This list includes 19 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
Courts heard about a bent copper who formed a secret sexual relationship with an alleged rape victim. Meanwhile, one judge sentenced a speeding driver who ruined a teenager's life then went on the run.
Judges had to sentence a bullying dad who asked his partner if she "wanted to feel pain" before stubbing out a lit cigarette on her. They also sentenced a yawning yob who burgled a pensioner who was so terrified she pretended to be asleep.
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Disturbing cases included a man behind a horrific campaign of rape and a convicted sex offender who spied on a family before breaking into their home to try to molest two little girls.
A judge also had to sentence a man who carried a drunk girl into a house and raped her. Here is an overview of some of those which have concluded this past week.
Roy and Gaynor Woodward
Roy Woodward subjected a young girl to a "campaign of rape".
The 56-year-old, of no fixed address but previously of Runcorn and Widnes, was sentenced alongside his wife Gaynor Woodward. Roy Woodward was found guilty of 14 counts of sexual offences, namely four of rape, eight of indecently assaulting a child, and two of indecency with a child.
A trial had heard how Roy Woodward, who denied any wrongdoing, plied his victim with sweets to secure her silence. He also used alcohol to assist his grooming.
Gaynor Woodward, 58, of Worcester Court, Runcorn, was convicted of one count of cruelty. She too had denied her guilt.
The now adult victim, who has had "horrific nightmares" ever since, believes the abuse triggered a mental health condition. She said: "I will never be able to live a normal life. I feel hollow and empty."
Roy Woodward, who was previously locked up for nine years in 2018 for raping another girl, was jailed for 21 years, with an extended four years on licence. Gaynor Woodward was jailed for four years.
David Clements
David Clements who launched a Christmas Eve robbery was caught after his victim found him on Facebook.
The 42-year-old targeted SRS Convenience on Rice Lane in Walton shortly after 10pm on December 24, 2020. Clements, who was a regular customer at the shop, entered with a mask on and covered by a hoodie and grabbed worker Sekalathan Arulampalam by the neck, before stealing cash from the till.
Mr Arulampalam recognised Clements during the robbery from the small part of his face that was visible and initially thought it was a joke, but the crook stole up to £250 in cash. The victim then showed the robber's Facebook to police and Clements admitted robbery.
He was jailed for six months to reflect the fact he was already serving a sentence for another robbery.
Liam Maxwell
Liam Maxwell hid cocaine, heroin and weapons in his home.
The 28-year-old, of Ternhall Road, Fazakerley played a key role in an organised crime gang involved in county lines drug dealing. His home was raided on Thursday, February 17 as part of Merseyside Police's Operation Toxic.
Around 85g of Class A drugs were recovered in the house, along with scales, bags, £500 in cash and weapons. Maxwell was arrested and later charged with possessing an offensive weapon in a private place, possession of Class A and B drugs with intent to supply and use of criminal property.
He was jailed for three years and four months.
Annuar Ameir
Annuar Ameir carried a drunk girl into a house and raped her.
The 30-year-old attacked his 17-year-old victim as she slept on a sofa at a house party in Liverpool in 2018. He denied any wrongdoing but was found guilty of rape after a trial in which his victim had to give evidence.
Judge Gary Woodhall said: "I am troubled by the circumstances of this offending, which involved predatory behaviour targeting a particularly vulnerable girl." He said Ameir clearly had misogynistic and "flawed" views around sex, adding: "You present as someone with a sense of male entitlement, with a misogynistic view of female characters."
Ameir, of Arnold Crescent, Toxteth, was jailed for nine years and nine months.
Ricardo Randev
Gambling addict Ricardo Randev who "brought shame on himself" worked as a drug dealer to pay off a loan shark.
The 59-year-old was caught with high purity cocaine with a potential street value of £57,000 when police raided his home in Cronton on April 4, 2021. Officers found two blocks of cocaine and 79 bags of the drug, with a purity of 67%, plus mixing agent benzocaine and an unspecified quantity of cash.
Randev said he had long been leading "a double life" keeping his gambling addiction a secret and turned to a loan shark out of "desperation", landing himself in £13,000 of debt. Randev, of The Ridgeway, Cronton, admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply.
He was jailed for three years.
Kieran Murphy and Lawrence Pybis
Homes and vehicles were targeted across Merseyside by burglars Kieran Murphy and Lawrence Pybis.
Their three-month crimewave was brought down by Merseyside Police as part of Operation Mothman. The incidents spanned from November 1, 2020 to January 26, 2021.
Murphy, 25, of Clieves Road, Kirkby, admitted conspiracy to commit burglary. He also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal motor vehicles.
He was jailed for three years and nine months.
Pybis, 20, of Utting Avenue East, Norris Green, admitted conspiracy to commit burglary.
He was jailed for three years.
Simon Rose
Bent copper Simon Rose formed a secret sexual relationship with an alleged rape victim and later tried to thwart a police raid on her home.
He was convicted of misconduct in public office and attempting to pervert the course of justice after a trial exposed his corruption. The 48-year-old, of Burnside, Parbold, West Lancashire, had been attached to the Salford division of Greater Manchester Police.
He met the woman in May 2012 in his role as a specially trained officer involved in dealing with rape and sexual assault allegations. She alleged she had been raped at knifepoint after being taken away in a vehicle by two men, though the case later did not proceed.
Their relationship was hidden from Rose's colleagues until October 2019, when the woman's name came under the spotlight because of plans to raid her home. He repeatedly told a colleague it must be a mistake, then went with two officers to the house and asked them to overlook any evidence that might get him sacked.
When the woman was interviewed she revealed their relationship became sexual a few months after their first meeting. However, Rose had made her keep quiet about it.
He was jailed for three years.
Jacob Bullen
Jacob Bullen who stashed £10,000 high purity cocaine in a fridge was exposed as EncroChat drug dealer "HeroicFox".
Bullen was caught with two large blocks of cocaine when police raided his girlfriend's home in Appleton Road, Walton on December 16 2020. The 26-year-old, who claimed "it's not mine, I'm looking after it for someone else", was jailed for six years and eight months in January 2021.
But on the day of his arrest, he handed over his iPhone 7 and the PIN to the device, which was sent away for examination by specialists. The content of that phone, combined with EncroChat messages, revealed his role as a £2m drug and cash courier "HeroicFox".
Bullen admitted new charges of conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis. The plot was brought down as part of a military police operation.
He was jailed for five years, to be served consecutively to his existing prison term.
Thomas Farrell
Thomas Farrell yawned in the dock as he was sentenced for burgling a pensioner who was so terrified she pretended to be asleep.
The 86-year-old "froze" and lay hiding beneath her duvet while the burglar went through her wardrobe at around 5am on December 11 last year. Farrell, 20, then left the bedroom of her Egremont flat and rifled through cupboards and drawers in other rooms.
She stayed in bed too frightened to move for an hour until she was sure he had gone. He took her £200 mobile phone, along with her handbag.
The victim had lived independently in her flat for 34 years, but because of the incident had to move out. She was initially in respite care but is now in sheltered accommodation and has to rely on others for assistance.
Farrell, of Comely Bank Road, Wallasey, admitted burglary. He was locked up for four years.
Anthony Lea
Crooked solicitor Anthony Lea washed the dirty cash of organised criminals running an international timeshare fraud scheme.
The 66-year-old admitted laundering £465,000 for the gang, who used cold callers promising that they had timeshare buyers lined up for a quick sale. Lea, of West End Road, St Helens, was even found to have handed over bags stuffed with £180,000 in cash at motorway service stations.
A Trading Standards investigation began in 2016 after a tip-off from a pensioner in West Berkshire. But it soon became clear there were hundreds of timeshare and holiday club policyholders victimised by the organised crime group.
The masterminds of the operation, who have never been identified, posed as so-called 'resale firms' Simple Timeshare Sales and Marketing, Find Me Travel and UK Holiday Consultants. Lea, who was struck-off the roll of solicitors in 2001 for using client money for his own benefit, admitted four counts of acquiring criminal property.
He was jailed for three years.
Fethi Chebbi
Bullying dad Fethi Chebbi asked his partner if she "wanted to feel pain" before stubbing out a lit cigarette on her.
He also dragged the woman by the hair so violently that her extensions were torn from her head in a vile campaign of abuse. Chebbi, who is originally from Tunisia but had been living in Eastham, Wirral, had been in a relationship with the woman for two and a half years.
The victim, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, revealed he stubbed the cigarette out on her in July 2020 and pulled out her hair that October. Chebbi admitted criminal damage for breaking the woman's phone but denied the assaults until the day of his trial, when he pleaded guilty.
Despite his actions, the 36-year-old, of Argyle Street, Birkenhead, shouted that the decision to jail him was "a joke" as he was led to the cells.
The serial woman beater was jailed for 20 months.
Kevin Bernard
Speeding driver Kevin Bernard ruined a teenager's life in a horror smash then spent more than a year on the run.
He sped in a black Audi S3 along Southport Road in Bootle at 86mph - nearly three times the road's 30mh limit. Lee Baxter meanwhile was heading to his 19th birthday party at his mum's house with two friends in his blue Ford Fiesta.
Bernard hit the Fiesta, inflicting multiple injuries including brain damage on the teen, who was left fighting for his life in a coma. The 22-year-old victim "had to learn how to breathe, talk, walk and eat" again and his personality was dramatically altered.
Bernard, 44, denied causing serious injury by dangerous driving in the horrific crash, late on Saturday, June 16, 2018. Yet he disappeared in December 2020 and failed to attend his trial last May, when he was found guilty, or his sentencing that July.
Bernard was handed six years in prison in his absence, when a judge also sentenced him for a series of driving related frauds. The fugitive, of Riversdale Road, Aigburth, handed himself in on April 4 and admitted breach of bail.
He was jailed for two months, consecutive to his existing six-year sentence.
Daniel McDonough
Daniel McDonough raped a woman while she slept then claimed never to have had any sexual contact with her.
He attacked his victim, who was then aged 20, in the early hours of the morning, after a night out in 2020. The then 38-year-old had been drinking with her and others in a pub in Liverpool and offered to share a taxi home with her.
McDonough invited her into his home for a drink and they chatted, until the woman said she was tired and went to bed. The victim awoke to find McDonough had pulled down her clothes and was raping her and begged him to stop, which he eventually did.
When arrested and interviewed, McDonough, of no fixed address but from West Derby, denied having any sexual contact with the victim. But DNA evidence was found on the victim's underwear attributable to 40-year-old McDonough.
He was found guilty of rape after a trial and jailed for seven years.
Dale Schofield and Wayne Roberts
Dale Schofield and Wayne Roberts were part of an estimated £1.8m drug ring.
They allowed crack cocaine, heroin and cash to be kept in their houses for an organised crime group. That gang dealt drugs from Ellesmere Port to Wirral, Greater Manchester and Scotland.
Schofield, 39, of Alverstone Road in Mossley Hill, and Roberts, 51, of East Float Quay in Wallasey, were using their homes as safe houses. This was on behalf of the gang's ring-leader, Mark Cavanagh.
Cavanagh, of Foxdene in Ellesmere Port, was running a drug dealing enterprise that saw him selling an estimated 25kg to 50kg of class A drugs. He was jailed for 14 and a half years in June 2020.
Schofield and Roberts were responsible for housing the gang's drugs and the money gained from it. Roberts was also responsible for couriering the money and drugs for Cavanagh and his gang.
They both admitted assisting an organised crime group. Schofield was jailed for two years and three months and Roberts was jailed for 20 months.
Luke McHugh
Paedophile Luke McHugh climbed up a ladder and into a bedroom intending to sexually assault two sleeping little girls.
He was supposed to be locked into his secure accommodation on Knowsley’s Longmeadow Road and prevented from leaving without supervision. Yet the 20-year-old had tampered with a window and escaped in the dead of night to launch his attack on a family's house in the local area in July last year, after spying on them for days.
The convicted sex offender was only stopped from sexually assaulting two girls in the house after their dad heard him get in and disturbed him. He was in the unit for trying to incite an eight-year-old girl to send him naked pictures online and he has convictions for possessing indecent images of children.
McHugh admitted trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.
He was locked up for 10 years.
Gita Fritdenberga
A mum dressed in a pink unicorn onesie was discovered inside a vulnerable woman's home she had taken over to deal drugs.
Gita Fritdenberga was previously part of a gang who flooded the streets of Southport, Seaforth and Waterloo with heroin and crack cocaine. After serving a prison sentence for those crimes, the 37-year-old, of Princes Road, Toxteth, said she tried to turn her life around for her child.
But following the death of her boyfriend in jail, and losing her job at a Liverpool hotel, she moved to Warrington, and soon started dealing again. Police raided a "largely bedridden" woman's house in Thorneycroft Drive, just after midday, on March 9 this year, and found she had been cuckooed.
They found 37-year-old Fritdenberga with 44 wraps of heroin and 84 wraps of crack cocaine, with a total estimated street value of £1,280. Fritdenberga admitted possessing crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.
She was jailed for three years and nine months.
