naderi admitted to two rapes. He was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.

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A man with tights over his head tried to rob a pastry shop.

Connor Lunt threatened the bakery workers with a knife and demanded money from the till. But he left empty-handed and was raped after police discovered his fingerprints on the counter.

Lunt admitted to the theft. He was imprisoned for 30 months.

Neil Rycroft

A student was sexually assaulted by a window cleaner while skating down the street.

Neil Rycroft subjected the teenager to aggression in a public restroom after a 'chance encounter' She felt "numb and disgusted" by the actions of the "predator".

The 48-year-old man admitted to having sex with a child. He was imprisoned for five years and one month.

Andreas Manning

A Tesco guard has an egg running down his face after an argument over a bag of chips.

Police were called to the Tesco Express store after Andrew Manning, who had previously been kicked out of the store after staff refused to exchange the snack for a different flavour, returned armed with a carton of eggs he had left and proceeded to shoot the worker. The angry customer then attacked his neighbor with a doorknob and a bicycle pump, an attack so brutal he considered moving out of his two-decade home.

The 43-year-old admitted to assault, two assaults and one violation of a suspended sentence. He was imprisoned for 26 months.

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A scammer visited his victims on Facebook Marketplace and used counterfeit money to buy high-value goods from them.

Babo Habiballa was kidnapped by a getaway driver after he bought the iPhones and PlayStation 5 with counterfeit £50 notes. He then crashed into a tree after a chase with the police.

The "sophisticated" scammer admitted to three counts of fraud, dangerous driving, failing to provide the police with a sample, obstructing the police, driving without a license and driving without insurance. The 20-year-old was sentenced to 10 months in prison.

Paul McFadden

A 'despicable' caregiver has stolen over £100,000 from an old woman and has continued to withdraw money from her bank account after her death.

Elizabeth Cain had less than £100 to her name at the time of her death after Paul McFadden, who worked as her assistant, made hundreds of fraudulent transactions from her savings into his own account. The wedding rings of the pensioner and her late husband are also missing.

The 39-year-old scammer admitted to the fraud. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

Philipp Jones

A burglar has been caught after leaving a trail of blood in a Chinese restaurant he broke into.

Phillip Jones was then arrested in a supermarket by a brave clerk after breaking into the place with the point of a knife. To complete his crime spree, he broke into a Lidl supermarket three times to steal alcohol.

The 40-year-old admitted to four counts of burglary, burglary and one count of possessing a sharp object in a public place. He was imprisoned for 52 months.

Karl Roughley

The father started dealing drugs after having financial problems.

Carl Roughley, 36, had seven packs of cocaine and £555 in cash in his vehicle when he was picked up by police from a Southport shop on 19 January. A search of his Brook Close home found a further 177 packages weighing 103.4g and £4,755 in cash.

He led a "fully decent and law-abiding life" until he got involved in trading out of financial "desperation". The father of two pleaded guilty to possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply them and was sentenced to 28 months in prison.

Thomas Parker

The bandit viciously beat and strangled his own sister before breaking her arm in two places during a drinking spree.

Thomas Parker, from Warrington, brutally attacked his sister in front of their horrified teenage son after he got drunk while watching football. She suffered serious injuries and had to undergo surgery to restore her permanently damaged arm.

The 34-year-old defendant admitted to causing grievous bodily harm and intentional strangulation. He was imprisoned for 33 months.

Steven Larkin

The thief stole a fairy statue from the Shakespeare North Playhouse, believing it would bring him "comfort and good fortune".

Steven Larkin and Catherine Taylor stole the pewter statue, valued at £2,275 on 26 August. A witness saw Larkin, 45, climb onto the roof to steal it as Taylor stood guard before putting it in her bag and carrying it away.

The couple was later identified by security cameras and arrested. The judges heard that Larkin - who was sentenced to 24 weeks in jail for burglary - is still grieving the loss of his son, who was murdered in September aged 22.

Kevin Boyle

The father opened a fake computer company to cover up a cocaine import ring, but "will return to the family at Christmas".

Kevin Boyle even commissioned the Gallagher brothers, who spearheaded the conspiracy, to make jackets with the alleged company logo emblazoned on them. However, he claims he was unaware that he was involved in transporting class A drugs, believing it was part of a plan to avoid paying taxes on cigarettes and alcohol imported into the country.

The 41-year-old man "acted as a frontman" for the organized crime group's shell company. Boyle was responsible for creating the pseudonym Maurice Clarke and registering Clarke Computers and Software Ltd with Companies House using a false passport.

The father attended warehouse tours at a Fleece branded company "to add an air of legitimacy", with a unit at Trafalgar Court in Widnes eventually being taken on as a warehouse. He admitted participating in the activities of an organized criminal group and was sentenced to 30 months in prison, but is likely to be released in the near future after spending 14.5 months in custody.

Martin Gil

The child rapist fled to Turkey and Russia but has now been brought to justice after six months on the run.

Martin Gill, from St Helens, fled three days before he was due to be tried at Liverpool Crown Court for historic sex crimes. The 36-year-old was convicted in absentia and subsequently sentenced to eight years in prison.

He was arrested at Manchester Airport on Thursday 1 December upon his return to the country. The court heard that he had flown to Istanbul and then traveled to Russia "to update his relatively new wife on the trial and the convictions he was facing".

Gill, of Waring Aveune, this morning pleaded guilty to breaching a bail bond and was sentenced to an additional six months behind bars. He committed his sexual abuse campaign in the early 2000s when he was a teenager himself.

Anthony Smith

The crook arrested a man before torturing and stabbing him over an unpaid drug debt.

Anthony Smith, of Croxteth, tied the man's hands and feet before beating, stabbing and threatening him at a house in Swansea. The 41-year-old man from Sovereign Road told the victim that he would be buried in a makeshift grave in the garden and that his girlfriend would be tied up and dragged behind a car as he drove down the road.

He pleaded guilty to false imprisonment, wrongful assault, extortion, theft, assault and preoccupation with supplying cocaine. Smith was imprisoned for eight years.

Claire Brennan

The gruesome crimes of two despicable thieves were discovered when their vulnerable victim tried to jump off a road bridge.

Claire Brennan and Brian Elliott drove the man to the brink of suicide after leaving him with no money to support himself or pay bills. But after being persuaded by the police, he recounted how they routinely took him to an ATM every two weeks and forced him to turn in his Social Security on the day it was paid.

This included the latter threatening to stab him in the face. Both defendants were found guilty after a trial of burglary, larceny and witness intimidation.

Elliott, 42, served seven years in prison. Brennan, 41, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

Shankar Singh

The hospital patient groped a nurse, laughed and played a Bob Marley song on his phone.

Shankar Singh sexually assaulted the Royal Liverpool Hospital worker while she was tending to him after he was admitted to hospital. Despite her father's heinous actions, which left her "worried and scared", she courageously continued to treat her abuser for the sake of her health and well-being.

The 35-year-old was in the hospital last year with cellulitis when the staff member bent over him to insert a cannula. As she did so, Singh grabbed her breasts, laughed and played No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley and the Wailers on her phone before saying "it could have been us".

He was found guilty of sexual assault after a court hearing. Judge Anil Murray sentenced him to eight months in prison.

Peter Willan

A man has stolen over £100,000 worth of used tires and rubbish bags and tried to hide from police in the toilet of a motorway petrol station.

Peter Willans stole the goods in brazen container thefts, including one from the Port of Liverpool. The father of two claims he was taken to work by drug dealers with whom he owed huge debts.

Police feared the stolen truck could be used in a possible terrorist attack after breaching a security barrier. And the 35-year-old has been strangely linked to the crimes because of his tattoo.

Willans admitted to two burglary counts. He was imprisoned for 28 months.

Damola Olateju

A father filmed himself trying to rape a woman as she begged "no" and "get off of me".

Damola Olateyu could have gotten away with the shocking attack had investigators not extracted the damning video from her mobile phone. The 37-year-old was found guilty of attempted rape and sentenced to five years in prison.

Jason McGuire

A man who killed a dog walker drove almost twice as fast as he could.

Alan Williams, 74, and his dog Sam suffered "multiple and catastrophic injuries" when they were struck by the BMW of 33-year-old Jason McGuire. The accident happened on November 23, 2020 at 5:45 pm on Childwall Valley Road

The driver was traveling at 58 km/h at the time of the collision, despite the 30 km/h speed limit. Williams' son received a notification on his Apple Watch saying his father had taken a "heavy fall" and rushed to the scene to find out what had happened.

McGuire pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. He was sentenced to five years and six months in prison.

Jordan Kurz

A drug dealer participated in a gruesome gang attack to steal a father's Rolex watch.

Jordan Short, from Rushey Hey Road, Kirkby, was 19 when he was involved in the murder of carpenter Steven McMyler, a 34-year-old father of two young children, on 6 August 2020 in the grounds of Wigan Parish Church. Now 21, Short has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for his involvement in the crime.

Shortly after his sentencing, a member of the McMyler family left the bleachers, which lacked a view of the dock, to enter the courtroom and shout "damn rat" at Short. He was asked to leave the courtroom.

Robert Youds

A pervert claimed his friends sent a series of lewd messages to a girl from his Facebook account in a "joke" after she was stabbed by a pedophile hunter.

Robert Youds told the alleged 13-year-old that she was "beautiful" and asked to take a shower during his disgusting conversations with her. But, unbeknownst to him, he was actually messaging a fake account created as part of an online scam - and ended up getting scammed by his own mother.

Youds admitted to trying to urge a child to engage in sexual activity and trying to engage in sexual communication with a child. He was imprisoned for 27 months.

Paul Whitney

The leader of a notorious crime family has slammed a judge: "That's a goddamn joke" after jailing him for nearly 15 years.

Paul Whitney was previously arrested as the leader of the Whitney Gang, a family drug ring that flooded the city streets with heroin and crack.

He is now behind bars again after being identified as the man who sold Class A and B substances under the name "BulletHawk" on the EncroChat encrypted communication platform. And his angry outburst in the dock echoed similar comments he made when police searched his home on his 43rd birthday.

Whitney told officers, "It's my birthday, I'm kidding," when they arrested him while executing a search warrant. He admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis and conspiracy to launder money and was sentenced to 14 years and nine months in prison

Paul Blackhurst

A man used a sharpened nameplate to slash his uncle's face after a bar fight.

Paul Blackhurst, of Knowles Street, Wigan, attended Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday after attacking his uncle following a pub dispute. On December 18, 2021, the 29-year-old joined the family for a party at the Jubilee Inn in Litherland, where his uncle William Lloyd was also in attendance.

The couple had a lengthy verbal altercation at the party around 11:00 pm, which resulted in Blackhurst hitting Mr. Lloyd in the face with the sharp edge of a nameplate. He pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.

Thomas Gutier

A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after raping a woman.

Thomas Goodier, 25, of St Helens, appeared at Caernarfon Crown Court on Wednesday 14 December where he was found guilty of two counts of rape in North Wales. One of these charges related to multiple offenses committed over a period of time.

Goodier was jailed for 20 years, with an extended license of seven years.

Gary Simpson

A cruel thief stole money from a man who was about to euthanize his beloved dog.

Gary Simpson followed his victim out of a shop after using its ATM to withdraw hundreds of pounds to pay vet bills for the painful procedure, then ruthlessly stole those funds. Later that same day, he robbed a supermarket at the end of a knife - causing the woman working behind the register to start sleepwalking.

The 37-year-old then appeared with a pack of dolls, which he appeared to be purchasing at the counter at a nearby Heron Foods store. Instead, he pushed her away, when she saw him wielding a curved-bladed knife about five inches long and stole £50 from the till.

Simpson admitted to burglary, larceny and possession of a bladed item in a public place. He was imprisoned for 56 months.

Nathan Sweeney

Clifford McNamee, 47, of Rusland Road, Kirkby, and Nathan Sweeney, 46, of Fern Close, Kirkby, were involved in a large-scale conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.

Sweeney, who went by the EncroChat name "RigidForce" and McNamee, who went by the name "CliffsHard", each owned an encrypted device and were identified from images and messages sent. Sweeney was sentenced to ten years and one month and McNamee to nine years and one month.

Philip Lamm

A wanted scammer fled the country and remained at large for nearly two years before being arrested after a car accident in Spain.

Phillip Lam fled before being convicted of stealing the details of more than 1,000 credit cards to book flights and hotels in a £1 million scam. Based on his deception, he was able to finance a lavish lifestyle that left his victims significantly broke and businesses on the brink of bankruptcy.

The 31-year-old - no fixed address but from Dingle - failed to appear for sentencing in March 2021 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud. The fraudster was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison in absentia.

But Lam appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday after being extradited to the UK. He was arrested on 6 November this year in Marbella at around 2.30 am on an international warrant following a confrontation after trying to resist Spanish police.

Lam returned to the country at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday night with the support of Interpol and the National Crime Agency. The next day, he admitted to violating bail and was placed behind bars for an additional two months.

Peter Wright

A renowned chef shook his head and smiled when he was finally brought to justice for sexually abusing young girls.

Peter Wright, who worked in some of the city's most prestigious restaurants and was hired overseas to entertain private clients, "poisoned" his two victims - leaving them "devastated". Despite this, he showed a "complete disregard" for their heinous crimes and "doesn't seem to care about the impact on their lives".

A trial at Liverpool Crown Court had previously heard that the 31-year-old Old Swan man had repeatedly targeted her in the 2000s when they were just 12. Wright, who was also young at the time, once tried to rape one of the girls.

Wright was convicted by a jury of attempted rape and eight counts of sexual assault. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

Christopher Maurer

The father and a mysterious figure known only as "Rock Forever" were in charge of a lucrative heroin and cocaine ring.

Kristofer Mason used the name "AtomHawk" when discussing the importation of Class A drugs on the EncroChat encrypted communications platform. But he was eventually picked up at an airport as he was preparing to board a flight from the UK.

The 44-year-old "organized the tampering and delivery" of kilo drugs across the country in partnership with as-yet-unidentified co-user RockForever. They had a network of couriers with vehicles sporting fur to hide illegal substances, and they used taxi drivers to transport goods during the lockdown.

Mason admitted to conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and cannabis. He was imprisoned for 13 years and four months.

Nathan Nash

The "Danger to Young Women" sexually assaulted a woman on a train and returned to the scene to find her.

Victim managed to catch pervert Nathan Nash, of Ribblesdale Close, Eastham, when he told her he was "horny" and rubbed his thigh on the Merseyrail service. The 30-year-old man followed her to her workplace before waiting for her at the train station after her shift ended.

He admitted to the sexual assault and was jailed for a year.

Hollie Griffin

A woman repeatedly stabbed a man in the legs before his father bit him in the face while he was unconscious and then viciously kicked him in the head.

Paul Griffin knocked the victim unconscious after taking the first hit outside his daughter's home. But the railwayman then proceeded to deliver a barrage of sickening blows to Gareth Rowlands' face as he lay motionless in the street.

At the same time, Hollie Griffin slashed her legs with a kitchen knife - which her father had used to cook a roast minutes earlier. Paul Griffin ended the shocking attack - which was captured on camera - by slamming his teeth into Rowland's face, slamming his head into the ground and kicking him so hard his slipper flew off.

Both Griffins admitted to intentionally causing grievous bodily harm and possessing a sharp object in a public place. Hollie Griffin was sentenced to 40 months in prison and Paul to six years.

Michael McGrane

The convicted murderer and sex offender was found with over 1,500 indecent photos and videos of children upon his release from prison.

The Liverpool Crown Court heard Michael McGrane, 60, of Victoria Street, Southport, download the content over a year, 10 years after he was released from prison in Australia on charges of sexual assault and murder. He was sentenced to nine months in prison for his recent crimes.

Rodger McKindley

The painter and decorator asked an elderly client to perform sexual acts with him, even though he knew she was suffering from dementia.

Rodger McKindley performed a sexual act on himself five times in the presence of the 80-year-old woman and persuaded her to touch his private parts on another occasion. The 70-year-old was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Jack Nolan

The drug dealer, who was once spared jail for a fight in which a grandfather was stabbed in the back, told a judge when he ended up in prison "a good friend".

Jack Nolan was previously released from Liverpool Crown Court in 2022 but, as part of his suspended sentence, failed to attend unpaid work sessions and Probation Service engagements after he himself was stabbed - leaving him at home and heavily dependent on ketamine. He asked for one last chance in court last month, but his pleas fell on deaf ears.

The 20-year-old admitted to two violations of a suspended sentence and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

John O'Donnell

Two teenagers were racially abused and attacked with a screwdriver by a stranger in the street.

John O'Donnell walked past a 17- and 18-year-old in Fell Street, Kensington and began shouting racial slurs at the victims. The 56-year-old man, with no fixed abode, pulled out a screwdriver and attacked one of the victims, suffering injuries to his neck and cheeks.

The second teenager suffered a cut on his arm. O'Donnell pleaded guilty to two counts of racial assault and was sentenced to a total of 26 months in prison.

Christopher Kaseman

A man's drinking and drug festivities following a win on the horses ended with him repeatedly stabbing his roommate and hitting him in the head with a hammer.

Christopher Cheeseman dabbled in ketamine, cocaine, sambuca and tequila before brutally assaulting his friend as he slept in his own bed. The innocent victim was scared to death and suffered a skull fracture as a result.

Cheeseman admitted to intentionally causing grievous bodily harm. He was imprisoned for eight years and given a license for another four years.

Scott Farber

The head of a heroin and crack "shop" tried to flee over the fence in his backyard when police searched his home and told his wife, "This has nothing to do with you girl, this is all me."

Scott Dyer went underground and started supplying other drug dealers after racking up massive gambling debts. He also recruited his brother Joseph to work on his behalf and was caught with tens of thousands of pounds in cash stashed under his bathroom sink.

Both brothers - who appeared via video link to HMP Altcourse - have admitted to conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine, while Scott Dyer has also pleaded guilty to money laundering. He was jailed for nine and a half years, while Joseph Dyer was sentenced to four years.

Markus Edwards

A depraved pedophile brought Lego Star Wars sets and a toilet brush to a sordid meeting at a Costa Coffee.

Mark Edwards brought the gifts and a sex toy, among other disturbing items, to the Edge Lane branch - where he hoped to find the parents of a seven-year-old boy he intended to rape. The convicted sex offender used the alias Daddy4Young on an online fetish forum when researching young victims of abuse.

Edwards - of Quadrille Lawns in Wolverhampton - admitted to two counts of ordering a sex offense against children, encouraging sexual activity with a child, three counts of creating indecent images, possession of indecent images and violating an order to prevent sex increased sexual harm . When the video link to HMP Altcourse appeared, he was jailed for eight years and given an extended four-year licence.

Robert Pearson

The director of a pedophile school got out of prison for a few weeks before "returning to his old ways".

Robert Pearson said he was "shocked and concerned" after police found a cache of the "most depraved form" of offensive images on his phone. The pensioner has already been convicted of sex crimes for the fourth time, after he also molested a girl at the turn of the century.

Pearson appeared via video link to HMP Risley and was jailed for 20 months.

Andreas Woodward

A father strangled his girlfriend in front of a screaming child before burning his clothes.

Andrew Woodward, 43, of Crossley Road, St Helens, was found guilty of two counts of strangulation. He strangled his partner Laura Jackman, 27, on two separate occasions in the presence of three children.

He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for each charge of premeditated strangulation, meaning he will spend three years in prison.

Laurence Carthy

A mother woke up to find that a man covered in blood had spent the night in her son's bed.

The nurse got up and called for the children to get ready for school before showering, only to be confronted by a bloodied stranger on the landing. That intruder, Laurence Carthy, broke into the house to steal items, including game consoles, but passed out while intoxicated.

He confessed to the theft and was jailed for two years.

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