This list includes 19 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
Judges had to sentence two murderers - one a son who killed his own dad in a ferocious street attack and another a career criminal who stabbed a man in the neck.
Courts heard about a child sex attacker, vicious boyfriends, lowlife burglars and a serial liar.
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Judges sentenced a man who threw paint stripper in another man's face and a dad caught with heroin and cocaine valued at up to £400,000.
One court heard about a boxing coach who used his injured dog to lure a woman back to his house and sexually assault her.
And a judge had to sentence a married dad-of-two who crawled the streets at night offering young girls drugs in return for sex then molested a child.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past week.
Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown who vowed "to make St Helens proud" before stabbing a man in the neck was found guilty of murder.
The drug addict turned his bedroom into a bloodbath when he knifed 33-year-old Lee Andrew in his right jugular vein.
Andrew fled as he ran across the road to a YMCA reception in a forlorn bid to get help, at around 11pm, on August 2 last year.
Career criminal Brown was seen to "nonchalantly" walk away - his hands covered in blood - as his victim was dying in the street.
After he was arrested on August 3, the 42-year-old, of North Road, told police: "The beast got dealt with and it was self-defence."
He suggested Andrew was bullying him and "came at him" with a knife, so he grabbed a second knife to defend himself.
Brown even claimed "more should have been done" for Andrew and questioned why YMCA staff on night duty didn't provide first aid.
But a jury took just two hours of deliberation to unanimously find him guilty of murder, after a six-day trial.
Brown was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years.
Anthony McDonald
Anthony McDonald was caught in a hotel after breaking in and ransacking an office.
He was busted after grabbing wine and a cash box from Hotel Indigo in Liverpool city centre on November 16 last year.
McDonald and an accomplice were found behind the bar of the Chapel Street hotel by night staff, at around 1.30am.
They were challenged, leading to a scuffle in which 40-year-old career criminal McDonald suffered a head injury.
The drug addict, of no fixed address, admitted burglary and possessing cannabis.
He was jailed for two years.
Dean McCarthy
Dean McCarthy hired nearly £29,000 of equipment on his company account, only for it to vanish.
The 32-year-old serial liar, of Nicholas Road, Widnes, exploited his role as an account manager at Runcorn fire safety firm Abbey Fire.
After he was hired in July 2020, the serial liar told bosses his girlfriend had suddenly died, then claimed his car was stolen.
He was given the use of a company car, fitted with a tracker, then in November said he'd had a mild heart attack overnight.
His boss could see his car was on the move, when McCarthy claimed to be in a hospital bed, and then uncovered his scam.
McCarthy admitted nine counts of fraud by false representation and was jailed for 21 months.
Patrick Downey
A convicted child sex attacker who keeps downloading indecent images of children was branded "dangerous".
Patrick Downey, 40, has been in and out of jail for the last two decades because of his twisted perversion.
Last year police caught him with 426 sick photos, including one of a boy aged just four being raped.
Police raided Downey's home in Peel Road, Bootle on May 13 last year, uncovering the disturbing stash.
He was jailed for two years, with an extended four years on licence.
Liam Traynor
Cocaine-fuelled Liam Traynor went round to an apparent stranger's flat and beat him with a wooden bat.
The 36-year-old also drank heavily before attacking Mark Cummins in his home in Huyton in the early hours of Wednesday, December 5, 2019.
Traynor later said he could not remember anything about what led to the savage attack on Mr Cummins with two other men at Knowsley Heights.
Mr Cummins suffered two wounds to his head and injuries to his head and arm.
Traynor, of Nyland Road, Huyton, admitted wounding with intent.
He was jailed for six years.
Stephen Skelhorne
Betting shop raider Stephen Skelhorne threatened to stab a customer if a cashier didn't fill up his bag with cash.
The 37-year-old travelled to four different betting shops in one day in an attempt to get money to feed his drug habit.
On February 7, he was also involved in an aggravated burglary in Widnes when he was again armed with a knife and stole a 43-inch TV.
Skelhorne, of no fixed address, but formerly of Pennard Avenue, Huyton, has 44 previous convictions for 78 offences.
The crook admitted 10 offences involving attempted robbery, possessing a knife, aggravated burglary and going equipped with a knife to steal.
He was jailed for three years, with an extended three years on licence.
James Santamera
Serial burglar James Santamera was caught stealing money from a church.
The 46-year-old stole a wallet containing money and a bank card from the presbytery of a church in Clubmoor.
Santamera, of no fixed address, admitted burglary and fraud.
He was jailed for three years and eight months.
William Farrell
William Farrell went on a rampage at McDonald's then attacked and racially abused hospital staff.
The 28-year-old spat at his girlfriend Hayley Burrows at the McDonald's in Kensington in the early hours of March 23, 2021.
After she hid behind the counter, he kicked a hand sanitiser, grabbed a wet floor sign and threw it at the counter, then smashed a £50 plant pot.
He was arrested and taken into custody, but was unresponsive, so was taken to hospital, where while being restrained he tried to punch Dr Alicia Waite.
The thug then racially abused security guards Maria Haynes-Garcia and Jacqueline Cabungan, who tried to help police restrain him.
Farrell, of no fixed address but formerly of Old Swan, admitted criminal damage, assault by beating of an emergency worker, and two counts of racially aggravated threatening behaviour. He is already serving a two and a half year sentence for two attempted burglaries and handling stolen goods.
He was jailed for 11 months.
Neil Badrock
Neil Badrock murdered his own dad in a "ferocious, brutal and totally unforgiving" street attack.
Badrock, 28, admitted manslaughter over the five-minute street attack on 51-year-old Neil Farrington.
Witnesses described him "volleying" his dad and shouting "I will f***ing kill you" as he repeatedly kicked him in Kirkby Row in Kirkby.
The attack only ended when police arrived and found Badrock still kicking his dad in the head, while shouting: "What do you think about that?"
Badrock accepted headbutting Mr Farrington to the ground, then punching and kicking him, because he was "angry", but said he never intended to kill or seriously harm his victim, on May 17 last year.
But a jury unanimously found him guilty of murder after six hours and 20 minutes of deliberation, following a four-day trial.
Badrock, of Kenbury Close, Kirkby, was jailed for life with a minimum of 19 years.
Gregorz Ewiak
A mum and her children hid in a locked bathroom while her ex-boyfriend "smeared" blood over their home.
Gregorz Ewiak and another intruder smashed through a living room window into his former partner Paulina Dziekan's house.
When the terrifying ordeal was over, he sent her a text "threatening to have the children taken off her and her killed".
Ewiak, 34, of Neasham Road, Dagenham, London, carried out the raid at Miss Dziekan's home in Birchwood, Warrington, on October 21 last year.
He admitted burglary with intent to cause damage and criminal damage, after a charge of making threats to kill was dropped by the crown.
Ewiak was jailed for two years and four months.
Athanasios Konstantinidis
Athanasios Konstantinidis tried to hide his phone in a freezer to stop police finding dozens of videos of children being raped.
The paedophile had already been caught with child abuse images once in June 2019 but a judge had spared him jail on that occasion.
Yet instead of abiding by rules aimed at stopping him offending again, the 57-year-old bought a new phone the following year and began downloading hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse.
When police arrived at his home in Ashdown Close, Southport on October 28, 2020, to carry out a search, he was caught out trying to hide the phone.
Konstantinidis admitted possessing, making and distributing indecent images of children and numerous counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
He was jailed for two years and eight months.
Steven Dennett
The driver of a convertible BMW had paint stripper thrown in his eye while sitting in his car with the roof down.
Steven Dennett hurled the fluid, which went into James Halligan's face, in a "terrifying" attack outside the victim's parents' home.
The "industrial strength" Paramose paint stripper - not available to the general public - was in a tin "marked with a skull and crossbones".
When it hit Mr Halligan he "screamed" and the victim said his eyes and face were "burning", while a neighbour saw the car's leather seats "bubbling".
A judge said "mercifully" Mr Halligan didn't suffer "dreadful" injuries, as he jailed Dennett for 20 months for the "cowardly" attack on July 21 last year.
Dennett, 40, of Adamson Close, Latchford, Warrington, admitted criminal damage and assault causing actual bodily harm.
He was found not guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
George Heath
George Heath attacked a mental health support worker with a lamp stand.
The 24-year-old repeatedly hit his victim in the head in a "sustained" attack at his Wirral home.
The man suffered three cuts to his head and some bruising to the rear of his head and now has PTSD.
Heath, of no fixed address, but from Wirral, admitted wounding and possessing a bladed article.
He was jailed for 20 months.
Wayne O'Keefe
Wayne O'Keefe who previously attacked his 90-year-old nan was banned from seeing her for a seventh time.
Shortly before last Christmas, the alcoholic was taken to hospital suffering from a cold and the hospital contacted his nan to see if he could go there as he had nowhere else to go.
She explained because of a court order she could not do that, but he later rang her and when he assured her he was sober, she agreed he could stay with her in Dovecot.
But at about 4.30am on December 21, she rang 999 “in some distress and fear” and the operator could hear O’Keefe in the background shouting aggressively.
The 49-year-old, of no fixed address, admitted breaching a restraining order and was jailed for five months.
Alin Cobzaru
Alin Cobzaru sexually abused a teenage girl after plying her with cocaine and vodka.
The 27-year-old crawled Southport's streets in an Audi late at night, offering children "drugs in return for sex".
The married dad-of-two targeted a 15-year-old girl, who he took to a party, where he molested her, one night in 2020.
Cobzaru, of Scarisbrick Street, Southport, denied any sexual contact with his victim.
He denied two counts of rape and two counts of assault by penetration, which forced his victim to give evidence.
The first trial collapsed because of coronavirus issues and the second trial resulted in a hung jury.
Ahead of a third trial, Cobzaru admitted four offences of sexual activity with a child, which the Crown accepted.
He was jailed for seven years and eight months.
John Powell
A dad caught with heroin and cocaine valued at up to £400,000 said he was "blackmailed" by gangsters when he tried to stop dealing.
John Powell claimed he started helping his bosses supply the drugs in Merseyside and to Devon to pay off a near £40,000 cocaine debt.
But prosecutors said the 49-year-old was also benefiting financially from the arrangement - as shown by his daughter texting him asking for £3,000 to pay for a holiday to Marbella and designer gear.
Police raided Powell's home in Station Road, Roby on October 13 last year, when they found around five and a half kilos of heroin, and around 800g of cocaine.
He admitted possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply on a basis of plea, which was accepted by prosecutors.
Powell was jailed for six and a half years.
Steven Etchells and Luke Swift
Steven Etchells and Luke Swift said they broke into St Helens' tallest building to see the Christmas lights across the town.
The crooks were found carrying state of the art Dyson fans down an NHS corridor in the old Pilkington site on Christmas Eve.
They were then hit with incapacitant spray after refusing to stop adding to their haul of stolen goods, despite the requests of a police officer.
Etchells and Swift broke into the old Pilkington site on Alexandra Park in the early hours of December 24 last year.
Both men admitted burglary, while Etchells also admitted driving offences after crashing into a bus stop in Thatto Heath on September 6, 2020.
Etchells, 50, of Ellison Drive, St Helens, had 41 previous convictions for 101 offences including 49 thefts. He was jailed for 94 weeks - nearly 22 months.
Swift, 29, also of Ellison Drive, had 12 previous convictions for 17 offences. He was jailed for 10 months.
Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones used his injured dog to lure a woman back to his house and sexually assault her.
The drugged up boxing coach and gym manager attacked the woman in Birkenhead last summer after seeing her in the street and asking her to help his pug, which he said had been hit by a car.
He then convinced her to come to his house to call a vet but as soon as she was there he pinned her to the couch, tore off her clothes and sexually assaulted her.
The 47-year-old later barricaded a female police officer who came to the woman’s rescue into his living room, threatened to kill her and ripped her body cam off and threw it out a window.
Jones, of Borough Road, Birkenhead, admitted sexual assault, assault by penetration, false imprisonment and threats to kill.
He was jailed for 16 years with a further eight years on extended licence.
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