This list features 54 people jailed in August for crimes linked to Merseyside.
Judges sentenced a hit and run driver who killed a 15-year-old-boy, a wannabe influencer who stole from vulnerable women and a racist teen whose machete attack left a mum scarred for life.
Courts heard about EncroChat dealers including one crook who joked in texts about the hack of the phone network that would land him in jail.
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Disturbing cases included a paedophile ex-vicar, an upskirt pervert and a twisted sex offender who blamed his sick crimes on an alter ego called 'Alex'.
One judge had to sentence gang members who dominated a town's cocaine trade, including a notorious killer and his brother.
Meanwhile, a dad who tortured and killed pets because he had urges to "harm people" was also locked up.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past month.
Damon Thompson
Damon Thompson sent threatening and disturbing messages to two women in August and October last year.
The 25-year-old had also been a cocaine dealer at the same time, a court heard.
Thompson, of Steers Close, Latchford, admitted sending electronic communications with intent to cause distress or anxiety and possession with intent to supply cocaine.
He was jailed for four years and four months and banned from contacting the women for ten years.
Bradley Luxton
A EncroChat cocaine boss joked in texts about the hack that would later see him locked up.
Bradley Luxton laughed with a fellow drug dealer that they would need 'loads of Skys' - an alternative platform to EncroChat.
The 34-year-old kept his two EncroChat phones until March the following year, when police raided his house and exposed his multi-kilo cocaine business.
Luxton dealt in various class A drugs and said he 'remained in the game' after £380,000 worth of drugs was stolen and he had to repay the debt to 'TopsKing'.
He admitted conspiracy to supply 31 kilos of cocaine, 200 tablets of MDMA, 14 grams of ketamine, 51 kilos of cannabis and four kilos of heroin.
Luxton, of Birch Avenue, Upton, was jailed for 16 years.
Paul Battersby
A paedophile ex-vicar once caught with a shoebox full of kid's clothes is back in jail for the third time after watching children as young as five being raped.
Paul Battersby, 72, formerly of Liverpool, scoured the internet for the sick material and downloaded more than 800 indecent images, all while he was under a court order designed to curb his online activity.
The former Church of England clergyman, who worked for the church for 31 years, built up a sordid collection of 832 images, some of which included the rape of children aged between five and 10.
He has previously been sentenced three times for possessing indecent images of children, and in 2017 was jailed for downloading 1,730 indecent images of children and extreme animal pornography.
Battersby was jailed for four years with an extended three years on licence after admitting three counts of downloading indecent images of children, one count of possessing extreme pornography, breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and possessing 205 prohibited or cartoon images of children.
The Gelling brothers and High Parkers Gang
James Gelling, his brother Jordan and their gang who dominated Southport's cocaine supply were jailed this week.
A total of 15 members of the High Parkers Gang were jailed for a total of 110 years after a two year cocaine and cannabis conspiracy.
The gang was headed up by Nathan Ball, 33, Tom Rigby, 28, and Jesse Fashoni, 26.
Notorious killer James Gelling, 33, who once killed a dad-of-two on his way home from watching the Champions League final in 2019, was also locked up alongside his brother Jordan, 29.
Nathan Ball, of Canning Road, Southport, was jailed for 12 years after admitting conspiracy to supply cannabis and cocaine.
Rigby, of Bull Cop, Formby, Fashoni, of Bridge Grove, Southport, Jordan Gelling, of Lytham Road, Southport, Kieran Bradshaw, 25, of Ovington Drive, Southport, Lewis Appleby, 27, of Forest Road, Southport and Peter Ball, 25, of Canning Road, Southport, were all jailed for nine years after admitting conspiracy to supply cannabis and cocaine.
For the same offences; James Nixon, 47, of Old School Close, Banks, was jailed for six years and eight months, Kane Doherty, 25, of Kensington Road, Southport, was jailed for eight years and Will Gardner, 25, of Cheyne Close, Blundellsands, was jailed for six years after also possessing a stun gun in December 2019.
Jailed for conspiring to supply cocaine were; James Gelling, of no fixed address, was jailed for eight years, Brandon Culshaw, 23, of no fixed address, was jailed for five years, Philip Taylor, 36, of Station Road, Banks, was jailed for four years and eight months and Ryan Edwards, 25, of Alexandra Road, Southport, was jailed for three years and four months.
Stuart Stirling, 27, of no fixed address, was jailed for two-and-a-half years after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine.
Benjamin Merriman
An abusive boyfriend threatened to throw a bottle of his own urine on his girlfriend during a prolonged and violent attack which left her fearing for her life.
Benjamin Merriman, 30, strangled his partner and threatened to kill her in a terrifying ordeal which lasted several hours.
An argument developed between Merriman and his partner in which he repeatedly slapped her across the face.
Merriman, of Bostock Street, Warrington, has 10 previous convictions for 12 offences including criminal damage, malicious communications and assault.
He admitted making threats to kill and assault by beating.
He was jailed for three and a half years and also received an indefinite restraining order to keep away from his victim.
Andrew Dodson
A 'violent' thug threatened to shoot and stab a woman and her mum after she broke up with him.
The woman said she 'took the threats seriously' after learning Andrew Dodson had previously been jailed for possession of a gun.
Dodson, 40, launched a campaign of harassment against the woman in which he told her employers she had been secretly photographing a service user while working as a social worker.
In unfounded allegations he claimed she had sent the images to a 'known paedophile' who was also a serving police officer.
Dodson, of Boundary Drive, Hunts Cross, admitted one count of harassment causing fear of violence.
Dodson has 15 previous convictions for 25 offences including possession of a prohibited firearm and prohibited ammunition in 2011, for which he was jailed for six-and-a-half years.
He was jailed for 13 months.
John Lee
John Lee kept a sickening collection of child sex abuse images for three years.
The paedophile tax officer had a total of 4,781 indecent images of children, 134 of which were videos of children as young as two being raped.
The 43-year-old, who worked for HMRC for 20 years before being sacked, also shared 14 child sex abuse images on WhatsApp and Kik Messenger with a fellow pervert.
He told him he wanted to have sex with an 11-year-old girl he knew, and even sent him a picture of her.
The dad-of-two, of Dalemeadow Road, Knotty Ash, admitted three counts of downloading, one count of possessing and one count of distributing indecent images of children, between July 25, 2017 and May 21, 2020.
Lee was jailed for two years and eight months.
Tre Freeman
Tre Freeman repeatedly tried to hit a police officer with a car then later wrote rap lyrics about it.
Two officers tried to conduct a stop check on a black Vauxhall Astra, parked near Fox Covert Cemetery in Warrington, on October 31, 2020.
One officer went to speak with the driver, but the car "kept edging forward" towards him, and the victim had to jump out of the way.
The Astra then accelerated, striking vehicles before turning around, revving the engine and attempting to drive at the officer once again.
The car then struck a police vehicle and a wall before driving at the officer once more, then sped off, leading to a police chase.
Freeman, 19, of Green Leach Court in St Helens, was arrested after his DNA was later found in the car after it had been abandoned.
His home was raided on January 12, 2021, when notes were found to a rap song he had written about trying to "run down" the officer.
Freeman admitted attempting to cause grievous bodily harm, dangerous driving, driving without a license and insurance, and failing to stop.
He was jailed for three years and four months.
Joshua Johnson
Joshua Johnson threatened an Asda security guard with a knife after he was caught stealing.
He brandished the knife outside the Southport supermarket after a spree of thefts, in which police said he took Haribo and knives from a café.
The 25-year-old drug addict even stole a bicycle from a 14-year-old boy and also broke into a woman's Mercedes to take her spare change.
He took the bike on March 31, targeted the car on April 2, burgled the Bridge Café on July 2, then the next night hit the Asda in Central 12 Shopping Park, where he lunged at the security guard with a kitchen knife.
Johnson, of Royal Terrace, Southport, who has 40 previous convictions for 82 offences, admitted two counts of theft, one count of intent to steal other than in a dwelling and one count of threatening a person with a blade in a public place.
Johnson was jailed for two years.
Keith Baker
Keith Baker delivered a "savage beating" to another man in a brutal street fight over an alleged love triangle.
The dad-of-one knocked down bloodied Adam Harvey five times in what Mr Harvey claimed was a "straightener".
The shocking brawl in Birkenhead was captured on camera by a laughing man before it was later shared online.
Baker, 32, even kicked his victim in the head while he was lying on the ground, despite pleas for him to stop the violence.
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His lawyer said Mr Harvey went looking for Baker on November 6 last year, because he wrongly thought Baker had a relationship with his girlfriend.
A judge accepted Mr Harvey was the instigator, but said the "gratuitous" violence was unacceptable, "whatever the provocation".
Baker, 32, of Highfield Road, Rock Ferry, who has 24 previous convictions for 46 offences, admitted affray.
He was jailed for 10 months.
Ben Dolan
Ben Dolan betrayed a family beer company by stealing more than £800,000 while the firm struggled to stay afloat.
The dad-of-one, of Gondover Avenue, Orrell Park said he took the huge sum from Hops & Barley to fund his £1.2m gambling addiction.
But his devastated employers accused him of also splashing cash on a new house, "lavish wedding", trips to the races and Liverpool tickets.
The court heard he "brazenly" lied to their faces, while loyal staff from a workforce of 120 had to be made redundant thanks to his dishonesty.
Dolan was working as an "in-house accounts manager" and stole the money by creating false invoices and making payments to a private account of his own 128 times between March 23, 2017 and December 27, 2019, stealing £839,281 in total.
On January 7, 2020, a company director for the Anfield-based form asked Dolan about suspicious invoices and he eventually came clean.
Dolan, who had no previous convictions, admitted theft and was jailed for three and a half years.
Jack Geary
Jack Geary and Thomas Price battered a man in the street for no reason inflicting a broken skull and a bleed on his brain.
The two teenagers from North Wales set upon James Hansen in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of the morning.
They also broke his nose and eye socket with a flurry of unprovoked punches in Victoria Street, knocking him out cold.
The attack was caught on CCTV and nearly a year later, he has not regained some of his sense of taste and smell.
Geary, then 19, and Price, then 18, carried out the unprovoked attack on the 21-year-old, at around 4.15am, on August 24 last year.
Both Geary, now 20, of Coast Road, Mostyn, Holywell, and Price, now 19, of Coed Onn Road, Flint, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Geary has five past convictions for eight offences, including an affray in 2019, which at the time of this attack he was being investigated for.
He was locked up for 15 months.
Price, who has one previous conviction for an assault, was given 13 and a half months' detention, suspended for two years.
Kurtis Williams
Kurtis Williams slashed a mum's face with a machete in a racist attack in front of her little girl.
The boy, 15, repeatedly used the N-word as he made vile threats to harm Zakiya Janny's ex-boyfriend and their four-year-old daughter.
A witness said Williams' own mum shouted encouragement when the yob returned with a machete and yelled more racist abuse, including the N-word, at the mixed race family.
But when Ms Janny stood between Williams and her former partner, the teenager cut her left cheek open, from her ear to her jaw.
The now 16-year-old boy inflicted a 13cm long wound, which the 36-year-old housing worker said "destroyed" the life she knew.
The attack happened near her partner Francis O'Malley's home in Scorton Street, Anfield, at around 7.15pm, on April 13 this year.
Williams, of Rossett Street, Anfield, denied wounding with intent and possessing a blade, but admitted the charges on the opening day of a trial, accepting that they were motivated by "racial prejudice".
He was locked up for eight years.
Paul Dutton
Sexual predator Paul Dutton begged for forgiveness after his victim told him: "You are a danger to society and deserve to be in cells."
The 61-year-old sexually abused a teenage boy, leaving the vulnerable child "a broken person" suffering from anxiety and depression.
He hung his head in shame when faced by the brave victim in court, sitting with his devastated mum in the area normally reserved for a jury.
After crying his way through the boy's heartbreaking victim statement, the pervert had the gall to say he was "sorry" as he was sent down.
Dutton, of Cotswold Grove, St Helens, befriended the boy by offering him advice and support, then molested him.
He admitted three counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, two counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and three counts of sexual activity with a child.
Dutton was jailed for three years.
Mathew Badibanga
Mathew Badibanga used the EncroChat nickname "Bagbangboomboom" to make "vast profits" using the encrypted phone service.
He supplied large quantities of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines around the country and was arrested in September last year.
The 34-year-old, who also interchanged the spelling of his surname to "Badibango", was detained by detectives after a series of raids in Formby and another in Whiston, which led to him being taken into custody.
The dealer, of Manorwood Drive, Whiston, was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to four counts of supplying the drugs.
Joseph Gibson
Joseph Gibson was kicked out of a nightclub then squirted petrol at two random doormen.
Bouncers asked the 30-year-old to leave city centre bar 54 Liverpool in the early hours of the morning on Monday, June 21 this year.
Drunken Gibson walked all the way to a BP garage in Toxteth, where he filled up a plastic bottle with petrol, then headed to Mathew Street.
There the "irrational" confrontation with doormen unconnected to the earlier incident unfolded, as he held a lighter, flicking it in his other hand.
A judge branded him "a danger to the public" after watching CCTV footage of his "troubling" behaviour, which happened at around 1.15am.
He admitted affray after prosecutors dropped two counts of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to cause it.
Gibson, of Gresham Street, Fairfield, who has 26 previous convictions for 54 offences, was jailed for 12 months.
Mark Dewhurst
Mark Dewhurst pretended to be a businessman buying an engagement ring for his girlfriend in order to dupe staff.
He told a shop assistant in Beaverbrooks he'd sold his business in Spain and was using the money to buy a gold diamond ring for his partner.
But this was a lie and all part of his "reconnaissance" mission to scout out the store in St John's Precinct and gain the woman's trust.
When the 55-year-old returned the next day, he snatched two diamond rings and a diamond bracelet worth £26,500 in total.
Dewhurst, of James Close, Widnes, first examined the gold jewellery at the Liverpool city centre branch on August 30, 2019.
He returned and stole it on August 31, leaving frightened staff feeling "shocked and upset".
Dewhurst, who admitted theft, has 12 previous convictions for 23 offences, including robbery.
He was jailed for two years and one month.
Matthew Thomas
Matthew Thomas was exposed as a sick pervert who spied on victims.
The 39-year-old, of Meadowbank Drive in Ellesmere Port, admitted voyeurism, recording images of children, three counts of taking indecent images of children, three counts of making indecent images and two counts of possession of extreme pornography.
Thomas was caught after a woman using a toilet at an unnamed business noticed a bright light coming from a jacket hung up in her cubicle in September 2020.
After taking a closer look, she realised there was a hole in the pocket of the jacket with a camera lens sitting up against the hole and contacted people, leading to his arrest on suspicion of voyeurism.
Police seized three mobile phones, an iPad, laptop and other computer equipment and found more than 100 videos "of a sexual nature" dating as far back as 2008, including videos depicting voyeurism and up skirting.
Officers also discovered 28 indecent images of children and two further videos depicting extreme pornography.
Thomas was jailed for two years and eight months.
Jordan Hewitt
Drug dealer Jordan Hewitt was locked up over a string of offences.
The 20-year-old, of Rankin Street, Wallsey, was arrested on June 9, 2021 in a joint investigation between Merseyside Police and West Mercia Police.
He admitted being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine, being concerned in the supply of heroin, and possessing cannabis.
He also pleaded guilty to possessing a knife/pointed article in public, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
Hewitt was jailed for four years.
Terrence Ryan
Paedophile Terrence Ryan who considered himself "untouchable" was finally jailed more than 50 years after he began preying on little boys.
The child rapist, now 77, sexually assaulted a young boy in the early 1960s and would go on to abuse three more children until the late 2000s.
The pensioner, of Austral Avenue, Woolston, Warrington, came to the attention of police after one of his victims bravely came forward to Northumbria Police.
Ryan was arrested and denied the allegations but later admitted 14 counts of historical child sexual abuse, including sexual touching, engaging in sexual activity with a child, inciting sexual activity with a child, and rape.
He was jailed for 14 years and eight months.
Alan Cotton
A woman arrived home to find "scumbag" burglar Alan Cotton hiding in her child's bedroom.
After discovering the 50-year-old in her home, the woman started filming on her mobile phone as she chased him out of the property and then out of the grounds too.
At one point in the clip, Cotton stopped to mumble: "Sorry, I’ve had a couple of cans and gone the wrong way."
But the victim caught his face on camera, blasted him for "hiding in a child's bedroom" and called him a "scumbag".
The incident took place at a house on Hobb Lane in Moore, near Runcorn, on Saturday, July 17 this year.
Cotton, of Fallowfield, Runcorn, admitted aggravated burglary and was jailed for seven and a half years.
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith who filmed people on the toilet at Creamfields was caught after a woman spotted his phone peeping over a pub cubicle door.
The 39-year-old pervert, of Pickerings Close, Runcorn, also filmed teenage girls getting changed at a theatre, as well as up schoolgirls' skirts.
But the woman spotted his hand holding a phone above her at a pub and she ran out and kicked in the door of the cubicle he was in to confront him, before Smith fled and was stopped by doormen.
Police uncovered a shocking collection of secretly-filmed videos of adults and young girls stored on Smith's digital devices.
He admitted one count of voyeurism in relation to his adult victims, and one count each of possessing and making Category C indecent images of children - the latter two counts relating to the same eight covertly-captured clips of girls backstage at The Brindley Theatre and upskirt videos of girls.
Smith was jailed for two years.
Sean Moore
EncroChat drug dealer Sean Moore also sold Covid 19 testing kits as a sideline during lockdown.
The dad-of-three was exposed as a "wholesale" drug dealer behind the secret handles "TrustPilot" and "PrawnPilot".
The 43-year-old used the clandestine phone network to trade at least 12 kilos of cocaine and five kilos of heroin in just 10 weeks.
But when EncroChat was hacked last year, his use of his own children's initials as passwords helped lead detectives to his door.
Police raided his home in Marley Close, Rainhill on June 16 last year and found rooms matched photos sent by Moore on EncroChat.
Moore, whose four previous convictions include a money laundering conspiracy, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and heroin, from April to June last year.
He was jailed for 12 years.
Adele O'Hara
Adele O'Hara shoplifted more than £8,000 of beauty products from Boots to feed her cocaine habit.
The mum-of-three struck at the Boots store at Aintree Retail Park nine times over a two-month period.
The 40-year-old was captured on CCTV stuffing large bags full of cosmetic items before fleeing the store.
But on the ninth occasion, a security guard caught her before she managed to escape in a waiting taxi.
O'Hara, of Stuart Road, Walton, stole £8,455 of goods in total between the end of January and the beginning of March this year.
The mum, who had got clean and stayed out of trouble for a decade but returned to her shoplifting past after becoming addicted to cocaine again, admitted eight counts of theft.
She was jailed for 20 months.
Matthew Prescott
Matthew Prescott claimed his images of children being raped were collected by one of his twisted alter egos.
The paedophile told a psychiatrist his latest stash of sickening pictures and video was not his responsibility, but that of 'Alex'.
Alex is one of five personalities the 27-year-old convicted sex offender said took over him, claiming: "Alex was just there for himself. I've tried to get rid of him so many times."
Prescott, of Cotham Street in St Helens, not only downloaded almost 2,000 videos and pictures, but also shared some of them.
His home was raided in June of last year, when the vile stash was discovered, before more sick photos were found on April 15 this year.
He admitted four counts of downloading, two counts of possessing and one count of distributing indecent images of children.
Prescott was jailed for two and a half years.
Michael Clandillon
A dad-of-10 helped to steal BMW, Audi and Mercedes vehicles from properties while families were inside.
Michael Clandillon was part of a gang that burgled cars from eight homes over three months in 2019.
The 37-year-old acted as a driver for the gang, who stole keys for high-value cars from people's homes.
A court heard the dad, of Bootle, said he took part in eight out of 13 burglaries because he was "struggling financially".
He was jailed for four years and three months for conspiracy to burgle eight properties, two in Blackburn and six in Warrington.
Shannon Stafford
Shannon Stafford stole £22,000 from two vulnerable women in their 90s, and splashed it on clothes to model on her YouTube channel.
The young carer fleeced the women during a seven month spree by taking photos of their bank cards.
She then used the details to buy food from Domino's Pizza, Just Eat, Deliveroo, and clothing from companies including Boohoo and Asos.
The 23-year-old had a YouTube channel and she bought large orders of clothes using the 96-year-old's and 91-year-old's cash which she then showed off online to her followers.
After admitting two counts of fraud and one of theft Stafford, of Frampton Road, Walton, was jailed for two years.
Jake Hampson
Jake Hampson, who sold 'Joker the Grower' cannabis, stashed £27,000 in his airing cupboard.
During a raid of his Belle Vale home in May 2020 police found 84.5g of herbal cannabis and cannabis resin, split by flavour, worth up to £1,616.
The 28-year-old claimed the money was from a family business which was closed during lockdown, and claimed the cannabis was for his own use.
He also breached a previous suspended sentence of possession with intent to supply Class B drugs when he was found drug driving.
After a community order was imposed he failed to show up for unpaid work and comply with curfew requirements.
Hampson, of Cranleigh Road, was jailed for two years and eight months for possession with intent to supply cannabis, possession of criminal property and suspended sentence and community order breaches.
Anthony Buck
Anthony Buck tried to hide a sock filled with drugs in the back of a police van after being caught dealing on the streets.
The dad-of-five also wedged a Kinder Egg capsule between the bench and wall of the vehicle as he attempted to hide his stash.
But the wraps of heroin and cocaine were quickly discovered - as were dozens of street deals later found at his home.
In total, Buck, of Shakespeare Street, Southport, was linked to 103 wraps of cocaine and heroin, split into £20 street deals, with a combined value of £2,060.
Buck, who had 22 convictions for 30 offences, admitted possession with intent to supply cocaine and heroin.
He was jailed for two years and three months.
Nicholas Larkey
Nicholas Larkey burgled the home of his own nan after forcing his way into her house while demanding money.
He first shouted at his grandmother, telling her he needed money to get his laptop back from a pawn shop.
But the 76-year-old refused, telling him "I'm not going to give it to you, you'll just spend it on drugs".
Her 38-year-old grandson then forced his way into her Southport home the next morning, pushing the elderly and "infirm" woman onto the sofa and making off with her phone and keys.
Larkey, of Stanley Road, Bootle, admitted common assault, burglary and threat to damage property.
He was jailed for six months and a restraining order to protect his grandmother was put in place for two years.
Jason Campbell
A dad tortured and killed two hamsters and a guinea pig after admitting to having "urges to harm people and animals".
Jason Campbell drove to a pet shop in Wallasey and used a fake name to buy the animals one at a time on separate dates between December 25, 2020 and January 27 this year.
The 32-year-old, who has no previous convictions, then went to his car and subjected each animal to horrific torture before killing them and throwing the bodies in a bin.
He confessed the crimes to a mental health worker, prompting an RSPCA investigation.
The court heard Campbell suffered from depression and anxiety and had been in pain due to a prolapsed disc in his spine.
Campbell, of The Mount, Heswall, admitted three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
He was jailed for eight weeks and banned from keeping animals for 10 years.
Merseyside Police said he attended a voluntary interview and they did not take his mugshot.
Michael Devine
A top EncroChat drugs boss was busted after police identified him through his Costco membership.
Michael Devine had shared details of his membership on the EncroChat encrypted messaging platform.
Following a police hack of the EncroChat network, officers were able to link the 45-year-old to the phone, on which he discussed smuggling hundreds of kilograms of cocaine on boats.
The drugs boss talked about importation runs from Colombia, St Lucia and Brazil, and also discussed his love of poker.
Devine, of Pete Best Drive, West Derby, was jailed for 17 years and three months after admitting conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracies to supply cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and ketamine.
Joseph Drury
Joseph Drury ran drug deals across the North West on behalf of an operation nicknamed 'Scouse JJ'.
The dad, known as 'Red', travelled from Liverpool to supply and monitor addicts selling crack cocaine and heroin in Cheshire.
After police raided the 28-year-old's home they then discovered evidence linking him to similar activity in Blackpool and a drugs hotline that exchanged more than 300 calls and texts with addicts every day.
A court heard he wasn't a leading figure in the operation, but recruited others to work as part of the gang.
Drury, of Griffin Close, Croxteth, admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine and two counts of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
He was jailed for four-and-a-half years.
Leo Meek
Leo Meek, who mowed down and killed a 15-year-old boy riding his bike, was jailed this week for 40 months.
The cowardly driver 'took out' Jack Jones while driving a Volkswagen Tiguan on Manor Drive at around 9.40pm on April 26 this year.
The 15-year-old from Moreton had been cycling the familiar route to his aunt's house after spending the evening watching a film with his little brother.
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Meek, 22, left Jack with fatal head and neck injuries while speeding at between 53 and 55mph on a 30mph residential road.
Jack was taken to hospital where he died the following morning surrounded by his family.
Meek then fled the scene, and didn't even apply his brakes, ditching his friend's dad's car and getting a taxi home, where he went to bed.
Meek, who has eight previous convictions, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene.
Shaun Murray
Shaun Murray was jailed after tying his robbery victim to a building site and leaving him there bleeding.
Murray, 35, worked with his then-girlfriend, Amy Smith, 27, to lure the man from near Liverpool Lime Street, where he was watching filming take place on October 15 last year.
After they offered "sexual services", which the victim accepted, he was taken to an alleyway and hit over the head by Murray.
As he lay bleeding they stole a £20 note before attaching him to a staircase on the building site using cable ties.
The victim had to burn himself free using a cigarette lighter.
Murray, of Vauxhall Road, Liverpool city centre, and Smith, of Graham Road, Sheffield, both admitted robbery and false imprisonment.
Smith admitted the offences on the basis she was coerced into them.
Murray was jailed for three years and seven months.
Smith was handed 18 months suspended for two years, 60 Rehabilitation Activity Requirements and 150 hours of unpaid work.
Barry Jones
Barry Jones taped an alleged paedophile into a chair and battered him with a metal table leg.
The vigilante attacker, originally from Liverpool, took a picture of the 65-year-old victim’s battered face and posted it on social media with the word 'nonce' superimposed over it and a tag saying he looked like The Elephant Man.
The 28-year-old held the terrified man prisoner for nine hours and left him with a broken wrist and two broken eye sockets on February 22.
The victim was on holiday with two women in Torquay where they had crack cocaine delivered by a 15-year-old boy.
Jones thought his victim made a sexual comment about the boy, and he punched him in the face, dragged him bleeding to a living room where he used gaffer tape to bind him to a chair.
Jones, aged 28, now of Wykes Road, Exeter, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and was jailed for four years and four months.
Jaromah Olah
Jaromar Olah allowed £42,000 stolen from a grieving family to be paid into his bank account.
The 28-year-old, of Bartlett Street, Wavertree, was approached by an unknown criminal and offered the chance to make £200 by allowing them access to a bank account to funnel funds in November 2019.
The money was stolen after a solicitor's email was hacked and the cash was for the grieving family of a dead man.
Olah did not receive the £200 he had been promised, and his bank account was closed down.
He admitted money laundering and was jailed for seven months.
Kelvin Davies
Kelvin Davies killed his friend Kieran Lloyd and caused life changing injuries to the driver of another vehicle after a crash on the A41 in Great Sutton.
Witnesses described seeing the 22-year-old rev his engine and dangerously overtake other vehicles shortly before the collision, which occurred at around 9pm, on December 19, 2019.
He was also reported "weaving" between other vehicles while he travelled along the A41 in a white Toyota, with his friend, 19-year-old Kieran Lloyd, in the passenger seat.
His car was said to be travelling between 60 and 70mph, considerably over the 40mph speed limit, along the road, ignoring the road markings as he drove down the single carriageway.
Davies, of Irvings Crescent in Saltney, near Chester, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for six years.
Liam Garvey
A drug dealer who used two EncroChat handles was brought to justice.
Liam Garvey, 28, was arrested at his home on The Boulevard, Thatto Heath, St Helens on May 13 this year as part of the police operation targeting criminals who used the encrypted network.
The network, said by the authorities to have been a hotbed for gangland plots, was penetrated in a joint French-Dutch probe in April 2020.
Garvey, who used the EncroChat handles "ChopperReid" and "ButterflyJuice" admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, cannabis and ketamine, conspiring to produce cannabis, and possessing cannabis.
He was jailed for nine years and nine months.
Bahram Mansouriboroujeni
A pizza takeaway boss submitted false tax returns to avoid paying £103,000 and tried to blame his accountant for the error.
Bahram Mansouriboroujeni deliberately failed to disclose the true turnover of his business to Revenue and Customs and concealed the amount of VAT, Income Tax and National Insurance he was legally obliged to pay.
The 60-year-old, from Kensington, ran the Deep Pan Express and then the Deep Pan Express Limited between February 2016 and January 2020.
The business was based on Scargreen Avenue in Norris Green, but invoices obtained by HMRC from Just Eat and Hungry House online food delivery companies proved he had a higher turnover in sales than he claimed.
Mansouriboroujeni avoided paying £107,333.98 tax, £10,162.20 National Insurance, and £5,403.13.
During an interview on October 10, 2019, he "blamed his accountant" for the error, prompting investigators to speak to the accountant.
At Liverpool Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to dishonestly failing to disclose to HMRC the true extent of the turnover of his business.
He was jailed for two and a half years.
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