This list includes 12 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
Courts heard about a son who murdered his elderly father by attacking him and leaving him to die. Life sentences were also handed to two monsters - a man who raped a baby and a woman who organised the rape of a young girl.
Judges had to sentence a coked up thug armed with a semi-automatic gun. And they dealt with a drunken arsonist who set his own home ablaze.
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Disturbing cases also included a sexual predator who attacked a teenage girl late at night . And a court also heard about a teenager who set fire to a family's home on the orders of a 16-year-old gang boss.
A judge also had to sentence a catcalling thug who left a woman scarred for life. Here is an overview of some of those which have concluded this past week.
Gerrard Foott
Drunken arsonist Gerard Foott told police "lock me up" when they arrived to arrest him for setting fire to his own home.
He admitted arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered. The 54-year-old said he started a blaze in a utility room paint cupboard at his home in Sextant Close, Murdishaw, Runcorn after he'd glugged down "12 cans".
When Foott initially called 999 to report the fire on November 9, he claimed not to know how it began, only for the call to go dead. Foott then rang again and confessed.
Four fire engines were called to tackle the blaze and Foott was taken to hospital, suffering from smoke inhalation, where he spent three days. The fire caused "severe smoke damage" to the two-storey terraced house and fire damage in the store room.
Foott, who had past convictions including robbery and violence, was jailed for three years and four months.
Saeed Ahmed
Saeed Ahmed shot at a home where children were living while high on cocaine and booze.
The 40-year-old, who said he was looking after two weapons and ammunition for drug dealers, shot one of the guns immediately after a man had fled his flat. When police arrived in Wellington Road, Wavertree on the morning of December 17 last year, they found a strike mark from a bullet on the wall of a family's home.
Ahmed, who lived in the street, tried to flee on an electric scooter but was arrested. His flat was searched and two women were found there, but no weapons.
A cartridge was discovered on the pavement outside his home and a bullet in the garden of a nearby house. The next day, a police dog handler found a North Face rucksack on open land behind Wavertree Sports Centre.
It contained a loaded black Glock pistol fitted with a magazine, plus a Zoraki gun. There were another 37 bullets and a silencer and the defendant's DNA was found on both weapons, which had the serial numbers removed.
Ahmed, now of Eversley Street, Toxteth, admitted possessing the Glock with intent to cause fear of violence, and possessing a prohibited weapon, the Zoraki. He had past convictions including a robbery conspiracy and was subject to a four-month suspended prison sentence for possessing a knife.
He was jailed for seven years, with an extended three years on licence.
David Lavender
David Lavender murdered his dad just days before his 80th birthday in an unprovoked attack.
He drank heavily before battering his father with a glass kettle last December and fleeing their Old Swan home. A judge said 79-year-old Anthony Lavender's death at the hands of his son was "a tragedy beyond words".
Lavender, 37, had been living at his dad's Woodhall Street home since returning from London during the covid pandemic. He had been drinking heavily on the evening of December 29 before he picked up a glass kettle and hit his father multiple times across the head, causing injuries to his eyebrow and cheek.
The victim called 999 to report the attack, but when officers arrived he was unconscious on the stairs. His son had fled the house, speeding away in his black Audi before he crashed it on the Queens Drive flyover a short time later and was taken to Aintree Hospital.
Lavender, who said he didn't know why he killed his dad, admitted murder and was jailed for life with a minimum of 14 years.
Gareth Davis
Gareth Davis filmed himself raping a baby in sex attacks a judge said were the worst he had ever seen.
The 43-year-old, of Ashridge Street, Runcorn, was arrested after the National Crime Agency (NCA) discovered indecent photographs had been uploaded to a Google account in his name.
NCA investigators had suspicions Davis featured among the 512 child abuse images and raided his home. He was arrested and his Samsung phone seized.
Enquiries established some of the images were of Davis himself abusing a baby. He had shared some of his depraved collection online with other paedophiles and simulated strangulation with a child doll.
He admitted rape of a child under 13, sexual assault by penetration of a child under 13, and three counts of making indecent images: 36 of the most heinous type Category A, 382 Category B, and 94 Category C.
Judge Steven Everett, the Recorder of Chester, jailed him for life with a minimum of 27 years.
Stuart Cornmell
Stuart Cornmell broke a restraining order stopping him from seeing his parents for a ninth time when he burgled their home.
The 32-year-old was banned from going to the address in Peter Mahon Way, Bootle, "due to a previous domestic incident". The order also barred him from contacting them.
But on June 18 last year a neighbour saw Cornmell trying the door handle of the family home. He was then seen to climb through a first floor bedroom window and after about two minutes he was seen to leave out of the front door.
Cornmell returned 20 minutes later and entered and left again. He took £50, a £400 gold bracelet and a crate of beer. His parents didn't report it to the police and said they would give him his Universal Credit money if he returned the bracelet,
However, he failed to, became angry and was reported to the police. Cornmell later admitted the burglary and has since been jailed for three years and nine months for robbery.
He was jailed for 12 months to run consecutively.
Thomas Cawley
Thomas Cawley pinned down a teenage boy before hitting him in the face over and over again with a hammer.
The 32-year-old attacked his 17-year-old victim outside the Red Lion Pub in Robins Lane, St Helens, at around 7.45pm on Monday, November 19 last year. Cawley poured a household corrosive substance over his victim before pinning him down.
Once pinned down, he hit the teen in the face over and over again with a hammer and threatened him with a knife. The victim was left with extensive bruising, cuts and facial swelling and lost two teeth in the attack.
Cawley, of no fixed address, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent. He was jailed for eight years and one month.
Adam Higginson
Catcalling thug Adam Higginson knocked a woman out after she confronted him over his "disgraceful" comments.
Higginson and another man made Maeve Brooks feel intimidated and frightened when she was walking home alone. But she decided to stand up to the drunken friends.
They continued taunting her until she aimed a kick at Higginson's shin. After kicking her back in the body, Higginson pursued the retreating woman and punched her to the head, leaving the victim with a permanent scar by her mouth.
The incident took place outside the Railway pub in Birkenhead Road in Meols, Wirral at around 11pm on June 12 last year. Higginson, 32, of Shelley Street, Bootle, who has a history of violence, admitted wounding.
He was jailed for 18 months.
Ramijah Hindes
Sex predator Ramijah Hindes handed himself into police after reading a story in the ECHO appealing for information about him.
The 21-year-old sexually assaulted a teenage girl on her way home from a chip shop in Garston on March 17. He grabbed the 17-year-old and subjected her to a violent sexual assault, before she managed to break free and he ran off.
After turning himself in, Hindes was arrested and charged with sexual assault, but he initially denied he had sexually assaulted the victim and instead claimed he was attempting to rob her. Hindes' phone was seized and he was found to have searched for violent and underage pornography on the device.
He admitted sexual assault. Hindes was jailed for three years and nine months.
Mohammed Mohammed
Mohammed Mohammed set fire to a young family's home on the orders of a 16-year-old gang boss.
He was a cannabis dealer for Harry O'Brien - the baby-faced yob behind three terrifying shootings and a firebombing. Mohammed, then 19, carried out the arson attack for O'Brien by pouring petrol over the front door of a mum's home and setting it ablaze.
The victim and her children were having breakfast when flames engulfed their address in Dingle Lane. They ran for their lives as the fire spread from their hallway to the staircase and upstairs.
Mohammed, now 20, carried out the arson attack at around 8am, on February 5, 2021. But he left a petrol canister outside the house and its screw cap contained his DNA.
The young crook, who also supplied cannabis for O'Brien from February 17 to March 26, 2021, admitted conspiring to commit arson being reckless as to whether life would be endangered and conspiring to supply cannabis.
He was locked up for five years.
Vicki Bevan, Paul Rafferty and Tony Hutton
Vicki Bevan organised the rape and sexual abuse of a young girl alongside two men and told them there were "no boundaries".
The 37-year-old carried out some of her appalling sexual fantasies alongside Paul Rafferty, 62, and Tony Hutton, 42, by raping and abusing a young girl. Bevan also spent time discussing with another man their desire to "kidnap, rape, torture, kill and then eat children" after sexually abusing them.
The three paedophiles from St Helens were all involved in the systematic abuse of a girl. She was asked by one of the men at one point if she had any boundaries and she answered: "No, none at all…"
Images of the abuse were found on Bevan’s phone. They were shared between the three and also by Bevan to other perverts online on Kik Messenger.
Their sick crimes came to light when a fourth man was arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. His phone was examined and images of the abuse carried out by Bevan discovered, before police recovered a video showing Bevan sexually abusing the child.
Bevan, of Napier Street, St Helens, admitted one count of raping a child under 13; five counts of assault of a child under 13 by penetration; two counts of sexual assault on a child under 13; one count of sexual activity with a child; and one count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
The rape, one of the counts of assault of a child under 13 by penetration and one of the counts of sexual assault on a child under 13 were carried out jointly with Rafferty, of Fry Street, St Helens.
One of the other counts of sexual assault of a child under 13 involved Bevan and Hutton, of Liverpool Street, St Helens, both performing a sex act on the victim. Bevan also admitted 17 counts of making and three counts of distributing indecent images of children, plus two counts of possessing extreme pornography.
Rafferty admitted one count of raping a child under 13; one count of assault of a child under 13 by penetration; one count of sexual assault of a child under 13; and six counts of making indecent images of children. Hutton pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault of a child under 13 and three counts of making indecent images of children.
Bevan was jailed for life with a minimum of 10 years. Rafferty was jailed for 10 years with an extended four years on licence. Hutton was jailed for four years.
