These are the faces of 78 people jailed in April for crimes linked to Merseyside.
One judge had to deal with a monstrous husband who stabbed his wife 300 times, while another locked up a gunman who shot three people in one home.
Disturbing cases included a child rapist who targeted two teenage girls on Snapchat, a predatory maths teacher who exploited a vulnerable pupil, and a serial child rapist who made the lives of three young victims hell.
Judges had to sentence EncroChat drug dealers caught trafficking colossal amounts of cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis, with gangs featuring a former UFC heavyweight fighter and an ex-boxing champion.
Courts heard about a crooked police officer who battered a man and a despicable woman beater who broke the nose of his pregnant girlfriend.
And four people including two siblings who drove over from Manchester to Merseyside to hunt down a murdered dad-of-one were jailed for life.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past month.
James Farquhar
Convicted rapist James Farquhar twice went on foreign holidays including to the Philippines without telling the police.
Farquhar, who served a 12-year prison sentence imposed in 2005 for repeatedly raping a teenage girl, was required to tell the police if he applied for a passport or went abroad under the terms of the Sex Offenders Register.
But he applied for a passport in November 2019 and the following March he flew to the Philippines for a month's holiday.
The 62-year-old's offender manager was told about the jaunt on his return and enquiries began into his passport acquisition.
However, he was not interviewed by police until November 2020 - by which time he had also spent a week on the Greek island of Cos a few weeks earlier.
Farquhar, of Ford Lane, Litherland, but formerly of Southport, admitted three offences of breaching the Sex Offender Register requirements.
He was jailed for nine months.
Matthew Lawton
A mum was sent a video of a paedophile having sex with her daughter after he groomed her over Snapchat.
Matthew Lawton preyed on two teenage girls and lured them with offers of cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis.
The then 29-year-old lied that he was 19 to trick the children, aged 14 and 13, into meeting for sex.
Under UK law - while it is illegal to engage in sexual activity with anyone under 16 - consensual sex is not considered rape if the child is 13 or older.
Lawton, of Milton Road, Widnes, pestered the two victims to send him intimate photos and filmed the 14-year-old - aka Girl A - having sex with him.
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The "monster" used the clip to blackmail her into further abuse - including a rape after he held a knife to her throat - when she tried to stop seeing him.
However, when he posted the clip on a Snapchat account called "slags", not only was it sent to her mum, but he was caught thanks to his distinctive tattoos.
Lawton, now 30, was found guilty after a trial of 19 sexual offences, including multiple counts of rape against Girl A.
His past convictions include inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, when he blinded a dad in one eye, who had intervened to stop him hitting a girl.
Lawton was jailed for 15 years, with an extended four years on licence.
Peter Carden
Peter Carden was caught in North Wales with £6,000 of cocaine in his BMW X5.
The 38-year-old, of Warbreck Moor, Orrell Park, was pulled over in Halkyn, Flintshire in March last year.
When he got out of the car, he said to officers "you got me" and indicated the drugs were in the glove box.
Carden was found to have just short of 150g of high purity cocaine.
The courier had a previous conviction for possessing the drug in 2009, but no history of drug dealing.
Carden admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply and was jailed for two years and four months.
Wayne Collins
Wayne Collins was caught sending sexual photos to two 'girls' but blamed his innocent brothers.
The paedophile thought he was chatting to children when he discussed sex and sent naked pictures of himself online.
In reality both "Bella", 13, and 12-year-old "Jess" - who he met on Kik Messenger - were undercover police officers.
Police raided the 29-year-old's home in Belmont Road, Anfield and seized his phone, containing indecent images of children and his collection of "d*** pics".
The pervert then tried to worm his way out of trouble by claiming his brothers had used the device, but police spoke to them and soon realised that wasn't true.
Collins, who had no previous convictions, admitted downloading and possessing indecent images of a child, two counts of attempting to sexually communicate with a child, two counts of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and two counts of attempting to cause a child to look at an image of a person engaging in sexual activity.
He was jailed for 20 months.
Barry Simmons
Barry Simmons tried to tell airport security staff that his suitcase stuffed with 389 blocks of cannabis resin was just "smellies".
The 35-year-old, of Winifred Road, Fazakerley was caught trying to smuggle almost £100,000 of cannabis through Manchester Airport.
The self-confessed "cannabis addict" was a passenger returning from a trip to Tenerife when he was stopped by customs officers.
Simmons was found with 389 blocks of cannabis resin, which weighed 9.3 kilos, and in street deals could have been worth £97,500.
Following the discovery on November 17 last year, Simmons admitted importing a Class B drug with intent to evade a prohibition.
He was jailed for two years.
William Brown
Drug dealer William Brown slashed a customer's arm to the bone with a broken bottle in revenge for an unpaid debt of just £150.
He tricked the victim into opening the door of his home in Devon, and then lunged at him with the bottle while shouting: "Where's my money?"
Brown stabbed the man's arm as he raised it to protect his face and caused a wound that needed hospital treatment and several stitches.
He carried out the attack in Newton Abbot in January 2020 to enforce a drug debt owed to a Liverpool based gang by the victim's partner.
Brown was already under investigation for drug dealing in Torquay and went on to be caught with £9,000 of cocaine and heroin three months later.
The 21-year-old, from Liverpool but now of Whiteway Road, Kingsteignton, admitted wounding, four counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, and possessing criminal property.
He was jailed for five and a half years.
Ryan Thorp
Ryan Thorp headbutted and choked his former girlfriend while their children slept upstairs.
Carly Naylor, 30, from Litherland was attacked after she returned home from a family party on March 8 last year.
Ex-partner Thorp had not attended the party and was at home babysitting their two young children, now aged four and two.
However, he had sent her aggressive texts and back home his vicious assault even included biting her arm, leaving a scar.
Miss Naylor suffered black eyes and a suspected fractured skull, where a lump remains on her forehead to this day.
Thorp, 25, of no fixed address but originally from Worcester, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.
He was jailed for 13 months.
Samuel Brooks
Samuel Brooks told his ex-girlfriend there was "money on her head" and he "had a strap to use on her".
The 18-year-old battered the pregnant mum-of-one and threatened both her and her daughter, saying he would "light all three of us up'".
The "out of control" scrambler yob was due to be sentenced in December last year, after leading police on a high speed chase when he crashed through a level crossing in Leasowe, hid in a shed and told a police officer when caught: "You're s*** at driving."
After a judge took the unusual step of deferring his sentence to give the teen a chance to change, Brooks grabbed and punched his former partner in January - forcing her head against the wall of a bus stop.
Brooks, of Hornby Road, Bromborough, also fell to be sentenced for a separate incident on a scrambler bike last July, when he sped through red lights.
The lout - said by a judge to have around 50 previous convictions - admitted driving while disqualified, two counts of drug driving, dangerous driving, criminal damage, using a motor vehicle without insurance, breach of a non-molestation order, two counts of assault by beating, breaching a criminal behaviour order and riding a motorcycle without insurance, while disqualified and without protective headgear.
He was locked up for 20 months.
Liam Clark
Cocaine dealing yob Liam Clark crashed a stolen Skoda into a police car during a chase.
The 19-year-old was driving the car, which had false plates, when police tried to stop him and he sped away on January 12, 2019.
But he drove on the wrong side of the road before colliding into a police car, and was only caught when another officer blocked his door with their vehicle.
The serial offender had also been found with £1,200 of cocaine, 11 bags of cannabis and a knife in a separate incident on County Road on October 4, 2019.
Clark, of Field Street, Islington, was wanted for a robbery when officers made the discovery.
The expectant dad led police on another chase in a stolen Kia, which ended with him writing off the car after crashing into oncoming traffic, on January 14, 2020.
He admitted possessing cannabis, possessing PAVA spray, two counts of dangerous driving, handling stolen goods, two counts of having no insurance or licence, possessing Class A and B drugs with intent to supply, and possessing a knife.
Clark was jailed for three years.
Anthony Ward
Anthony Ward battered the mother of his child then showed himself to be a 'selfish' revenge porn bully.
The 40-year-old, of Stevenage Close, St Helens, was slammed by a judge for his "abusive, demeaning and controlling" behaviour after they broke up in 2019.
His ex was left "living in fear" of Ward, who would "effectively blackmail" her with threats to share intimate photos, before eventually posting them to her brother-in-law and new boyfriend.
In a statement the woman said she was "manipulated into dropping charges" relating to a previous incident as she "didn't want to have another beating".
Ward, who had a previous conviction for battery and criminal damage against the same woman, admitted two counts of disclosing a private sexual image and one count of criminal damage.
He was jailed for nine months.
Sean Hunt
Sean Hunt claimed he dealt drugs after losing his job because Universal Credit "wasn't enough" to support his family.
The 32-year-old was caught by police twice in the space of a month in Skelmersdale after he started selling cannabis.
He was arrested on May 15 last year with 10 bags of cannabis valued at £215 and a total of £3,090 in cash.
Hunt, of Whitburn, Skelmersdale, was released under investigation, but arrested again on June 19.
He was seen "acting suspiciously" in a BMW and this time £120 of cannabis was seized from the dealer.
Hunt had a previous conviction for dealing cannabis in 2017, when he was spared jail.
He admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply, possessing criminal property and being concerned in the supply of cannabis.
Hunt was jailed for 12 months.
George Leather
George Leather stabbed his wife up to 300 times in a "barbaric" killing.
The jealous "monster" used four kitchen knives to inflict 100 wounds to the face and head alone of Paula Leather.
The court heard he wrongly suspected the much loved mum-of-three and Asda worker of having an affair.
The 60-year-old admitted murdering Paula, 56, at their home in Tinling Close, Prescot, in the early hours of November 16 last year.
Paula's three brave children each read powerful and emotional victim statements in which they publicly disowned their "toxic" abuser dad.
The Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Andrew Menary, QC, said Leather mutilated the grandmother-of-one and "destroyed her face".
The city's top judge branded it "an episode of unspeakable and barbaric savagery".
He jailed Leather for life, with a minimum of 18 years behind bars before he can apply for parole.
Ben Featherstone
Ben Featherstone battered his pregnant girlfriend then tried to intimidate her into silence via a series of phone calls.
The 22-year-old, of Gaisgill Court, Widnes, launched the attack after he returned home drunk in the early hours of January 16.
He found messages on a phone belonging to his then-partner Chantelle Reynolds from her friends advising her to leave him.
The couple had been together for two years and she was seven months pregnant with his unborn child at the time.
But he punched her in the face, dragged her by the hair, hit her legs - one blow leaving a "handprint" - and repeatedly banged her head against a wall.
Featherstone pushed her into a bath, banged her head, turned on the hot tap and threatened to "burn her" if she didn't tell him where cigarettes were.
He took Miss Reynolds' phone, kicked her in the head and later sent "racist" texts to her mum, but fortunately her unborn child wasn't harmed.
The next day, he repeatedly phoned the woman to threaten her and the child, but on one occasion a police officer was present and recorded the call.
Featherstone admitted assault causing actual bodily harm, witness intimidation, malicious communication and theft.
The coward, who had eight previous convictions for 14 offences, including domestic violence, was jailed for three years.
Kevin Haywood
Kevin Haywood broke a Tesco worker's jaw who tried to stop him stealing bottles of wine.
The 37-year-old claimed he was suffering from alcohol withdrawal when he struck at a Tesco Express in Liverpool city centre.
But the crook, of Prescot Road, Old Swan, ended up hospitalising Louis Robertson in his desperation for booze.
Haywood entered the shop in Skelhorne Street, opposite Liverpool Lime Street Station, at around 7.45am, on September 8, 2020.
He took two bottles of wine and when the victim tried to stop him leaving without paying, Haywood struck him with a left hook to the jaw.
Haywood was identified from CCTV footage, but denied theft and inflicting grievous bodily harm, only to plead guilty ahead of a trial.
Haywood had more than 130 previous convictions for more than 240 offences, including repeated thefts and assaults.
He was jailed for 16 months.
Adam Powell
Adam Powell ran a £4,300 heroin and crack dealing operation in Devon while on the run from police in Liverpool.
The thug moved to Devon after he and his younger brother Scott slashed the face of a complete stranger outside a shop in Molyneux Road, Kensington.
He was arrested just 19 days later, while living in a vulnerable woman’s home as a 'cuckoo' and using it to deal drugs on behalf of a Merseyside gang.
Powell recruited the tenant as a runner, but was caught when police spotted her delivering drugs in Paignton and raided her home in June 2017.
The drugs raid happened almost four years ago, but there was a series of delays in the "County Lines" case reaching Exeter Crown Court this week.
Powell and his brother were previously jailed for six years at Liverpool Crown Court in 2018 after they admitted wounding with intent and having a knife in public.
The 29-year-old, of Bala Street, Anfield, admitted possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and was jailed for three years.
Paul Coulthwaite
Paul Coulthwaite took baby wipes and Mini Eggs with him for a '12-year-old girl' he planned to meet at McDonald's.
He had called the child "sexy" and said he wanted them to meet in secret, planning to lure her away from her home.
But the 55-year-old didn't get to give the girl the mint Aero chocolate and WKD he bought her because he was greeted by police who arrested him.
A covert officer had pretended to be "Paige" during sickening online conversations on Chat Avenue between January 7 and January 19 this year.
Between January 8 and February 10 in the same year Coulthwaite also spoke with what he thought was a 12-year-old girl called Rebecca.
Again this was an undercover officer, who Coulthwaite, of Haydock Street, Newton-le-Willows, tried to meet in Preston on February 12.
Coulthwaite, who had no previous convictions, admitted two counts of sexual communication with a child, attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child following sexual grooming.
He was jailed for three years.
Charlie Harrison
PC Charlie Harrison was jailed for brutally attacking a black man in an incident described by a judge as a "clear case of racial profiling".
The white officer, who grew up in Merseyside, left Carl Abrahams with a fractured knee after kicking him in the street in front of his children.
The serving Metropolitan Police officer, 39, who is originally from Wirral, was convicted of grievous bodily harm following a trial last month.
The incident unfolded on the afternoon of December 31, 2018, when Harrison was on plain clothes duty in the Forest Gate area of London.
He approached his victim, who was walking down the street with his two sons after visiting a grave, with "the apparent intention of conducting a police stop".
Instead Harrison kicked Mr Abrahams, who is in his 40s, forced him to the ground and fractured his knee.
The dad needed hospital treatment and reported the attack to the police watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
Judge Gregory Perrins told Harrison he had failed to apologise or accept that his actions were unjustified.
The judge said: "I strongly suspect that the reason that you stopped Mr Abrahams and his sons was because they were black."
Jailed him for two years and three months, he added: "This was in my judgement a clear case of racial profiling."
Elishama Elliot
Police found 2kg of cocaine and £40,000 at the home of dad-of-three Elishama Elliot.
The 39-year-old was arrested after appearing nervous when his BMW was stopped in Skelmersdale on November 2 last year.
A subsequent search of his home in Lowcroft, Skelmersdale uncovered drugs with a potential street value of £159,000.
Officers also recovered £10,000 in cash, electronic scales, a blender, a hydraulic press and two mobile phones.
Elliot admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply and possessing criminal property.
He was jailed for six years.
Calvin Elliott
Calvin Elliott glassed a man in the face at Popworld for "no reason" when drunk and coked up.
Damien Hackett was on a night out after coming over to Liverpool from Ireland with three friends for the weekend.
As he danced on a podium he was approached by Calvin Elliott, 27, who reached up and initially shook his hand.
Shocking CCTV footage showed Elliott then grab Mr Hackett's ankle or foot, before jabbing a glass up into his face.
A top judge said Elliott, of Weaver Avenue, Rainhill, was only "an inch or so" away from blinding the victim.
Mr Hackett - a Liverpool fan who had come over to watch a match - was left scarred and hiding in his hotel room.
Elliott admitted wounding over the attack, which happened at around 3am on November 23, 2019.
He was jailed for 16 months.
Michael Birch, Ryan Huckle, Macauley Smith and Gary Beck
Four men were jailed for dealing heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Ellesmere Port.
The gang, known as the 'Birchy Team', were involved in the supply of Class A drugs with an estimated street value of £182,000.
Michael Birch, 53, directed street dealers Ryan Huckle, 31, Macauley Smith, 24, and Gary Beck, 45, to deal to addicts across the town.
However, their activities were uncovered after Cheshire Police raided the Forge Road, Little Sutton home of Birch earlier this year.
They discovered 'graft' phones, which were used to sell the drugs, alongside £740 in cash and cutting agents.
This led to the arrest of Birch's minions and the gang's ringleader was jailed for five years this week, after he admitted possessing both drugs with intent to supply.
Smith, of Hallwood Walk, Ellesmere Port, who admitted possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply, was jailed for two years and four months.
Huckle, of Sutton Way, Great Sutton, who admitted possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply, was jailed for two years and three months.
Beck, of Fulwood Mews, Little Sutton, who admitted possessing both drugs with intent to supply, was jailed for three and a half years.
Robert Jones
Robert Jones who was "off his head" on drink and drugs threatened to kill an innocent shopkeeper with a meat cleaver.
The 21-year-old was tackled and disarmed by the brave victim and despite struggling, was restrained by him and a colleague until the police arrived.
The incident happened about 8.30pm on February 15 this year, when Jones went into Tina’s MiniMart in Longshaw Street, Warrington.
He stood in front of the shopkeeper, who saw him pull a meat cleaver from the right side of his jacket and start to shout, "I'll kill you, I'll kill you".
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Thurairajah Yogarajah felt terrified for his life but grabbed Jones' right hand holding the weapon and despite cutting his little finger, held on.
He claimed he was shown a photo of his ex-girlfriend and friend which upset him and led to him drinking two or three litres of vodka and taking Diazepam.
Jones, now of Feather Street, Flint, admitted making threats with a blade in a public place and was jailed for eight months.
Adam Whitfield
Adam Whitfield kept "depraved" rape videos of crying babies.
The videos in his sickening collection were described by a judge as something "which would strike any normal person as disgusting".
Another 16 second video showed a three-month-old baby being raped. Other scenes were too graphic to even be described.
The 26-year-old had 30 videos of children being raped on his phone and computer - which were discovered when his mum called police.
Whitfield, of Alder Street, Newton-Le-Willows, had 32 indecent images, 30 of which were Category A videos, downloaded over three years.
The paedophile, who had no previous convictions, was jailed for eight months.
John Farrell and Joseph Harding
Two key members of a drugs gang that had access to a terrifying haul of guns and grenades were jailed.
John Farrell and Joseph Harding's sentencing marked the end of a major investigation that led to the downfall of a gang led by Terence and Anthony Nash.
Both Farrell and Harding helped prop up the brothers as they presided over a network of misery and exploitation in Kirkby, backed up by a deadly arsenal.
The Nash brothers' gang unravelled in September 2019 when drugs, cash and weapons were seized as police struck after placing members under surveillance.
Crucial to the investigation - codenamed Operation Bandit - was a police stop on gang courier Harding and an extensive search of warehouseman Farrell's home.
Harding was caught on September 19 in his Toyota Avensis with 492g of 87% pure cocaine with a potential street value of up to £49,287.
Farrell's property in Minstead Avenue was raided when officers discovering a locked safe bolted to the wall containing 7kg of cocaine worth £691,487.
The packaging of those drugs was forensically linked to the Nash brothers and officers later retrieved a cache of weapons hidden in the loft.
It included two revolvers - one loaded - a sawn-off shotgun, ammunition and five grenades.
Farrell, 40, of Minstead Avenue, Kirkby, admitted two counts of conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life and conspiracies to possess a firearm, ammunition, an explosive substance and to supply Class A drugs.
He was jailed for 16 years.
Harding, 55, of Cawthorne Avenue, Kirkby admitted conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
He was jailed for six years and four months.
Marley Khan and John Garnett
Two shop workers were threatened with an imitation gun and a kitchen knife during a terrifying raid at a convenience store.
One man was cut in the face with a knife and told at gunpoint to kneel down and pray to Allah as John Garnett and Marley Khan unleashed a torrent of "gratuitous violence" at a McColl's store in Southport.
The victims feared for their lives during the harrowing ordeal and were barricaded into staff toilets and told they would be killed if they attempted to flee.
Police arrived as the pair attempted to leave the store, on Portland Street, with Khan, who was wearing boxer shorts as a makeshift balaclava, surrendering at the main entrance and Garnett attempting to get away from a side door, at around 9.30pm on September 10 last year.
He told an officer that he would "smash his face" and spat at him in custody.
Khan, 27, of Forest Road, Southport, who admitted robbery and possessing a knife with intent to cause fear, was jailed for eight years.
Garnett, 33, of no fixed address, who has 27 past convictions for 52 offences including violence and weapons, admitted robbery, possessing an imitation firearm and assaulting an emergency worker.
He was jailed for eight years with an extended four years on licence.
John Hamilton
John Hamilton caught with child rape photos said he was trying to change by learning the guitar and listening to podcasts.
The paedophile was jailed for two years in 2011 for possessing, downloading and distributing indecent images of children.
The then 27-year-old, from Widnes, was told to sign on the Sex Offenders Register and hit with a 10-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).
That prevented him possessing a photo of any child under 16, unless they were a family member and he had the permission of their parent or guardian.
But when Hamilton rang police to tell them he had a new mobile phone in November 2019, officers discovered 1,205 photos of children on his old device.
And the pervert - now living in Liverpool's historic Gambier Terrance in the Georgian Quarter - confessed to downloading thousands of sickening files.
Hamilton, now 37, had 515 indecent images of children and a further 690 non-indecent images of children under 16.
He admitted breaching his SOPO and one count of possessing and three counts of downloading indecent images of children.
Hamilton was jailed for 18 months.
Stephen Day
Stephen Day siphoned almost £1.4m from companies including some in Merseyside that care for vulnerable people.
The chartered accountant, financial consultant and former NHS executive also ripped off three NHS trusts and a woman he strung along with a pack of lies.
The fraudster raided a communal maintenance account for residents at a smart Manchester city centre apartment block.
A court heard he told a string of fibs, including that he had cancer, that his parents had died and that he was a widower.
The 53-year-old was in two live-in relationships with men who didn't know about each other.
Day used the cash to buy flash cars and go on various holidays, while he also had a portfolio of residential properties.
A 45-acre estate in Scotland he was renovating had its own salmon fishing stretch on the River Annan.
He went on holiday to Dubai and it's believed he fully refurbished another property in South Africa to let out as a holiday rental.
Operating from the historic Flint Glass Works in Ancoats, Day, of Lincoln Court, Chapelford, Warrington, wove a web of deceit.
He was jailed for 11 years and five months after he admitted nine counts of fraud and three counts of theft.
Richard Chipchase
A maths teacher groomed and sexually exploited a vulnerable schoolgirl during a sickening campaign of manipulation.
Richard Chipchase once locked his victim in a storeroom when she refused to hug him and tried to win her over with cigarettes, McDonald's meals and car rides.
It was during one of those lifts that he sexually assaulted her.
The dad-of-one abused his position to target the girl while he was head of maths at Woodchurch High in Birkenhead.
His abuse left the child suffering with her mental health, affected her relationship with her parents, and impacted on her grades.
Chipchase's campaign came to end when concerns were raised about inappropriate behaviour by him towards another schoolgirl.
The 55-year-old, of Welford Avenue in Prenton, admitted four charges of sexual activity with a child.
He was jailed for two years and three months.
Steven Strachan
The owner of a building company was exposed as an EncroChat drug dealer nicknamed FastSilver.
Steven Strachan portrayed himself as a legitimate businessman living in a house he had extensively refurbished in Bidston, Wirral.
But the 49-year-old used a secret EncroChat device - the encrypted messaging service beloved by gangsters across Europe - to flog drugs.
The dad traded in multi kilo amounts of cannabis - including brands Orange Cream, Stardog, Gelato and Jaffa - plus cocaine, ketamine and amphetamine.
When police raided his home they found around £10,000 of drug money hidden in a kitchen cupboard, a Rolex watch and a cash counting machine.
They also discovered documents revealing that he sent a total of £300,000 to Spain or Portugal in late 2020 when they struck in School Lane on February 16.
Ledgers referred to him having four units in Spain or Portugal holding 100,000 cannabis plants and there were further details of a "property portfolio in the UK".
He admitted conspiring to supply Class A cocaine and Class B cannabis, ketamine, amphetamine, along with a charge of possessing criminal property.
Strachan was jailed for six years.
Liam Rogers and Matthew Murray
A million pound drugs operation was rumbled when police discovered large amounts of cocaine stashed in a van on top of a breakdown vehicle.
Police found three kilos of cocaine hidden inside a homemade compartment in the dashboard of a vehicle driving from Liverpool to Northampton.
Officers then raided the homes of Liam Rogers, 32, in Oleander Way, Norris Green and Matthew Murray, 40, in Moor Lane, Walton, in December 2020.
Inside Rogers' home they found a further 10 kilos of cocaine worth around £1m.
Police also seized cash and designer goods, including designer clothing, handbags and footwear from both Rogers and Murray valued at £214,000.
A large quantity of cocaine was also found in two stash vehicles used by another accomplice in November 2020.
They all admitted charges relating to the conspiracy to supply cocaine.
Rogers and Murray were both sentenced to nine years in prison.
Thomas Anderson
A gunman who burst into a home and shot three people was busted after leaving a trail of clues.
Thomas Anderson stormed into a house and moved from room to room as he targeted three men with a pistol.
The 22-year-old's getaway plan included a bike ride, ordering taxis with fake names and using the rail network.
But his attempts to hide his role unravelled when he left a coat with a bullet casing in a pocket and a mobile phone that could be linked to him at a train station.
Anderson targeted three men as he carried out a shooting spree at a property in Belfield, Skelmersdale at around 1.30pm on October 15, 2019.
He shot a 22-year-old man in his upper chest and shoulder, a 46-year-old man to his upper arm and back, and a 47-year-old man in the wrist.
All three survived the attack, which led to an air ambulance being scrambled to help them receive emergency treatment.
Anderson, of no fixed address, admitted one count of attempted murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm and one count of possessing a firearm.
He was jailed for 20 years.
Adam Lonergan
A high-level drug dealer panicked after the first lockdown caused the cocaine market to "stand still".
Adam Lonergan's underworld trade as a cocaine, heroin and cannabis wholesaler was exposed when police hacked secret phone network EncroChat last year.
In one discussion with another dealer, the dad-of-three expressed concern that their plot would be uncovered because there were fewer cars on the motorway.
In other messages, the 30-year-old panicked after a crash in the market, with kilos of cocaine being sold for £36,250, when usually obtained for up to £40,000.
Lonergan, who operated under the EncroChat name 'SickMallet', was busted when police went to his home in Rydal Avenue, Prescot on March 16 this year.
Officers discovered £3,675 in cash, the box for his Aquarius X2 EncroChat phone and just under two kilos of amphetamine.
He admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis between March 29 and June 5 last year and possessing amphetamine with intent to supply.
Lonergan was jailed for 11 years and eight months.
Stephen Rafferty
Serial rapist Stephen Rafferty forced girls to pose for semi-naked pictures during his catalogue of abuse against them.
The now 27-year-old committed abhorrent acts against three children, who were all aged under 14 at the time.
When one girl bit the vile paedophile, he punched her and called her "Satan's child", swearing her to silence.
He was convicted by a jury of 13 sexual offences against the children, including nine counts of rape.
Rafferty had previously admitted six counts of sexual assault against the victims.
The court heard Rafferty was previously tried and found not guilty of sexual offences when he was a child.
Judge David Swinnerton said: "I mention it because as a result you knew it was very wrong to commit sexual offences."
Rafferty, of Russell Road, Mossley Hill, admitted six counts of sexual assault against a child and was convicted following a trial on January 11 of two counts of assault by penetration of a child, nine counts of rape of a child and two counts of taking indecent photographs of a child.
Judge Swinnerton said Rafferty was a "dangerous" offender and jailed him for 20 years, with an extended five years on licence.
Jason Tidy
Jason Tidy dumped cocaine with a street value of £200,000 in a park while being chased by police.
The 34-year-old claimed he was forced to courier the drugs after running up debts to feed his own addiction.
But he caught the attention of police with his dangerous driving on Botanic Road in Southport in March this year.
Tidy, of Longacre, Southport, abandoned his car and ditched the drugs as he ran through Botanic Gardens.
He was arrested and admitted possessing 2kg of cocaine, with a wholesale price of £80,000, with intent to supply.
Tidy was jailed for four and a half years.
EncroChat drug gang who kept records on Excel
A brazen gang shifted such "eye-watering" amounts of drugs they had to document their trade on spreadsheets.
The Liverpool-based crew moved 170kg of cocaine, 11kg of heroin and 290kg of cannabis, worth more than £8m in total, in the space of just two months.
The crooks were so confident their EncroChat encrypted phones were "impenetrable", they abandoned traditional tick lists in favour of Microsoft Excel.
Former boxer Ryan Mulcahy, Anthony Connolly, Liam Hughes, Hughes' dad Brian Marshall, and Jack Pritchard were arrested in raids last September.
The case covered plots from January to September 2020, but investigators decided to focus on May 10 to June 13, when the group moved £8m of stock.
Connolly, 30, of Station Road, Melling, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and cannabis, and to convert criminal property.
The "bookkeeper", who kept the gang's accounts and also delivered drugs, was jailed for 14 and a half years.
Hughes' home in Karonga Way, Fazakerley was used as a "safehouse" and he was arrested there with a kilo of cocaine and around £225,000 in cash.
The 24-year-old admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis, and to convert criminal property, and possessing cannabis.
Hughes was jailed for 14 and a half years.
Marshall, 46, who acted as a chauffeur for his son Hughes and a drug courier for the gang, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine.
The "trusted and frequent courier" was jailed for 10 years.
Mulcahy, 29, of Maregreen Road, Kirkdale, who ran the gang's cannabis trade, admitted conspiring to supply cannabis and to convert criminal property.
He was jailed for six and a half years.
Another drug courier, Jack Pritchard, 29, of Mavis Drive, Coppull, Lancashire, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine.
He was jailed for 10 years.
John Smith
John Smith used Snapchat to groom a young teenage boy before abusing him.
The paedophile, previously a junior football coach, was jailed in 2019 for using Snapchat to send pictures of his penis to boys.
But the 24-year-old, from Speke, was back in court after using the app again to target a child before grooming and abusing him.
Smith was previously convicted in March 2019 of sexual communication with three boys, for which he was jailed for 18 months and ordered to adhere to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO), which he breached by committing the new offences.
The pervert, formerly of School Way, admitted four counts of sexual activity with a child, meeting a child following sexual grooming, sexual communication with a child, and breaching a SHPO.
He was jailed for four and a half years, with an extended three years on licence.
Alan Tobin, John Tobin, Robbie Broughton and their drug gang
Alan and John Tobin supplied vast amounts of Class A drugs from Merseyside to gangs across England, Wales and Scotland.
Alan, 52, of Regency Park, Widnes, and John, 40, formerly of Manor Road, Prescot, traded primarily in cocaine, but also heroin, cannabis and ketamine.
The pait from Liverpool ran a "criminally sophisticated, highly profitable and well-organised business" for more than four years, between 2016 and 2020.
But their drug empire unravelled after detectives intercepted a van containing 186kg of 90% pure cocaine, valued at £20m, on the M6 on August 2, 2018.
Police said it was the largest ever seizure of cocaine on land in the UK and John Tobin's DNA was later found on the bubble wrap of one drug block.
The Tobins both admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine.
Alan Tobin was jailed for 20 years and John Tobin was locked up for 19 years and eight months.
They were backed up by ex-UFC star Robbie 'The Bear' Broughton, 38, of Breccia Gardens, St Helens, who enforced debts and collected payments from gangs.
The cage fighter moved an estimated £30m of cash and worked for the Tobins until 2020, by which time they were debt ridden and John Tobin had been shot.
Broughton, who admitted the cocaine plot, was jailed for eight and a half years.
Simon Leech, 29, of Brindley Avenue, Latchford, Warrington, was a "conduit" between the Tobins and the Cullens and from his garage provided and serviced vehicles for the Tobins over a 10-month period, from 2016 to 2017.
Leech, who admitted the cocaine plot, was jailed for eight years.
Brian McQuillan, 51, of Buttermarket Street, Warrington, was a courier and in a six-week period in March and April 2018 over 21 trips he transported around £4m in cash.
McQuillan, who admitted money laundering, was jailed for six years and four months.
David Whiteside
David Whiteside spent his life on Liverpool's streets after committed horrific acts of sexual abuse against a young girl.
The 36-year-old raped the child nine times and committed five other sexually abusive acts against her in Kirkby.
Whiteside, of Prescot Road, Old Swan, then denied his crimes in court, forcing the woman to relive his monstrous actions in a trial.
His victim said she couldn't even go into Liverpool city centre, where she knew he begged, out of fears of bumping into him.
Whiteside was found guilty after a trial of nine counts of rape of a child, four counts of sexually assaulting a girl and one count of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.
A judge said Whiteside was an offender of "particular concern" and jailed him for 13 years and nine months, with an extended one year on licence.
Ryan Kenny
Ryan Kenny who was waiting to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court jumped into the docks before asking to go to prison.
The 24-year-old had already admitted racially abusing a police officer and a burglary at Liverpool John Moores University accommodation on March 23 last year.
During his sentencing a member of the mental health team explained he had undressed and jumped into the docks during the lunch break, before getting out and returning to the court complex.
She explained Kenny had a personality disorder and said it was an "impulsive act", adding that he had experienced a "difficult day" before as he was "stressed".
He said he was homeless and felt he would be looked after in prison.
Kenny, of no fixed address but formerly of Birkenhead, had 62 previous convictions for 93 offences, which include 12 assaults and 32 offences of dishonesty.
He was jailed for four months.
Martin Maddocks
Martin Maddocks sold crack cocaine and heroin to queues of people lining up outside his flat when supposed to be looking after his children.
The 44-year-old kept 206 wraps of drugs, along with two machetes, at the Birkenhead flat where he cared for his two youngest children.
Police were made aware of "complaints of drug dealing" from the address on Borough Road, which they attended on July 4 last year.
Officers found Maddocks inside, who tried to swallow one wrap of heroin, and his two children.
In a coat in the bathroom police found 158 wraps of crack cocaine and 48 wraps of heroin, which were in £10 deals, and the two blades.
Maddocks had 15 previous convictions for 28 offences, including smuggling heroin to the Isle of Man, for which he was jailed for five years in 2008.
He admitted possessing crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply and was jailed for two years.
Joseph Robinson
Joseph Robinson who broke his pregnant girlfriend's nose said her family took physical "retribution" and put him in hospital.
He punched the woman, who was four months pregnant, leaving her struggling to breathe and unable to have treatment until after the birth of her child.
The 29-year-old wasn't arrested straight after the incident because he claimed the woman's family had hospitalised him after they "sought retribution".
The serial woman beater, who had also dragged the woman along the ground in the early stages of her pregnancy, carried out the attacks in November.
Robinson had 21 previous convictions for 34 offences, which include horrific acts of violence against a number of ex-girlfriends in 2015 and 2017.
The cowardly thug, formerly of Manor Road, Liscard, Wirral, admitted two common assaults, using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, and assault causing actual bodily harm.
He was jailed for 19 months.
Alexander Keating, Paul Dillon and Dylan Garforth
Two drug dealers involved in a huge cocaine plot were arrested as they tried to board a flight to Spain at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Detectives intercepted Alexander Keating, 30, and Dylan Garforth, 25, on Thursday, October 15, before they could depart for the continent.
Their capture followed a raid at the home of Paul Dillon, 32, a few months earlier on Tuesday, June 30, when police seized almost £30,000 in cash.
Investigators had been monitoring Keating, of Lunts Heath Road, Widnes, Garforth, of no fixed address, and Dillon, of Norlands Park, Widnes, for three months via the hacked EncroChat network.
Detectives discovered Dillon and Keating had used EncroChat to discuss the transfer of a "viable firearm" - referring to a pistol and revolver - and conspired with Garforth over the supply of Class A and B drugs.
Dillon used the EncroChat codename "WaspLawn", while Keating used the handles "DullTuna" and "WealthyMace", and Garforth called himself "DiorIce".
Keating admitted conspiring to supply 30kg of cocaine and large quantities of cannabis; Dillon admitted conspiring to supply 3kg of cocaine, large amounts of ketamine, and to supplying more than £500,000 of cannabis, and Garforth admitted conspiring to supply 10kg of cocaine.
Dillon and Keating also admitted conspiracy to transfer a firearm..
Keating was jailed for 22 years and five months; Dillon for 18 years; and Garforth for 15 years.
Hannah Kellett
Hannah Kellett led police on a high speed motorway chase just weeks after she was spared jail for fracturing her friend's skull in a bizarre incident.
The 27-year-old previously drove her Audi S3 at around 20mph while Emma Currie was sitting on the bonnet.
When the mum-of-one braked sharply, Ms Currie fell off the car and suffered a serious head injury.
On February 23, the former trainee midwife was handed 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, and disqualified from driving for three years.
However on March 20, Kellett was involved in a pursuit in the same car that started on the M53 in Wirral and ended at Lymm services in Cheshire.
The dangerous chase even saw her turn off the lights of her Audi in a bid to evade justice.
She admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance, while also breaching her suspended sentence.
Kellett, of Grasmere Avenue in Orford, Warrington, was jailed for 20 months and banned from driving for four years.
Christopher Perryman
Christopher Perryman moved £4.5m of cocaine and heroin for an international drug lord in just over two months.
The 39-year-old drug courier was said to have worked all his life to provide for his family and had no criminal record.
According to his social media, he provided a minibus service for airport transfers, hen and stag parties, and nights out.
But the dad-of-three claimed that when the coronavirus pandemic hit, work dried up and his girlfriend also lost her job as a beautician.
He secretly used an encrypted phone to ferry "massive quantities" of Class A drugs for a mysterious figure based outside of the UK, known only as "NuttyBoom".
Perryman, of Gloucester Road, Huyton, who operated an EncroChat device with the handle "NuttyDingo", was arrested in March this year.
He admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and heroin between March 28 and May 11, 2020.
Perryman was jailed for 12 years.
Christian Lythgoe
Christian Lythgoe's mum was left saddled with her son's drug debt after he was caught with hundreds of crack cocaine and heroin wraps.
The 20-year-old cocaine addict, who had been a high achieving student, called out "sorry mum, love you" as he was led to the cells.
His mum, who was sitting in the public gallery with her other son, wiped away tears as a judge said that the amounts involved were so large that only an immediate sentence could be imposed.
Lythgoe was arrested after police spotted the then 19-year-old dealing in St Helens on the morning of March 24 last year and found £4,000 of drugs in his car.
He explained he was dealing to pay off a cocaine debt.
Lythgoe, of Philip Grove, St Helens, admitted possessing crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.
He was sentenced to two years and three months in a Young Offenders Institution.
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis warned a girl "don't tell anyone" after sexually abusing her before also molesting her friend.
The paedophile carried out vile acts on two young girls and forced one of them to perform sex acts on him.
After discovering they had both suffered abuse at the time, the two victims wrote to Jackie magazine to ask for advice.
But when one of their parents found out, they accused the girls of lying and the abuse went unreported for decades.
One of the victims spoke out in 2019 and Lewis, of Woodchurch Road, Prenton, admitted six counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child.
A judge said his sentencing powers were limited because sentencing powers at the time the offences were committed, which he had to stick to, were very different to how they are today.
Lewis was jailed for four years.
Police said no mugshot was taken of Lewis when he attended for a voluntary interview.
Michael Burns
Michael Burns who dealt in "misery and death" said he had cocaine "coming out me ears".
Burns, aka "MillionDolla", bragged about his his cocaine dealings as he was drowning in thousands of pounds worth of debt after a court heard drugs were "lost on his watch".
His defence barrister said the dad-of-three used "bravado" and "exaggeration" as he fell deeper and deeper into debt with another other EncroChat user, at one point owing £100,000.
The 39-year-old wrote in one message, while worrying about the impact of lockdown on business, that his mum had given him a council pass so he could deal drugs without arousing suspicion.
Burns, of Plymyard Avenue, Eastham, Wirral, was arrested on October 15 at 6.50am at his home and denied being involved in the drugs conspiracy.
However, he later admitted conspiring to supply eight kilos of cocaine and also cannabis.
He had previous convictions and in 2011 was jailed for eight months for producing cannabis.
Burns was jailed for 12 years.
Richard Bennett aka Richard Shacklady
Richard Bennett threatened his ex-partner before firing a gun in a street in front of her horrified eight-year-old child.
The serial burglar stormed a house in Skelmersdale armed with a sawn-off shotgun to confront Natalie Stewart in a fit of rage.
In an incident recorded on the victim's phone, he then blasted the weapon down the street in a bid to terrify his former girlfriend.
The 30-year-old, from Skelmersdale, was locked up for a range of offences over three separate incidents.
They involved stealing cars and sentimental jewellery; the shotgun incident; and an assault on an innocent amputee who was using a zimmer frame.
In March 2019, Bennett and another man broke into a house in Ingol, Preston, while the homeowners were away on a "holiday of a lifetime".
The returned to find Bennett, aka Richard Shacklady, had ransacked the house taking gold, luxury watches, an Audi A3 and Volkswagen T-Roc.
In February 2020, Bennett struck at Miss Stewart's home, before he fled the country, before returning that summer and attacking the disabled man.
He and a friend were looking for another man, described as a "rival", in a house full of people, but instead attacked innocent Christopher Hulme.
Bennett was convicted of burglary, two counts of theft, possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, and assault causing actual bodily harm.
He was jailed for six years and nine months.
Jack Hartley and Cameron Beedles
Jack Hartley and Cameron Beedles sold cocaine and heroin in the Barrow area as part of a County Lines operation.
On January 3, 2020, officers witnessed a suspected drug deal in Barrow-in-Furness, forced entry to a home and arrested Beedles.
He had a plastic egg containing 17 wraps of crack cocaine together with a large amount of cash and train tickets between Liverpool and Barrow.
On April 16, 2020, police raided addresses in Maddocks Street and Cowper Road in Old Swan, plus a further property in Barrow.
In Liverpool, Jack Hartley and Amy Johnson were arrested and the gang all admitted conspiring to supply heroin and cocaine.
Hartley, 27, of Maddocks Street, Old Swan, was jailed for 11 years and three months.
Beedles, 21, of no fixed address, but from the Merseyside area was sentenced to five years and four months.
Johnson, 27, of Cowper Road, Old Swan, was handed two years in prison, suspended for two years.
Jordan Ferns
Jordan Fern's DNA was found on a shotgun discovered alongside a stash of heroin in a loft.
The gun was seized when police raided a property in Dover Close, Murdishaw on November 27, 2019.
Officers searched the loft where they found the weapon, along with 30 wraps of heroin inside a blue rucksack.
Forensic testing identified the DNA of the 27-year-old, formerly of Sycamore Road, Runcorn, on the shotgun trigger.
He was jailed for seven years after admitting possessing a prohibited firearm and being concerned in the supply of heroin.
Ian Kaufman
Paedophile football coach Ian Kaufman catfished a girl on Snapchat by pretending to be a 17-year-old boy.
The 48-year-old sent the 16-year-old pictures he had taken from the internet so he could groom her and also posted presents.
The vile pervert would then use software to save videos and pictures the Scottish girl sent him on Snapchat in February 2020.
When police raided his home, they discovered Kaufman kept other child sex abuse images and cartoons of children being raped.
One of the disgusting images involved a girl as young as two.
Kaufman, formerly of East Dam Wood Road, Speke, admitted three counts of possessing indecent images of children, possessing extreme porn, attempting to take indecent photographs of a child and making indecent images of a child.
He was jailed for two years and eight months.
Lee Owens
Lee Owens 'exploited' a vulnerable mum he was dating and recruited her to join his life of crime.
The 42-year-old has been breaking into properties since he was a boy and has 55 previous convictions for 162 offences.
When he moved in with Lisa Fletcher, the 47-year-old mum, of Drake Crescent, Fazakerley, didn't have a criminal record.
Owens struck at the Caribbean restaurant Turtle Bay, in Victoria Street, Liverpool city centre, on August 16 last year, stealing £3,643 from a safe.
On October 1, Owens and Fletcher went to a Londis in Muirhead Avenue, Croxteth, where they stole £100 of gin and Owens took the shop owner's car.
On December 3, the couple targeted Holland and Barrett in Bold Street, taking £25 in cash and a bank card, which £200 was spent on.
He then struck at the One Stop Shop in Longmoor Lane, Fazakerley, on February 9 this year, taking a bank card which £164 was spent on.
Owens admitted four counts of burglary, theft of a motor vehicle and driving while disqualified and without insurance.
The crook, formerly of Drake Crescent, was jailed for 20 months and given a 22-month road ban.
Fletcher admitted two counts of burglary and was handed a three-year community order with associated orders.
Carl Power
Carl Power was locked up after texts on his mobile phone revealed his role in a spate of unsolved burglaries.
Power has blighted north Liverpool since he was a boy, despite his mum once insisting to a judge: "He's a good kid."
The 19-year-old has already amassed 10 previous convictions for 23 offences, dating back to when he was just 14.
Last May, during a 60mph scrambler bike chase involving a police helicopter, he fist-bumped onlookers, because he said he was "bored".
The teen dad was finally caught when he crashed into a police bike and could be seen smiling during his arrest in a photo posted on Instagram.
However, the seizure of his phone that afternoon enabled detectives to link him to eight burglaries between September 2019 and January 2020.
A video on the device also showed him riding another scrambler bike dangerously - while carrying three passengers - on September 18, 2019.
Power, of Wilburn Street, Walton, admitted conspiring to burgle and to steal, and dangerous driving.
He also asked for five burglaries - including a raid on Christmas Day - one attempted burglary and one count of handling stolen goods between December 2020 and January 2021 to be taken into consideration.
Power was locked up for two years and eight months.
John Merritt
John Merritt who raped two boys as a teenager dramatically collapsed in the dock when jailed.
The 60-year-old, of Leathers Lane, Halewood, denied sexually abusing the children more than four decades ago.
But at the age of 14 or 15, when going by the name Walter Merritt, he raped his victims in Belle Vale and Netherley.
Merritt offered chocolate to Boy A, before inviting him into his house and raping him in a bathroom and a nearby field.
He also raped Boy B in the bathroom, pouncing after his mum invited the disadvantaged little boy in for tea and cake.
Boy B described how the abuse "destroyed" his life and even landed him in jail, after he stole to buy drugs to block out the horror.
The dad-of-four - who has past convictions for violence, carrying a weapon and a racist incident - carried out the attacks in the 1970s.
Merritt was convicted of three counts of a sexual offence, which would now be classed as rape after a trial in March.
He was jailed for eight years.
Dominic Lyons
Prolific shoplifter Dominic Lyons was sent back in prison only a fortnight after his last release.
Lyons, of no fixed address, but formerly of Fenwick Lane, Halton Lodge, admitted three counts of theft and breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO).
The 26-year-old was last sent down on January 12, when he was jailed for six months for shoplifting offences.
He was handed a CBO banning him from shopping anywhere apart from his local Premier Store and in Runcorn Shopping City.
But when released he was caught stealing again within 10 days, so was jailed for six months.
Kane Omar
Kane Omar fled onto the roof of a hotel with £7,000 in cash when police raided a makeshift drug den.
The notorious gang thug booked a two bedroom apartment at The Podworks Hotel in Henry Street.
The 25-year-old - left fighting for his life after he was shot in 2017 - has repeatedly breached gang injunctions.
When officers struck at the hotel, they uncovered a cocaine and cannabis outfit, operating from the apartment.
Omar, of Lothian Street, Toxteth, booked to stay at Podworks between December 10 and 14, 2019.
The apartment was raided on December 14, when officers retrieved scales and drug packaging.
Omar's fingerprints were detected on four bags of cannabis, totalling nearly half a kilo, worth up to £6,691.
He denied possessing both cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply, but when prosecutors dropped the cocaine allegation - after another associate was convicted over this offence - Omar admitted the cannabis charge.
He was jailed for 12 months.
Melissa Stubbs, Aaron Stubbs, Stephen Strutt and Peter Walker
Three men and a woman from Manchester were jailed for life after they hunted down and murdered a dad-of-one in Merseyside.
Warren Glover, 33, was the victim of a "revenge" attack after he sent "vile" drunken texts to his ex-girlfriend, Melissa Stubbs.
He was struck with a metal bar by Melissa's brother Aaron Stubbs in St Helens on Saturday, June 13 last year and died three weeks later.
The siblings' mum, Gail Duff, had texted Mr Glover: "Prepare to meet your maker."
Melissa, 30, Aaron, 30, their friend Stephen Strutt, 39, and Strutt's brother-in-law Peter Walker, 31 were found guilty of murder following a trial.
Prior to their sentencing, they heard from the victim's mum Jackie Glover, who read an emotional victim personal statement.
She called the murder "pointless" and said "there has been absolutely no remorse shown by any of the defendants".
The mum added: "They left him in the street to die, not summoning any help whatsoever. This has added to our despair."
Judge Denis Watson, QC, found in relation to all defendants there was not an intention to kill, but there was an intention to cause grievous bodily harm.
Melissa Stubbs, 30, of Lane End Road, Burnage, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 20 and a half years.
Aaron Stubbs, 30, of the same address as his sister, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 and a half years.
Stephen Strutt, 39, of Chester Avenue, Stalybridge, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 20 years.
Peter Walker, 31, of Garth Road, Wythenshawe, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 20 and a half years.
Garry Dowling
Garry Dowling was jailed after a crash that left another man in hospital for three weeks.
Dowling, 29, of Ford Lane, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday, April 30, as well as being banned from driving for four years.
Emergency services were called to the junction of Marsh Lane and Irlam Road to reports of a collision between a Seat Leon and Ford Fiesta, on November 12, 2019.
The driver of the Ford Fiesta, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital with serious injuries, where he remained for three weeks.
He also required months of care at home with limited mobility. Damage was also caused to a building at the site of the crash.
Following extensive enquiries including CCTV and witness appeals, Dowling, the driver of the Seat Leo, was later interviewed and charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Tina Morgan
Scrounging neighbour Tina Morgan stormed round to her friend's home armed with a knife and stabbed her.
The mum-of-one had earlier sent threatening messages to her victim after she put her foot down over Morgan abusing her generosity.
The 34-year-old warned Michelle Blundell, "don't make me turn nasty because I f***ing will" after asking for money, tobacco and food.
On the morning of August 23, 2019, after repeated requests, Morgan attacked Ms Blundell in Silverdale Road, Newton-le-Willows.
When Ms Blundell - who has since died from unconnected causes - opened her front door, Morgan pushed her hand in her face.
Ms Blundell punched Morgan, which caused her to fall to the floor, then began dragging her out of her home by her hair.
But the victim felt something in her stomach and later realised she had been stabbed with a seven to eight inch chopping knife.
Morgan, who has 13 previous convictions for 80 previous offences, admitted wounding and possessing a bladed article in public.
She was jailed for 17 months.
Ben Cragg
Drug dealer Ben Cragg used branded snap bags and had a T-shirt with a "Stinky Steve's" logo printed on it.
Cragg, also known as Ben Goddard, sold cannabis bags with the same logo on but was caught after cycling past police on a pavement.
The 28-year-old, smirked at officers when they asked him to stop but was arrested, when three bags of cannabis were discovered.
Police then searched his home, finding drugs worth up to £7,000, along with scales and the branded merchandise, on July 12, 2020.
The dad-of-one, of Lathom Road, Southport, also kicked an officer during his arrest.
He admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply and assaulting an emergency worker.
Cragg was jailed for 16 months.
