The "kingpin" behind a £1million amphetamine lab, a paedophole who "traded" horrific child abuse videos on Snapchat and a teen who called riot police "little sausages" were among the Merseyside criminals jailed over the past week.
Also locked up were two workmen who squared up with members of a stag party in Concert Square. Meanwhile, Liverpool Crown Court heard that a vile rapist sexually abused a woman as she slept.
Here are the faces of eight criminals from our region who were imprisoned in the past seven days:
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Jared Skeete
A teenager brazenly sniffed ketamine in full view of riot police as he threw lit fireworks at officers and called them "little sausages".
Jared Skeete was described as being "at the forefront" of violence which erupted during a protest at the Suites Hotel in Kirkby earlier this year, during which missiles were thrown at police and a Matrix van was torched. He admitted violent disorder and was given three years in a young offenders' institute.
Callen Chandler-Jones
A vile rapist repeatedly sexually abused a vulnerable woman as she slept.
Callen Chandler-Jones' sickening assaults left her "completely broken" and feeling as though she had been "treated like an object". He admitted two counts of rape and was jailed for 20 years, as well as being handed an additional eight-year licence period.
James Billingsley-Taylor
A married foster carer has been put behind bars after "trading" videos of horrific child abuse on Snapchat with other paedophiles.
James Billingsley-Taylor bizarrely tried to claim he was not sexually aroused by child abuse and was simply conducting "research", despite asking other paedophiles "can you see their face" in conversations about sharing sick videos. The 32-year-old admitted two counts of distributing indecent images of children, three of making indecent images and one of possessing indecent images and was jailed for two years.
Terence Earle
A gang behind a £1million amphetamine lab carried out their dodgy dealings in a Costco car park.
The organised crime group, led by "kingpin" Terence Earle, trafficked lorry loads of heroin and cocaine between Merseyside and Scotland. Meanwhile, chemicals used in producing the speed were stashed at a holiday park on the outskirts of Blackpool.
Earle admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and conspiracy to produce amphetamine. He was jailed for 16-and-a-half years.
Stephen Singleton - who used his "apparently legitimate chemicals company" in order to "supply the necessary ingredients for large amounts of amphetamine" - pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce amphetamine. He was handed 41 months behind bars, to be served consecutively to another term of nine years and two months he is currently serving.
Christopher Crotty
A man assaulted his ex-girlfriend then sent explicit images of her to her mum and brother.
Christopher Crotty was found guilty of one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two of disclosing private images without consent. He was jailed for 27 months.
James Coleman
An innocent member of the public was hit with a shovel as a stag party and a group of workmen brawled in the street.
The groom-to-be, who was wearing a wedding dress while out celebrating his upcoming nuptials with friends in Liverpool city centre, was knocked unconscious and lying in a pool of his own blood after being kicked out of a Concert Square bar. A judge today compared the scenes of violence as being akin to the "wild west", with one visiting drinker having also wrapped his belt around his fist and used it as a makeshift knuckleduster as he threw punches.
Anthony Hughes, who rendered the bachelor unconscious, admitted wounding without intent and affray. He was jailed for two years.
James Coleman, who wielded the shovel, pleaded guilty to affray and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. He was handed 21 months behind bars.
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